The Press., 1892-01-07

Stafford Springs fire department will be given at Borough Hall to-morrow Friday evening Tickets, 50 cents.
 The following officers of Winter Post, A, c. A. R., were installed Jan. 4th, 1899: O., D. L. Converse !; s. V. o., Wm. D. Irons; J. V. O., T. 0. Druley; sur geon. A. N. Nichols; chaplain, J. 0. Cleaveland O. D., Geo. D. Shaw, o. G., Wm. B. Whittemore; 0. M., A. Adams Adrt, F. A. Adams; s. M.,W. H.Black Q. M. S., John Lilly.
 Meal has been sold at Dennis for a week past at $1.25. That should have been the quotation printed last week.
 The officers of Winter Woman's Re lief Corps, No. 25s were installed Monday evening by Mrs. Harriet Dmfee, past de partment president, of Middletown. The following were the newly elected: Pres, Mrs. Clara Reynolds; sen. vice, Mrs. Violet Roberts; jun. vice, Mrs. Mary Simonds; sec'y, Mrs. Carrie M. Clark {; treas, Mrs. Augusta Taft; chap, Mrs. Lucy Cummings; con-, Mrs. Minnie Mo Intyre; guard, Mrs. Etta Wilbur; asst con-, Mrs. Maria Stebbins; asst guard, Miss Hattie Ellithorpe. The installation was joint with Post and s. of V.
 The January semi-annuaf dividend of the 1st National Bank was per cent.
 Stafford Hollow.
 n Cho- rhn <,., Ah, laundry business, has bought of Mrs. D. A. Pomeroy the Rogers farm, on the road from the Hollow to Monson, and has re- moved to 1t. Price paid, about $90O. MT. Shaw is engaged largely in poultry raising, and gives for comparison the record of nineteen of his 1891 matched chickens, some of them matched as late as May 26, which first began laying Dec. 4tb, and during that month gave him 200 eggs.
 From Various Correspondents.)
 -Woleott Lodge, No. 60, F. A. M. has changed it's night of meeting to the Thurs day evening preceding each full moon, and the first meeting under this arrange ment occurs this (Thursday) evening.
 -G. D. Shaw killed mink in his barn last Sunday, which measured from tip to tip 194 inches. MT. Shaw is now quite sick with the grip, from which Mrs. Shaw is just recovering.
 Letters remaining in the office at Stafford Springs, Jan. 7th: Edwin s. Breed, M. ChappeH, Mrs. Lois Crownin- shield, Walter Darling, Thos. Lloyd, Will helm Weber.
 Rev. c, B. Lynn, assistant secretary of the Universalist general convention, was greeted with a good congregation last Sunday to hear his statements as to the work and needs of the convention. His statements were interesting and well received. His appeals were directed to- ward the special needs of the convention for funds in aid of the theological stu dents in the divinity schools. Students have been entering these schools so rapid ly within the last year or two that in two years the number has nearly. or quite doubled. For this reason the demands for aid are exceeding the supply. The collection was good one. Mir. Lynn al- so preached in the evening,
 The congregation which gathered in the Universalist church last Sunday were surprised and delighted with handsome New Years gift they found there. The old chandelier had been replaced by a handsome new one of Meriden manufae- ture; beautiful piano lamp adorned the platform anS new bxslollzst lainps lIehzsd the ohoir. The lamps were all center draft burners, and lighted the church beautifully. These lamps were the gift of one of the trustees. This gift, with the others that were noticed in the sum- mer from other individuals, indicate not only the generosity of the donors but the substantial interest that exists for the church among the members of the society.
 The election for officers of the Uni- versalist Sunday School was held last Sunday, and resulted as follows: Super intendent, E. H. Pinney; assistant super intendent, H. F. Cady; treasurer, R. &. Beebe; secretary Mabel Edson; librarian, Frank Lasbury; assistant librarian, Chel- Ia Cady; chorister, J. W. Dimock. The treasurer's report showed that 70 volumes have been put into the library; that $51 had been the revenue for the year; that besides several extra collections had been taken for various other church interests {; and that the cash on hand was $1O2. From the secretary's report we learn that Will G. Kay and Maude Beard were pres ent every Sunday; that some half dozen were present regularly in church during the yeal that Frank Lasbury and Mabel Edson were absent only twice during the year; and that several new scholars be- gan the new year with the school.
 Next Sunday evening in. the Uni- versalist church the following text will be considered, Matt. 3: 12, 'tWhose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaf with fire. ,
 Charles B. Pinney, of the Yale Unit versity, was home for the holidays, re- turning to his studies yesterday.
 -Mr. and Mrs. Batchelder desire to express through the oolsmns of The Press their heartfelt thanks to their friends who New Years day reminded them in quiet but substantial way that it was the 30th anniversary of their mar riage.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Wightman have returned home after visit of several weeks at their daughters, Mrs. G.. P. Chapman's, East Orange, N. J., and Mrs. Harry Patterson, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Rev. Charles H. Puffer, of Stoughton, Mass, is in town this week.
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 J. M. Chaffee has an apple tree which bears upon the same limb, or twig, side 1