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Bond, at the Putnam grist mill, as will
be seen in another column.
THE w. H. Bradford Hook and Ladder
Company are arranging for grand ball
to take place February 22nd.
THE stringers for the foot paths on the
new bridge on Mill street have come and
been placed in position, and the paths
are now open for travel.
THE Springfield Union, the leading Re-
publican paper in New England, will be
delivered here next Sunday at a. m.
Look out for it. Leave orders at this of
flee.
THE happiest man in the State yes
terday, was Fred o. Graves of this viii
lage. His face was continuously
wreathed in smiles. The occasion was
the birth of his fifth child, a boy.
NEXT Sunday morning, at the Baptist
church, the pastor will preach on the
"Sanctifcation through the Spirit" In
the evening the fourth of the series of
illustrated sermons, so full of interest
aud deeply impressive, will be given.
APATHY in the village, who had no.
thing else to do, has been figuring out
how many letters Edna Brown of Kane
vile, Ill.,, would receive, should none of
thu fifty links in the chain be broken.
They only figured to the 10th link, and
found that should none of the links to
that be broken she would receive over
100000, 900 letters.
THE funeral of Patrick Guiltinan, an
old resident of this town, took place yes
terday morning from st. Francis de Sales
church. Mr.. Guiltinan died Tuesday at
the age of 81 years. He lived in. the
North part of our village, and was a man
greatly respected by his friends.
THE Young Women's Club enjoyed a
rare treat on Wednesday evening. Miss
A. NJ. Norton read a paper on "Shaks-
peare's sonnets," while Mrs. George F.
Graves, accompanied by Mrs. Keeseman,
sang them exquisitely. In connection
with the sonnets, Mrs. Keeseman ex-
pressively rendered selections which
were interpreted by Miss Norton.
OUR readers should carefully note our
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JOHN II. EVANS of our town, as will
be seen elsewhere, to-day, is the manu-
facturer of an "Elevating Clothes Airer,"
that is bound to become popular. In
deed, it is so now, and orders are con-
stantly increasing. The beauty of this
device, over many others, consists in the
ease with which the airer can be elevated
out of the way after it has been loaded
up, as will be seen in the cuts. When
the clothes are dried the taking of them
down is simplified, and then the whole
continuance can be stored in small space
when not in use,
FRIDAY evening, Jan. 18th, Mr.. and
,f,ly tl,.,ir to
entertain the members of the Baptist
church and their friends, who were pres
ent in large numbers. A fine supper was
served and a cordial welcome given to
all. Music on the piano by Mrs. Sted-
man, a sister of Pastor MacgeOrge, now
visiting at the parsonage, was much en-
joyed, as was also solo by Allie Smith,
and banjo selection by Maud Galusha. 1t
is expected the next social will be given
Friday evening, Feb. LIST, at the home of
VIM. r. Graves.
r. NJ. HADLEY of Albany, n. Y, who
opens a course of dancing lessons, and
assemblies following each evening, in
ApOllO man, hCAG luOou"yi 40 VIII uO
seen, comes highly recommended by
Prof Graves, the celebrated teacher of
Albany academy. Our readers will there
fore have the advantage derived from a
teacher who is up to date in the Ameri-
can Society of Teachers of dancing, and
it looks to us as fine opportunity, much
in advance of the ordinary dancing class.
The assembly" feature is new here and
will be popular. See the notices in an
other place. also the commentator of
Prof. Graves.
THERE was hearing this morning be-
fore United States Commissioner Bates
in the case of George D. Martin, arrested
last week on suspicion of being concerned
in the robbing of Station A. Mr.. Martin
was discharged. He is son of Michael
Martin, has always borne good reputa-
ton, and was at home at the time San
ford's store was entered in which is kept
the Centre Postoffice, so say the family.
This is one of those cases where it seems
hard to be arrested, and the fact pub
lished, but the truth is soon known and
in the end right will prevail. The Off
GERS were led to suspect him because of
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