The Press., 1891-04-16
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cere thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their tender sympathy and kindly aid in our great sorrow, which came to us in the death of a beloved daughter and sister. May they never want for friends in times of like affliction is our sincere wish.
 MRS. E. D. SPELLMAN AND FAMILY.
 A CARD.-Mrs. Sophronia Edson wish es to express her sincere thanks through the Press for the assistance of kind neigh bors and friends in the late sickness and death of her husband.
 -Caskets and all undertaking goods furnished; bodies prepared for burial and embalmed if desired; full charge taken of funerals and burials; especial atten- tion given to night calls. Residence, Highland Terrace. R. s. Converse, Main-st.
 Special bargains in Ladies' and child ren's spring jackets and capes at A. w.. Walkers.
 Bamboo easels from BOG. to $1.17 at A. w. Walkers.
 Over Three Hundred Pairs of Balls Kabo Corsets have been sold in the past year at A. w. Walkers.
 Fine Dress Ginghams at B. l.. Burr's.
 -Remember that A. W. Walker is agent
 
 best $1.00 Kid Glove in the market.
 -Hamburgs and Laces. Fresh lot at E. l.. Burr's.
 The Norwich folded paper carpet lin ing is the best in the market-for sale at A. W. Walkers.
 Have you seen the job lot of Note Paper we have just received? A fair, pa per, and just the thing for the school children. at price that will astOnish you. The Press office.
 White goods, large and small checks, striped and barred muslins, Persian null and organdies just opened at E. l.. Burr's.
 Fresh premium butter from the FL lington Creamery, at Ellis.
 Plain cheese, sage cheese, Eng. Dairy. Roquefort and Neufchatel cheese at Ellis,
 STAFFORD.
 The borough streets are being cleaned.
 The street sprinkler was put into use last week. There was need of it, although the fields were quite generally blanketed with snow.
 -C. P. Bradway, of West Stafford, has built novel motor for a Boston man, being small turbine wheel, to be used in working ventilating fans, and to dis charge it's water after use into tank 70 feet above the motor.
 St. Edwards fair is going along smoothly, though as yet the patronage has not been as liberal as in some past years. The entertainments each evening have been source of amusement to all patrons. The decorations are pronounced by all to be elegant, the hall presenting a most gay and attractive appearance, by reason both of the many beautiful arti= eles whereWith the tables are loaded and their unique settings, On Thursday even- ing will be presented 8 beautiful melo- drama entitled the Nursery Drill, !" which has been in course of most careful prep aration by the Sisters for the past few weeks-the following are participants Annie Roache, Rosie Award, Minnie En- right, Maggie Mccarthy, Minnie Hol- loran, Agnes Brennan, Grace Lavalle, Essie Warren Dunnigan, Katie Desmond, Mary Hanley. The fair will suspend on Friday evening and resume, with the hopes of full house, Saturday evening. Admission 10 cents each evening.
 Alfred Moore was on Tuesday sent to Holland jail, convicted by Prosecutor Eaton of ''pocket peddling" of liquor
 MT. and Mrs. Seymour Carpenter have removed from Rockville to their just west of the fair grounds.
 -Adelbert Needham now drives fine new buggy handsomely lettered to denote his business as horse dealer. He is pushing hard to dispose of an unusually large lot of horses, having an engagement to return to Iowa after another lot. Need. ham knows all about a horse, how to buy and how to sell him, and people who know him and want good horses always trust him to select for them.
 Anthony Adams is just out again af ter being laid up for week with the grippe.
 Frank Carpenter has been added tc the working force at Ellis grocery.
 The house and lot on Brown avenue second house from High-st., east side, is to be offered for sale at auction on Satur. day next, at p. m. Easy terms of pay. ment are offered.
 -Herhert M. Blanchard, Springfield man, was arrested in this village last Sunday, for having more wives than Is allowed to one man in this state. Blanch. ard, a well appearing man, took board al F. N. Cranes about three weeks ago, and began work for H. M. Day, builder. He called his name Lyle, himself a Virginian and the son and brother of confederate soldiers killed during the rebellion. He worked day and half, when he was laid up with severe attack of pneumonia and attended by Dr. Rafftery. When he began to get better a young woman came to see him, whom he told MT. Crane was his intended, to whom he was to be mar. ried May 1st, and by whom he desired tc be taken care of. Meanwhile the young woman was at the same time informing Mrs. Crane in another part of the house that she was recently married to MT Blanchard, and by Mrs. Cranes advice sent to her home and obtained the certifi cate which proved her claim. She re mained with him about two weeks, anc there was trouble between them, the wo man evidently finding out in that time that she was deceived in her marriage She left, and word came to hold Blanchard under surveillance, and send word whe1 when he could be removed. On Sunday last Sheriff Fisk took him in custody, hi! condition making his removal justifiable and the same day Massachusetts office came and took him to Northampton tt await trial. His first marriage was il Springfield, his second in Athol, and thu third, for which he is under arrest, was il Ware. It is said that Blanchard has al ready served term in state prison for at tempt at murder, as an outcome of wo man affair.
 Henry Knapp and Jarvis Cady, hay ing lost tools, made known to Officer Mul len their suspicion that David Weeks hat stolen them. Mullin found Weeks lying