The Press., 1921-06-30
Springs House Sold

It will be news of interest to visi- tors in Stafford. who were in the habit of staying over night in town that the | arrangements for the transfer of the Springs House were completed on Monday. A. J. Needham has sold the Scott of Hartford. MT. Scott is one of the most popular and esteemed hotel men in New England. In managing hostelries MT. Scott has been highly successful For the past two years he has been with the Garde hotel in Hart ford Previously he ran the Waure- gan in Norwich for ten years. The Stafford Springs House will reopen for business on the tenth of the month. Miss Nellie Reister of Hartford was weekend visitor at the home of hor parents on Benton street.
 The baseball game on Sunday on Keefe's plains ended disastrOusly for Stafford with the score chalked at s | to 2. The team representing the town was a hastily assembled aggregation of ball tossers who were unused to | the game and many were the sore muscles in evidence on the street and in the shops on Monday morning. The newly renovated team is managed by | Edward Dupree and Frank Hart is secretary. Some purely local baseball is on the program.
 The children of St. Edwards school through the kindness of James Shep- hard, Jr., who rendered the use of the
 R. l., trucks for the day, were given
 treat in a picnic to Forest Park in \ Springfield on Monday. The party,
 with the girls in white dresses in one \ truck and the boys in various modes of clothing but all with happy faces, II in the other truck left the Catholic
 school at eight thirty o'clock. After | spending the day enjoying the various | amusements of the park the children arrived home tired and happy at shortly after six o'clock.
 A pair of horses running away with a load of hay caused considerable ex- | citement near the fair grounds on l last Saturday. Serafino Bacchiocchi was on the road to his barn when the horses became frightened. Passing under the low spreading limbs of a tree MT. BacchiOcchi received a blow from one of the boughs rendering him unconscious, but not knocking him from the load. However he was deposited safely and easily on the ground when the team careened around a corner and left him lying on the top part of his hay. Two hours afterward he recovered from the ef- fleets of his injury. The horses sus- tained no i'll results from their run.
 At a meeting held after the Chau- tauqua entertainment last Friday evening, it was decided to have no Chautauqua next year unless at least fifty guarantOrs would sign the con- tract. Those signing as guarantors pledge themselves to share whatever
 deficit there may be on the sale of sea- l son tickets. If there are any more | who wish to become guarantOrs and
 thus assume the return of Chautauqua
 another year please let A. B. Handy
 know at once. Those who have signed
 or agreed to sign are as follows | Mrs. Celia Holt, Rev. B. A. Legg, Mrs.
 Eva Chaffee, Rev. Felix O'Neill, Wm
 Schmidt, Warren Pease, Richard Ellis,
 Richard Valentine, E. K. Taft, F. F.
 Patten, G. w Amidon, R. w. Smith
 B. P. Cooley, T. F. Mullen, A. I. Mitch ell, M. D. O'Connell, A. J. Melbourne
 J. H. Valentine, P. H. Dow, Louis
 Chaffee, E. P Kellogg, George Silcox ] Florence Washburn, Fred Wildey 1 H. A, Glazier, Hannibal Alden, Rev F. w. Tholen, J. H. Reed, Wm. Heald F. M. FentOn, J. D. Griffiths, William
 Park, w. H. Bumstead, w. A. Greaves Wm. SymOnds, Robert Fisk, B. R. Ar
 mold, A. B. Shepherd, Wm. McCullOch 1 Morgan Eaton, c. H. Moore, Lewis Mo | Laughlin, c B Pinney, w. R. Morse
 J. R. Parkhurst, A. B. Handy, Dr. G.
 P. Bard, Wm. Whitaker, Walter Scott Leo Zelz, s. Katzowitz