The Press., 1888-05-17

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 GRACE CHURCH NOTES Next Sunday being Whitsunday the holy communion will be administered at the morning ser vice. A sermon approprlate to the day will be delivered in the evening Prof. Oliver Emerson Bennett of Wor cester. mass, will give select reading on Friday evening, May, 18, at Grace church vestry, for the benefit of Sunday school library. Admission 9 cents. The read. ing will begin at g. Strawberries and cream will be served at intervals during the evening, beginning at '.
 The Stafford Grange will hold spec ial meeting at J. R. Washburn's hall in West Stafford, on Tuesday evening of next week (22d), for initiating, receiving apph- cations, and balloting.
 Much space is this week given to . lecture delivered ill the Monson academy course, by Dr. Ellis, on alcohol, and print ed at request of people who heard 1t. Radical temperance people will take ex- ception to some statements, while conced- ing the ability and interest of the lecture. -Gaynor's new shoe store in Pages block is well stocked and handsomely fitted.
 The family of o. B. Buck will this week remove to their farm home at Vest ford for the summer. Mir. Bucks sister, the wife of Editor Lincoln of the Connec ticut Home, of Willimantic, will also spend the summer with them, with her infant child.
 -Needham uuloaded Car load of nice Iowa horses yesterday morning. They were sleek, plump, and of good size for work. ....
 Samuel F. Maine, who left Stafford Springs for Dakotah little more than a year ago, returned yesterday. He has visited California while away. He expects to settle down in Stafford Springs again.
 Johnson Goodwill of Hartford, en- ployed in Pratt & Whitney's works, for merly of Stafford, is visiting old friends in town.
 -Messrs. Rawitser < Bro. issue the card printed below to such of their employees as are out on strike. While practic lily running ten hours, they have made longer hours in such departments as were behind the others in production. MT. l.. E. Raw itser will go to Europe in June, to be gone about three months, and the firm IS not averse to letting their mill stand idle during that time: CARD FROM MEssRs.. RAwITsER & BR7.
 This is to notify that portion of the River mill help at present out Ion strike" that work will be resumed on Monday, May 25th, under the old conditions. Such of the "strikers" as are willing to return to work must notify us before 10 a. m. Saturday.
 Those continuing the strike will never be employed by us at any of our mills. Steps will be taken to prosecute parties who may seek to influence or intimidate help willing to return. RAwTTsER x BRD.
 The following item is from the Spring field Republican, corrected as to names t: Maisie, the six-years old child of Daniel Mullin, died Monday of meningitis. The unusual precocity of the child and her win ming ways drew out the sympathy of many friends for the bereaved parents.
 -Messrs. Rawitser & Bro. are about to introduce the use of petroleum as fuel for steam power at their Meriden mills, and if satisfied with results will introduce the same in their Stafford mills. And they expect most fully to be thus satisfied, hav- ing carefully investigated the use of the new process in other establishments. Of several burners made they have selected for trial those of the Empire Hydro Carbon Go. of N. Y. The present boilers are used with no change, the oil being fed into the furnaces now muse in the form of a spray, driven by compressed air. Oil is pur- chased at the wells and delivered in their mill yard in tank cars. The saving in COSU OI Iu61 IS OAH6CleQ SGO p0 sl4EB6, Du6 will also be great in the matter of cleanli- the fires can be fed automatically.
 Frank H. Spelman has bought of Or we'll Dimmick ths Preston cottage on Highland Terrace.
 Prosecutor Turner, by Ba;liff Muffin, to-day served reputation" papers on five rum-seller, the two McCarthys, Remnert, Dunleavy, Successor to Ruby, and O'Neil. The accused appeared before Justice Spel- man this morning, and an adjournment for four weeks was granted in each case
 The orator selected for decoration day is James l.. Bowen of Springfield, and of the 37th Mass. regiment.
 By the Clipper, published at Fremont, Wyoming Territory, we note the organiza- ton of the Sweetwater Mining Go. with J. Fl. Segar, formerly of Stafford Springs, now of Fort WashAkie, Wyoming, on the board of trustees.
 Next Sunday is Whitsunday, but the apple blossoms won't be there.
 Among the divorces granted at the late term of court was that of Mrs. Eliz- abeth Dawson from George Dawson, with. change of name to Griffiths. Ground of divorce, bigamy, under charge of which Dawson is now confined in jail.
 -OuOS0 | uEuSE 4dS WG1bGGu LO C1uCIu- natti, to ascertain the standing of persons comprising the St. Andrews Bay R. R. and Loan Co.,, in the interest of investors in this vicinity. He got in reply the la- comic answer ''N. G." with printed slip showing that the parties comprising the company have been indicted in the U. s. district court for misuse of post office es- tablishment.
 STAFFORD HOLLOW.
 The last dance of the season will be given at Spiritual Hall on Friday evening.
 Mrs. Emma L. Paul of Morrisvllle, Vt., will lecture in Spiritual Hall next Sabbath at l and pm. All are welcome.
 sTAFFoRDvInnE.
 The talk of the Messrs. Rawitser G Bro. concerning their plan for building at Staffnrdville now seem to foreshadow their decided purpose to rebuild the lowermost of the two mills burned few years ago. and the most skeptical are beginning to feel encouraged over the prospects. The plan is to use the present walls so far as they will answer for asfoundation for new structure, and the goods to be made are plushes for ladies' cloaks, a line of goods of which very few are made in this country.
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 MT. Peel is putting new engine into his mill. The speed will then be all that can he desired