The Press., 1885-01-08
LOCAL ToPIcs-PEss,D AND sClssoRED,

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 The Ellington creamery, which IS SUD- plying to the local markets large quantl- ties of good butter, is steadily increasing it's business. The cream is gathered at the houses by creamery collectors, none or
 the milk being taken 10 the creamery as some have supposed. Milk peddlers go around and collect the milk which they sell in larger places, much of it being sold in Rockville.
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 1 Newell Delphia has killed thirty coons this fall.
 Dwight Shippee- has bought of Dan Chism the place known as the old Sands farm and expects to move on to 1t Ill the spring.
 70. l.. Newell of Square Pond killed a hog recently which weighed 615 pounds
 when dressed. E. L. Martin also killed one which only lacked few pounds of 5OO
 | IL M. Dean has sold hls carriage fac tory in Woodstock to Thomas Milligan and gives possession the first day of January, l 1885.
 1 The treasurer's report of the Wood stock agricultural society shows that near ly $1 ,OOO remain in the treasury after the payment of all debts.x
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 REVIEW OF THE BUSINESS SITUATION IN ROCKVILLE. is thought by some of the first business men in Rockville that by the end of January there will be decided i'm provement in the business aspect. For a long time Rockville interests continued good while in other portions of the coun- 1 try business was wholly or in part at a stand still, but of late the long continued depression becanf6 manifest there also.
 The operatives in the mills have now be- gun to realize what bad times really means. There are more men Ill Rockville now out of employment than there ever were, even in the worst times of the past | generation Some of the mills are entirely stopped, and all ornearly all have curtail- ed production. The Hockanum mill is the one mill in Rockville running to full ca pacity. Residents say that the agent of that concern, is one of the shrewdest busi- aess men in New England. The next l most prosperous concern in Rockville, these peculiar times, is the firm of Fitch < Sons, manufacturers of stockinets, plushes and zephyr canvas. These gentlemen have built up large business with the rubber manufacturers of this country and otAcoAts, saAO AtsN0 JuoG AAsseAO @A 1hCAAA0hoc to enlarge their production. Their neigh bors, the Messrs. Beldings, silk manufac- turers, have of late been sailing close -baul- ed, but the announcement is made that af- ter this week the mill will be run at it's full capacity. MT. White, the energetlc ging- ham, manufacturer, also intends to run both his mills full blast after the holidays Affairs are quiet with the old Rock mill just now, but it's agent is ill hopes that he will come into port with colors flying "af- | ter the squall blows over" At the Ameri- can mill there is small force at work with a prospect that if the times improve the remainder of the machinery will be started up. Worsted goods appears to catch the
 popular fancy, and the mills producing such goods manage to dispose of them. The Hockanum, the New England, the
 Rock and the American are all engaged in the manufacture of fine grade worsted goods Messrs. White, Corbin < Co.,, manufacturers of envelopes, are fully em- ployed with orders ahead The Winder- mere and the Springville mills are at a standstill. The Holiday trade in Rock vile, this yeas kather tame, although fssss isas sia| .s 2 s.is sssssss sss'ssss; sss mills and the n the mills are driv- ing, at, full hody and living wages, the business at the stores is brisk and profta- ble. The same holds good with places of amusements, which of late years have been rather poorly attended, save in some spe- cial instance. The rink, too, has felt the depression