The Press., 1921-04-07
STAFFORD sPRTNGa

Mrs. J. A. Mix has gone to Nauga
 tuck
 Miss Helen Reed of Hartford spent
 Sunday at the Fletcher home. George Braithwaite of UxtFidge
 Mass, has accepted position with thu
 Rhode Island Worsted Go.
 MT. and Mrs. M. P. J. Walker return
 to their home here this week from
 Brooklyn, N. Y., where they have
 been with their daughters for the win
 ter. A@ .e
 MT. and Mrs. J. A. Stannis are ex- tpected to return to their home on Staff
 ford Street this week from St. Cloud
 Fla, where they have been for the
 winter.
 St. Edwards three nights fair will lie held on April A. 15, 16, the last
 half of next week. The stage per- formance during the fair will be es-
 pecially enjoyed.
 Misses Mary T., and IsaE ellie B.
 Russell returned to their home here last week Thursday from East CleVe- land, Ohio, where they have teen spending the winter.
 The Stevens Hardware sign with the elongated H. so prominent on all sta tionary and other matter relative to | the concern, has now Teen embossed on the sign over the door of the store Lon East Main street.
 The following are the sales of gov ernment securities at the post office for the month of March: Treasury | savings certificates, $82.8O; war sav- ings stamps, 49.68; thrift stamps, 14.50; $1 treasury stamps, $2.- St. Edwards hall has booked the LOrne Elwyn players for the whole week of May g. This company is al- ways welcomed here with a packed house for it's new drama every night. Last year the majority of the audience secured seats on Monday for the | whole week.
 The directors of the Stafford Golf Co. met last Thursday evening and elected the following officers Presi- dent, A. I. Mitchell, vice-president, c. H. Moore; secretary and treasurer, F. A. MandersOn; greens committee, William Park, w. H. Hall, c. H. Moore; captain of teams, c. B. Pinney.- R. D. Pryde of Orange, Mass, whose plan for the new nine-hOle golf course, has been accepted, was here last week and work on the new course, which it will take two years to com plete, will be started at once.
 The long talked of and planned event of the senior class of the Staff ford high school is over. One by one the members of the class returned home during the latter part of last week. A load of pictures, programs and memory stimulants accompanied each member. All conversation cen ters on Washington or some other portion of the trip. So enthused are the junior class over the tales told that already many plans are launched for their trip about one year from this time.
 Visitors in town are no longer stop ping at the Springs House. That hO- tel is now closed. It's genial proprie- tor no longer greets the wanderer at the door, and many and varied are the inquiries on the street as to where person might sleep when night des- cends upon the stranger in town. The hotel has been the rendezvous of trav- cling men to Stafford for a decade, but since the late visit of the state police the house has been closed and no definite date or assurance of reOpening has been set.
 Miss Lena Mantovani, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Dominic MantOvani of Broad Street, Springfield, and Joseph Panciera,, son of Mrs. Pauline Pancie- ra of Stafford Springs, were married last week Wednesday at g o'clock in Our Lady of St Carmel church. The attendants were Miss Marie Sora of Springfield and Peter Pezzini of Staff ford Springs. The bride wore white satin and georgette dress and tulle veil. She carried a shower touQuet of white roses and carnations. The maid of honor wore gray georgeite, and carried pink carnations and roses. About 30 guests were present at the breakfast aud dinner in tue home of the bride, and there was a re- ception in the home of the bridegroom
  ing. Mr. and Mrs. Panciera will make their future home in this borough.
 A fair sized audience attended the art lecture Monday evening given at the Congregational church by Prof Henry B. Seldom of New London. In taking for his subject the Modern Painters point of View" it was neces- sary to briefly call to mind those old influence on the later artists. Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci and VelasqueZ represented four distinct types of the old renaissance period, Corot, Millet and Rousseau of the French school were compared. The speaker then called to attention the extent to which John Sargent, Will liam Chase, Hassam and many other modern artists had profitted by and improved upon ideas gained from a lecture was illustrated by lantern slides. Prof. Selden was entertained in the Bard home. --<
 Music lovers hereabOut are to have the opportunity of hearing Elsie Teal in recital of piano music at the Con- gregational church on April 19. This recital will be Miss Teal's first formal public appearance in Stafford Springs, but she comes to her townspeople as no novice at her instrument. Though, as a pianist, Miss Teal is a compara- tive stranger here, she has been be- fore the, larger concert public for several years. Her education, which has been steadily growing, was firmly established and largely set forward by her notably successful debut at Aeolfan hall in New York city last December. The recital announced for April 19, will serve not only to intro duce a young lady, who otherwise needs no Introduction, but will afford a long delayed opportunity to hear this young pianist as an interpreter of some of. the finest music that the Gl.- T