The Press., 1897-12-02

| Owing to the unfav0raOle weather the
 reading by Adirondack Murray was post
 poned one week, and he will appear here
 next Monday evening. This is positively
 the last time that the people of Stafford
 will have an opportunity to hear MT. Murray. This Is the event of the season of the kind, and MT. Murray will probably have a rousing house. MT. Murray will read "How John Norton, The Trapper, Spent His Christmas" The Springfield Republican says of its recent reading in that city:
 The charm of that production Is im- mortal in its simplicity and beauty, and the opportunity to hear 1t Is not to be missed without loss. It does not need that much should be said concerning MT. | Murray's extraordinary fascination as a | reader 1t has been proved so thoroughly
 by his recent appearances here after a long absence from public view. It fairly
 seems as If the old lyceum days were not
 ended, but might be as full of life and in- terest as ever if as interesting personali-
 ties should present themselves as when
 Beecher, Phillips, Cough, Curtis and | Murray himself were the stars of lyceum
 courses. The future of the lyceum de-
 pends upon personality, and always did,
 and Murray possesses the requisite.
 Those who have heard him in the last
 few months have found the same charm
 which attracted them to his preaching and to his featuring a good many years
 ago. He has ripeened and strengthened
 without losing those singular qualities
 which made him so prominent. The pru'
 dent man will hear Murray while he car and be always glad afterwards.
 Il stafford.
 Regular meeting of Stafford Grange
 next Tuesday evening.
 Regular communication of Wolcott
 F. & A. M. this Thursday evening. Mrs. V. V. Fowler of Mansfield was c guest at Arthur Adams Thanksgiving
 day.
 David Putney and wife of Springfield
 were guests of the Misses Mary and Agnes
 Putney over Sunday.
 This is only the beginning of the fox
 hunting season, yet Emory Sands alread! has five to his credit.
 Rev. Florence Kollock Cooper was iE the village Tuesday in the interests O
 The Every Day (Universalist) Church. The meeting of the Y. P. s. o. E. thii evening will be conducted as missionar. l meeting. Mrs. Thomas Black, leader
 All are cordially invited.
 The wild deer are still in the neiGhbor hood, Fred Dlmock having seen one onl. a short distance from Jarvis Hyde's, ol the Steep Gutter road, few days ago. Unclaimed letters in Stafford post office Miss Katrine Anderson, Miss Victora Pc gram, Mrs. George w. Pepper, Mrs. Der tha Smith, Mir. Harry Palmer, Mir.
 Merrill, Rev. MT. Genung, Heirs of 0. D 3 Owen.
 , It is reported that directly after Christ mas the Beebe store will be opened by } MT. Hall from Wales as a meat, fish an' a oyster market, and also that MT. Hall
 family will occupy the tenement in Gil t bert Chaffee's house recently vacated b. - MT. Mcdonald.
 "A Day in The Woods," a cantata fo | young folks, which the children of tn Universalist Sunday school have bee l. faithfully rehearsing for the past tw l. months, will be presented to the publi at the town hall on Wednesday evening d December 8th. No pains have bee n spared to make 1t the entertainment 1 e this community for the winter. Abou A forty children will take part in the songs @ choIuses, marches, etc. The cantat
 represents days pleasure in the wood If with grandma. There are sports, marcf ,r ing and movem. mt songs; talks and song uel about birds and stars; butterflies com h out and dance before them; they find e little Gipsy girl, who sings for them ( ' course a shower comes up, as it doe
 at all pienics, which Is represente n in a chorus 8 slumber song puts the H ? tie ones to sleep; boys show that the tt can sing as well as girls; the whole enc ? ing with good night song. The must se of the songs and choruses is bright an t pleasing, and the children sing them wel
 During the intermission between the aci h Ice cream will be served. Doors open ( 1t 716. Entertainment begins at 8. AC
 mission % cents; children under 12, 15'