The Press., 1922-01-12

The annual meeting of the corpora tors of the Johnson hospital will be held next Monday at 3 p. m.
 Helen Smith entertained twelve of her schoolmates at her home on East Main street last evening. in honor of her twelfth birthday.
 The Commercial Department of the local high school have purchased eight new typewriters, five Underwoods and three Rem9ngtons.
 Next Sunday morning the pastor of the Methodist church will speak on "The Greatest Miracle of the Ages" and at the evening service the subject win be, "A Man who was Caught in his own Trap"
 Miss Margaret Russell, dietitian at the Gale hospital at Haverhill, Mass, was unfortunate enough to slip on the ice recently. While no serious in- jury resulted, because of a strained back she will be confined to her bed for some time.
 Stafford friends will be glad to hear that Mrs. o. J. Aldrich is improving after an operation for appendicitis. Rev. O. J. Aldrich was the predecessor of Rev. E. A. Legg at the Methodist church and is now located in Taunton, Mass.
 The senior class of the Stafford high school will give concert in the assembly hall of the new school build ing, Wednesday evening. The Ching a-Ling Banjo club of Willimantic will furnish the entertainment. The sen- iOrs are planning a number of these concerts and the proceeds will be used for their annual trip.
 In the special match game Tuesday evening between Bill" KusIansky and H. B. Pinney, Kuslansky was victo- riOus. In the last string and last box Pinney got a spare and needed nine pins to tie the score, but he was able to collect only seven. The box score is as follows:
 | Kuslansky, 95 119 94 138 86 532 Pinney, 95 1O5 95 136 99 53O
 All lovers of skating and hockey ! are requested to turn out Saturday afternoon with shovels and brooms at \ Warrens pond to clean off rink, and place around the rink so that hockey and skating can be resumed. Ar engagements are being made by Mana ger Lynch of the All Staffords to re- sume games in the near future with such teams as Rockville, Windsor Locks, Thompsonville, Connecticut Aggies and the Springfield Boat club.
 An unusual gathering was held Christmas at the home of Mir and Mrs. Louis Converse in Cleveland, Ohio. It was reunion of present and for mer Stafford Springs relatives and friends, all of whom at some time liv- ! ed in the neighbOrhOOd of "Woodlawn" Aside from the family. the guests in cluded, Misses Mary and Belle Russell, | sisters of Mrs. Converse; Mrs. EllOra Mix Hollister and her family of Kent, Ohio, and MT. and Mrs. Wilfred Eaton of Cleveland. Ohio.
 The first class in Home Care of the Sick will be held at the Public Health Center next Tuesday evening at 7.30. There are vacancies in the | afternoon class to be held on Thurs day afternoons at o'clock. Anyone interested in this class will obtain any information desired by calling to see Miss Miller or by telephoning her be- tween and g a. m.; to 2 D. m. The course consists of 15 lessons. The ! LS0 IS Do. A text DOCK at OU cents IS | required.
 The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National bank of Stafford Springs was held at their banking rooms Tuesday, and resulted in the election of the Following named directors for the ensuing year: Chris topher Allen, George |, Dennis. R. w Smith, W. H. Reed, W. H. Hall. F. F. Patten, A. I. Mitchell, William Park and F.NG. Sanford. A meeting of the directors following the stockholders meeting resulted in the election of Freeman F. Patten, president; A Mitchell, vice-president; F. G. Sanford cashier; H. R. Wightman, assistant cashier The bank regrets to lose the services, of MT. Allen as president. He has served the bank in that capacity since 1912, but declined reelection to that office on account of personal req sons, but remains on the. board of di- rectors. The usual 5%o semi annual dividend was paid stockholders on record January 1, 1922.