The Press., 1897-08-19

this season.
 Regular meeting of U. O. c. 0. next 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. k. c. 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 a few weeks in Unlonville.
 Miss Nellie Warren has returned from a vacation at Providence and vicinity.
 Miss Florence Nelson, of Monson, ie the guest of Mir. and Mrs. O. M. Brown.
 James Warren, of Abers clothing store is taking q vacation at Providence and other places.
 A party of young people, chaperoned by Mir. and Mrs. E. A. Cleaveland, en- ioyed picnic at Crystal Lake, Wednes. day.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Bumstead returned Monday, after a ten days vacation al Block Island.
 Miss Lizzie Farnsworth has gone to Willlmnntic to work in McFarlane's con- f"ctionrry store.
 Rev. Thomas O'Keefe, of Monson, and party of friends were in town on a car ringe drive yesterday.
 Dr. Thresher and wife, of Utica, N. Y., arc guests of MT. and Mrs. Henry Thresh- or, In the north part of the town.
 II. F. McIntlre and wife, of Weetboro, Mass. arc spending a week with his fath- or, F. k. McIntire, at Orcuttville.
 Mir. 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 I'll don's block. Carpenters are getting the place ready.
 II. O. Butterfiold, H. s. Abel and David Blssett discontinued camp life at Crystal Lake tho first of the week, and returned to their homes in the village.
 But few tickets wore sold from this sta ton last evening for the special train tC Willimantic. It Is evident that "A Boy wanted" has not the drawing qualities that some of the attractions have.
 T. k. Burwell, of Toledo, O., is spend. ing part of his vacation in town. Mir 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 a 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 boon 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 arc at Willlmantic 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, ot McMillen & Co, both of Philadelphia were In town this week looking over Ad. dison Arnold's plant, with q view of nov ing 1t to Philadelphia. They returned last evening, and were accompanied by Addison Arnold.
 Reuben Converse has been trying ( number of experiments, and has become satisfied that the old superstition about { snakes tail not dying until sunset, men tion of which was made in last week'i Press, Is a fallacy. The reason that thii part of the snake sometimes lives unti sunset Is because tho snake Is not thor oughly killed.
 Among those who have been guests a the Springs House for day or two each recently, are Mir. and Mrs. L. T. TlngIe of Rockville, Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Ross O Willlmantlc, Judge and Mrs. Ingalls, O Troy, N. Y., MT. and Mrs. E. J. Rich mond and daughter, Mrs. E. P. Merriam of Hartford, Mrs. NJ. McMaster of New port, k. l., and Mrs. k. B. Dennison O Mobile, Ala. Mir. and Mrs. John R. Stan ton of Stonlngton are making a more ex tended stay.
 Next Sunday Cullen B. Foote, presi dent of the Connecticut Sunday Schoo Association, and George S. Deming, o the executive committee, will visit th Sunday schools in Staffor dville, Staffort and Stafford Springs, in the interests O the Sunday school work in tho state. Il the evening, at 2 o'clock, there will be union meeting of the Sunday schools an, all interested in Sunday school work, a the Congregational church, at which thes gentlemen will ofIloiate.
 Work at the new shoe shop is well un der way. The machines have been se up, and there are about IS hands em ployed at present. The firm Is makin ladies' and misses' shoes just now. Wa ter power Is used, and there Is some dIm eulty in regulating the speed to get tn best results with the machines. This diff hculty will be overcome in time. MT Mccarthy says that he can got his stool from Boston nearly as quickly as whel he was in Lynn. He is pleased with tn business prospect, and thinks that he will have work for 30 or 40 hands when h gets strengthened out. John Watterson a nephew of MT. Mccarthy, and an ex perlenced man, will arrive this week MT. Watterson and Mir. Flint will be abl to instruct the local help, 80 that most c the labor can be hired in town.
 The Monsons played ball with the Llr coin Athletic clubs ball nine, last Satul day, on the agricultural park. The SCOT was tied nt I7 to IT at the close of tn