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in. ___STAFFORD. The Citizen’s Cornet Band’s entertainment is this week announced in detail in our advertising columns. The play, •'Spy of Atlanta,” is a grand military allegory in six acts, and requiring some sixty actors in its presentation. The band is aided by its many friends in making the rendering a success, as a glance at the cast will show. The synopsis gives an idea of the make up of the play.—While there is sleighing, why not give our own hotel a benefit ? Its a dull season for the hotel business ; we are all interested in the maintenance of a good hotel, and past experiments have proved that there is enjoyment in a sleigh ride, ending with a supper and dance, with no long ride home at the end of it.—Wm. Ingram, well known to Stafford people, a frequent summer guest at the Springs House, and whose wife is daughter of the late Hon. Rufus Finney, died at his home at Troy, N. Y., Jan. 17th, aged 77 years.—Citizens’ Band’s benefit at Central Hall Monday and Tuesday evenings, Feb. 5th and 6th.—Flora, for over thirty years the faithful colored servant in L. W. Crane’s family, died on Saturday. In early life Flora was a slave in New Jersey, and came to Mr. Crane’s service when fifty years’of age. There was a strong attachment between herself and the family in which she lived. Faithful and industrious, Flora was worthy of the good home she found in her old age. On© of her last conscious remarks was to inquire if certain [household duties pertaining to Saturday morning had been attended to,(and she felt satisfaction to know that all was*being done right. The old lady will be ^missed and eiaeerely mourned by all who knew her,
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Stafford Springs Tolland County Press
Stafford Springs, Connecticut, US
Thu, Jan 25, 1883
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