The Press., 1893-03-09

prlC0. ms IS CIlo DoSb DdIStlu Wo ONOI had or ever expect to have. Stationery of AllssKinds, at Low Prices, at The Press office. Job..Lots speciality. .~ -
 Special Bargains in Ladies' Cotton Underwear.a at A. w. Walkers. .- ..
 Will close out Ladies' and Children's Cloaks at low prices at E. l.. Burrs
 Fine Stationery of all kinds at The Press office.
 Short pieces of Winter Dress Goods at reduced prices at E. l.. Burr's.
 For Engraved Cards leave your plates and orders at The Press office.
 See w. V. OdelPs advertisement.
 Grand clearing out sale of all Winter Garments for Friday and Saturday of this week at A. W. Walkers.
 STAFFORD.
 -Adelbert Needham has made satis- factory settlement with the Illinois Gen. tral railroad for horses lost in wreck, the railroad acting most honorably in the matter. Some time next week he will re- eeive nine horses which came out of the wreck nearly unharmed, including the best pair In the wreck the first car to leave the track was one containing MT. Needham's horses, the train breaking be- tween his two cars. Upon this car of horses, pitched down an embankment, was hurled car after car, all loaded, crushing it, and how any animal therein could have escaped death was a miracle. Some were killed, others had to be. A few were kept, in hopes of recovery, and the nine now expected in Stafford escaped without material harm. MT. Needham advertises this week good western horses for sale, also some taken in exchange He desires to close these out quickly
 The passenger train south last Satur- day afternoon came upon three dogs play ing upon the bridge near Smith & Cool ey's factory, and two-oelonging respect lively to Wm Wobbecke and Michael Pur- eell-were sent to the happy land of ca nines.-+ ,-=z.-.--
 Ionic Lodge,F. A. M, meets next Tuesday evening.
 Palmer Herald: Fred Sibley has severed his connection with E. A. Buck <
 
 Carpenter, Morton & Co.,, of Boston.
 Henry F. Wise, foreman at Adams tin and plumbing shops, has been very sick with scarlet fever, and is recovering. The regular sociable at the Congre- gational chapel next Tuesday evening will be in charge of Mrs. Squier and Miss rroshy All ara invited
 Rev. Dr. Harris has accepted an in- vitation from Winter Post, G. A. R., to deliver the memorial day address.
 pr. P. R. Watts returns to-day from two weeks stay in New York, where he has been attending postgraduate course of lectures. Dr. Rand, of Monson, has visited Stafford daily to look after Dr. W.'s patients. -,-
 Geo. c. Parkess has bought of John Brown-and has transferred the purchase to E. R. Marsdale-a cottage on Prospect street, near West-Main. Also Bailiff Chapman has bought of MT. Brown the cottage in which he has lived for some time, just east of Mr. Marsdale's purchase.
 The list of polls and ratable property of the town, as returned to Town Clerk Black, gaves the number of polls as 360, and total grand list of the town as $1,- 318,365. There are STA dwelling houses ]; 3,040 acres of land 64 mills, etc.. 594 horses; 1,A0 neat cattle. But $354 worth of sheep are returned. The amount of money at interest returned is $3,405; cit izens found upon counting their cash at request of assessors that they had 5 800 in loose change about them.
 -Aholiab Johnson died in Enfield last Friday. He was born in Stafford, and ed ucated at Monson academy, and at Will liams' college and Brown university, and began the practice of law in Stafford, leaving here for Somers when 31 years old, yet there are few, if any, in town who remember his residence here, for his re- moval was in 1880. He would have been 94 years old had he lived until April 28th. The Press has printed several papers by MT. Johnson, giving interesting local incidents of the olden time remembered by him. He retained his vigor to nearly the utmost of his ripe old age. Mr. Johnson graduated from Brown university in 1893, the same class with George D. Prentice, the noted journalist. He studied law at the Yale law school under Chief Justice Daggett, and was admitted to the bar in Holland county in 1895. He began practice in Stafford, but removed to Som- CTS in 1880, and succeeded the late Hon. LeFen.P Waldo, who then removed to Holland. They were lifelong friends. In 1a40 he removed to Enfield, where he had since resided. He continued to practice his profession until after he was 70 years old. He was judge of probate of the dis trict of Enfield sixteen years, and town clerk ten years. He represented Enfield in the general assembly in the years 1S48, 1849 and 1861. He was an honest man, and his integrity was unprecedented He was a whig from the formation of that party and so long as that party existed, and was secretary of the first whig con- yention in the state. He joined the re- publican party on it's formation and voted that ticket the rest of his life, until the late election, when he paired with dem- ocrat older than himself All of~his con- temporaries at the bar have long since died, and he often said that extreme old age was not desirable He married Eliza Peek, of. West Stafford, in 1926, and had five children, three of whom survive him, one son being J. Warren Johnson, a well known attorney of Thompsonville.