The Press., 1921-02-24
STAFFORD SPRINGS

William COminS Of worcester aca0- emy was home for a few days during the week.
 Miss Nellie Pagan spent the week end visiting at the Herman Reister home on Benton street.
 c. H. Dodson and daughter, Mrs Hannibal Alden, visited relatives in Springfield, Mass, last week.
 Richard Bissonette of Holy Cross college spent a few days at the home of his parents on West street.
 Victor Scussell of Providence, R. I. spent the latter part of the week visit ing relatives and friends in town.
 Mrs. Alphonse Garvais has return ed with her daughter, Mrs. Dahms to her home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for visit.
 Miss Laura Sabourin spent the lat ter part of last week and the first O1 this week with her sister, Mrs. Will liam Harrison, in Woonsocket, R. I. Miss Nellie Quinley, commercial teacher, in the high school at Canton Mass, is spending a week with her parents, MT. and Mrs. R. L. Quinley.
 Miss Marie Lavery of Warren, Mass. was a weekend visitor at the Hanley home in Orcutts. Miss Lavery was formerly a teacher in the Orcuttville school.
 Federation and a smile goes with the pretty young lady who with the late heavy fall of snow goes about with arctics untuckled. But what al out the mature gentleman who fol- lows the same style.
 The awning, that in fair and sunny weather shades the jewelry and other tempting displays in the E. c. De- Borde store store, on Main street, was left open on Saturday night, and be foreSunday morning had accumulated such a heavy deposit of snow that the frame work was unable to support the weight. Early travellers on the way to church Sunday found the avn ing lying on the sidewalk
 Lizzie E. Batchellor, aged 50 years wife of Walter A. Sweet of Worcester, Mass, died on Thursday, February 17th, of peritonitis, following an oper- ation for appendicitis. Mrs Sweet was born in Worcester, only daughter of SiIas H. and Sarah F. Batchellor. She leaves her husband and two chil- dren, Ruth Page Sweet and Clifford Batchellor Sweet. The funeral ser vices were held at the home, 25 South Lenox street, on Sunday at two o'clock.
 Miss Virginia Wildey of South Orange, has been a guest of her cousin Miss Harriet Louise Wildey. MT. and Mrs. Fred Wildey gave a dancing party for Miss Harriet, Sat urday evening at Odd Fellows hall. The young people made merry until twelve o'clock. Woods orchestra furnishing music. Cut flowers were used as favors and a buffet lunch was served. Mrs. Fred Wildey, Mrs. c. H. Myers and Mrs. c. H. Moore, chap eroned the party. Some of the older friends were invited to join in the jolly occasion for all.
 Members of the fire department gathered in their rooms in the Tor ough hall on Saturday and enjoyed a fine oyster stew prepared by Frank Mason. Many bowls of the stew were consumed and as the firemen always have been prodigious eaters, the stew ard was kept busy during the evening. Pete Gaulin is the long distance champion stew consumer of the de- partment and was only able to defeat Chief Hayes of the police department by a narrow margin. During the feastfng speechmaking was in order and Chief Henry Wise and Edward Clark made number of worthy re- marks on the department and the members thereof, in their usually de- pendable style.
 The annual town business meeting will be held at Comique Theater next Tuesday evening at 7.3O o'clock Be, sides laying the annual town tax there are many very important mat ters to come before the voters. The warning is printed in the advertising columns The articles include the fol lowing: Acceptance of the bequesi of $1OO,00O for a memorial building and the bequest of $25,OOO for a sol diers monument, as provided in the will of the late Col. Charles Warren To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to procure an option on the lot formerly occupied by the Baker Block, now owned by Col W. H. Hall for the site of the memorial building with authority to purchase same. TC see if the town will appoint a com mittee to prepare plans for said build ing. To hear report of the commit, tee appointed March IF, 1920, for the purpose of erecting a new schoo building and to take such action as the electors may deem advisable. TC see if the town will vote to rescinG the vote taken March IF, 1920, in. structing the selectmen to issue bonds for $125, ,OO0 to be dated July 1, 1920; To see if the town will vote to instruct the selectmen to issue bonds for $125,- 900 for new school building. TC elect five members of the Isaac P Hyde park commission. The com. mittee appointed to erect new schoo building, consisting of w. R. Preble | J. H. Valentine, J. R. Parkhurst, R w. Smith and A. D. Bernardo, have made some changes in the interior plans of the building as originally planned, including the reduction o1 the size of the assembly hall, as tht Ilnew town building will probably pro. vide the need for a large hall. It is now thought that the new building can be erected and changes made on the present high school building