The Press., 1897-04-15

 A. W. Walkers.
 Beginning Thursday, April sth, and continuing for 30 days, will give dis count of from 10 to 20 per cent. on all harness sold for cash. e. Martin, Staf- ford Springs.
 STAFFORD STRINGS.
 Trailing arbutus has made it's appear anoe.
 Regular meeting of A. o. U. W. this evening. s. Levi Gary has new pair of chestnuts that appear we'll.
 Joseph Clark has taken the agency for the White bicycles.
 E. l.. Burr has returned from n bust ness trip to New York.
 Miss Jeunie orcutt, of Mount Clair, N. J.. ia vislting frienda In town. .l I.ouls RoeEassa aad tanIiy leave this week for Britannia Mills, P. 0.
 Regular session of wausson Lodge, I. Q. O. F., next Tuesday evening.
 Clarence Banford has taken position fin Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. BrE Captain Henry Hurley, of Utica, was a guest at the Stafford House Monday.
 ]. P. Hanley, of Charlottesville, Ind, called on relatives in town last Friday. Mrs. A. N. Nichols is at Livingston, N. J., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Gard ner.
 Arthur BourIe, who is employed at sImsbury, was in town the first of the week.
 0. M. Brown and Miss Kate Horrlgan have added electric lights to the equip mont Of their stores.
 Gary Bros. have started the sprlnkling cart. It has been newly painted, and presents very gay appearance.
 J. F. Fahey, veterinary surgeon and dentist, q graduate of McGnl University, Montreal, has located In the borough.
 There will be an auction sale of seven or eight horses. several carriages, a hack, 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 Lettle Meyers.
 M. A. Mccarthy will sell his lot and three-tenement building and lot of household furniture at public auction Saturday, at 10 a. m.
 k. Y. Fisk, of the Street has had c. k. Burke move hs old barn to the rear of the new barn recently built by Mir. Burke, and has graded and greatly improved the appearance of the surroundings.
 N.e rA A n vufu ufxy concert and dance at St. Edwards hall next Monday evening. Music by Lynch's orchestra, R. l.. Mullins, prompter. Tickets 90 cents. Concert at s. Dancing from S.30 to 12.
 The special train to Willlmantlc Mon- were 32 tickets sold at the station. Not many attended from Palmer or Monson but there was n good representation oi the towns between here and Willlmantic The opera house was we'll filled, and the entertainment was quite ludlcrous anC enjoyable.
 The new plate-glass windows have been put in at the post-oiIice in the opera house block this week. The work of thu man who put them in was of interest tt those who never saw large panes of plat glass cut. He sliced it to ths required measurements with dispatch, and had nt breakage. The office will In all probabil ity be occupied by the last of the week.
 A man named MyTon Pike has started Sunday newspaper route In town. F F. Fitzpatrick recently bought out W. s Murphy of Monson, who brought tn Sunday papers to this town, and consoli dated the business. The new man adver tlses to furnish the leading Springfield Boston and New York Sunday papers, a well as the popular ten cent magazines.
 Manager Gray Of the opera house Wllllmantic, Is to run another specia train next week Thursday evening. Tn attraction will be Hanlon Brothers nev SuperbN." This Is a spectacular enter tainment and the company carries tw sixty foot baggage cars full of paraphe nalia, This Is tho last train Manage Gray will run this season. Tickets ar now on sale at the R. k. station.
 The Current Events Club recently or ghnized 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, Rs phael, Carlyle, Burns, Scott, and the all absorbing topic of Greece and Crete wa discussed For the next meeting ther will be papers on Hawthorne and Emerson also on Athens. It Is hoped anothe autumn may find all the members of thI club ready for an earnest and extende study. q"
 The report of the local Methods church to the New England Souther Conference has been made up. The fo lowing are some of the figures In con parlsOn with former years:
 MEMBERsHIP. BenevOleI
 ProbatiOners. Full Members. Collection 1894, 20 247 S45I ls06, 30 25S 7Y3