The Press., 1891-10-29

was guest of his brother, J. M. Carpenter, last week.
 Miss Agnes Fairfield is meeting with teacher of penmanship and shorthand. | The Ladies' Aid Society of the Con- gregational church has chosen for officers for the next year: Mrs. c. H. Baker, president; Mrs. J. V. Squier, vice presi- dent; Mrs. E. o. Dennis, secretary and treasurer; Miss Addie Chaffee, collector Mrs. Charles Butterfield, Mrs. w. H. Cooley, solicitors. The society will hold it's annual sale of fancy articles on Tues day evening, Dec. 18th.
 The services at Grace church next Sunday, which is "All Saints day." or the day set apart to commemorate the departed, will be as follows Morning prayer and sacrament of the Lond's SUD- per, 10.45; Sunday school, 12 m.; even- ing prayer at o'clock.
 | Stafford Hollow. -Regular preaching services will be resumed in the Universalist church next Sunday evening. Services begin at ( o'clock. The pastor will begin series of discourses founded on texts of scrip ture whose meaning and purpose has been 8 matter of controversy between the or l thodox and liberal branches of the chris tian church. There will, however, be nothing controversial in either the matter or manner of the discourses. The sub | jects will be treated in an entirely new way. Everybody is invited to be present. The text next Sunday evening will be Gen. 2:17, "But of the tree of the knowl- edge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it.; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
 | Stafford grange meets on Tuesday evening next.
 l StafEordville.
 | John A. Colbnrn, who has bought a farm in Enfield street, will, with his fam | fly, remove there this week.
 | (Correspondence.) | Rev. I. P. Booth, brother of J. O. Booth, has been visiting friends in this place during the past week.
 The sound of the bells calling the people to the factories is pleasant music to the ears of the citizens of this place, making them think that better times are coming to us. ~.
 | Mir Willard Dimmick seems to be doing as we'll as could be expected under the circumstances.
 There was quite a display of veg etables and fruits in the M. E. church last Sunday. A large table placed in front of the pulpit was loaded to it's full est capacity with pumpkins, squashes, cabbages, turnips, bulbs, corn and to- matoes, and on each side were smaller tables loaded with apples, pears and grapes. The pastor preached an appro, priate sermon in the morning from these words: "The Sumner is ended" Jere- miah 8:20. In the evening the Sunday school held harvest concert consisting of recitations and singing by children, and quartettes by members of the choir. Rev. I. P. Booth gave 8 very interesting and appropriate address at the close of the concert. A collection was taken, the proceeds to be used in the purchase oi books for the Sunday school library, amounting to over twelve dollars. The Ladies' Aid Society will meet in the vestry on Thursday afternoon. A pumpkin raised by Rev. l.. s. Goodell, weighing 31 pounds, was among the many others at the church last Sun- day. "A Sunday school conference will be I held in the Congregational church, Staf. fordville, Tuesday evening, Nov. 3d, al 7.3O o'clock. The following is the order of exercises: 7.30, address, theme l Practical Temperance Work in Sunday School 8.15, discussion, topie-How may our Sunday schools be made more effect i've? It is expected that neighboring pas tors and officers of the state association will be present and participate in the ex I ercises.
 l West Stafford.
 | Levi R. Lull, executor, will, through Preston, auctioneer, next Saturday, at 1( 8. .m., make sale of real and persona property belonging to the estate of Col lins Edson. The real estate consists O 8 house, barn and about two acres O land.
 Elder Irving B. Potter, recently O West Stafford, well known throughou New England as missionary and evange list, died last Monday night at Millplain Conn.,, near Danbury, aged 68 years. Fo 12 years he has been pastor in Danbury He was Second Adventist and a man o wonderful magnetism: He has been sta toned at Millplain the past five years but for the past 12 years has preached al over the state. He had many relatives in Palmer, Monson and Hampden, D. G Potter, we'll known citizen of Monson being his brother.
 Considerable has been said by cool hunters about the scarcity of the anima this fall, so few days since Messrs. A W. Chase, of this place, and George B Cady, of Somers, thought that they woul give the squirrels try. After having gone a short distance Myron I. Cady' dog, Major, struck out on his own hool for coons, and was soon heard from, mak ing the woods ring with his musical notes which attracted the attention of the gent above named, and upon finding Majo
 barking by the trunk of large tree the concluded that there must be game near so they secured the services of young MI Avery, who skinned the tree, and coon , to the number of five were captured, tn dog killing two of the number. Who ha done better at hunting?
 MT. M. A. Cady planted one-eight of an acre to potatoes, from which h harvested 454 bushels of as nice lookin
 potatoes as one often sees. Three hu1
 dred and sixty-foul bushels to the acre quite g yield.
 Hydeyflle, .. Fred Smith has been having his hous