The Press., 1883-12-20
STAFFORD.

are good, it is worth while to secure one in advance, and so avoid the jam at the door, a d be sure of a comfortable seat awaiting your occupancy without the ne d of going early to secure it. There will be large audience at the concert, as there should be. A glee club of IS college students, with the repertoire of pathos and senti- ment, also rollicking drollery that these gl+e clubs are famous for, is novelty we don't often enjoy, quartette of students being the nearest we have ever come to 1t b fore. The club sang in Meriden We'd nesday evening, in Windsor this evening, and after their concert here disband until next week Wednesday evening, when they slng in Newark, N. J., and Thursday even- ing in Philadelphia. J. Carl Converse of this village is u member of the club.
 -F. A. Piersen has bought of E. G. Whiton the wood and timber on two sep aratt. tracts in ssthe devils hop yard, one containing. eight and the other twenty i've acres. The land is we'll timbrred, chiefly with hemlock, and the steam mill which Lumau and Chauncey Orcutt have been using in Union will now be Set at work in the ''hop yard
 Christmas trees will be set up by the different Sunday schools on Monday even- i Ig next, and appropriate exercises preced the distrl lbution of the fruit they bear.
 Grace church will hold its annual Ser vice and Christmas tree Monday evening 1t 5 o'clock. After the tree there will be pictures of the life of Christ shown by magic lantern. Service Chr istmas day at 10:30 a. m.
 Monday interruption by the storm of the Main-st. building gangs had demor- alizing eff'ct. Some of the men got so ,xhilerated that considerable disturbance took place place at the boarding hous where most of them congr+gated. as re- suit of which one man sl~pi in the lookup. Also the engineer of Flynt's force on open ing his Coal box next morning found lying ln 1t man who had mistaken it for his ho- tel.
 Those who retain their membership il Torrent Engine Company, Bs active or honorary members, will probably be call d upon to meet within & week, to Ireor- 5anize the company. ..ss.~.
 Now talk up sleigh-ridss.
 It is reported that Deacon Buck wi l ,ot be bidder for the job of caring for he town's poor the coming year. If true 1t Is bad news for the poor, and the hu- .nane p.opl- of the town will regret 1t. fhe poor have found i'll MT. and Mrs. B. kind and considerat.. guardians of their in- erests. By 'he way-a few charitably disposed people have for years past tri q 0 give the unfortunate towns poor tas' e rf Christmas festivities, and will probabl do 50 this year. There may be those dis posed to help them this year, and of our own volifion we suggest to such that they send to Miss Ella M. Baker any little arti- cle that they wish to contribute. Books, pictures, and toys, even if second hand, fruit, confectionery, aud any artic e of lux ury or comfort, or to promote harmless amusement, will eome in play.
 Annual meeting of Ionic Lodge, F. A. M., Friday evening,
 Rev. MT. Hawkins daughter, sick with diphth.ria at Middl. town University, is still in 8 critical condition, though latest reports give encouragement.
 HI. T. Congdon begins tonight clos ing.out auction sale of his stock.
 -Harper's for January Is already out and can be had at Parsons.
 Where are the prophets. We knew all the while that 1t wasn't going to be aa open winter; or that it was-can't just now remember which.
 Lord & E ton gre having different plans made for their block, to select from hereafter. One has hotel overhead an- other ofices. Is it best to let the chance pass by of securing fine hall to the bor- ough? Last warning.
 SUNDAY SERVICES.
 -Universalist church Usual morning service; also service at 63 p. m., with singing by choir and Sunday school.
 MT. Sexton will B- assisted next Sua- day morning by R v. Sidney Partridge, sho will deliver 8 lecture on China, at Grace church. MT. Partridge is grad uate of Yale college, has spent six months in Ohina, and will return to that. country next spring as missionary,
 -Methodist Episcopal church Preach service at 6:30; Sunday school at 12 m. STAFFORD HOLLOW.
 The marriage of R. G. Beebe of the Riverside Mfg Go. and Miss Fife Cady, daughter of Stafford's first selectman, was solsmnized by Rev. G. V. Maxbam on Wednesday morning, and the couple are aow away on their wedding tour O. their return they will occupy one of the cottages recently bullt by MT. Cady.
 -Chas. H. Puffer will give readings at the Uuiversa ist church Friday evening, at 7.3O. This program viii b.; s"Ihe Little Stow-Away," Byron i; ''Innocene Beguil d." Brown and Blue :; "Kate Shelly" B J. Hall selection from Uncle Remus; "The Old Sergeant ;" "Uncle Tom ;" "Zeph Higgins Confrs- sion, Harriet Beecher Stowe;' selection from ..Peek's Bad Boy ; .'The Dying Al chemist" 4. F: Willis; D.stript School, !" A"on. Admissi ,n, 20 cents. Mr. Puffer has read before Stafford aud .ences, and IS a talented delineator. He is about to be- come instructor in eloeution at Ames Acad- emy, Sh-lburne Falls, Mass, and at Irving Academy, North Adams, Mass, positions that his Stafford friends feel that he will ably fill.
 The tree and supper of the Universal ist Sunday sciool will be at the church Christmas (Monday) eve.
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 The annual sale of seats at the Con- gregational church took place Tuesday.