The Press., 1890-08-14

 counts must be closed up at the next meet. Ing of the eectMe1. .l Judge Ohamberlin has been making Q road and other improvements at his. Crys tai Lake (east side) property. Il There will be no service at Grace church next Sunday. Rev. MT. Robinson failed to reach Stafford Springs to oficiate at Grace church last Sunday on account oi the tie-up on the railroads. Harry A. Preston, while visiting his uncle, Rev. Theron Brown, was so pleased with the country and people that he has decided to stay, having entered the em. ploy of the Boston and Maine R. R. Clear. ing House at Boston.
 Canvass is being made for the Rock vile and Stafford Springs directory for 1891. The last issue was in 1888.
 STAFFORD HOLLOW.
 -Chas. B. Pinney, who is student al the Free Academy in Norwich, left that city on the 9th, with a companion, to take long blcycle run, including Providence and Boston Ill the trip, stopping where fancy may lead them to stop. Both are good riders and counted upon high enjoy. ment of their trip, to cover about two weeks time.
 PERSONAL. -J. D. Walker, salesman in New York city, has been spending week at hls home in this borough.
 HI. s. Abel has been for a week at his boyhood home in Bozrah. Mrs. Martha J. Starkey, with her son Joseph, from Brooklyn, N. Y., who has been spending the summer with her dangh ter, Mrs. Walter Carpenter, returnt d home this week.
 [ n zs Birmingham, Erie county, Ohio, are wis. ity for short time, having been absent from Stafford thirty six years. Mrs, Moulton is sister of E. T. Converse.
 MT. and Mrs. Ezra s. Colburn and daughter have recently been visiting in Sturbrldge and Spencer.
 -Lucius D. Colburn went to Boston last Wednesday, and saw the "Fall oi Babylon"
 Misses Oracle and Gertie Colburn, oi South Coventry, visited in Stafford last week.
 Mrs. Frederic Demond and children of West Springfield are guests at W. B. Demonds.
 -S. E. Fairfield, of New York, and wife are visiting friends in Stafford.
 Mrs. R. s. McNeill of Rockville is wis. iting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Nathan Royce of Village Hill.
 Mrs. Anna Carter of Erie, Pa, daugh. ter of J. K. Park of West Stafford, is wis. iting friends in town.
 Miss May Bidwell and Miss Jennie Spaulding, the latter of Ware, have been spending week at Maylandine Park. l Smith W. Page and wife are at CamE White, on Narragansett Bay. | FrorL Nawfon io oropH;no fou 11ovx at Providence.
 Cleo. s. Davis, paymaster with Mil. ford (Mass) Boot and Shoe Co.,, was 1T town last week, attending the funeral o his mother.
 Misses Myrnie and Florence Wash burn have returned from visiting friends in Granby, Mass. MT. and Mrs. Chas. Holt and Mis- Holt have gone for 8 week or two te Woodstock, Vt., to receive the benefits o the Green Mountain air.
 Eugene s. Charter has gone on va cation trip to Bridgeport, New Yerk, ant Yonkers- on the- Hudson.
 Rev. W. T. Worth and wife, of Hyde Park, Mass, pastor of the Stafford Springi M. E. church in 1866-7-8, will be gues at Woodlawn for one week, beginning nex Saturday, and Mir. W. is expected tt preach at the M. E. church on Sunday.
 Miss Maggie Rooney, of Roslyn, L. l., is visiting at her sisters, Mrs. Rober Hampston, of this village.
 Mrs. A. W. Tuthill, with two daugh ters, Edith and Elsie, is visiting friends il Palmer, Mass MT. and Mrs. E. T. Davis and chil dren, MT. and Mrs. J. H. Cover and child Mrs. Sarah Bottum, and Miss Lillian Albee of Ware are at Mrs. Bottum's hous on Stafford Street.
 Miss Edith Cushman of Stafford Stree : has just returned from ten days visit t friends in Worcester, Mass.
 WEST STAFFORD. A rare sight was witnessed at tn house of MT. Alonzo Shepard Thursda, evening, Aug. "a night blooming cereu bearing ten perfect blooms. The evenin, !, previous three blooms had appeared an, , three in June, making sixteen blooms il ; about two months. The plant is difficul ! to culture, variety of cactus stems ar thrown out from near the end of leaf, fis , hook shape, 8 to 12 inches long the Howe large and white, very berutiful. A con siderable number of neighbors attende , the exhibition. Mir. Adams of Stafford Springs is re f pairing the bell tower of the church. ! On Tuesday our village was wakene by the horn of 8 tally-ho coach, whic , passed in grand style. 2 Berry picking is the present order C f the day.
 f Oliver Perry is able to be out. He j. recovering from illness. 8 Miss Hattie A. Converse is very sick Dr. Holden attends her. s MT. and Mrs. Alfred Merritt and fan
 fly, of Springfield, Mass, are visiting i - town. t Mrs. Etta Colbnrn, of Worcester D Mass, is waiting her sister-in-law, Mir l. Jarvis Hatch. q MT. and Mrs. Gustin., Marble vel @ given pound party one evening recent,
 They have just commenced to keep hous' D up stairs, in the house of his grandfathe ,l Bliss Hatch.
 sTAFFORDvILLE. If MT. and Mrs. Jarius Hatch picked 1 't quarts of huckleberries one day last weel v A dance will be held at Carpent, j. grove Saturday evening. These dance o are being largely attended. Q ELLINGTON. !, Crystal Lake Correspondence.) 7, -E. A. Aborn, Esq, of Chicago, is @ 2 pected at the Lake this week, and will .. gladly greeted.