The Press., 1921-03-10

Thunder and lightning surprised those who were awake early Monday morning.
 The wholesale price of gasoline and kerosene was reduced one cent gal lon yesterday.
 A daughter was Lorn on last Friday to MT. and Mrs. Napoleon Gilman, Jr., at the Johnson Memorial hospital.
 The hospital Aid society will meet Tuesday afternoon at two-thirty at the Johnson Memorial hospital.
 Miss Nellie Reister of Hartford was a weekend visitor at the home of her father, Bernard Reister, on Benton ayenue.~
 A number of friends of Mrs. Michael O'HallOran gathered at her home on last Monday afternoon in celebration of her birthday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Primo BachiOcchi have 1 purchased from D. H. Curtis & Son the last cottage on the north end of Curtis avenue.
 On Sunday Frank FentOn visited his farm near Roaring Brook and dis covered his. barn had been burned down, causing loss of several tons of hay. A few years ago the house on the farm was also destroyed by fire.
 Intention of marriage have Leen \ filed at the city clerks office in ! Springfield, Mass, of Joseph Panciera, \ "A, spinner, of Wilmington avenue, Stafford Springs, and Lena Mabel Montovani, 20, machine operator, of 62 Broad street Springfield. .
 The store formerly occupied by F. J. Fitzpatrick in the KatZOwitZ and Kuslansky block is receiving the at | tention of decorators and carpenters in preparation for the Atlantic & Pacific store on the first of next l month.
 The Agora society of the high school met Tuesday evening at the Mclaughlin home on Highland Ter race A talk on American Arts and ! Crafts," illustrated by the handiwOrk mentioned, was given by Mrs. Lewis Mclaughlin. Refreshments were ser we'd.
 It is noted that in some cases sever- al families are receiving mail in the same post office box The law re- quires that the members of one house. hold only shall receive mail in one box The definition of a household within the meaning of the law is such persons as live under the same roof and maintain a common table" Permanent Oarders however are not memt CTS of a household. The box rented by a corporation or firm may be used y the officers of same if mu- tually satisfactory to the other mem bers. There will te opportunity for all those receiving mail in boxes rented by other families to- change their boxes before April 1, when this rule of the department will be strictly enforced.
 The degree team of Kiowa Council of Rockville, consisting of twenty-One members, worked the adoption degree upon a class of ten candidates who were adopted into Iona council, De- gree of Pocohontas at Redmen's hall last Tuesday night. Deputy Great POcohontas Champagne and forty members of KioWa council accOmpa- nied the degree team arriving here on the eight o'clock trolley. Past Great Sachem Pond, who was unable to te present on account of sickness, will visit Iona council at their regu- lar meeting Tuesday evening, March 22. Following the degree work re- treatments were served and dancing and singing was enjoyed until late hour, many of the visiting members returning on the last car.
 The Young Peoples Auxiliary of the Methodist church have been pre- pairing two plays to be presented in the vestry next Tuesday evening. Can dy is to be on sale during the evening. The first play is, His Model Wife" with a cast as follows:
 Arthur Everett, an artist, ~s
 Richard Whitaker Robert Parks, his chum,
 Harry Bradley Representative John H. Potts, a
 rough diamond, E. D. Kinsman Miss Agnes MacPherson, Everett's
 aunt Miss Isabel Jackson Mrs. MunfOrd Wells, society matrOn,
 Miss Gertrude Fraser Miss Elinor Perry, Parks cousin,
 Miss Marion Lee Miss Bella Potts, nouvelle heiress,
 Miss Mary Scranton Wilhelmina, model,
 Miss Mildred Fraser Patsy, whose mother washes,
 Miss Marian Aldrich Mary, maid, Miss Marjorie Stevens The second play is entitled Aunt Rosina," and is played by the follow ing:
 MT. Aspin, Gordon Charter Gladys Aspin, his daughter,
 Miss Alice Fraser Emily, the maid, Miss Elizabeth Fraser Phibbs, the butler, Joel H. Reed, End Aunt RObertina, Miss Gertrude Fraser Robert Aspin, nephew,
 Richard Whitaker A Tramp, Kenneth Smith
 The executive committee on public health nursing of the Stafford chap ter, American Red Cross, met last l Friday evening and drew a set of ky- l laws for the nursing organization | together with a set of nursing rules. The committee is as follows: Chair man, ~Dr. G. P. Bard; vice chairman, Mrs. R. H. Fisk; secretary, Richard | Murray; treasurer, Mrs. B. K. Taft i; Mrs. B. T. Eaton, Miss Edith Cushman, Mrs. Victoria Lazzerin, M. D. O'Con- ! nell, EnOs B. Penny, AnsOn B. Handy, | Miss Celia Holt, Charles H. Moore, ! Philip Chak, Mrs. J. D. Griffiths and Donald D. Mitchell. Miss Edith Cush- man was appointed chairman of the nursing committee whose members are to be chosen later. The rules of the nursing service were acted upon, It is now possible to obtain the nurse by calling number 156 on the local telephone exchange or by mailing a card to Miss Anna Miller or upon request of the physician in charge of the case. She may also be seen at nursing headquarters between the hours of and nine o'clock in the morning and between one and two l o'clock in the afternoon. Her hours l of duty are from a. m. to 5 D. m 1 Calls received after 2 D. m. will be cared for the following day, excepting ] n nf nNzknonnnn