The Press., 1899-11-30
Mrs. Freeman Hewlett has gone for {

Vl6iG tO 0OtIOAs Theodore Reynolds of Monson called on friends in town Tuesday. G. A. Moore of Palmer, the optician, has been in town several days this week. The public schools closed Tuesday un- til next Tuesday for the Thanksgiving re- cess. Mrs. c. w. Beckwith is guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Tracy, at Jewett City.
 Harry o. Converse has taken a posi- tion with the electric light company at Rockville.
 The attraction at the opera house Dec. 18th will be A. Q. Scammon's, ''The Sleeping City"
 H. Chapmsn is enlarging the shelf room and making other improvements at his hardware store.
 MT. and Mrs. W. E. Hanley went to Monson Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. John Cantwell..
 The citizens caucus for the nomination | of borough officers will be held at bor- ough hall next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
 Thanksgiving Is to be observed in the usual manner. The mills and banks will close all day, and the stores will close at Il o'clock.
 l Charles Johnson, employed at w. G. Ellis store, has been i'll, but is now more comfortable. Amos Nichols has been taking his place.
 Mrs. w. E. Kimball and four children of Illinois, MT. and Mrs. Elliott Brown and Mrs. Allen of Monson, will spend Thanksgiving with MT. and Mrs. 0. M.
 Brown on Grant avenue.
 Miss Jennie Banford Is employed at A.
 W. Walkers store during the holidays.
 Mrs. M. J. Hassett will take up her du- ties after returning from her wedding trip, and remain with Mir. Walker until after Christmas.
 Tomorrow, Thanksgiving day, there
 will be morning prayer, holy communion and sermon at Grace church at 9.30 8.
 m. The offering will be for the aged and
 infirm clergy fund of the diocese. Holy
 communion, as usual, next Sunday.
 The horseback party last Thursday
 evening proved an enjoyable event. There
 were not many in the parade, but there
 were about 15 who sat down to an excel
 lent chicken-pie supper served by Land
 lord Mccarthy at the Stafford hotel. Contractor Converse is to build new
 brick machine shop for the Warren Wool
 en company, 38x40, one story high. The
 room now used as a machine shop will be
 utilized for new machinery. Contractor
 Jones of Willimantic Is to do the brick
 work.
 The subject of debate this evening at
 the meeting of the young men's social
 and literary circle will be Resolved,
 that license is a benefit to the town
 of Stafford" Houseman and Ellis will
 take the affirmative and D'mmock and
 Brand the negative.
 Station Agent Bumstead's resignation
 will take effect Dec. unless more help
 is allowed, which does not seem proba-
 ble. The position has been rendered to
 Michael Mansfield of Barrett's Junction.
 who has been here this week looking
 things over. E. W. Bumstead, the bag
 gage master, and W. A. Pierce, freight
 agent, also expect to get through Dec. 1.
 The first of the high school entertain
 ments at the opera house, Monday even- ing did not draw the audience the attrac-
 tion deserved. The instrumental music by the Scharwenka trio was of very
 high order, and Mrs. Smith, the reader,
 was very entertaining. Unless the two
 remaining entertainments receive a larger
 attendance the profits to the high school will be very small, if expenses are paid. Among those in town for Thanksgiving are the following Miss Teresa Clark , from Glenville; Miss Margaret Cooley from Bradford academy; Rev.John Clark from Waterbury; MT. and Mrs. I. J. Chace from Providence MT. and Mrs. I. G. Baker from Springfield; Miss Kate Lord from Wellesley; Miss Alice Reed and Miss Blanche Cleaveland from Will. lmantic normal school; Albert Walker from Tufts college.
 Quite number are to spend Thanks giving out of town. MT. and Mrs. Lewis ! Mclaughlin, Mrs. James Mclaughlin and ! Miss Mary Leach go to Holyoke; Walter McKendrick and family at Monson Mrs 5. A. Jacobs at Holliston; Mrs. L. S.
 Cady at Hampden Miss Celia and Mrs Holt at Hampden Miss Sargent at West ! Mice ok To oh,3A l Miss Stupplebean at Chatham, N. Y.; u Miss Dunbar at Wilton, N. H. ! School at Orcuttville, Miss G. May Bradway, teacher, closed Tuesday. Mum ' Der of pupils registered, 30; average at tendance, 27.62. Those perfect in attend y ance, Meddie Canten, Charlie Cooley Clarissa Davis, Agnes bio, Cennie Brick son, Hazel Robbins, Leona Robbins ant Willie Spellman; absent one-half day John Erickson, Mary Gilbert, Mary Han ley, Eliza Laime and Adolph Roberts l. School will resume session Monday. During the eighteen years that A. W 6 Walker has been in business he has hat = fourteen lady clerks in his dry good T store that have been with him one yea u or more. Of these 50 per cent. have mar U ried, and by consulting the list it Is eas, enough to see that the percentage will b 't increased. The list follows Miss Oliv D. O. Doane, Miss Stella Roberts, Nils ls Jeanie Russell, Miss Belle Russell, Nils l. Ellen Remmert, Miss Emily Adams, Mis- Grace Wescott, Miss Cora Lyman, Mis- y Lottie Ruby, Miss Bertha Haskell, Mis- It Nellie M. Warren, Miss Carrie Remmert ls Miss Mabel Buck, Miss Lilla Day. 'o Stafford.
 r. Mrs. B. J. Roberts is spending Thanks le giving week with relatives at Lawrence le Mass.