The Press., 1922-04-27
sRAFFORD SPRINGS

Joseph Kaplan returned to Brown last Friday. T
 Richard Bissonnette returned Sun day to Holy Cross. r
 Miss Molly Kuslansky of Hartford was the weekend visitor in town. All parents desiring to enroll chil- dren in the kindergarten department for the remainder of the spring term must do so ty next Monday.
 Two miscellaneous showers have been given Miss Anna Gilligan by her friends. One at the home of Miss Katherine Murray and the other at the home of Miss Harvey. Miss Gilligan received many useful and pretty gifts, A brush fire in the Mahan woods caused considerable excitement Mon7 day afternoon when it got beyond the control of few people who were trying to put it out. The fire truck was sent up and it was soon easily e&- tinguished. !
 Next Monday is the last day to have your dog licensed in order to avoid the penalty. Town Clerk Converse rel ports that there are large number of dogs still unlicensed. He will be kept quite busy the next few days and it would be we'll not to put it off until the last day. 7 Miss Lillie R. Carey, formerly Of this place, and graduate of Stafford high school, was graduated from St. Francis Training School for Nurses, in Hartford, in January. Miss Carey was awarded a prize ranking second in a class of thirty-e1ght. She was also successful in passing the state board examinations.
 The South Manchester Trade School baseball nine will furnish the Opposi- tion for the local high school tomor- row afternoon The game will proba- bly, be played at the ball grounds at Keefe's Plains. The probable lineup to face them is as follows: Clark C., Quinn D., Piccin 1st., Towne2nd,, Sul- livan ss., Scussel 3rd., Baldwin f., Davis cf., Calchera If.
 State Commissioner of Domestic Animals J. M. Whittlesey. ty the re-
 
 has made the following appointments for dog wardens in this vicinity: Staff ford, H. O. Butterfield; Wilmington, w. O. EIdredge; Somers, H. J. Hubert; i; Union, Raymond Hathaway; Ashford, H. c. Barlow; Ellington, G. F. Berr Vernon, Fred Siegfried.
 The All Stafford swamped the Night Hawks last Sunday by score of 20 to 3. The game was very slow as 10th teams have not been playing together very long, but with the showing that the winners gave the fans may be confident that they will see a fast brand of baseball this year when everything Is rounded into shape. The summary:
 Stafford 2s2O61Oso-2o 12 8 Night Hawks O10OO- 13 Batteries: Connors, Daigle and Mo Quaide, Michna and Calchera.
 Charles R. Brown. dean of the Yale divinity school, Is to be the speaker at the high school graduation exercis- es on June 18th. MT. Brown is an un- usual good speaker and, the school is fortunate in securing him. At a meet ping of the school board on Friday evening 1t was voted to accept the resignation of Superintendent of Schools A. B. Handy, who is to go to Thompsonville, to take effect May 18th. MT. Handy will keep in touch with the local schools as conditions may rise. Submaster Dow is to be acting princi- pal of the high school for the remain der of the school year.
 The All Stars defeated the Lucky Nine ball team last Sunday at the fair grounds by 21 to 10 score. Most of the game was loosely played. The All Star heavy hitters showed them selves, of which c. Fontanella swung the heaviest stick, hitting a two bag ger and home run with two men on. B. Fontanella pitched for the victors and Cote for the losers. Next Sunday the All Stars will play the Cadet base ball team of Rockville at the fair grounds. They defeated the All Stars last season for the Junior champion ship of Holland county, and as this is the opener for the Cadets it promises to be one of the fastest games of the season. The Cadets have been practic- ing quite regularly and are looking forward to another banner season. P Genovesi will probably pitch for the Cadets and E. Fontanella or A. Houle will twirl for the locals.
 The high school base ball team was defeated in Putnam last Friday afternoon in hard fought contest ty score of 4 to 2. From the beginning to the end it was a pitchers battle Baldwin getting ten strikeouts and walking two and Nelson getting six teen strikeouts and not giving any free tickets. Both pitchers allowed five hits. The summary: