The Press., 1897-05-20

been the guest of her niece, Mrs. Hiram Cady, for several days this week.
 The regular meeting of the Mission Band will be held in the chapel of the Baptist church next Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
 with their May basket party last Friday evening, and as result were able to add about eighteen dollars to their treasury.
 Grant Hanna, of Staffordville, employ ed in the Riverside mill, has rented the lower house on the macadam road of Abner Needham and takes possession this week.
 Talk about going to Holland fishing for pickerel when eleven years-old boy, with a common hook and line, can catch good string right here in the mill pond. That Is just what George Colburn did yesterday afternoon.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Mcdonald left yesterday for Hartford, where Mrs. Me Donald will enter the hospital for treat ment. MT. Mcdonald expects to return the last of the week, but Mrs. Mcdonald will be away for some little time.
 Wightman's carriage shop is undergo ing quite extensive repairs this week. It has been raised out of the earth, where it has been gradually settling for the last hundred years or more, new sills and timbers added, and 8 large addition to the blacksmith shop is to be built.
 A young lad, son of Michael Swift, of Hydeville, had very narrow escape from a serious injury, and perhaps death, Tues day. Bidwell < Co.'S meat cart, in charge of MT. Webster, was in front of the school building just as Miss Rathbun dismissed her scholars for the noon hour. The boy rushed out to secure a ride and attempted to climb on to the rear end of the cart, but in some way managed to get caught 1 in one of the wheels, and with every rev olution the wheel made he went around with it. This continued for some few rods until when in front of MT. Sullivan's house he attracted the attention of some member of the family by his screams, who came out and the boy was released, apparently none the worse for his perilous ride. MT. Webster did not notice the boys screams thinking the noise was made by the other children. A practice has been in vogue here for some time, which has grown into such large proportions that it has become an ' oA1lO o1 No H1N hn crowding of both doorways of H. F. Cady's store each evening by crowd of men, who do it unthinkingly, and proba- bly, have not the least idea that their presence there is very unpleasant to the lady patrons, who would like the privilege of going into the store through a door way unobstructed. Then again the con- versation carried on there is, to say the Quite number of complaints have al- ready been made to MT. Cady about it, and trouble is in store for him should the post office authorities at Washington learn of the matter. Neither MT. Cady nor anyone else thinks that 1t is done ma liciously, but simply unthinkingly, and that they will be glad to discontinue the practice which is so unpleasant to the lady patrons of the store.
 stafTOrdviIIe.
 OdelI has the inside of his store all com- pleted and will have in full line of dry andsfancy goods in few days.
 Painters are very busy around Stafford vile just now. Peel & Mccarthy are having their house painted, also the mill and tenement houses. Odell's Store and William Tobin's house will also be painted soon.
 The entertainment which was to have been given at the M. E. vestry last Thurs day evening, was postponed on account of of weather until Friday evening, when it was given to crowded house. The society realized handsome sum, con- sidering the small price of admission.
 c. A. Duncan will soon open his barber shop in Odell's building. He will have a fine room when it is is completed.
 West Stafford.
 Edwin Barrett, of Wilmington, and Arthur Keith, of Stafford Street, were guests of Ernest Smith last Sunday.
 Miss Alice Beard Hitchcock, from Chi cago, has come to stay the summer months with her grandfather, Charles Hitchcock.
 Mrs. George Ellithorpe was in Monson early in the week to see Miss Minnie Ellithorpe, who has been very sick.
 Mrs. George Aver came from Hartford Monday for few days visit at her mothers home.
 Mrs. Augusta Eaton and daughter have been staying several days with her brother.
 Mabel Truesdell has closed a fourteen weeks term of school in Monson, and is home for the summer.
 Fred Bradway was guest of his brother over the Sabbath.
 Mrs. Holmes visited our former pastor, Rev. Charles L. Aver and family in Beth lehem, last week, and brought greetings to his former parishioners. ASHFORD.
 Robert Knowlton, one of the largest