The Press., 1885-01-22
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ford before I warrant all my goods, ana give the privilege of returning them it they do not prove satisfactory. Call and see them at Rockwelrs Block.
 Forbes $ Wallace, Springfield, have put on sale their entire stock of Hamburg Edg- ines imported for their wholesale and retail trade, for the next six months They now propose to clear out the whole in @ short time, and have marked the goods way down This will be the greatest sa of Hamburg Embroideries and Insertions ever attempted in Springfield.
 Not till after you have seen the prices at Broadhurst Brothers, (Morse's Shoe Store), S76 aain-st., Springfield, Mass, will ou de- decide that they are selling Shoes cheap. We noti ed Mems best Woonsocket Dull Rubber Boots marked $2.67 8 pair.
 ~TAFFORD.
 The Stafford Library Association, ill connection with the Girls Library Club, are incubating plan for most interest ing fair in a; d of the library fund recently started by the latter club, and which 1t is suggested should be Call, the ttE1la Bakei memorial fund, in commemoration of on. who did so much for the library. The fair will be of social and educational character, and it is hoped to make It as en- ioyable as the last and only one ever held bg the assoeiation-in 1875. The library has been quietly doing good work Ill tht town without being in any sense pubic tax. Its friends feel that 1t is now, at the expiration of ten years from its last far, entitled to kindly consideration. Its form CT fair will be It remember, d as perhaps tht pleasantest soclal affair that ever combin. d the people of the entire village in a work of common interest. The plan of the com ing fair will be explaint next week.
 The Girls Library Club have in prep aration ''The Elevator - for evenings entertainme ent, to be gwen soon in aid ot the library fund. This is nice little play, similar ip character to 'sThe Register" It is not unlikely that the presentation will be made part of the ct,ming library far.
 The Norwich Bulletin speaks thus strongly of one of our business men: MT J. M. Leach of Staffrd Springs is making preparations to build him house on Edge wood avenue. the most a tractiSe place II the borough. Nr. Leach is a young mal engaged in mercantile pursuits, having risen to good position among the com mercial class from small beginnings, solely upon his own merits, controlled by his ell ergetic nature.
 The board of relief meeting in thl, village last Saturday drew many attend ants. some seeking relief, others curious U examine the books. Less eause of con- plaint seems to have been found than W a. looked for, though the marking up of prop erty on Main-st was pretty general. The real estate of Widow Foster was advanced, for example, from g, 800 to $7, 300, besides adding ten per cent for not giving list, which, as Mrs F. is claimed to be non- resident, will probably be taken oH As another instance, the property of Rev w Ellis on Church-st-thsee cottages-las year was put in by the assessors (there being no list furnisbed) at $3,0O0. Thls year the same valuation was put upon the list given, and the property was marked mp to &4. 4.2OO. TheDimock Bros. real es- tate in the borough was increase d $4,OO0, An evident error of judgment is the rating of W. G. Ellis store building at $6OO- $2O0 being it's former assessed value. Tn building stal.ds on leased land, sabieet t. removal, cost less than $500, and could now be built for less. Cleaveland's build ing, next west of it, also on leased land, and double the size and more than doubl, the value, is rated at $500. W. P Bid wells two houses gre assess ed at $4 900 :; one is 6 double house on Highland Ter race, certainly not salable at that figure, and heretofore rated at $1, 500. The other fs 8 small house on Holland avenue, for which MT. B. bst year paid $250. These are only few of many cases. It is said that three new cottages, recently built b. one of the assessofs, are put ln at $4OO each, and many owners pf similar build ings are anxious to have these made the standard of valuation.
 Editor "The Press'' I have just read with painful surprise, the unnatural death of Wm. B. Small. It member him well, and have a very distinct image of him a he was when knew him some years ago. His death brings to mind an incidnt which occurred soon after he esae to the Springs and will relate it, as it bears OF a much mooted theological question. MT. Small had been cast into sorrow by the death of little child. The funeral was at the house, Rev. A. ". Ila, then pastor of the Congregational church, officiating. I have reason 10 belleye that the service was entirely satisfactory to the afflicted circl-- The following Sabbath MT. Ide's pnlpi was filled by student from the Eas Windsor Seminary, now the Hartford Sem mary and the text of one of his discourses was from the serfptnral account of the de struction of Sod m and lomarrah. I do not recan now the special doatrne of fh QlSCOuH6 0uo OuC A0IpEGrcIpu WH1Su we left strongly upon the mind of many il the congregation was that children dying in infancy were lost. MT, Small heard the discourse, and was so troubled thereat that he had talk with MT. Ide aboHt It when. he returned from out of town. Mr. Id was good deal surprised, and could hard iy believe that such doctrine had been taught, even by implication, from his pull pit but inquiries put to persons who heard the discourse, satisfied him that Mir. Small had not misoonstrued it. The present writer remembers that affair well, and knows that that doctrine was the log ical sequence of the treatment given to tin. destruc ion of those old and wick ed ctti.s I never heard any one say he believed the young divinity stuAent really intended to leave such an impression on the mil d of his audience; but that he did is faet to which there are witnesses. The incident always comes to mind when the discussion of the past or present views of the future of infants is mnoted. may be pardoned if add that have had the pleasure, quite recently, to assist in oonnails that were called, especially, to examine feg soraina- tion two recent graduates of the Hartford Seminary; and, al hongh they were thor oughly orthodox, after the most approved orthodox standards of these times, there A. "A Al. Al