The Press., 1921-01-13
Ice is being cut on the Warren

y pond
 1T The Labonte ice Company is hal IS vesting their crop of ice on their Sta1 l. ford street pond.
 l. Mrs. John Bourgeois has been calle -- to Greenfield, N. H., by the seriou e illness of her mother.
 a The following are the sales of gov | ernment securities at the local pos s office for the month of December ), ] war savings stamps, $342.63; thrif y stamps, $25 75.
 t Miss Anna Cunningham, who hal }. been spending a few weeks at homV r recuperating from an operation fo }, appendicitis, has resumed her worl t in West Hartford.
 5 John B. Fontanella, local mason contractor and builder has taken his
 son, Geno Fontanella into partnership with him. In the future the business l will be run as John Fontanella & Son ? Stafford representatives appoint ments on committees are as follows G. l.. Dennis on banks and constitu'
 tionaI amendments. E. P. Kellogg on agricultural and contingent expenses The Poly Name society of St. Ed :. wards church will receive holy com
 munion in a body at the first mass
 next Sunday. Between the, first and
 secoad masses there will be busi-
 ness meeting of the society. '
 Ths Knights of Columbus will hold
 special meeting in the Red Mems
 hall next Tuesday evening to welcome
 a class of candidates with the initiatory
 or first degree. An especially large attendance of members is expected to
 attend. ....... .:. -..
 James Daley, local agent for the
 Standard Oil company of America, at
 tended 8 banquet and. reunion of the Spanish war veterans in Willimantic
 last evening. Mr. Daley is a veteran
 and tells many tales of army life in
 Spanish war times.
 John B. Fontanella, who has be en
 i'll the past year with asthma, left
 last night for Florida. to recuperate | from the effects of his illness. He 1 will probably spend the remainder Of | the winter in the south and retul
 with the coming of spring. -. | On Wednesday afternoon. an infant 1 son of Augusta TiZiani was buried in 1 St. Edwards cemetery. The child
 was one month and three days old and
 was one of twins born in the Johnson
 Memorial hospital. The other twin
 died the first day after it's birth At the Current Events club meeting
 Monday evening Prof. F. D. Aldrich of l Worcester academy will speak on ''The Message Light Brings from the Stars" Mrs. T. Fred Mullen will sing. Hcstesses, Mrs, L. c. Luce, Mrs. D. A. Chapman Mrs. A. l. Mitchell, Mrs Angus Park and Mrs. w. O. Judi. The Italian society has completed
 plans for the first masquerade, to be held in their new hall on Saturday
 evening. Many are planning to attend in costumes in order to better enjoy the merry making. Lazzerins orches- tra containing ten musicians will te on hand to furnish music.
 On January sixth Mrs. Ellen Bid- we'll Brooks 69, died of double pneu-, monia in New York. Mrs. Brooks was the wife of Henry M. Brooks of Springfield, formerly of Stafford. The \ funeral was held in Springfield last Saturday with burial in Palmer Mass. Mir Brooks with two daughters, Misses Nal ell and Dorothy, survive her. Miss Mabel, who teaches school in New York city, has been seriously i'll with pneumonia and her mother went there to be with her.
 William D TuthilI has opened hardware store at 52 Union Place, Hartford MT. TnthiII is the son of A. w. Tuthill of this borough where years ago Mr. Tuthiu was employed in the hardware store of H. Q, Butter field in Stafford On leaving Staff ford Mr. Tuthill worked at the Buck Hardware store in Palmer, at Stacy Supply Co.,, in Springfield and at their branch store in Hartford The good wishes of his many Stafford l friends are with him in his new un- dertaking.
 The annual meeting of the stock ! holders of the first National Bank of Stafford Springs was held at their banking rooms Tuesday. The follow ing board of directors were elected: Christopher Allen, Geo. L. Dennis, R. l F. F. Patten, A. I Mitchell, William Park, F c. Sanford. The directors 1 organized with Christopher Allen president; F. F. Patten, ,vice-president; F. G. Sanford, cashier and H. R. Wightman assistant cashier. The | usual per cent semi-annual dividend | was paid January 1st.
 Geno Fontanella of Stafford and
 NlSS N1cEIA1c 10C4OAd OL "S0GSA4SS 1Ss l.; were married at the Westerly Cath l olic church on last Wednesday morn ing. The bride is the daughter of ! John Panciera of Westerly and the ! groom is the son of MT. and Mrs. | John B. Fontanella of this town. Both MT. and Mrs. Fontanella are well known locally. Mr. Fontanella | has been employed with his father, { as a mason contractor, and during 1 the late illness of his father has car- ried on his business. They are ma king their home at the FOntanella house off of Prospect street. f
 Miss Elizabeth G. Whiting, dramatic reader, of Boston, gave a very en- joyable miscellaneous program at the ! Methodist Church last evening. of pleasing personality and gracious l manner, she met the same hearty com l mendation as on her visit here last ! year. Miss Whiting feels that she is | at her best in the presentation of plays, to which she gives most of her time. ! but her dramatic ability and versa l tility were we'll demonstrated in her E choice of selections for last evening. Particularly did her splendid facial l expression give reality to her imper- sonations. Tuesday night at Stafford, | Miss Whiting read Peg of my | Heart and tonight will entertain at | the Crystal Lake Church in connec- tion with the supper. Misses Marian Aldrich, Vera and Evelyn Kaddy gave | piano selections and Miss Violet | Hayes vocal solos. Miss Whiting is guest of MT. and Mrs. B. D. Kinsman while in town. 's1
 Stafford. defeated East Hartford 32" to Gin the first game of the new high school league played in the Y. M. c. club rooms last night. The league has now narrowed down to four teams, namely, East Hartford, Rock vile, Enfield and Stafford high school. Last nights game was one of the toughest played games of the year l