The Press., 1886-12-02

. 6OW1zs & A4tQ A&lA TWO k1GI6IS 4e OebCTAuAA | ed to kill. He took one and went out ant Il dispatched it. When he came in he found : the other dead on the floor. Query Die ] it commit suicide to prevent being killed l or did it die from fright?
 At the auction sale of the Palmer Mar tin estate last Saturday the home farm wal ! not sold, and the outlying lots were boughi by K. D. Pomeroy and 0. H. Tiffany oi Somers. At the Plympton auction at Staf fordville D. w. Brooks and Samuel Rock well bought the undivided half of the hedgehog lot, the owner of the other hali being one Marsh, of Boylston, Mass. The moving lot was sold to c. F Eager, and the sprout land to Luman Plympton. I St. Edwards new school house and hall got good send off in it's introduction to the public through it's series of Thanks lRiviDg week entertainments. Good andi- ences gathered on each of the three even- lings, and were well satisfied with the new rooms. and it's three entertainments given there. The hall is of greater capacity than the old Central Hall that for so many years served us as our best public hall, and is higher also, thus avoiding a grave de- feet of the old room. lis stage is we'll ar- ranged for dramatical performances or for 1 speaking, and the room well adapted for
  cises given last week were very pleasing There was good noting in some of the dramas presented, and the singing was es- ecially good.
 Union prayer meeting on Tuesday evening next at o'clcci, at Mrs. Kings bury s, Stafford Street.
 James Dyer, boss carder at Rawitser s& Bros. River mill, was on Thursday even- Io0k lNxyf fhea department with an easy chair as an ex- pression of their regard for him. On Tuesday evening the employees in the weaving room in the same way remember ed the boss of their department--John Place. Both of these gentlemen highly prize these evidences of good will on the part of those who work with them.
 -Tobogganing is getting to be the craze, and many places now have their slides, and clubs of young men and women, dressed in suits made of flannel bed blank eting. Stafford Springs might easily main tain club. Bed blanketing is made here, SO that the supply for uniforms iD ampl. and cheap. Our hill-sides make capital slides, needing no labor in preparation. l But the sport don't take here some way. Last winter Parsons ventured to put in ill stock of toboggans, and has the entire lot yet on his hands. And yet the boys and girls will like it when they get initi- ated into the new sport,-if they ever do get initiated.
 | The meeting of the Stafford Agricul- tural Society, appointed for next Tuesday, is postponed for one week ito Tuesday, Dec. 14th, at 2p. .m., at the Springs House.
 The ladies' society of the M. B. church will meet next Wednesday afternoon and evening in their parlors. A cordial invita- tion is extended to all.
 The force of Italians employed on the water works complete their work and leave town today It has been most orderly and peaceable force of workmen, and dur ing their stay has been, considering thelr number. remarkably freo from drunken ness and rows. In this respect it has been happy disappointment to many people. During the laying of the pipes about $20,- 900 has been disbursed by the company, chiefly for labor, and the great bulk of this has been paid out at the counters of our merchants That the entire work has been done in so quiet and orderly manner, with so little inconvenience to the Lubllc and freedom from accidents by reason of open ditches, obstrueted streets and blast llg. ls- duo nsy, good manage ment and admirable system of T. P. Con- nery, the foreman in charge, who is most emphatically the right man in the right place.
 It will pay to look into the merits of the Home Library Association of Chicago, by joining which you get books at pub fishers prices and one of the best works of reference as premium.
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 Stafford Springs, Dec. 2d. Referring to spitefully erroneous state- ment, appended to hand-bill announcing Knights of Labor lecture, I wish to say through the medium of your columns that there was, in the first place, only one mes- sage received concerning the said lecture that was in any way delayed, and I have witnesses to prove that enquiries were made for the person for whom it was intended, whose. name was in some way slightly mis-spelled, and also that the message was delivered and the answer sent from this office within three hours after the telegram from MT. Foster had been received, and in plenty of time to bring.. ..him to Stafford the next day if he had received it. Nothing more could have been done if he had received the answer five minutes after the message had been sent. But, unfortunately, the answer never reached It's destination, being lost in one of the repeating offices, which certain ly was no fault of this office. In any case the telegram received could not have been delivered very much sooner, as the mes senger, who was out delivering message at the time, did not return until after his supper, it being near that time when the telegram was received. Furthermore, the delivery department does not belong to the operator, who could hardly be expected to walk to Fox Village on dark and rainy night, and being perfectly unacquainted with the place, to hunt up man. should think hardly the most exacting public could expect it. And, unless am greatly mistaken, the publisher tor publishers) of the statements have mentioned have rath- CT over-stepped the boundary line of their prerogatives when they measure out to the Western Union Telegraph Go. it's obliga. tions to the public. Yours respectfully,
 "A Willfuly Neglectful Western Unlon oficer"
 STAFFORD HOLLOW.
 Frank Edson was on Monday arrested by Officer Mullen under the reputation clause of the liquor law, and settled. l Gov. Hyde has sold, and on Tuesday shipped to B. F. Gallup of Sprague, COW and heifers from his herd of devons.
 Rev. Donald Frazer of Monson will I preach in the TIniyaraaliat chYlroh Y,avt