The Press., 1896-11-26

lit is our intention to print under this head, from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
 The Methodist church in this village req 'izel $11O above expenses from the lee ure Of Dr. Holland, last week.
 The dlsiple= of Terpsichore will hold a grand mass meeting at the Furnace Hollow Hotel next Thursday evening. G. Cady's band furnish the music.
 Union service will be held at the Metho dist church next Thanksgiving day, Rev. MT. Ide of the Congregational church, officiating. As there is but one service during the day Cat II o'clock) there ought to be turnout large enough to make the preacher feel repaid for the labor of preparing sermon for this special occas- ion. Thanksgiving should be observed by public worship as well as by good dinners.
 In these days of high prices and scarcity of funds, people feel interested in know ing how they can make thei- money go farthest in feeding and clothing them selves. Naturally enough, they consult the advertising columns of the News Letter to see where bargains may be had.
 Jobey Kent, an inmate of the poorhouse in this town, aged 84 years, last summer raised from single kernal of corn eight- ee'a ears, thirteen of which are now hang ing in our sanctum. Anybody desiring to c0r7o-er us in this statement, or think ing we are c0raa-ed when making it, will please St01k into our office, where proof conclusive will be afforded the eye if not the cor. Those who come of course will be expected to subscribe to the NsAxx Letter, and she1I out on the spot.
 William and Martha Chaplin, of this village, celebrated the f1ftieth annivers- ary of their marriage on Saturday evening Nov. 17. Eleven children hava risen up to years of maturity, and to call them blessed. Their names are as follows :: Christopher, Lucy, Benjamin, George, Martha, William, Elijah, Samuel, Eliza beth, Abby and Mary. Of these eleven children only three are dead. The grand children number twenty-nine, of whom twenty-one are now living. The great grandchildren number nine, eight being still alive. All the descendants number forty-nine, of whom thirty seven are now living. After partaking of a generous supply of appropriate rations, a letter from their pastor Rev. MT. Worth (who by illness was presented from being pre- grandson at school and 8 poetical con- graduation from Mrs. Elizabeth Converse of this place. Remarks were made by Rev. A. w. Ide, Wm. w. Ellis, MT. Taft and O. P. Champlin. The bridegroom and bride were then remembered by pres ents in gold, currency and useful articles.
 The citizens of Willington held meet ing last Monday night, to take measures to stop the sale of intoxicating liquors in that town. It was voted that the select men be requested to see that the law pro- hibiting the sale of rum be enforced. On Tuesday the selectmen waited upon the saloon-keeper of the depot, who promised to suspend selling. c. B. Moore is the principal mover in the work against the traffic
 Some manufactures of woolen goods are making an effort to induce woolen manufactures throughout the country to reduce the hours of labor and even run their mills on half time during the next ninety days, in order to allow the trade to sink the surplus of manufactured goods on hand. These goods are now being sold at less price than for the past eight or ten years, ever when wool was 30 cents and gold at par. Unless this is done a further reduction is anticipated, and con- sequenct embarrassment and failures among the hemanufacturers and those having large stocks of goods on hand.
 Married in Wales, Mass, Nov. 18th, Francis E. Howe of Stafford, and Sarah J. Hopkins of Wales.