The Press., 1922-03-02
STAFFORD SPRINGS


 Robert Pinney of Choate school was the weekend visitor in town.
 Regular meeting of o. B. S., next Wednesday evening, with initiation.
 Kenneth Smith of Hartford spent the week end at his home on west Main street.
 Edward Ladish of Hartford visited at his home on Grant avenue over the weekend.
 Regular monthly meeting of The Stafford Business Mems association next Monday evening". -~u
 Mrs. R. H. Valentine and two younger daughters have returned from four weeks visit in Baltimore. Miss Ella Foster has returned from Boston, where she has been guest or friends for the past five weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. G. w. Amidon will entertain at their home Friday even ing, the officers and teachers of the Congregational Sunday school. Mrs. Frederick w. Stengel of Rock vile is at the Hahneman hospital in New York city where .she underwent serious operation on February Fist.
 The third semi annual Dollar Day sale was a big success. The Stafford merchants are well pleased and the shoppers evidently found many bar gains.
 w. E. Benton is remodeling his lunch room. He has installed a new 22 foot counter with spring stools and other new fixtures, which make great improvement in the place.
 n nod from visit in Maine, where she was recently called on account of illness of her father.
 The fair held by Iona Council last Friday and Saturday night at St. Ed wards hall was both socially and financially a big success. The min strel show and music for dancing furnished by the Connecticut Agri- cultural college Blackguard dramatic club were much enjoyed.
 The last dance tefore Lent was held at the Springs House last Mon day evening with a large crowd at tending. Woods orchestra furnished the music. Fox trots and quadrilles were the most popular dances, al though the moonlight waltz fea- tured
 The tickets for the picture, Prince there was" to be given this afternoon and evening at the Paramount Thea ter, have sold exceptionally well and it is evident that the high school base ball team will profit by the kindness extended to them by MT, Woods, pro prietor of the theater in running this mir the boy soprano will probably be an added attraction.
 The game scheduled last Sunday be- tween the s. H. c. and Hartford was failure because of the lateness of the Hartford team in arriving. Most of the Stafford boys thought that they were not coming and went home, but to find about half the regular Stafford team. A scrub game was played and Hartford was the winner.
 In recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Current Events club, Monday evening, short musical preceded the regular program. Miss Elsie Teal gave "Etude" by Schlozer; j; Musical Snuff Box," Liadow) Un Sostiro, Niszt), and Turkish March from the Ruins of Athens, (BeethO- ! ven-Rubinstein). Mrs. G. P. Bard spoke briefly on Service" giving all an opportunity to assist with the work now pledged by the Red Cross chapter. Mrs. Bostwick discussed the four power pact with the trea- ties now before the senate, the bonus bill, sales tax, cooperative sales or ganization, touching upon various benefits and dangers envolved. Ben | jamin Kidd's book, Science of Power \ was reviewed.
 William COminS Equals World Record
 at New York.
 At a meet in New York city last Saturday evening, "BilI' Comins of Yale, whose home is here took three first place in the fifty, sixty and seventy yard dashes. In the latter he tied the All American record. The following is from the New York Tele- gram of the 26th:
 One record was broken and another equalled last night in the annual track and field meet of the New York Athletic Club, at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory. Jake Driscoll, of the Boston A. A., in winning the 500 yard race for the Buermeyer trophy skipped over the new banked track in 58 3-5 seconds and thus clipped the old mark that he made two years ago on the fiat floor of the Thirteenth Regi- ment armory down from 59 1-5 seconds The mark that was eQualled was the 70 yard dash figures when w. A Comins, of Yale University, sped over the boards in 2 1-5 seconds. The thing that stood out above all, was the feat of Comins in winning the special medley sprint. He proved tc be the sensation of the season in \ athletic circles. He won all three of the dashes, the 50, 60 and 70, anG in doing so stamped himself as one O1 the speediest young persons that has been seen on the track in many year This lad was the darkest sort of z dark horse. Few in the crowd of TO-. 900 had ever heard of him. Pop Wefers declared he was unknown tt him. He had in the field against hin such stars as Bernie Wefers, Jr., Jack son Scholz and Bob McAllister, tho policeman who only couple of days ago hung up four new worlds records McAllister had everything in his favor with the permission to use spikes, ye he trailed in every one of the three races. In the record run of seventy yards he was foot behind Comins Comins was the real sensation of thu big meet. He is freshman at Yale where he is a student of engineering He will not be elegible to compete fol the Blue in the intercollegiate cham pionship this year, but if he holds hi form he will be big asset during tn, rest of his college course.