The Press., 1893-10-26

Letters remaining in the office at Staf- ford Springs Oct. 26 Mrs CIV. Dwight, Thomas Hudson, Miss Eliza Jerome, Lydia F. Kingsley.
 Charles Rol erts and A. c. Ro1man brought in string of "A gray squirrels yesterday.
 | Stafford Hollow.
 l (Correspondence.)
 | The rain on Monday evening did not discourage the friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Holt. They had planned a surprise in honor of the fifth anniversary of their wedding day. About thirty were gathered together in spite of the inclement weather. A handsome side board was presented to the thoroughly surprised bride and groom. That the eve- ming was heartily enjoyed by both those giving and receiving the surprise goes without saying.
 Miss Frances Adams, so we'll known in Stafford, is now and has been for some time making her home with Mrs. s. B. | Dwight. Her health, which has not been very good, seems to be improving under the invigorating influences of Stafford friends and Stafford air.
 Miss Eliza Damon has rooms in the house belonging to Milton Puffer, the other part of the house being occupied by Clarence Rockwell. The home 50 long occupied by Miss Damon and her father is now occupied by Mr. Hassett's barber shop, he having moved from the hotel building.
 During the time the mill of the Riv- erside Woolen Co. has been closed some needed repairs have been made. New dye tubs have been put in, the boilers re- set, and number of smaller but neces- sary repairs made. The improvement that we noticed earlier in the season, the building of two story addition, has been completed. The lower story is to be used for a drawing in room and for measuring and inspecting the cloth. The upper story contains the office. The room formerly occupied by the office has been used, part of it for a supply room, ther st to increase the space in the second story of the mill proper. The new office is a very fine piece of workmanship. It is finished en- tlrely of hard wood, the floor of rock ma- pie, and the sides and ceiling of ash. The ceiling is divided by heavy moulding into | n1c voiA The cornice is like, in size and pattern, the moulding on the ceiling. The sides are finished to the dado in moulded ceil- ing of very striking and handsome pat tern, under the dado with panel work. The whole was done under the supervis- | ion of P. B. Johnson. The material was got out at Windsor, the carpenter work was done by Graves and Sanford, the fin ishing and vanishing by G. B. Marsdale. It certainly is a very handsome piece of work, and is a credit to everyone con- cerned in it's construction.
 | Staffordville.
 (Correspondence.)
 After an illness of several days, Dea- con Sidney Smith peacefully passed away I from this body onthe morning of Monday, the 18th instant. His funeral at the Con- gregational church took place the follow ing Wednesday, Rev. MT. Vaill, assisted by Revs. Mcleod and Batchelder, offlciat- ing. The attendance was large. The bearers were Messrs. George Andrews, Samuel B. Amidon, George Eaton, Philo | West, George Moore, John O. Booth. That the community, and especially the church of which the deceased was deacon, felt the bereavement was noticeably ap- parent during the funeral service. Dea- con Sidney Smith was born in the spring of 1872 in the town of Wilmington, Conn. He married Almenia Works of Stafford. Each attended the same district school when children. He mourned her loss only about five months, she dying last spring. He came to this town when young man, to learn his trade, and had resided here continually since. He had served the town as member of the school board, but his chief interest and work for the communi- | ty has been in his labors for the COngre- gational church, of which he was the chief organizer and the active deacon during it's whole history. He was active in building the church edifice, and in planning, laying out and caring for the Staffordville cem, etery. He has walked among us an ex- ample of christian love and piety. Truly might he write of his church, as the apos- tie of old wrote, ''For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus have begotten you through the gospel" | ELLINGTON.
 Ellington people are determined, now that the town for the first time in many years has voted no-license, that the laws shall be enforced. They have organized a law and order league, with about fifty o:4 4