The Press., 1890-08-14
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 MORE PENSIONS AND BOUNTY.-A gentleman representing Milo B. Stevens Co.,, of Wash ington, D. O., can be seen at the Stafford Springs Hotel during Thursday, Aug. Fl Rockville House, Rockville, Aug. 19, Brain ard House, Willimantic, Aug. 20, by persons desiring information concerning bountles etc., or having claims which they may desire to have prosecuted by said attorneys.
 During August s. F. Maine will close out all his odds and ends in Boots and Shoes al very low prices.
 -Special bargains in Ladies and Children's Gloves. all kinds and colors, at E. l.. Burr's -aOld Colony" Corn, full weight cans, 7c can, or for 25c., at Ellis.
 Legal Blanks at The Press office.
 Fresh premium butter from the Filing. ton creamery, at Ellis.
 Table Covers and Draperies at E. l.. Burr's.
 - California Peaches, Pears, Apricots, Plums, &c., 2Oc. can, at Ellis.
 Ellis is selling good tub Butter from Rockledge creamery at 2Oc lb.
 WALTER L. MAIN AND VAN AMBURGH's MAS ToDoN SHOWS CoNsOLIDATED.-A new and de- sirable era has been inaugurated by the for tuitous blending of these two great leading shows. What the Van Amburgh show is and what it has been for over half Q century IS so patent to everybody that it is like gliding re- fined god and painting the lily to descant on it's we'll known superiority. Of the Walter l.. Main show it is equally needless to speak in words of sounding praise. Nothing then can be more meritorious and attractive than their limitless wealth of consolidated marvels. The vast multip icity of novel feats, features and arenic episodes that by association they are enabled to present to the public, can moi be mentioned within the limited space of any newspaper articles. We can only mention a few, as Madame Dubois, the French hercules, who outpulls the most powerful team oi horses that can be produced; Mons. Leon. ard, the man with jaws of steel, who lifts g ponderous horse with his teeth alone; Jum bo, the giant horse Hazel, the Blondir pony, walks tight rope fifteen feet in mid air Dan Rice, the talking horse perform ing lions; Romeo, the performing elephant forty frst-class performers ten lady artistes Grand street parade, bands of music. golden chariots, Wild Burt and Colorado Joe, to- gether with band of cowboys. Also grand free performance. Remember day and date and that one 25 cent ticket admits to all de partments of the big show.
 STAFFORD.
 Last week we spoke of Stillman Ellis as native of Stafford. Mir. Ellis and al his brothers and sisters (save one sister WHO WAS UOIu HI CbdAOAOtlA1Cj WCA0 OOAA in Massachusetts, but removed from Dams to Staffordville when the boys were quite young.
 The excursion to Coney Island Saiur day night IS under management of party of gentlemen whose policy to patrons will be more liberal than that of the recent similar excursion. Good free sleeping ac commodations are advertised, and the price of state rooms for the round trip put at z fair price-$2, $3 and $4.
 The N. l.. N. road gives it's annual ex cursion to Newport o-morrow--Friday Round trip fare $1.5O.
 The following are among the veterans who are in Boston this week at the G. A R. national encampment
 Past Commanders of Winter Post, H. c. McLaugh lin, Reuben Burley, John C. Cleaveland; A. N. Mich Henry Butterield, Geo. Brennan, F. A. Adams A. L Howard, E K. spauding, J; N Benjamn, T Iimoth! moth! nenrx sonn ohn nons Mevs ahn e1 dnT Smith, Scott Walbridge, Rev. o. E. Thayer (Crysts Lake), Frank Patten, Charles White, Lafayette Rich ardsOn.
 Regular meeting of Winter Woman's Relief Corps Friday evening, Aug. 18th.
 Fishing has been uncommonly gool at Mashapaug this season, and Stafford people at Maylandine Park and elsewhere about the lake have thoroughly enjoyed it Rev. O. M. Puffer has remembered the editor n the gift of 2a pound pickerel and, with his tent-mate, J. M. Leach, has caught large numbers of nearly like size.
 Two young women attracted consider able attention at the depot yesterday by smoking cigarettes upon the street side platform.
 --C. H. Kellogg has nearly completed { considerable enlargement to his residenc, on Church-st.
 The streets are gay with the Main Van Amburgh circus and menagerie post CTS.
 All good grangers are using their in huence in favor of good weather for th' picnic at Evergreen Park tomorrow. A SUMMER VISITORS IMPRESSIONS OF sTAF
 FORD STREET.
 Stafford Street has perhaps more thai it's usual quota of summer visitors thi season. To hear them talk of the "quain beauty and quiet charm of the old Street, and express their surprise that it shoul' have suffered 8 decline from its palmy day of the last generation, are calculated to SC us thinking.
 One gentleman remarked: s'Those wh originally laid out the Street, with it's no ble width on the very hill-tops, command ing so grand view of the valleys an, neighboring hills, evidently felt the boun ty of nature in this choice location 1; and is passing strange that men of thrift an wealth in these factory villages should pre- fer to live down in them, rather than t improve and build upon the many choic sites on Stafford Street, which really ough to have a future before it. To thos whose homes have the environment C lavish beauty in nature it too often be comes commonplace, and it seems to m that the present condition of Staffor Street is owing to this tendency, which by no means peculiar to Stafford Street.
 "But better appreciation of what ns ture has done for the grand old Stree would lead it's present residents to 'kee the bushes down, and not allow the roae way to be hemmed in as it is in places, an to have the grass we'll cut in the wid space on either side.
 "A conspicuous blemish on this ope width is seen just south of the little scho, house, where somebody has been allowe to wall in small plot for cultivation. one, why not all? Then Stafford Stree would be doomed to become but narro country road, instead of the broad and n, ble avenue it ought to be in the years come"
 Among it's visitors now are Mrs. Marth Thacher and four daughters, of Brooklyl N. Y. Miss Thacher, whose becomin outing costume is of blue flannel, with r,iofurocuuo hot If cardinal rod is an a