The Press., 1897-08-19

| Monday evening.
 Miss Frances Nenning has been visiting friends in town.
 Chas White, of Palmer, visited friends in town yesterday.
 Miss Mona Converse has been visiting friends in Springfield.
 Regular meeting of Stafford Lodge, A. o. U. w., this evening.
 Miss Maud Ellis has returned from a visit to Gloversville, N. Y.
 Rev. R. 0. Gragan has been visiting friends in New Haven this week.
 Regular meeting of Harmony Temple of Honor next Wednesday evening.
 Misses Caroline and Sophia Brown are spending few weeks in Unionville.
 Miss Nellie Warren has returned from vacation at Providence and vicinity.
 Miss Florence Nelson, of Monson, is the guest of MT. and Mrs. o. M. Brown.
 James Warren, of Abel's clothing store, is taking a vacation at Providence and other places.
 A party of young people, chaperoned by MT. and Mrs. E. A. CleaveIand, en- joyed picnic at Crystal Lake, Wednes- day.
 MT. and Mrs. w. H. Bumstead returned Monday, after a ten days vacation at Block Island.
 Miss Lizzie Farnsworth has gone to Willimantic to work in McFarlane's con- fectionery store.
 Rev. Thomas O'Keefe, of Monson, and a party of friends were in town on a car riage drive yesterday.
 Dr. Thresher and wife, of Utica, N. Y., are guests of MT. and Mrs. Henry Thresh- CT, in the north part of the town.
 II. F. McIntire and wife, of Westboro, Mass, are spending week with his fath- CT, F. E. McIntire, at Orcuttvllle. MT. and Mrs. Charles Johnson attended the wedding of their cousin, Miss Addie Walker, in Belchertown, yesterday.
 Miss David, of Putnam, is to open a millinery establishment Sept. 1st, in Til den's block. Carpenters are getting the place ready.
 H. O. Butterfield, H. s. Abel and David Bissett discontinued camp life at Crystal Lake the first of the week, and returned to their homes in the village.
 But few tickets were sold from this sta tion last evening for the special train to Willimantic. It is evident that "A Boy wanted" has not the drawing qualities that some of the attractions have. T. E. Burwell, of Toledo, O., is spend- ing part of his vacation in town. Mr. Burwell and his brother, w. w. Burwell, went to East Granby on a bicycle trip, Tuesday, and paid visit to old Newgate prison and returned yesterday.
 The thunder shower Sunday night did vast amount of damage to the electric light service in town. Many fuses were burned out, and some lines totally dis abled. Supt. Muzzy and his assistants have been busy all the week repairing the damage.
 MI. and Mrs. Amos Nichols, Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Gardner, Mrs. Robbins Pat ten, Mrs. Freeman Patten and Mrs. Walsh are at Willimantic for camp meeting. Many others will go down next week, when Bishop Andrews, of New York, will be there
 c. w. Arnold and Henry McMillen, of McMillen & Co.,, both of Philadelphia, were in town this week looking over Ad- dison Arnold's plant, with view of nov ing it to Philadelphia. They returned last evening, and were accompanied by Addison Arnold.
 Reuben Converse has been trying a number of experiments, and has become satisfied that the old superstition about a snakes tail not dying until sunset, men, tfon of which was made in last weeks Press, is fallacy. The reason that this part of the snake sometimes lives until sunset is because the snake is not thor oughly killed.
 Among those who have been guests at the Springs House for day or two each, recently, are Mir. and Mrs. L. T. Tingler of Rockville, MT. and Mrs. J. H. Ross oi | Willimantic, Judge and Mrs. Ingalls, oi Troy, N. Y, Mir. and Mrs. E. J. Rich mOnd and daughter, Mrs. E. P. Merriam, of Hartford, Mrs. M. McMaster of New port, R. l., and Mrs. E. B. Dennison oi Mobile, Ala. Mir. and Mrs. John R. Stan. ton of Stonington are making more ex- tended stay.
 Next Sunday Cullen B. Foote, pres1, dent of the Connecticut Sunday School Association, and George s. Deming, oi the executive committee, will visit the Sunday schools in Staffordville, Stafford and Stafford Springs, in the interests oi the Sunday school work in the state. h the evening, at o'clock, there will be g union meeting of the Sunday schools and all interested in Sunday school work, al the Congregational church, at which these gentlemen will officlate. | Work at the new shoe shop Is we'll un. der way. The machines have been sci up, and there are about IS hands em. ployed at present. The firm Is making ladies' and misses shoes just now. Wa ter power is used, and there is some diff. culty in regulating the speed to get the best results with the machines. This diff iculty will be overcome in time. Mr. Mccarthy says that he can get his stock from Boston nearly as quickly as when he was in Lynn. He is pleased with the business prospect, and thinks that he will have work for 30 or 40 hands when he l gets strengthened out. John Watterson nephew of MT. Mccarthy, and an ex perienced man, will arrive this week Mir. Watterson and MT. Flint will be able to instruct the local help, so that most O the labor can be hired in town.
 The Monsons played ball with the Lin coin Athletic clubs ball nine, last Satur