The Press., 1894-08-02


 Job Lots in Stationery at The Press office.
 Wedding Cards and Announcements at The Press office, either engraved or printed.
 A. w. Walker is agent for Thomson's Glove Fitting Corsets. Call and examine.
 Local Note Paper at The Press office 1Oc a quire, quires for 25c.
 Ferris Corset Waists at E. l.. Burr's.
 STAFFORD.
 The Cadet Band Is rapidly improving in quality of music and in extending it's repertoire The band is much in need of uniforms, but with no income, older bands getting all the pay work, and having steadily borne heavy expenses for instru- ments, tuition, music, etc., it does not feel able to consider the matter of uni forming. ----.
 -Keefe Bros. saw mill was shipped to Three Rivers, Mass, on Saturday. It has left some ugly scars as remembrances of its visit to Wilmington and Stafford. Its owners are "hustlers."
 The A. O. U. w. meets this evening :; Winter Post, G. A. R., next Monday eve ming; Wauseon Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Stafford Grange Tuesday evening; W. R. c. tomorrow Friday evening Harmony Temple of Honor next Wednesday eve ming.
 Gilbert s. Baker is laid up with a bad cut upon the foot, got by stepping upon a broken bottle while bathing at Crystal Lake last Saturday. The wound was dressed by Dr. Newton and is doing we'll.
 The game of base ball between the Acmes of Stafford Springs and the South Wilmington club-both quite juvenile in make up-last Saturday resulted in vic- tory for the Acmes-25 to 6. The Springs boys speak well of the good treatment giv- en them, a collection taken a little more than defraying their expenses. Some good batting was done by Day of the Acmes
 The Uncas Asphalt Go. of Norwich are doing some work in town.
 -Twenty-four persons from Stafford went on the excursion to Newport last Friday, and were well satisfied with the conduct Of the affair,
 An excursion train from Springfield last Saturday, made up of B. & A. cars, badly scratched the edge of the railway station platform while running through at g high rate of speed, the car steps not be- ing adjusted to the structure.
 CONTRIBUTED. = Dexter Colhurn has worked in the hay field as usual this sea- son, moving and raking. He is a9 years old...... Frank Carpenter and David Curry of Worcester, Mass, visited at Ezra s. Colburn's recently.
 Rev. H. D. Adams; of Staffordville will preach at the borough M. E. church next Sunday.
 A little son of Thomas Ruby, between four and five years of age, fell from the roof of woodshed on Saturday, fractur- ing both bones of the right arm just above the wrist. No doctors could be found at the time, and it was about two hours be- fore the bones were set by Dr. Rafftery. The lad is now doing well. About a year ago his left arm was broken.
 M. P. J. Walker congratulates him. self that he has safely secured (between showers) the hay on his Union farm, with assistance of two youths, one six and the other nine months beyond 80 summers, his father-in-law, Elder Amasa Morse be- ing one of these. The other, MT. Wilson, lives on and has charge of the farm.
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 Richard w. Ellis will enter the Staf- ford Savings Bank Sept. 1st as assistant to Treasurer Harwood.
 70. L. Sunderhauf, a former spperin- tendent of the Central Woolen Co.'S. mill, 7, has moved from Holyoke back to Staff ford Springs, making his residence in Timothy O'Shea's house on Prospect-st.
 T, D. Fisk escaped from the Middle town insane retreat recently, and was de- tained here last week by Sheriff Mullin, until keeper came to escort him back. Mir. Fisk is quite intelligent man; has been 8 successful manager of the working department of manufacturing, but has crazy ideas of finance, uniting him for business. He is a native of Willington, but has passed most of his life at the west. .( At the annual meeting of the Savings Bank of Stafford Springs the entire old board of officers was reelected.
 pr. l.. F. Eaton's office will be closed for about two weeks from the 3d inst. !, while the doctor takes a vacation.
 There will be no service at the Con- gregational church next Sunday, nor probably on the Sunday following. Rev. A. J. Mcleod, the pastor, leaves to-day for business trip to Eastport, Me-, which he will prabably extend into pleasure trip to the British provinces.
 -J. M. Sheehan has presented a gray fox as an addition to the managerie at Flynt's Park in Monson.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. P. Hodgson have been spending part of the summer vaca- tion in Andover, from whence they go to their summer cottage on Mantle bay,
 Rev. J. O. Campbell, of Lowell, Mass, who found wife, Miss Grace Medbery, in this borough, has twice with in the month, as we notice by Lowell paper, been honored with college degrees, receiving that of A. M. from Harvard University, and that of D. D. from his oly,aa ,r ator Mf linton Collooo of nb;o