The Press., 1911-12-27
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

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 STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Meeting of the L A A. O H , Thursday evening.
 Mir and Mrs. Henry Rnehm spent Ohrsstnas with relatives in Enfield, Mass.
 Michael O'Halloran has been con- fined to his home for a few days with an attack of indigestion.
 Raymond Jones, who started s1uth somes weeks ago. has a.ceI ted a posi- tiou in an engine repair shop in Houston, Texas.
 A party of Christmas carolsrs made a number of visitations Monday eVen- ing and were entertained at several houses. The quality of the music prodnosd by the impromptu organiza- tion was very fine.
 The annual meeting of the Congre- gatioual church will be held Thursday evening. Supper at 6. 30 will be fol- lowed by roll-oall, reports aud busi- ness As complete a roll elll as pos- sible is hoped for.
 The 2sth annual state convention of Select Templars will be held in the local lodge rooms next Monday. The ladies of the Congregational church will serve a turkey dinner for the visitors in the chapel.
 Miss Lulu Claire Daggett and Ar thur b. Brambls are to be united in marriage next Monday, Miss Dsggett is a popular employe of the local pUst office and will finish her duties there Saturday evening.
 Mir. and Mrs Alfred SabouIiu en- tertained over Christmas their daugh tsr, Miss Rose B. Sabo1rin, of Woon- socket, R Emil Ducket of Provi- dsnoe and Miss Alexacira and Rose Ohinier of Central Falls.
 Miss Helen E. Lester, soprano soloist of the Park church quartet of Hartford, who sang so impressiVely here Sunday evening in "The Coming of the King" and Mrs A. E. Waite, .contralto scloist of the Congregational church, will givs & song recital in this borough in the near future. Both soloists are favorably known in church music This oppoI tunity to hear them in a wider range, as a re- cital program permits, will be vel comed by our Stafford musical people
 Arrangements are nearly completed for the annual reunion of the Stafford High School Alumni association, to be held in Memorial hall this even ing, which promises to be the most en- joyable ever held. The reunion will be for membe of the alumni association and their out of town guests only. The judges on the recent song contest have been invited to be present as members of the association. A bus will leave the railroad station prompt ly at o'clock, A hint of what will bs"perpetrated is conveyed by the fol- lowing outline of the program: '93. overture by orchestra; '94. address on the tariff; 'O3. comedy sketch i; 'O5, song and dance act; '06. dance act; 'O7, quartet number ; O9, proph. ecy on a prophecy; TO, musical sketch; '23, vaudeville sketch, "The Little Red Schoolhouse. |"
 The Sunday Record Herald of Chicago, Ill., in telling of veteran travelling men. says Lott Dean of Marshalltown, Iowa, is 82. and has toted the grip 69 years. Mr. Dean was born in Stafford in 1929. Iu 1892 his father moved to Rutland, Mass., and built one of the largest tanneries in the state at that time {; also boot and shoe shop. For many years he sold his goods from a wagon, there being no railroads in those times. When Lott was 1 5 his father intrutted to him the tasks of salesman. ship, and the SOD remained with him until the parent died in 1856. The following year Lott went to Burling- ton, Vt for a large shoe firm and later engaged in business of his own in Bokton Then followed the civil war, and most of the northern firms failed. J D. Sessions of Southbridge, of whom very few may have remem- branoe, employed MT. Dean to go to Toronto, Canada. to take a position As travelling salesman for a firm in that city, and also to act as an infor- nation agent for the United States war department. He worked for the Toronto firm and its successor for thirty years and then went to Iowa. After selling boots and shoes for half a century, gloves and mittens for fifteen years, he is now selling vine gar and pickles for a Marshal1town, Iowa, concern. He says: My long and active life is due to the fact that I never used tobacco or strong drink. " Ills wife died after flfty-six years of married life. A brother, Perrin Dean, 70 years old, lives in Chicago.