The Press., 1896-09-03
FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.
May 27, 1865.


 May 27, 1865.
 1t is our intention to print under this head from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
 BLACK LEAD.-Mr Ledoyt, of the north part of Stafford, while blowing recently, turned up six or seven pounds of black lead. The ore was of nice quality, soft and pure. It showed an excellent gloss on being applied to the stove.
 WAR MEMENToEs:-In picking over a bale of cotton at the Granite mills, @ few days ago, three Minnie bullets were found imbedded in the cotton. They were ugly looking relics, weighing an ounce each. The cotton was of recent shipment from Dixie, and may have been used as breast works.
 ANOTHER GAINING RECoRD.-The sOns- in-law of Capt. Farley Converse, on the 8th day of May, presented him as birth day present a magnificent gold-headed cane, beautifully engraved. Capt. Con- verse has always been one of the leading men in building up the Springs village. Long may he live to enjoy the work of his own hands.
 A NEW STORE.-The Converseville Go. has sold to John Brown building lot north of their factory on the Glenville road, and contracted to put up a store on the lot. The building will go up immedi- ately, and John will soon have his head quarters of raiding expeditions on high ground. The Springs village is getting to be smart on Stores.
 SALE OF THE KNIGHT PLACE. Sidney Needham, Esq.,, has bought the Adna Knight place adjoining his farm near the Springs village.
 FLOWED OUT.-The Westford glass works have suspended operations and gone into an assignment. Joseph Phil lips is the assignee. They have a large amount of goods unsOld, and if the prop erty sells we'll they may pay good divi- dends to their creditors.
 TRoUT.-While the Springfield sports men go to the wilds of Maine and New York state, our Stafford sportsmen beat them in this town. Chauncey Smith, Esq.,, took from forty to fifty pounds of trout on Monday, in Stafford, with the aid of 8 few sports. They were beauties, and we tender our thanks for a couple of dozen. 0. Dorman went out on Tues day, and caught about seventy-ffve.
 1872 vs. 1864 Patten, of West Stafford, thinks the present war prices are not up to those of 1812, and has shown us bill for two gallons of molasses and a couple lbs. of sugar purchased by MT. Davis in the town of Somers. There were no stores in the Springs then. gals molasses, at $2.124 per gal, $4.25 9 lbs. sugar, at 334 cents per lb., 67 cents sweetening in 1912.
 STAFFORD LOOMs.-The looms manu- factured by Messrs. Howe & Converse have a wide reputation, and find their way to all sections. They received an order the past week from New Mexico, and are constantly shipping goods to all parts of the west. The statistics of the manufacturing interests of this town would be interesting. Can our manufac- turers hand in facts? We would be pleased to publish them.
 BoRN.-In Stafford Springs, 22d, daugh. ter to s. N. Page, Esq.
 MARRIED.-In Stafford, 22d, by Rev A. W. Ide, Edward N. Twiss, of Marble. head, Mass, and Susan Jones of Stafford (June 3,-1865.)
 UNIvERsALIsTCONvE annual meeting of the Universalist Association was held at Furnace village last week A large number of delegates from Nor. wich and New London were present, anC | the exercises are said to have been ot much interest. The society at Furnace is noted for it's generous hospitality and enterprise in all local matters. That the efforts are duly appreciated is at tested by the large attendance at theil public assemblies.
 THE WORK COMMENCED. The lumber for the new church of the Methodist so ciety at the Springs village has arrived and the carpenters are at work. Capt. T. D. Johnson, of West Stafford, is the con tractor. The lumber was purchased il northern Vermont. The cost of the house will be nearly $15,OOO. The lee ture room is expected to be completed this fall, so as to be used for worship the coming winter. It is to be model house and will excel most of our Holland county churches in architectural beauty. The village church of South Coventry, in ex cellence of work and material, is now ont of the finest in the county, and the cap tain will have to do some nice work tc | beat it.