The Press., 1883-05-24
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 Local Notices.
 You can buy baby carriage for $7. 50 tc $50 at Metcalf & Luther's, Springfield. They are selling chamber-sets from $20 to $50 Refrigerators from $4.50 to 1925 can be found at Metcalf & Luther's, Springfield.
 -Metcalf & Luther of Springfield have the agency for the Grown o 1 Stoves. These are absolutely odorless ard produce the brightest flame and most heat with the least consump- ton of oil.
 As specimen of the extensive sales made at Gill's art store we note that 300 gross of steel pens were sold there Monday. The sales of engravings and pictures are steadily increasing, and buyers are demanding better quality of pictures. MT. Gill has lately pur- chased many engravings of finer quality than ever seen before in Springfield
 Whitney & Adams of Springfield have the largest assortment of paper hangings in that city They have doubled their ware rooms and offer papers of every grade from cts. to $48 per roil.
 The Grown oil stove, sold by Metcaf & Luther, Springfield, is constructed so that combustion is perfect, therefore absolutely odorless. It is protected by shieldplates sur rounding the burners, which prevent it's be-
 
 Good judges say that the pictures made at Hardys photograph studio, BIO Main st. , Springfield, for the Mount Holyoke Seminary girls, are the finest seen yet, though they have employed several artists from other places.
 Our ladies who are in want of millinery will find the stock of s. Levison, at $50 Main st., Springfield, the most complete in that city, while their prices on every article, whether trimmed hats and bonnets, ,or flowers or feath- CTS, defy competition.
 Forbes & Wallace, Springfield, are offer ing black brocade silks in large elegant de- signs for polonaise, at the extremely low price of .25 per yard.
 Ladies wishing for choice designs to paint will find Barbotine patterns just received at Gilrs, Springfield most exquisite, at very low prices
 -The Worlds best-the Adams < Vest lake wire gauge non-explosive oil stove, IS not a mere experiment, has been thoroughly and fully tested, and with the most splendid success. For all kinds of cooking broiling, baking, washing and ironing it has no equal. No smoke, no smell the only absolutely safe oil stove made; beautifully ornamented for 1883. J. J. Gallivan & Go. are exclusive agents for Stafford, Union and Wilmington.
 STAFFORD.
 .s'Esmeralda' at Central Hall next Wednesday evening.
 The Citizeus Band will appear in new gray uniforms of handsome pattern on Me morial day, when they will be credit to the place in appearance as they have long been in proficiency They have not funds enough to pay for the new suits and ask help of the citizens The two new players, recent arrivals from England, are great addition to the band.
 A pretty case of wax flowers, in Galh- vans window, is labeled to be disposed of by lottery, for the benefit of the Sisters of Mercy. Tickets 25 cts.
 When the telephone connection IS made between Monson and Stafford Springs there will be the same need of closing up the little gap between this place and Tol- land and Willington Depot At present to get Willimantic or Norwich we have to talk through the Rockville office, and this roundabout transit makes Norwich hard to understand, and New London practical ly out of the question.
 The large egg season has been open ed by a hen belonging to Fred Smith, whose production measured 62 by S inches, and weighed A. ounces.
 -S. B. Tifft of Westford has sent us box of flakes of eharred wood picked up about his premises, some of them four inches square. MT. lift found them last Friday morning all about his premises, and having heard of no fire was at loss to account for their appearance, and did not know their source at the time of send ing to the Press office. The Stafordville mill fire on Thursday was the origin of them, and these sent here were picked up eight miles from the scene of the fire.
 = "Esmeralda" will be played by the Stafford Springs young people at Central Hall, Monson, on Friday evening ef this week, accompanied as before by MissMed- bery, the pianist whose part of the enter tainment given here was so enthusiastical- ly applauded. The actors have freshened up with rehearsals, and will put into the play the same close attention to detail that made it so surprising success here, and made MT. Patten's reputation as mana ger. The Monson people have before them an evening of fine enjoyment, which we would envy them were it not that we are to have the play given here also on Wednesday evening next, when it IS pret- ty certain to again attract large audience.
 -Bolieau took the steamer to the Staf- fordville fire last Thursday inside of thir- ty minutes from start to finish, pretty good run of four miles without change of horses. Had like expedition been used with the hose carriage water would have been put upon the fire inside of an hour from the first stroke of alarm in the bOr- ough. As it was the company did we'll, and saved much property.
 -''The food-gates of heaven were op- ened" on Tuesday, and how the grass has grown since. The fears of many an anx- ious farmer are allayed.
 pr. Newton of thas village read & pa per on Surgery and Malfermations" at the monthly meeting of the Eastern Hamp- den (Mass.) medical association on Thurs day last.
 The abundance of fruit blossoms in this ''otf year" is an agreeable surprise.
 Smith < Cooley are putting in shoddy making machinery, and may eventually make this their leading business, as there is little demand now for fotks,
 The Citizens Cornet Band will give balcony concert before the beginning of the presentation of "Esmeralda' at Central Hall next Wednesday evening. Much in- terest is felt in the coming presentation among those who missed it before, but still more interest among the many who saw it then and want to see it again. The same elaborate attention will be given to stage arrangement and decorations as be- fore. Reserved seats for sale at Medbery's.