The Press., 1922-04-13

, was in town for few days last week.
 Luther Ritchie of Springfield has taken a position with the Kealy Gar age.
 Miss Dorothy Pinney has a new Wills-St. Claire, eight cylinder, sport model car.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Con gregationaI church will hold Rum mage sale" next week Friday.
 Court Oronoco, F. of A. meeting this evening. Special business and degree work. Deputy R. J. Murphy will at i tend.
 , Robert Torry of Ashaway R. l., and Raymond Garland of Brookfield, Mass, spent the weekend with MT. and Mrs. i c. w. AmidOn.
 All wishing to loan or give memo ral flowers, to use at the COngrega- tiOnal church for Easter, are request ed to have them there Saturday after noon.
 Mrs. c. H. Meyers spent a few days last week with relatives in Waterbury. MT. Meyers went down ! for over Sunday.
 i Russel have returned to their home, Wood Lawn cottage, after spending the winter with their sister Mrs. Louis Converse, in Cleveland, Ohio. The funeral of Mrs. R. s. Converse | was held at the home Saturday alter 1 noon, Rev. E. A. Legg officiating. J. Carl Converse, Mrs. T. Fred Mullen, Miss Alberta Eaton and c. H. Moore sang Abide With Me- and Home 1 land" The flowers were very eauti- i full. F. G. Sanford, B T. Eaton, Irving 1 Reynolds and w. H. Reed were the i bearers.
 Mrs. James Stretch of Simsbury ex- l poets to leave Stafford tomorrow. ! The old home on Highland Terrace will be retained, at least for the pre- | sent, and Mrs. Stretch and brother, Harry o. Converse of Bridgeport hope to occupy it frequently during the summer Mrs. Harry Cormerais of Newton, Mass, and Miss Carr of Sims tury have been with Mrs. Stretch since 1 the funeral of her mother, Mrs. R. $. Converse.
 The All-Stars handed a defeat to the Invincibles last Sunday by 27 to score. The All-Stars started the bOmbarding in the second inning, when they piled up eight scores. The Invincibles got their runs in the second and third innings. O'Houle was put in to pitch in the last few 1 innings of the game and did well for L. 1 the twirler for the loosers, and E. i FOntanella started the game for the victOrs.
 The Lucky Five basket l all team 1 ended up their season last Friday evening by defeating the Independents 36 to 28. The game was very fast and good passwork on the part of 10th 1 teams were the features of the game 1 Pagan and Calchera were the stars for 1 the winners, while B. TOWne and Cum mings were the best for the losers l This makes the second consecutive year the Lucky Five have played with out being defeated.
 The local high school baseball team will open their season next Tuesday afternoon with a home game, when they will play the Enfield high school team. Every year there always is a great deal of rivalry between the two
 schools in baseball, so an unusual l good game can be expected. The Staf- ford boys have been practicing at the fair grounds all the week and from the way they play the fans will prob ably see, faster team than that O1 last year.
 The following programs have been prepared for the Easter services al the Methodist church next Sunday
 morning at 10.30: Prelude, Andante
 ReligiosO (Thorne), violin and organ
 Vincent J. MaramarcO of Hartford
 carol, Christ the Lord is Riser
 Again" CSchonaker) hymn, Tiff
 Your Glad Voices"; violin solo, Ave
 Maria" (Bach-Gounod), MT. Mara
 marco. anthem, "Hosanna" (Granier)
 choir; sermon, "The Three Miracles
 of Easter" Rev. E. A. Legg; hymn
 organ prelude, Grand Chorus !
 Allegro Jubilant." (Milligan); ""Tht
 Thingaley), an Easter story with mu
 sical illustrations by the choir; post
 Jude, Unfold ye Portals" (GounOd)
 The smoker held at borough hal
 last Thursday evening, under the aus
 pices of the American Legion wa.
 very successful. At eight o'clock thu
 boxing bouts were started and thu
 crowd was given a chance to witnes!
 some very good boxing. In the frs
 bout two of Stafford's younger pugil
 ists were the contenders. The matcI
 was very fast and both boxers were good, but with the weight on his side
 Red" Michna was able to get the bes
 of "Lando" Bressan by small mar
 gin. The second bout also was very
 fast. The contestants in it were Pet'
 Grenier and "FritZy" Snyder. Th'
 first two rounds of this match wert
 Snyder's, but in the third and fOurtl
 rounds Grenier uncorked some re serve pep and forced Snyder to quit
 The main bout was for the welter
 weight championship of Stafford ant the fighters were "Kid" Bressan anC
 Battling" Lazzeris. This match wal
 exceptionally good and the first fou
 rounds werG easily Lazzeris's, wht
 got many points by leading, but in thu
 sixth round Brassan came througl
 with some timely blows and Joe Os
 trowsky, manager of Lazzeris, wa
 obliged to stop the bout to save hin ! Oichn md hxy 6nSV
 so forfeited the match and champion ? ship to Bressan. Both boxers deserv much credit for the good brand O
 boxing they put up and it is hopet
 that they will come together again il
 the near future Edward Greene ref , creed the bouts.