The Press., 1921-08-25

Miss Doris Sullivan of Hartford i' spending the week at her home here. Miss Mabel Fowles is visiting hel sister, Mrs. Hattie Smithies of Palmer
 Mrs. Vaughan Brown of Monson i: spending the week with MT. and Mrs John Hancock.
 Miss Helen Reed of Hartford spent the weekend visiting at the Fletcher home on Furnace avenue.
 Misses Ruby Gold and Dorothy Shepherd are to enter Simmons Col lege, Boston, September sixteenth.
 MT. and Mrs. Michael McCrohan Ot Woonsocket, R. l., spent the weekend visiting friends and relatives in the borough.
 Wayland Charter is away on the annual automobile tour of the Con necticut State Poultry association which is touring Connecticut this year.
 MT. and Mrs. Louis s. Converse and son and daughter, Julius and Margar- ct, of East Cleveland, Ohio are guests of Mrs. Converse's sisters, the Misses Russell at Wood Lawn cottage.
 Miss Mabel Small of Birmingham, Ava, Eaton and his cousin, Mrs. Rice of Worcester, all former Stafford res idents, called on relatives and friends here the first of the week.
 Miss Helen Fletcher is absent from her duties at the telephone exchange on a two weeks vacation at Spring field and Boston, including a stay at Nantasket Beach, in company with Miss Alice Garden of Springfield.
 Mrs Janette Newell and MT. and Mrs. w. A. Abbott are entertaining the formers brother, M. A. Richard son, and wife of Chicago Mr and Mrs. L. c. Newell of New York and R. s. Newell of Hartford have also been guests at the Abt Ott home.
 Probably no better indication of the industry that the Volstead act has imbibed into the hearts of a great many citizens is to te found than in the rapidity with which wild cherries, elderlerries and grapes are disappear ing from the roads about the village just tefOre they ripen.
 The American Express office has been moved from the Baker building on upper Main street to the passenger station. The former express room in the depot and the baggage room has been combined making one big room. The store vacated by the change is to te leased by Francis Fitzpatrick, who plans to combine his present store with the new lease.
 Next Sunday morning Gustav Bach man, field secretary of the COnnecti- cut Temperance society will speak at the Methodist church at 1O.30. MT. Bachman has been prominently assO- ciated with the labor movement in this state and speaks with an intimate acquaintance with both labor and the temperance situations. At the evening service at 6.45 the pastor will preach.
 A game of baseball will be played on Keefe's Plain diamond on Sunday. Although neither of the contesting teams are of local personnel, a good 4IFS1y 1AdC(h AAdy US CIAIACApdCCu. Through arrangements with James Jr., the Palmer team have for the use of the field for Sunday baseball games. The Palmer aggregation is snappy team compos- ed of semi-prOfessiOnal men includ ing a number of Holy Cross players )f last season. The game on Sunday s between the Belchertown A. c. and he Palmer team. Before making ar with Palmer every effort was expended to see if there was any chance of a Stafford team using the field for games and as it seemed un- likely that a representative local nine could be organized, the field was given to Palmer. Manager Dawson of the Palmer team has some fine plans for big baseball here including a big league exhibition toward the end of the season.