The Press., 1921-10-13


 is shut down for the entire week.
 Miss Florence Uncles spent the weekend visiting in Willimantic.
 The Press is issued this week on Wednesday on account of the fair.
 M. D. O'Connell spent the weekend visiting at his home in Colchester.
 The public library is now open daily from to and to 8.30 D. m.
 The schools of the town will close this morning for the remainder of the week.
 The mills of the town will close on Wednesday night for the remainder of the week.
 MT. and Mrs. F. S. Sanford have been on an auto trip of several days to Vermont and New Hampshire.
 The high single string for the week at the local bowling alleys was won by Hans Hansen, with a total pin fall of 130.
 Fred Wildey spent the latter part of the week in New York, being for tunate in seeing the opening game of the World Series.
 MT. and Mrs. M. P. J. Walker ex- pect to go Saturday or Monday to spend the winter with their daughter in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Town Clerk Converse has received a few copies of the game and fishing laws which may be had on application as long as they last.
 Mrs. Walter Pease of Naugatuck spent the early part of the week visit ing friends and relatives in the bor- ough.
 Woods orchestra will furnish mu- sic for dancing at Palmer on Wednes- day night and at Wales hotel on Sat urday evening.
 MT. and Mrs. R. H. Valentine are entertaining MT. and Mrs. Stanley Zimmerman and little daughter, Kath- crime of Harrisburg, Penn.
 The opening meeting of the Cur rent Events club will take the form of a banquet for members at the Con- gregational church chapel at 6.3O p. m. next Monday.
 Any doubtful person who believes that there is no sporting blood in Staff ford should gaze upon the crowd watching the report of the World Se- ries gathered in front of the bulletin at the Fitzpatrick news store each evening of the games.
 The Philathea class of the Congre- gatiOnal Sunday school met with their teacher, Mrs. G. Percival Bard Monday evening. A miscellaneous shower was given one of their number, Miss Ruth Tuthill, in honor of her coming mar riage to Frank Plumridge of Talcott- vile, this week Wednesday evening. The gifts were very attractive.
 It may be of interest to the citizens to know the increase in enrollments in the several schools at the beginning of October as compared with October 1920. The high school shows an in crease of 34, the borough grades 28, a loss of IA, Pinney school an increase of IT, StaffOrdville school an increase of II, West Staff ford ', Stafford Street 1, Rockwell Hill 6, Birch school 5, Crow Hill 8, Orcuttville and Leonard school a loss of one, making a total increase of 107 pupils or approximately 11%.
 Every once in a while that cable car crossing over the pond near the Warren mill deposits it's passengers and John Dupre, ST., were it's latest victims on Friday afternoon. No dam age was done other than a wetting. t is thought that in the immediate l uture extreme care will be practiced " those who use this method of | rossing the stream, but it is also be- | ieved that within a few weeks the !! method will again claim fresh vic 1 inns, who will be treated to a similar | Iucking.
 The report of Miss Ann Miller as public health nurse, for the month 1f September shows a total of 199 visits made during the month. The work being done by Miss Miller is fast being recognized at it's true value and bed side nursing as rendered by the Red Cross visiting nurse has al- ready prevented many local illnesses from becoming serious In the direc- tiOn of infant welfare, Miss Miller has "A we'll babies under her advisory care and she is also holding baby clinics each Wednesday afternoon at the Health Center. The nurse is also active, when not working too hard at her visiting duties, in the kindergar- ten and grade school. The financial side of the September report is not quite as large as previous months. A total amount of $49.65 was earned by the nurse during the month, $2O.25 was collected by the nurse, with s29.40 due from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co