The Press., 1906-11-14
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W. R. O. meeting next Wednesday afternoon.
 A telephone-No. 70-has been placed in the freight depot.
 George H. Gunnison has taken the agency for the New York Mutual Life insurance company.
 The Papp auction of personal prop erty at the Keene farm on Village Hill will be held Saturday at 10 a. m.
 The ladies of the Congregational church will meet at the chapel to- morrow afternoon at o'clock to pack a missionary box.
 Miss Gertrude Foster and Miss Mer- riam, who have been spending some time at Stafford Street. are preparing to return to New York.
 Miss Lanz of Norwich. who is to have dancing classes here this winter, will meet this evening at o'clock, at Society hall, all who wish to join her classes.
 The monthly union service will be held next Sunday at p. m. in the Congregational church. Rev. Thom- as lyric of the Methodist church will deliver the sermon.
 J. M. Leach and A. J. Squires re- turned Tuesday from a hunting trip to Mashapaug. The weather was SO unfavorable that they could not hunt
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 The next supper and social at the Methodist church will be held Tues day evening, Dec. f. The Young Peoples Auxiliary will have sale of dressed dolls at this social. There will also be a table of five and ten cent fancy articles and homemade candy.
 Seven cases of fingerlings were re- ceived from the state hatchery yester- day by F. E. Fitzpatrick. Aecompa- nied by David Robertson, Mir. Fitz- patrick went out as soon as the trout were received to release them. Most of the fngerlings were placed in Roar ing Brook.
 There was an error in the totals for the vote for senator in this district as given last week. The total vote by the latest figures is given as 2354 for Maryo Keeney and 17S5 for E. M. Yeomans, making Keeney's plu- raIity 569. Senator F. H. Bakers plurality in 1904 was 1893.
 The fiIst number of the Oracle is issued this week and is an attractive edition. The cover design, as we'll as several drawings for interior head inRs, the work of Malcolm Beckwith, add much to the appearance of the Oracle. The delay in it's appearance was caused by waiting for an especial cover paper ordered for the book, which was lost in transit and did not arrive in time for the first number.
 The board of trade of Springfield is working to get B miles of trolley road from Crystal Lake to Somers- This would give direct trolley com munication with Springfield as soon as the new road is opened up. F. F. Patten and E.. O. Pinney met the transportation committee of the board of trade few days ago, and assured them that the move would be popular locally. A report will be made to the board of trade by the transporta- tion committee the first Tuesday in December.
 Rev. Amos N. Nichols, 70, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Gardner, at West Haven Monday afternoon. MT. Nichols was prom inent and respected citizen of this town for most of the active years of his life. He leaves two brothers and two sisters-John Nichols and Mrs. J. O. Cleayeland of Stafford Springs, Vasco Nichols of Northwest Territory and Mrs. J. N. Dilworth of Worces- ter. The deceased was born at Brim- field, was a son of Abner and Maria Nichols and moved to Stafford in 1858. He was a stone mason by trade, but is best known here as business man and public official. He was in the grocery business for him. self in the Harwood block, and had worked in many of the stores in town. He had served the town as selectman, had been collector for both the town and the borough, was for several years borough health officer and had served the borough two years as WAT den. He was a prominent member of Winter post and had acted as com- mander. MT. Nichols enlisted in Go. I, 16th Conn. Vols. August II, 1862, for three years. He participated in the battle of Antietam, Sept. IT. 1862, and in the battle of Fredericks- burg, Dec. 18th, of the same year. He was in the action at Edenton road April 24th, and at the battle of the NAnsemond May 3d. He was in the advance from Yorktown up the penin- sula, conducted by Gen. Dix. Next his regiment encsmped at Portsmouth, Va, and on Jan. 21, 1864, went to Plymouth, N. O., and later to New bern. Returning to Plymouth he was engaged in the defense of the city for several days, when he was captured with his regiment by the enemy. He was sent to Andersonville prison, re- maining from May 4th to Sept. 9th. He was then confined on the fair ground at Charlestown and later sent to Florence, S. o., until Dec. 11th. He experienced the sufferings of a prisoner of war for eight long months. He was honorably mustered out at the close of the war, June 24, 1865. The deceased was an active member of the Methodist church and held the position of steward. About 24 years ago he was sent by the Methodist ..-.u.Rn.n...e, kn Ankn nhnrra of kho