The Press., 1897-04-15

Large assortment OI Ou0ul1I6 anu Lace Curtains, and fixtures for same, at A. W. Walkers.
 Beginning Thursday, April Sth, and continuing for 30 days, 1 will give dis count of from 10 to 20 per cent. on all harness sold for cash. J G. Martin, Staff ford Springs.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Trailing arbutus has made it's appear anee
 Regular meeting of A. o. U. W. this evening.
 Levi Gary has new pair of ehestnuts that appear we'll.
 Joseph Clark has taken the agency for the White bicycles.
 E. L.. Burr has returned from a busi- ness trip to New York.
 Miss Jennie Orcutt, of Mount Clair, N. J.. is visiting frienda in town.
 Louis Boarassa aud family leave this week for Britannia Mills, P. Q.
 Regular session of Wauseons Lodge, |. O. o. F., next Tuesday evening.
 Clarence Banford has taken a position in Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. BIE Captain Henry Hurley, of Utica, was guest at the Stafford House Monday.
 J. P. Hanley, of Charlottesville, Ind, called on relatives in town last Friday. Ms. A. N Nichols is at Livingston, N J., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Gard her.
 Arthur Bourie, who is employed at Simsbury, was in town the first of the week.
 o. M Brown and Miss Kate Horrigan have added electric lights to the equip ment of their stores.
 Gary Bros have started the sprinkling cart. It has been newly painted, and presents very gay appearance.
 J. F. Fahey, veterinary surgeon and dentist, graduate of McGill University Montreal, has located in the borough.
 There will be an auction sale of seven and other articles, at Blair's stable, Sat- urday.
 Y. P. $. c. E. topic at the Congrega- tional church next Sunday evening: "Dif- ferent kinds of death and the conquest of them" Leader, Miss Lettie Meyers.
 M. A. Mccarthy will sell his lot and three-tenement building and a lot of household furniture at public auction Saturday, at 10 a. m.
 E. Y. Fisk, of the Street, has had G. E.. Burke move his old barn to the rear of the new barn recently built by MT. Burke, and has graded and greatly improved the appearance of the surroundings.
 Stafford Division A. 0. H. will give a concert and dance at St. Edwards hall next Monday. evening. Music by Lynch's orchestra B. J. Mullins, prompter. Tickets 50 cents. Concert at s. Dancing from 8.30 to 12.
 The special train to Willimantic Mon- day evening was we'll patronized. There were 32 tickets sold at the station. Not many attended from Palmer or Monson, but there was a good representation oi the towns between here and Willimantic. The opera house was we'll filled, and the entertainment was quite ludicrous and enjoyable.
 The new plate-glass windows have been put in at the pOst-Office in the opera house block this week. The work of the those who never saw large panes of plate glass cut. He sliced it to the required measurements with dispatch, and had nc breakage. The office will in all probabil ity be occupied by the last of the week. A man named Myron Pike has started a Sunday newspaper route in town. F B. Fitzpatrick recently bought out w. s Murphy of Monson, who brought tht Sunday papers to this town, and consoli dated the business. The new man adver tises to furnish the leading Springfield Boston and New York Sunday papers, as we'll as the popular ten cent magazines.
 Manager Gray of the opera house Willimantic, is to run another specia train next week Thursday evening. Int attraction will be Hanlon Brothers new "Superba." This is a spectacular enter tainment and the company carries two sixty foot baggage cars full of paraphe
  Gray will run this season. Tickets art now on sale at the R. R. station.
 The Current Events Club recently or ganized in this place gives great promis, for the future. The topics at the las meetings were very interesting as we'll a! instructive. Subjects: Architecture, Ra phael, Carlyle, Burns, Scott, and the all absorbing topic of Greece and Crete wa discussed. For the next meeting ther will be papers OH Hawthorne and Emerson also on Athens. It is hoped anothe autumn may find all the members of thi club ready for an earnest and extended study. HI
 The report of the local Methods church to the New England Southerl Conference has been made up. The fol lowing are some of the figures in com parison with former years:
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