The Press., 1896-01-30
-Mrs Fl s Stevenson has been visit.

New 0fk.
 Mics Edith Baker is visiting friends in Waterbury.
 Mrs. Robbins Patten Is visiting Mrs. Thrall in Springfield.
 Miss Caroline Brown returned We'd nesday from three weeks visit with her grandmother at Unionville.
 Regular convocation of Orient Chap ter, No. 42, R, A. M., next Wednesday evening for work.
 Mrs. Alice Spedding has returned from four weeks visit at Lowell, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. J. V. Squier were home from Hartford the first of the week for 8 few days.
 James Dewey of Palmer is visiting friends in town.
 The funeral of Diderick Hansen, "A, was held from his home at Stafford Street Sunday forenoon. The cause of his death is thought to have been old age. He leaves widow and one daughter. The burial was at Holland.
 Bert Lamb, of Monson, has moved into the house with his father-in-law, Isaac Russell Jencks.
 Mrs. George. E. Holland, of Provi- dence, has been spending few days with friends in town. .'
 -Adelbert Needham, who has been quite i'll with the grip, is again able to be out. He will go west in about week and bring back three carloads of horses, one for Stafford and two for Willimantic.
 George Joslyn met with a painful &C., cident yesterday at Bramble's saw mill in Wilmington Hollow. His left hand got caught in buzz saw, and the whole palm was badly torn and lacerated. His thumb was also badly cut, both joints being in- iured. He was brought here and attended by Dr. Newton.
 The whiskey seized in the American House was claimed Monday by Mary O.. Kane, and after the claim had been sub- stantiated to the satisfaction of the court it was delivered to her. It seems that the liquor was bought for medicinal pur- poses.
 Bookings for the opera house are as follows: Feb. 7, "Uncle Hram;" Feb. 15, Fiske Jubilee Singers; March or 5, ''The Two Johns;" May g, Hall and Donnelly's minstrels.
 Members will be received on proba- tion at the Methodist church next Sun day morning. The collection for the Ar menians will also be taken at the morn ing service. If the money cannot be sent through the Red Cross society the Amer ican missionary board will be able to get it to it's destination.
 There will be social at the Congre- gational chapel next Wednesday evening. Ladies in charge, Mrs. E. C.. Dennis and Mrs. H. s. Abel. There will be an en- tertainment of vocal music and the Del sarte pantomime. Supper and entertain ment, 10 cents.
 The ladies of Grace church will serve a turkey supper Thursday evening, Feb. 9th. The comedietta, "A Cup of Tea, ,' will be presented, with the following cast:
 Sir Charles Seymour, George Bailey. SeropQinS. DF. Smith. Joseph, Richard Ellis. Lady Clara Seymour, Agnes Mcdonald.
 Supper and entertainment, % cents.
 B. F. Blaney, the agent for the Keat- ing wheel, was in town yesterday to get Newton to ride Keating the coming season, if possible. MT. Blaney had charge of the Rambler agency in Spring field last year. Charles L. Bosworth is to open a business school in Warren's block if a sufficient number of students can be SC. cured. Shorthand, ype-writing and book. keeping will betaught. MT. Bosworth has class in Willimantic.
 During the year 1895 there were 1OC births. Of these 55 were females and Al males. A peculiar circumstance in con- nection with the births is that one child was the ninth born in one family, two were the tenth in their respective fami lies, one the eleventh, one the thirteenth and one the fifteenth. There were A marriages. The deaths numbered 89, ot which 52 were males and 37 were females The death record by months was as fol lows: January, 5; February, 16; March 9; April, 10; May, 8; June, 4; July, 4 August, Il; September, 5; October, 3 November, 6; December, 8. The causes of deaths were as follows: Diphtheria, 3 scarlet fever, 4; 'typhus fever, 1; cholers infantum, B. consumption, II inflamma tion of brain, 6 apoplexy, '; cllculatory system, 6; bronchitis, 5; pneumonia, 2 nephrites, 4; dropsy, 2; diseases nervous system, 6; old age, 1; other causes, 23.
 Officer Helm went to Meriden las Friday morning and brought John T Glavin back to answer to charges of forg cry and embezzlement. Glavin was em ployed by E. Gateley & Co., of Hartford who sell all kinds of household article on the installment plan. Glavin has beel doing crooked work and is short in hi accounts. His method was to make ou a lease, as the custom is when goods ar oOAO On GALO AAoOdk4LAOuG p4bu1 61Bu u uGGl tious name or forge real name, turn i into the firm and collect his commission on the apparent sale. He would then gel the articles when they arrived if he coul and keep the money. Some of the prop erty thus received was found at his room but he had disposed of most of it. Ther were leases made to about 15 people sup posed to live in Stafford whose names ar not known and who never existed. Tn names forged are those of Mrs. Wm Cooley, supposed to have bought cur tains, Mrs. John Morris, supposed t have bought a wringer, Miss L. New comb, George Valin, Mrs. Washer an
 Mrs. Waldo, supposed purchasers of va rious other articles. He collected none and failed to turn it in from Miss A. MoI ris, Eugene Mitchell and Mrs. A. Aldrich Glavin's complicated business method HUarn diao0uorod xvhon IT E Gou oo1Io<