The Press., 1888-06-07

and Myron Wright were taken sick witt the measles the night that school closed.
 The measles seem bound to stay unti every child has had them. Willie Dun bar, Nathan Ward, and others are sicE with them now, as also is Myra l.. Col burn, living north of this place.
 sTAFFoRDv1LLE.
 James Swift is the owner of chicken in its second week of existence which has three distinct and well formed legs.
 Ladies aid society will meet with Mrs. Phillips, Wednesday p. m., June 13.
 Correspondence.
 -Potatoe are scarce, scarcer, scarcest.
 -Children's dty will be celebrated by a concert at the Methodist church Sund y evening.
 Edward Goodell moved Mrs. Bot tum's goods by train to Ware, Mass, last Tuesday. The good wishes of many friends will follow her.
 The roads are getting dusty, things are getting rusty, the pantries are getting musty, but the tree toada are lusty, and soon the clouds will busty CD.
 -LoRoy Squier of Wales, formerly of StaffordvilIe, occasionally visits us. His foot is healing nicely. It was a severe cut, but good care, good blood and a strong constitution have nearly cured him. He still plays the gentlem III, receives call CTS, walks with cane, but wears no qu1z- zing glass. May he live long antbprosper in all things.
 Some fine fish are bri4g taken from the reservoir. Go. B .tol showed us 8 fine string last week-string of pickerel, not cotton string. Thi, Is no fish story, but story of ii h. Brook trout do not seem as plenty this year. This month will probably draw them out of their coverts, so the fishermen cAn draw them out with their hooks. And yet it is as Tennyson sang, only ''here and there lusty trout"
 The arrival of half a duzen men who began work on the old ruins last Monday morning, ,nviuced the meet skeptlcal that Mr. R .witser really intended to re- build. Of course everybody is glad. Two years ago Statfordv'lIe suggested Gold smiths Deserted Village" or Gibbons ''Decline and Fall of the R man Empire. Since then our growth has seemed more like that of some western towns which Wendell Phillips once Said cume up ID night. Our-pa7t misfortune may prove blessings Ill disguise.
  at the Methodist vestry some tune next week. Particulars later.
 tCoKREsPoNDENCE.l
 BURLINGTON.
 Charles Nichols has bought of John B. Whitford the pasture aud moving near the formers premises.
 $. Niles housekeepcr, Mrs. Hughes, is ill.,
 Tine season is full three weeks back ward, they say. Many in this vicinity have not finished pllnting yet.
 Now and then a man is terribly afflict- sd with the ''hypo." Did one ever stop to analize that mental distemper? Isn't selfshness at the bottom of it; the being afraid you are not as we'll off as somebody else? Sensible, as we'll as happy, is the man who envies not his neighbor's superior education or pile of money. Gene rally speaking, nobody else is to blame.
 The grass crop at present looks prom ising.
 -Romaine Tucker has taken unto him. self wife, and the wedding over in Vern- on was quite an affair.
 Simeon Williams has moved on to the Levi Edgerton place, Holland.
 Mrs. Annie A. Preston is prevented by sickness from taking part in the wo- mems home mission in Springfield to- morrow, as announced per program. Jurors chosen for the town of Willing ton to serve one year from the 1st of Sep tember, 1888: Daniel Eldredge, Lucius Preston, Reuben Edgerton, Lucius FL dredge, Charles Hobby, Wm. H. Marsh, Edward Morrison, Henry o. Sparks. Mat thew Burdick. Addison D. Dimock, Fred erick Juul, Ezra T. Converse, Frank Orcutt, Wm. Irons, J. B. Carpenter, Charles Mich ols, J. R. Champlin, 0. 0. Essex, Jeremiah Latham, Daniel B. Benton.
 The Ladies Sewing Society of the Bap- list church will meet one week from to day with Mrs. Lathrop Manning.
 Mrs. Angie Dave wishes it stated that she still continues to give music lessons.