The Press., 1902-11-27
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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 Henry GilmartIn is spending two weeks In Woonsocket and vicinity.
 Mrs. Chas. Holt an,i Miss Celia are vls iting Mrs. Moses Warren 1T, Hamplen.
 Business places will close at Il o'clock Thursday. Ths banks will clt,se all day.
 There will be chick sn-shoot at ten o'cloc k Thursday morning at the Crystal Lake hotel. 8#884
 Treasurer Abel has issued checks il payment of premiums granted at the ssf agricultural fair.
 Subscribers in arrears will find notice at the head of the second column Of the second page of interest io them.
 MT. and Mrs. John Girard hav. been In Willimantic part of the week to attend the wedding of relative.
 F. A. Bagnall and family of Adams, Mass., are with Mrs. E. K. Taft for the annual Thanksgiving reunion.
 Miss Florence Washburn has gone to Chatham, N. Y., with Mss Stupplebeen to spend the Thanksgiving vacation.
 There will be prayer service al the Methodist church from 10.3O to 11.3C Thursday forenoon, and the usual Thurs. day evening meeting will be omitted.
 Wm.F. Wentworth of Boston will give an entertainment of readings and imper. sonations at the M. E. church, December 10th, under the. auspices of the Epworth League.
 The coal dealers have dropped the price of coal to $8 per ton. A car of pea coal has been received at this station and some of the larger sizes are expected in 6 few days.
 There will be 8 prayer service oi Thanksgiving at the Congregational church Thursday morning, at g 30. The usual prayer meeting will be omitted in the evening.
 Mrs. Michael Mccarthy was called to Worcester last Friday, by the serious i'll ness of her brother, Cornelious Sullivan. MT. Sullivan Is well known here, having spent several weeks In town each summer for the past two years.
 It has been decided to. postpone the placing of the Gold street sewer until next spring. There Is no pipe in town suitable for the job, and 1t Is liable to take moro time to get it here than the lateness of the season will warrant.
 Mayor Charles l.. Dean of Maiden was nominated for the fifth consecutive term at the republican caucuses held in that city last week Thursday evening. There was large vote cast in each ward, but there was no opposition.
 Amos Gagnon has placed an order with Meriden concern for half-dozen tele- phone instruments, suitable for showing his invention. The test will be made in New Haven, and there is a possibility that the invention will be sold to the Mer- iden Telephone company.
 The assessments on Maple, Cross and School street sewers are as follows AL varado Howard, SIS; Nettie M Whiton, ct al., $35; J. F. Chamberlin, $75; E. c. Dennis, $6O; Beckwith Card Co.,, $15; F. J. Chandler, $14 IS; Maria E. Taylor, $7.50. Whole cost of the sewer, $249 58; borough allowance, 10 per cent. SPA 95 amount asseesed property owners, ,$224 63
 There will be special Thanksgiving service at Grace church on Thanksgiving day. There will be special preaching ser. vices each Sunday during Advent. Next Sunday the subject will be, Sowing and Reaping;" the following Sunday, Do mestic Religion ;'' and the third Sunday "Social Religion" Next Sunday after. noon there will be special service al 3. 30 for children with an address. .
 There will be special town meeting at the town hall Friday afternoon at o'clock relative to granting the Stafford Springs electric railway right of way A borough meeting for the same purpose will be held at 7 30 o'clock the same even ling. The general feeling seems favorable to granting the railway people what they want in the way of locations, and the meetings will probably pass off smoothly
 In reply to inquiries we, have pleasure in announcing that Ely's Liquid Cream Balm Is like the solid preparation of that admirable remedy In that 1t cleanses and heals membranes effected by nasal ca tarrh. There Is no drying or sneezing. The Liquid Cream Balm Is adapted to use by patients who have trouble in inhaline through the nose and prefer spraying The price, including spraying tube, is 7s cents. Sold by druggists, or mailed by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., New York