The Press., 1890-06-12

O~&A~~~~>~- - ~F- days of the year, and the Methodist al, Congregational churches were filled witt goodly audiences at all services. At tn latter church the concert exercises wer among the best ever given, and the churcl was most beautiful in it's deckings of greer and flowers. Seventeen of the childrel who were given pOtted plants year ag, succeeded in making them grow, ans brought them for decking the church Others who had tried as hard had wOrs, luck, and so were not of the circle of lisd' ones who were called up and presented vice.
 widely known as Q maker of concretl Stafford Springs House yesterday, about p. m. He had been complaining through out the morning of pain in the region O his heart, and was known to have hear trouble, accompanied with rheumatism His workmen are at present engaged upoI walk in front of Dr. Newton's residence and he had during the morning complain ed to the doctor of feeling badly; also o having slept very little during the previous Hight After dinner he seated himself 1T an easy chair in the family sitting room, al the hotel, and when members of the fami ly were in the room, as they frequently were, conversed freely with them. He wal though the door was ajar, and people ire quently passing through the hall. Wher Mrs. Geo. Symonds finally entered the room his appearances alarmed her., and she called in others. He had then apparently l~ 1~,,k ,kc hal hesS9 at the most. His position was easy and natural, cane held in his folded hands, eye. closed, and. but for his upper teeth hay ing dropped down, looked like one in easy sleep. He had evidently passed away without pang of suffering. Dr. Newton county medical examiner, did not consider an inquest called for, but notified the cor oner, as required by law. Mir. Harris wat over 70 years of age. He leaves widow ir feeble health, also has a grown-up son and daughter. The latter formerly kept pri vate school in this village. He had many friends here, and was esteemed as an up right man. He did his first work of con creting here in 1880, and since that time but one job of the kind has been done here by any other party, and that one had since been repaired by MT. Harris.
 The Stafford Athletic Club announcs an exhibition to be given at Oronoco Hal on Tuesday evening, 24th, with presence of several well known Champions, in cluding young Dempsy of Rhode Island There will be club swinging and singing by male quartette.s
 The series of games between ths clerks and professionals is exciting more interest than anything of the kind has fol a long time. Nearly every spectator is ret hot partisan of one side or the other Each side is firmly resolved to s'do up the other next Tuesday.
 Wednesday, shower was notable ever in this season of showers for excess o rainfall, vivid Lightning and large hail stones. The hail fall lasted g long tim' and was revived at intervals. Consider able glass was broken and garden stuf beaten down. The sewers were inadequat, to the work put upon them, and water rar in the borough streets in torrents. From the upper streets it not only flowed ove the surface, but found underground pas sages, and boiled through the concret, walks. Cellars were filled and streets bad ly washed. .
 Ionic Lodge was visited on Tuesday evening by about 60 members from Thofna1 Lodge of Palmer, 15 from Uriel of Mer row, 40 or more from Wolcott, also mem bers of the lodges in Monson, Wales ani other places. The officers of Ionic ani Thomas Lodges each gave fine exempli fcations of their work. Interesting talkl followed, ending with repast, and tn. 200 or moro wearers of the "lambskin' present spent very pleasant evening to gether. The Palmer brethren came. b, special train, upon which they returned home little after midnight.
 At the annual tournament of the bi cycle riders of New England, held at New Haven last Monday, MT. 0. l.. Sage, o Harvard club, eldest son of Squire Sage took the first prize, making the one mile dash in three minutes, seven and one -fiftl seconds.
 E. R. Baker, general superintendent o of the Southern N. B. Telephone Company has for several days past been overseeing improvements being made within the Staf ford Springs division. New poles hav' been set, new wires put up, and the metali' circuit will be used, doing away with ground wires. The instruments will be put in con dition as good as new, and new switcl board will be put into the telegraph op erating room at the depot, to which plac' the central office will be removed nex week. The service will be made equal tt that afforded any other place, and the pres ent patrons of the company would be gla( to have their connections made more valu able by an increase of patronage.
 The brick walls of the new extension of the Central Woolen Co.'s mills are ul to the second story, and we realize wha an addition is being made to the looks o village as well as to it's future resources.
 Congregational church: Subjecr, Sunda, a. m., .'The School of Life;' D. m 'sSom, of the Tendencies of Modern Thought ant Life"
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 The first game played by hines com posed strictly of professional men ani "clerks, {" was played Tuesday afternoon resulting in victory for the former by score of IS to 16. It was 8 very exciting and interesting contest. For the first fivl innings the Clerks were completely at ths mercy of the ProfessiOnals1 battery. A that time the three medical men held consultation and decided that their fielder needed exercise to prevent their muscles wasting, so the pitcher was advised to le up so that the Clerks mightthit the ball As result seven runs, were scored, mak ing the score 13 to 12 in the Clerks favor The doctors held another consultation and decided to give the Clerks strong alo pathic pills. The dose was large one and the Clerks haven't got over it yet The feature of the game were the batter, work of the Professionals and the genera fielding of the Clerks. The spectator were in sympathy almost. wholly with tn, Clerks, several in particular marring tn,