The Press., 1922-06-01
Rockwell Home and Barn Burned

| The large farm house or John ROCK
 we'll, together with four barns, cider mill and out buildings were destroyed
 by fire about Il o'clock yesterday morning. The place was located on l Rockwell Hill about two miles east of the borough. MT. Rockwell was in the borough when the fire occurred and he lost all his household furniture and personal effects as we'll as a lot of farming implements and wagons that were in the barns. The total loss is estimated at about $4,000 and is I partly covered by insurance. The or igin of the fire is unknown. but it | started in a pile of rubbish in the south side of the house. MT. Rockwell intends to replace the buildings in the near future.
 1 Walter Hanley of Hartford was in town over the holiday.
 ] A sewer is to be built from Keefe's l Plains through West street.
 The R. I. Worsted company have started to build four six room bunga- lows on Keefe's Plains.
 Mrs. Ellen Sweeney and three | uduSuIOIS 1IOu IIONlu0uC0, were IuO weekend guests of Miss Julia CorcO- ran over the holiday.
 There will be a meeting of the WOmens missionary society of the Congregational church Tuesday after noon at o'clock with Mrs. Rees. This is the time to pay the foreign mission ary dues.
 Misses Anna Miller, Grace Griffith, Mabel Meyers and Marian Lee are spending ten days at the Pinney Camp on the east side of Crystal Lake. All come to town to their daily business, returning to the lake each late after noon.
 | Next Sunday morning the pastor of the Methodist church will preach in anticipation of childrens day on "The child in our midst" In the evening his subject will be Wages" Special music will be rendered. Children's s \ day will be observed June 11th with children's concert at the morning service.
 Several young ladies of the town representing the American Legion sold poppies Saturday so that the re- ceipts would enable the Legion to Ob tain bronze grave markers for it's heroes whether they died over there or here. Donations were made by the local post so that floral tributes will ! be made for the graves of it's dead boys that never returned from Euro pean battle fields. The grave markers in the local cemeteries are on the graves of the following Legion men: | Charles Roberts, Edward Swift, Frank Bartek, Howard Needham, Peter Bond vile, Carl Hansen, Malcolm Sault, John Squires.
 No trace yet has been found of AL bert COllett, aged 31, who disappeared from his home on Holland Road Mon day the 22nd. He left carrying his dinner pail, apparently with the in tention of going to his work at the saw mill of Stephen PeIlizari. He did not go to work however and inquiry | among his relatives showed that he had not stopped on the way at any of their homes. On Friday Mrs. Collett notified the police that he was missing and they have been on the look out for | trace of him since but none has been found. It is said that for some time past MT. COllett has been troubled by financial worries and was also suffer- ing from heart trouble, having fallen unconscious at his work on several previous occasions. On the Sunday preceding his disappearance he seem ed to he very gloomy and depressed. MT. COllett has a family of five chill dren.
 The All Stafford baseball team was defeated by Rockville in the Memorial day game here in the morning in close contest of to 5. Connors pitched good ball but at times received poor support and by punching hits Rockville was able to pile up a lead that was hard to overcome. In about every game of the season Wise, who plays first, has been the outstanding feature. In many games he has made stops that looked impossible, and by doing so saved the infield from many errors. His hitting also has been good, getting many long drives and many singles. Squirrel" Pallanck made great stop in Tuesdays game and by a wonderful throw got his man at first. In the afternoons game the locals were victorious by a score of g to 3 over the victors of the morn ing contest. Quinn, the high school star pitched great ball up to the seventh when he gave few free tick cts and was relieved by COnnOrs. Not only is Quinn good pitcher, but is good hitter connecting for hit at least once in every game.
 High School Notes.
 The class day exercises will be held at St. Edwards hall on Wednes- day evening, June 14th. As usual each class will give it's song and cheer with the seniors, ending up with their exercises. The graduation exercises will be held at the Paramount Thea ter Friday evening June 18th. The school was very fortunate in obtain ing for the speaker, Charles R. Brown, dean of the Divinity school of Yale University. Also the honor pupils will speak. Harold Towne represent ing the general curriculum, Miss Mary O'Halloran the classical and Miss Roberts the commercial.
 On tomorrow afternoon the base ball team will play their greatest rivals, the Rockville high team at Hyde Park. The team defeated this aggregation once this year and will try to repeat by presenting one of their strongest lineups of the seascon, which makes several changes. The lineup: Scussel, c, Baldwin D, Piccin 1st, TOwne 2nd, Sullivan ss. Quinn 3rd, Pease If, CaEchera of, Davis or Reed If. Next Tuesday they will oppose the fast Putnam high nine which defeated locals in the beginning of the season by light score of to 2. The battery will probably be Quinn and Scussel
 The annual high school picnic will be held at Rau's Pavilion, Crystal Lake, next Friday afternoon.
 The baseball team was defeated in Enfield last Friday 21 to 12. Heavy hitting on both sides featured Reed a pinch hitter was the star for the s. H. S., starting batting rally that