The Press., 1905-11-08
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
rTtems of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.l
November n. 1875.

The contested boundary case be- tween the Granite Mill Go. and the Foster heirs, referred to Judge Waldo, has been decided, and the decision is, in the main, in favor of the Fosters, who get all the disputed portion lying on Main street.
 At the annual meeting of the Tor rent Engine Co.,, held on Monday evening, officers for the year were elected as follows: Foreman, Cyrus Banford; assistants, Anthony Adams, W. NJ. Crawford; treasurer, Alvarado Howard; secretaries, Alvarado How ard, L. K. Lord; stewards, J. Galli- van, A. Adams; executive committee, W. D. Heald, Wm. M. Crawford, &. W. Page W. H. Cooley, o. J. Holmes.
 The regular Monday night fire alarm came this week few minutes before midnight. The house of Mi chael Harrington on the Ellington road, in the west part of the village, caught fire about the chimney from some cause, and broke out at the time named. The alarm given was so fec ble and intermittent that people awakened doubted if there was fire, and if so whether it was not subju- gated, but the engine company reach ed the spot in good time and soon uuenched the flames, which now held the roof and attic floor. Probably $1OO to $200 covers all damages, and the Middlesex of Middletowp is obli- gated to make good the loss.
 At the town meeting on Monday Lucius Blodgett was chosen selectmap in the vacancy caused by the death of M. Leonard. The town voted to lay tax of } per cent, to instruct the selectmen to make the best possible terms for the collection of taxes, and have the town debt bonded, in ac= cordance with resolution offered by Alvarado Howard. There was con- siderable struggle oyer this last vote, the proceedings being diSgracef4l and tumpltRoRs even for Stafford town meeting. Tte moderator, ex-GoYernpr Hyde, had dificAit task to cRrb the "bosses'' who have been accustomed to marshal the voters, and his call of officers to aid hiM were pphappily not needed, though perhaps fer the credit of the town it is as we'll that the need of "armed inteFvention'' is Rot to be published abroad by court testimony. We will say that the moderator bore himself admirably in hts difficult po' sition, as all arer aedy to testify. The minor officers were filled as follows Pound keepers, John Y. Adams, An drweC Rmmings, Robert Maddams sealer of weights and measures, Lewis Putney; sealeF of leather, E. O. Den his: public weighers. E. 0. Pinney, Julius Pinney. W. ". RHrwell, Cyrus Edson; wood messuseFs, Lewis Put ney, W. D. Heald, E. 0. fFaesdell, c, H. Grant, A. s. Eaton; sextons, J. M. ChaHee, J. Y. Adams, Lucius Blodgett, Horace Kinney ,Juds0p Rood. Martin ". Chase, 4emQel Dunlap, Sanford West, T. H. Hayden, Thomas Warren; fence viewers, Lemuel Dun lap, solva Converse, Daniel Rock we'll, Dexter Colburn, Wm. J. Thresh- CT; haywards, Daniel Hatch, W. D. Heald, Lempel Dunlap, Edwin Davis, Wm. Russell, B. W. Andrews; audi tors, Clark H. Grant, W. D. Heald, Rufus Weston.
 Born. In Stafford Springs, 5th, a daughter to Nelson T. Smith.
 In West Stafford, 4th, 6 daughter to Erskine Holmes.
 Married..-In Stafford, 10th, by Rev. F. l.. Batchelder, Dr. F. L.. Smith of Wales and Alice J. Risley of Stafford.