The Press., 1892-03-10

A regular meeting of the W. c. T U. will be held at the Boys'S Club room Friday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock. Mrs. Orcutt will talk upor Methods. There will also be selected readings, one upon "Ldquor on the Go lumbian Fair Grounds Eminent Opin. ions," and the other one, sCrime Legal ized.n Roll call will be responded to by quotations appropriate to the organiza- tion. All are invited. |
 The new postal cards much larger than the old---are now to be had at the post office.
 Geo. w. Eaton, Louis Helm anG Thomas Mullen are appointed and have qualified to serve as special policemen within the borough. <ss,.
 At the regular selectmen's meeting held on Monday Frank 2. Fairfield was appointed selectman to fillvacancy caused by death of Myron I. Cady.
 Rev. John E. Clark of Rockville preached at St. Edwards church last evening. During lent, services in English are held on Wednesday evenings, and in French on Friday evenings.
 -Will H. ,Heald gave a drive whist party last Saturday evening.
 The Congregational society will meet on Friday evening to decide whether to take action in calling pastor. The church has voted unanimously in favor ot Rev. A. J. Mcleod, of Groton, and the entire congregation seems to be in favor of securing him, if possible. 1T ..s
 The Congregational church held an audience fair in number at last Friday evenings meeting under auspices of the W. O.. T. U. The three organizationsr ". c. T. U., Loyal Legion, and Temple of Honor, were well represented in the portions of the house reserved for them. A quartette, consisting of M. G. Moore, J. T. Melbourne, Harry Burwell and Frank Newton, gave some very suitable and we1l-rendered songs at intervals, and Miss Nettie Washburn gave solo in her always good style. Mrs. Rice's subject was Gods Hand in History" and was used to illustrate strong line of argu- gument against rum evils and in favor of suppression of the rum traffic. She was heard with close attention throughout, her treatment of this we'll worn subject being in many ways original. The local unions cannot help being benefited and strength ened by her address.
 M. A. Marcy, of Hartford, reelected director of the 1st Savings Bank of Staf- ford Springs at the late annual meeting, declined to serve on account of the incon- venience of attending meetings: Minor F. Fairman, of Stafford, has been elected in his stead.
 -Needham's horses were unloaded at the depot on Monday morning, drawing as usual. a large crowd of spectators. Nineteen fine looking animals were taken out here, and as many more were taken on to Willimantic. ---.. Ts..:. #-
 pr. A. o. Comins has opened an of flee for dentistry at the residence of his father on Crown-st., and this week ad- vertises scale of prices for work. .-. |.
 Mrs. R. s. Hicks has one of the cosi- est and best-filled little conseryatories in the borough. In it she raises the rarest flowers, and it isn't often that She couldn't pick ripe oranges from her own trees, if she wanted to. They are there now, and usually are.
 Scholars who have neither been ab- sent or tardy in their attendance at the borough schools during the winter term closing march 4th:
 High school: LiIlie. Day, Florence Kinney, Maggie Sullivan, Nellie Warren, Alice Walker, Hattie Weir, Liberty Crawford, Charles Cummings, Clarence Kingsbury, Owen Eastman, Frank New ton, Joseph Quinlan, Willis Reed. "
 Grammar A: Raymond Eaton, Bessie Underwood, Myrtfee Pierson. :.
 Grammar c: Alice Reed, Belle Pier son, Willie Oldham, Fred Zimmerman.
 Grade V: Bertha Williams, Mabel Foster, Olive Mansfield, Leila Melboirae, Albert Liittjohann, Ernest Chapman.
 Grade W: Florence Chapman, Ida Ford, Mary Leach, Grant Foster, Herman Winter.
 Grade III: Edna Reed, Hattie Tuthill, Beth Williams.
 Grade II: Paul Ginhold, J. Richard Pierson. <. ...
 Grade l.: Annie Wobbecke,, Harmon Mcintyre.
 There are three persons in town past 90 years of age, all ladies. All are hale, cheerful, and not unlikely to- have years of life yet before them. Next Wednesday evening the regular social of the Ladies' Aid Society will be held in the M. E. church parlors. After tea, which will be served from 6 to 8, Rev. O. w. Scott of Norwich will lecture on "Some Old Fashioned Virtues" Ad- mission, 15 cents.
 No telephones after April 1st. The authorities have so notified. With the regular increase in cost the number of subscribers has steadily diminished, and as the number grows less the value to subscribers as means of local 2communi- cation approximately decreases. There is general "let her go" feeling in the community, and we will wait about a year, when patents will begin to expire and the sineys of monopoly to weaken.
 <-All passenger traina from the south were much delayed yesterday by an aeci. dent which occurred in the early morning near Yantic, dozen cars from freight train being derailed, During the day the track was cleared and repaired.
 Mrs. Martin Harrington of Freehold, N. J., spent last Sunday with her brothei J. V. Squier, having been called here by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. j. M. A. Squier, of Monson.
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