The Press., 1894-09-20

Rockwell Boy won first money in the "free for alp race at Woodstock yester- day.
 | A rivalry which has for some time existed among citizens of Canadian birth concerning their chopping abilities culmi- mated last Monday in wager of $1O that none of them could make 75 railroad ties in days work of 10 hours. MT. Paul Champagne, in the employ of Keefe Bros, won the wager, making 76 ties from stand ing timber in hours and 25 minutes. 1 Sewing society of the w. R. 0. to- morrow Friday afternoon. Supper will be served from five o'clock until half past six to all who may wish 'good square meal" for 10 cents. Regular meeting in the evening.
 The Ladies' Aid Society connected with the Congregational church will hold an adjourned meeting with Mrs. w. H. Cooley, Friday afternoon, at o'clock.
 -C. R. Newton Was at the New Lon- don races yesterday, and brings home | gold watch, the first prize in the half mile handicap race, the only one in which he rode. Time, 1.09.
 The meeting for organization for tenn l perance work, held on Monday evening, was we'll attended, but the organization was further postponed until next Monday l in order to first enroll large membership from all parts of the town. The primary work will be to secure 8 no license vote, but, license or no license, to see that the laws of the state are duly respected and enforced. The impression is very strong however, that Stafford will give no li- cense vote.
 | -Chas. H. Roberts attended the reun. ion of his regiment (16th Conn., at Con- bounce Lake, Bristol, on Monday. Sev- enty members were present. Col F. w. Cheney of South Manchester was re-elect. ed president. l Collector Tilden is able to make to the selectmen an unusually good return of work done in one the worst of years. There is but about $70 uncollected on the list of 1893, and the most of this is col leetable, The ahatemeRt list fooots up but $178, much below the average of past years.7
 1.-The aqueduct pipes will be flushed this afternoon to cleanse them out. l Stafford Hollow.
 | (GaFFeSpQpqeRce.)
 l Mir. and Mrs. Norman Granais have been spending few days with their friends, MT. and Mrs. A. H. Weaver. Like everybody else who gets breath of it, they like Stafford air and are always glad of an opportunity to get all they can of it. Also like everybody else who knows the facts, they wonder why there is not 8 good hotel somewhere in the town so that strangers can get 8 chance to enjoy Stafford air and scenery. While we are on the subject we never realized the amount of money summer boarders I brought into country as we did on a trip along the Donneettcut and Nov Ier- sey shores this summer. Wherever there was an opportunity there were crowds of people. Those also who have been in | New Hampshire wonder where all the I people come from who are there in every nook and corner ip the state. There is no reas9n Why the crop of summer board I CTS in Stafford might not be the best craR \ we raise if we only had some place to house It. Edward Everett Hale, in his "New England Boyhood," in speaking of Stafford Springs and it's mineral spring, . saysi Fit was quite the fashion ito go to Stafford Springs from different parts nf New England in the earlier part of the century" There is no reason, except the well known one:of no hotel, why it might not again be the fashion for people from all oyer the country to come and enjoy Stafford aip and Stafford scenery: | Dwight G. Wilson and wife of Meri. den, are making two weeks visit with his aunt, Mrs. Henry Wilson.
 William Colburn's cider mill has been running more or less steadily since the season began.
 Miss Bertha M. Druley, senior in Buchtel college, Akron, Ohio, returned to her studies on last Monday morning.
 It looks quite familiar to see the weather vane again on the mill. It is hoped the wind will let 1t alone this time. There is in the school house on the street one of the box stoves made by the old furnace at the Hollow. We wish they had put on 1t the year in which il was made so that we might know how old it is.
 {From another correspondent.)
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Bap. tist church will meet next Wednesday af ternoon for work, and will serve supper as usual from 5.3O o.7. Come one. come al...... This evening at 7.30 the thought of the Y. P. s. C.. E. will be, "Humar longings and their satisfaction" Isa 55 1-13. Everybody cordially invited. IA the Baptist church, Sunday, 7 o'clock p m., in addition to the usual prayer meet ing the pastor will give very brief tall on the Importance of the Bible to us. This will, perhaps, be the first of a serie of prayer meeting talks on the same gen eral subject. Il StaffOrdville.
 | (Correspondence)
 -George Goodwill, who has recent. had an operation performed on his eye, Ii able to be out again. :. Mrs. Kathleen Hedges and littl' daughter, Mary Esther, are spending { few weeks at her fathers, L. Walbridge 'i Mrs. Joseph Hyde, of Nerwioh, | fopmer resident o'f Stafford, is visiting old time friends and acquaintances here. Rev. H. M. vaill and Mrs. Foski have been on the list of sick ones. Re