The Press., 1890-11-27

Fresh premium butter from the Filing ton creamery, at Ellis.
 Tickets to all points west for sale at the office of the N. L. N. R. R., Stafford Springs. J. v. Squier, agent.
 STAFFORD.
 The room next west of the post office has been neatly fitted up ss five cent restaurant"
 A foot ball game is advertised to come off on the fair grounds on Thanksgiving day. Rockville vs. Stafford. Admission 15 cents, ladies free.
 -Dimock's marketiwindow is poem ID tnrkies, vegetables, fruits, evergreens, and golden letters.
 --Turkies are selling ati 20 cents ssper pound and upwards.
 The semi-annual meeting of thebGrand Temple of Honor, to be held atsStafford Springs next week, will be an interesting occasion. The Grand Council will meet at the Temrle of Honor room Wednesday, at 730 Q. m., and the Grand Temple at 10 a. m. On Tuesday evening ansopen meeting will be held, which members of Harmony Temple and their friends are invited to at- tend, the evening to be occupied with speaking, music, etc.
 -Children have been through the streets soliciting small sums to aid in giving home less children in Boston Thanksgiving day dinner, under the auspices of the Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers.
 HI. S. Abel is making his rounds of in- spection as visiting deputy of the various masonic lodges in Eastern Conn.
 The ..'festivities'1 of the week at St. Edwards Hall will fit the following pro- gram of the four evenings: Wednesday evening. 26th, singing, calisthenics, and charade, ''The Artists Masterpiece" Joe Quinlan, W. Williams, Theo Clarke, M. Qninlan. Thursday evening, singing and the melodrama, "The Shepherds Drill, !" medley, male chorus. Friday evening, operetta, Strange Visitors" A harmoni- ous gathering and uniting of the nations, introducing novelties in costume and song. Also female chorus. Saturday evening Menctng at o'clock. Refreshments served every evening. Thursday specially pre- pared turkey and chicken supper will be served from to o'clock p. m. for 25 cts. Dancing every evening. Music by Pease's orchestra. Admission, ,t15 cts.
 -J. M. Leach attended the installation last Thursday evening of Rev. Chaa. H. Puffer as pastor over the Universalist church at Stoughton, Mass.
 Ira P. Sisson. a veteran. soldier. ..and pensioner, died at his home on Village Hill last Thursday night, aged 67 years. Many old soldiers attended his funeral.on Sunday.
 Willie H., son ofiFrank Orcutt, of Will lage Hill, in Wilmington, died very sud- denly on Monday. He was taken with agina pectoris, and later neuralgia of the heart set in, causing his death within 24 hours. Young Orcutt was a promising lad of 17 years, months, graduate of Stafford Springs High School, class of go, and his death will sadden many hearts beside those of is,family and large num- Der of resident relatives.
 Very fair Florida oranges are on sale. They lack color, but are juicy and have good flavor.
 The Willimantic high school had a flag raising on Wednesday, with Congress- man Russell and Governor Bulkeley as speakers. The Stafford Springs high --B. F. Taylor, one of our oldest and most respected citizens, is confined to. his house with an illness which began with symptoms of paralysis.
 W. HI. Webster and David Bissett with their wives start. for the happy hunt ing grounds of Southern Virginia to-mor. row (Friday) evening.
 -F. N.kCrane starts for Florida next Monday.
 -Jamess Morris will open,'a pool and billiard roomiin Bakers block in thej old Oriental :Etea sstore room-with an entire new outfit.
 Stafford Springs schools begin their winter term next Monday, 4sssss.
 Church services for Thanksgiving were this year appointed for Wednesday evening, the three protestant churches uniting at the M. B. church vestry, with speaking by the various pastors and others.
 Hannibal Alden has returned from Topeka, Kansas. During the absence of Fl. O. Butterfield in Virginia he will as- sist at the store of Butterfield & Co.,, ot which firm MT. A. s deceased brother-in- law, Mir. Schreier, was partner. He is accompanied by his wife and child, and expects to remain in Stafford. MT. A. was for a time engaged in ithography, but later held position in the general supply department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company. His return reduces by one the considerable Stafford colony at Topeka, some of which are Hon. Avery Washburn and J. Monroe Wash burn, brothers, the former of whom is a longtime resident there, who has been honored by offices in the gift of his fellow citizens and in other ways, and, being a large real estate owner, has profted large ly by the growth of the city. J. M. Wash burn is more recent emierant from Staf- ford, and followed thither his two sons. of whom Albert is with the K ansas Land and Trust Co.,, and Fl. M. prosperous druggist. John Oady, son of Isaac, is en- ployed in the local freight office of the A, T. and s. F. railroad, and H. B. Holt is stenographer in the general freight office of the same company. Rev. o. H. Puffer, who was last week ordained pastor over the old and prosperous Universalist church at Stoughton, Mass, left, to it himself for that work, the professorship of elocution in Washburne College, Topeka, and stood high in his profession while there, enjoy ing the especial esteem of his brethren of the faculty and of the students.