The Press., 1886-10-28

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 ent of the water works by the Aqueduct
 Company.
 -W. F. Hanks. who has been for some
 weeks canvassing Holland County prelimi. nary to issuing Q complete directory oi
 every town, is now experimenting the
 printing of the same at Meriden. The
 thorough and painstaking way in which
 the canvass has been made in our borough
 and town is good assurance that it is to
 be very different work from some direct
 ory issues previously made for us The
 towns of Stafford and Vernon will have as complete directories as are published for the cities, while all the other towns will have names of all adult males, with occupa- ton and locality of residence. The work will thus be invaluable for reference to every resident of the county. Those who have not subscribed and wish copy will do well to address Mir. Hanks, as very few copies will be printed above ths number subscribed for. A portion of the book is also open for advertisements.
 Austin Holt for brief time wore the honors of champion with 6 record of bag ging 20 gray squirrels in one hunt, but G. E. Buck last Saturday gently dropped MT. H. from his pinnacle of greatness, having obtained for his Sunday dinner 20 greys and rsbbit.
 The test of hydrants on Saturday fully lnet the expectations of every one At the Cor1er of High and Church streets three streams were simultaneously forced by the pressure full 50 feet high, end on Monday evening at the same place single stream was thrown, as different bystanders made the estimate, from 130 to 150 feet. Atthe National Bank corner of course the hy-S n A kH. IL streams full 125 feet, losing no force by gushing power, which won many skeptics to view with favor the proposed new ad- !. iunct to our fire department.
 -The wells are lower tlii6 fall than usual in the dryest season. The streams, too, Crystal Lake have been drawn lower than 'or several past years.
 The committee of award have given l s82 to the owners of Cedar Swamp to com- l oensate them for it's appropriation by the l Aqueduct Co., and the money has been I paid into the county treasury subject to he order of the owners as they may estab- ish their claims. Cedar Swamp is a tract ! # AZ acres, and when the town was origi- | lally settled each nd-hOlder held an in- r ~ASSS ng that to cut from the land cedar poles or fencing and other purposes. As thefl arms have been snb-diYided and sold in nany instances no cognizance has been akeh in the deed of thesnall interest held n the swamp. and at the epresent time the question of title is in many instances quite oggy, and it Is perhaps fortunate that the um on deposlt at Holland is not large nough to encourage litigation among laimants with shaky titles. h
 Hon. F. J. sibley is to lecture on The Prohibition Situation" at Oronoco Iall on Saturday at 7.8O p. m., atStaf- ordville on Sunday at 7.3O p. m., and at he town hall on Sunday at 2.30 p. m.
 Republican caucus Friday evening emocratic Saturday evening. I E Attention is called to the fact, andswe are squested to mention it, that in published < 'port of the borough meeting, in oity pa- er, Rawitser &, Bro, Geo. M. Ives, Julius onverse, P. J. Cullen, A. Whiton, O. B. New 'n, J. J. Ellis, and others of the same stand |, g, were among the floating population" I laracterized as approyers of the hydrant sys- m. *9s < IT
 The following new books, bought by 7 le Girls Library Club, will be ready for alivery at the library room Nov. 3d: