The Press., 1896-11-26

t The service of forty hours devotion E commenced last Sunday at St. Edwards church with high mass at 103 a. m., and closed with high mass Tuesday forenoon. Five clergymen, from out-of-town, assist ed at the ceremony. l Stafford Street.
 The report of district No.:.I4 for the term ending Nov. 20, 1896, is as follows Total number enrolled, IT.; average at- tendance, 15 Of these, Andrew Farrell and Joe Larivee were neither absent nor tardy. Those not absent but tardy once, were Florence Garvais, Della Larivee, James Lykings and George Slater.
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 The Ladies' Aid.. Society will meet next Wednesday afternoon for work. Sup D will be served from 5.3O until o'clock.
 The Bible class of the Baptist church will meet with Miss Nellie Connor next Friday evening at 7.3O. A cordial invita- tion to all.
 The topic for the Y. P. s. 0. E. this Thursday evening will be: "Some bless ings often forgotten"
 The Mission Band will meet in the chapel of the Baptist church next Satur- day afternoon at 4 o'clock.
 In consequence of the numerous bur glaries, robberies and assaults which have taken place in Monson recently, Eugene Hewlett, who formerly lived here, has been appointed special night policeman there. t..'
 Owing to continued i'll health, George Warrington, some time ago, leased his blacksmith shop to Fred Heck, and has now sold his livery business to Peter Ledger. MT. Ledger will occupy'W. H. Blacks barns for his business as soon as they can be put in condition. MT. Worth ington expects to try some other climate, for time at least, in hopes of fegaining his health.
 MT. and Mrs. s. E. Dwight are spending Thanksgiving week in Newark, N. J., with their daughter, Mrs. Will Hassett They expect to return December Eth. B.
 Rev. and Mrs. F. l.. Batchelder are in Boston taking Thanksgiving with their sons. They expect to be absent about two weeks.
 Report of the primary department of the Pinney Grammar School for the term ending Friday, November 2Oth, Miss Ad- die Rathbone, teacher No of pupils reg istered, 33; average attendance, 28.69; pupils neither absent nor tardy during the term, Rose Dugdale, Leila Bowden, Irving Bowden, Zephire Bolieau, Harley Dim mick Carl Goodell, Leonard Taylor, Err. nest Hulett, Roy Sanford, Clifton Col burn, Paul Barsalou; not tardy but ab- sent one day, Georgie Clark; not tardy but absent two days, Bertie Needham. The prize for spelling was won by George H. Beard.
 After a long series of struggles for ex- istenee the stone crusher finally gave it up last Friday morning. Immediately after the accident, MT. Wilson, the con- tractor, started for Monson, where he made arrangements with the Flynt's to furnish enough stone to complete the road, and the work is being pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. It is probable that the end of this week will see the section of road finished. Walter Brown, who had charge of the c1usher, had the misfortunB to severely inture his hand last week. He was opening some dynamite, when the instrument he was using slipped, and entered hls nand, cut I finy tn tho h0nn No l4o anticipated, however, and he left for home Monday morning.
 MT. and Ms. Ephraim Squire have had as guests the past week Charles Lee and Mrs. Frank. Cleaveland, of Willimantic.
 Miss Hannah Black will spend Thanks giving in Woodstock with her sister, Mrs. Belle Shippey.
 Mrs. Elmer Colburn and children, of Springfield, have been guests the past week of MT. and Mrs. Jarvis Hyde.
 Rev. and Mrs. T. c. Druley, with their children, will take their Thanksgiving in Montvllle with MT. Druley's brother, Dr. Druley. As Rev. F. l.. Batchelder also is away, this will leave the village with out any clergyman over Thanksgiving
 Report of the grammar department of the Pinney Grammar School for the term ending Nov. 2Oth, taught by Miss Mary B. Smith Pupils perfect in attendance Helena Clark, Alice M. Durham, Maud L. Beard, Geneva Dimmock, Maud G.. Hulett, Bottte A. 'Connors, w. Putnam Druley, Walter c. Sears, Louie K. Par ker, Morris N. Green, Clifford s. Wight man; absent .one-half day, Arthur L.. Roberts, Dora A. Roberts; absent one day, Harry F. Johnson, Lena B. Ladish. Prizes for scholarship were awarded w. Putnam Druley, Arthur L. Roberts, Alice M. McVeigh, Freddie Higgins and Cliff ford s. Wight--an. Other prizes were won by Dora A. Roberts and Clifford s. Wightman for perfect spelling, and Clar- ence J. Lasbury for excellence in pen manship. Number of pupils registered, 26; average attendance, 24.53.
 Report of the intermediate department of the Pinney Grammar School for the term ending Nov. 20th, 1896, Beth F. Sprague, teacher: Scholars neither ab- sent nor tardy, Wyla Parker, Nellie Hu- lett, Gertrude Roberts, George Hassett, George Colburn, Harry Winter, Arthur Sherman; not tardy, but absent one day, Forest Smith, Bertha Witt. Number of pupils registered 30; average attendance, 26.89. -
 In the absence of Rev. F. L. Batchelder, it is expected that Rev. Asa Randlett will supply the pulpit of the Baptist church next Sunday.
 Those who were present at the exami- nation on last Thursday, or who visited the school during last term, are we'll pleased with the work done in all depart