The Press., 1892-11-24

a tax of per cent. on list of 1892, and l appropriated $100 for memorial day ex- penses..
 The selectmen have appointed John 1 G. Wightman collector of taxes for the town.
 Walter R. Carpenter has fitted up and furnished the lower room in MT. Spelman's building on Main-st., and will there receive pupils for piano, organ or violin. B. F. Taylor, the veteran teach CT, has entirely turned over this line of business to MT. Carpenter.
 1.-The fair to be given by St. Mary's Guild of Grace church will be open Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Nov. I 30, and Dec. 1st, at o'clock, also on Thursday afternoon from 3 to o'clock. An entertainment will be given each eve- ming, and an admission fee of 10 cents will be charged. A large assortment of useful and fancy articles, ice cream, cakes and pies will be offered for sale. A fish pond, where every one may secure prize, | will be one of the attractions.
 The following pupils of the borough schools were neither tardy nor absent during the term which closed on Friday last:
 Grade I-Mahlon Gray, Annie Hoyle, l Carl Martin, Alvan Smith, Annie Wob- beeke.
 Grade II-Richard Banford, Leon Cady, Willie Carpenter, Myron Gray, Helen Leach. Ralph Lee, Alfred Siswick. | Grade III-Willie Baldwin, Maurice Demond, Jessie Eaton, Florence Garth, Everett Gray, Ralph Jewett, Gertrude Kitchen, Emma Kuehne,I George Mars dale, Max Tuerschmann
 Grade IV-George Ellis, Alice Fitton, Edith Ruby, Edna Reed, Hugo Tuersch- mann, Hattie Tuthill.
 Grade V-Maude Blair, Grant Foster, Ida Ford, Ada Greenhalgh, Genie Lee, Mary Leach.
 Grade VI-Roy Adams, Jennie Ban ford, Maude Chandler, Grace Chapman, Mabel Foster, Maria Gale, Kate Lord, Willie Oldham, Richard Rudge.
 Grade VII-Grace Burwell, Willie Eos ter.
 Grade VIII-Charles Chandler, Willie Engley, La Vergne Dimock, Ernest Mann, Clarence Walker.
 High school-Frank Eastman, Owen Eastman, Liberty Crawford, Raymond Eaton, Frank Harris, Joseph Quinlan, Willis Reed, Jennie Clark, Teresa Clark, Grace Comins, Iva Colburn, Lillie Day, l Mary Fisk Emma Kitchen, ,LizzieSprague, Annie Sullivan, Maggie Sullivan, Annie Tobin, Bessie Underwood, Hattie Weir, Gertrude Wightman.
 This is the last week of St. Edwards church fair. The program for Wednesday evening is: ''Little Shaking Quakers," character, by request; fancy athl letics by Geo. Light; duet, ',Shipwrecked Crew." Misses A. and M. Brosnan; farce, "The Picked-up Dinner" Thursday evening Trio, Mothers Appeal" Messrs. T. and M. Mullin and J. Williams; dialogue, "The Worlds Fair;" "Five Little Dogs," comic quartette; chorus, "For You we are Praying at Home ;" chicken and tur- key supper on. Thanksgiving evening at 5.30, 25 cents. Dancing every evening. Voting for most popular young lady for gold watch, Miss Kate Purcell and Miss Rosa Girard, candidates, polls closing at 1O.3O Saturday evening. The awarding of various articles will be made on Friday and Saturday evenings.
 -"Cream of Roses," recently put on sale with local druggists, is home pro- duct. Give it a trial. For chaps, sore lips, and to use when shaving.
 pr. T. c. Tiffany, of Willimantic, has sold out his dental business, and will give hereafter sole attention to his jewelry, trade. Dr. Rider, who has had charge of the dental rooms, will return to Brook lyn, N. Y.
 | -Dr. T. H. Rafftery has bought of the Julius Converse estate the lot on West Main-st., next north of F. A. Close, and will build residence upon it, work hav- ing already begun.
 George Lawton, boss dyer for the Central Woolen and Riverside mills, has bought of Alvarado Howard, administra- tor, the lot on the northeast corner of Grant avenue and the new street, being the second lot south of the Congregation al parsonage, and will at once build upon it good residence and barn.
 The Congregational church ladies' home missionary society have just sent away their annual donation box, value about $13O; the recipients being the fam fly of clergyman in western Iowa.
 Orient Chapter, R. A. M., meets next Wednesday evening.
 The Monson, Palmer, Wilbraham and Ludlow electric railway, in which MT. Hicks of this village is interested, is spoken of elsewhere. Soon&a move will be made to form a corporation for our Stafford road. Will it not be well to look after the building of the line from Monson to Palmer with a view to the carriage of freight and the ultimate making of con- nection between Staffordville and Mon son? Then we shall have solved the prob lem of making all our villages points of competition between different freight lines. Rev. Dr. c. E. Harris will conduct the union Thanksgiving services at the Congregational church, the nature of which will be somewhat dependent upon the size of the audience
 Mrs. F. F. Patten had a reception of lady friends on Tuesday, from to p. m. The attendance was very large, the guests coming in relays at different designated hours. Pease orchestra enhanced the pleasure with their best selections, and a Il Springfield caterer served refreshments. The reception was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Els parents Robbins Pat [ ten and wife-on Edgewood, the senior l Mrs. Patten, Mrs. Thrall and Mrs. Avery assisting. All participants mentioned ii as an exceptionally delightful occasion. pr. P. R. Watts has as guest over l Thanksgiving his brother, Harry a stu dent at Wesleyan academy.
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