The Press., 1885-10-15
Mrs. Daniel Eldredge had her pocket

Mrs. Daniel Eldredge had her pocket picked at the depot in Willimantic, the day of the firemen's muster there. She happened to have only about s with her.
 The gentlemen and all the young peo- ple will bear in mind that the ladies' sew l ing society will continue their meeting this afternoon into the evening, when they are cordially invited 10 be present and take tea with them.
 l Mir. Clarence Fuller of Manchester, a student in Worcester Academy, and also on the Manchester Herald, was the Bap- tist supply last Sunday. He preached with acceptance, 1t IS said, i'll the hall at South Willington.
 -G. Hall & Go. offer $4.5O cash per cord, for birch wood suitable for spools. .-Partridges are being snared here abouts by the boys quite extensively. Charlie Topliff, for one, is making the feathers fly.
 Reuben Edgerton is giving two coats of paint to his house and barn.
 The joint board, consisting of the selectmen and school visitors, in session last Monday m making the annual appro- priations of school money for the different districts, passed over No. 2. Village Hill, the average attendance there last term be- ing much below the statute requirement of eight. It is said that there are some sixteen scholors ill the district, and 1t IS certainly an injustice to them that any unpleasantness in the district should de- prive them of their school privileges. It is to be hoped that the district will soon make before the joint board such explana- tion coupled with assurance of proper fu- ture action, in causing the children to be sent to school, that an appropriation can yet be legally made. :. Glad to see John Leach of Stafford Hollow here last Sunday. His voice in (song and remarks at the meetings ill the Congregational church is always welcome. -Amasa Holt is driving delivery meat and grocery wagon in Boston, it Is said. Mrs. s. Slingsby, daughter and Miss Hattie Spicer return from Boston today. Don't be in a hurry, farmers, about selling your apples for nothing. Specula- tors from not very distant localities in Mass. where there are few or no apples, have got as far as Stafford. We were re- gently in receipt of a letter from friend in Worcester county, who stated that there was great scarcity of the fruit in his township.
 At the town meeting last Monday the selectmen were instructed to do whatever they thought best as to repairing or alter ing that portion of the highway between the Hollow and Amanda Wheeler's, con- cerning which the petition for the special town meeting was made.
 Many old friends were glad to greet Rev. Dr. l.. G. Leonard who preached m the Baptist church last Sunday forenoon. Dr. Leonard, in his now rather enfeebled old age, is living in Bucyrus, Ohio. His highly useful and successful pastorates in ! ATnps etta and Lebanon. He fitted for college in this town under the tutorship of the late President Loomis. In this state he was pastor in Thompson and New Lon don, removing to Ohio in 1848. Dr. Leonard will be 76 Jan. 10th, next.
 Nr. Herbert G. Preston and his son Frsd, of Williamstown, Mass, and Joshua Preston, of Chicago, were in town and made brief calls on friends last week.