The Press., 1898-09-08

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 E. c. Dennis and J. D. Fenton have been doing juror duty at Holland this week. Mrs. Herbert Parker and daughter, Bertha, have returned from Bridgeton, Maine.
 Miss Grace K. Harwood will enter Ab- bolt Seminary, Andover, Mass, this month.
 MT. and Mrs. Nathan Walker of East Boston, Mass, are the guests of A. W. Walker. ... .- ..... ..f
 Miss Julia Chapman entertained party of her young friends Monday, 1t being her 9th birthday.
 Miss Georgie Beckwith is a guest of her sister, Mrs. T. c. Tiffany, at Mechan- icsville, N. r.
 Miss Bertha Heald is to act as librarian in place of Miss Bessie Underwood, who is to leave town.
 Mrs. F. A. Bagnall and two children of St. Albans, Vt, are visiting her mother, Mrs. K. K. Taft.
 FIX. spauldinR, who is quite i'll, pass
  little better to-day.
 Mrs. Mary Ladd of Yantic and Mrs. Eliza Prentice of Hartford are guests of Mrs. Andre Cummings.
 MT. and Mrs. James H. Fisk of Wood stock Valley were guests of E. Y. Fisk on Stafford Street yesterday.
 A golf team from Rockville will play a match game with a local team on the Country clubs grounds Saturday.
 The Mccarthy shoe machinery was purchased by Bronahan & Co. of Lynn and has been shipped to that city. K. c. Dennis and c. B. Gary of the Stafford Springs Agricultural society are attending the Rhode Island state fair.
 The boat train was again very late last evening. It arrived at 10.30 p. m. The delay was caused by the Saratoga excur- sion train, which had the right of way.
 Otis Chapman has found pug dog. and he says the owner can have him. whether he is able to prove property or not.
 Frank Fuller was before the borough court Tuesday, charged with drunken ness. He was sentenced to Holland for 30 days and costs.
 The large stones back of the school house have been removed and the yard leveled up. As 1t Is now it makes very desirable playground.
 John English has passed the examine ton of the Massachusetts state board. and Is now eligible to practice medicine anywhere in the state.
 Arthur Johnson Is spending a vacation at Mrs. Johnson's home in Whitney, Vt. Mrs. Johnson, who isfwith him, will re- main for a while after he returns.
 F. L. Clisby of Parker. Dak., has ioin- ed his wife and children here, and after a few days the family will go to Martha's Vineyard to continue their vacation.
 k. A. Rice of Philadelphia has been engaged as superintendent of the Warren woolen company. James Norton will act as assistant superintendent and boss weaver.
 Miss Helen Underwood Is to go to Longmeadow to reside with her uncle. Misses Maud and Bessie will make their home in Worcester with their aunt, Mrs. lE. P. Robbins.
 Rev. R. 0. Gragan of St. Edwards church lost a satchel at South Wilmington Tuesday evening. A man who got of the Block Island train at that station took the satchel by mistake, or otherwise. The satchel has since been heard from, and will probably be recovered.
 J. F. Chamberlln was knocked down by bicycle at Watch Hill, on a cross street, last Saturday. The force of the blow and fall dazed him, and 1t was at first feared that he was badly hurt. He wa taken to his hotel in a carriage, but soon rallied.
 He sustained few bruises, but nothing of a serious nature.
 Work on the new penstock and wheel for the Warren Woolen company Is near. ly completed. The job has proved quite
 extensive and has been thoroughly done The W. N. Flynt Granite Co. of Monsor
 has furnished quantity of cut stone fol
 the retaining walls, and one of their en ' blocks of granite.l
 Some of the unemployed, who make , their headquarters in the sheds and barns
 in the vicinity of Demond's lumber yard :, have formed the unpleasant habit O
 milking W. D. Irons COW before he get . chance. It has happened several times and MT. Irons says that he shall discour age the practice. He also says he hai
 not fully decided whether buck shot o the law will be best for the case. il Robert Hsmpston was before the cour O this morning charged with drunkenness "a breach of the peace, resisting an officer l. and ungentlemanly conduct. Judge Park l. ess sentenced him to eight months in jai A and costs. A tramp, who was incarcera !. ted last evening for drunkenness, wa B. given fifteen minutes to get out of town ], At the rate he started 1t was thought tha I. he would cross the town boundary line o .5 time.
 a The shower yesterday afternoon was ,t lively one and much rain fell. Quite !. lot of Edgewood was washed down t Furnace avenue and Main street. Tn If walk for some distance along by the Cor ,e gregational church was also we'll covere r. with mud that washed down. Lightnin ,t shattered an immense pine tree on To
 land avenue, struck an electric light pol c. on East Main street, and burned out tn H. fuses in many places. A Frank Butler of Danbury Is stopping 6 ,e the Springs House. Mir. Butler is takin n. Ia few weeks'rest by order of his phys ut clan, owing to an exciting struggle he ha with burglar in his house before con .o ling here. Mir. Butler found the man rs the lower part of his house and sncceede nd in taking a knife from him, but W, a- struck on the head with some weapc