The Press., 1888-09-20

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 The majority of members of the South Coventry drum corps are democrats. MONSON.
 {Correspondence)
 The preparatory class at the academy is composed this year of 16 members, of whom the thirteen names that follow desig nate those who passed examination for the high school: Blanche Anderson, Myra Fisk, Kate Brannick, Sarah Gavin, Sadie Hanley, Lena Babbitt, Mabel Flynt, Ad- die Peck, Etta Harris, Mamie Hobbs, Ada Smith, Edith Wood, and Patsey Lynes. Tho per centage of accuracy demanded this year was 75 per cent, against 65 per cent in the examination of last year.
 Franklin H. Bradway and family have b en spending few days with friends in Amherst.
 Mrs. Emeline Orcutt, of Palmer, is the guest of MT. and Mrs. David Ander- son.
 Rufus Leach and wife, of Springfield, have been spending week vacation with Monson friends.
 Miss Eliza Ward has recently been an honored guest in the family of o. H. Brad way.
 . The Methodist sociable, which was to have been held Wednesday afternoon and evening, has been postponed until Friday, when the company will be welcomed at the home of David Anderson.
 The reception given in honor of Rev. F. s. Hatch and family, Tuesday evening, at the Congregational church; was very pleasant occasion. MT. Hatch is very cor dial in his manners, and is exceedingly popular among his parishioners, whom he frequently visits. This pleasant contact gives him little glimpses of home life, that assist him in compiling the most practical and interesting of sermons, which he de- livers with an earnest facility of express sion, usually without notes. Mrs. Hatch is daughter of Dr. Gage of Hartford. Their daughter, Carol, and son, Leon, are charming little personages.
 -Monson has recently lost another of its old residents in the person of Mrs. Jotham Shaw, whose funeral was attended last week. She was born ninety years ago, her maiden name being Maria Vinton. The Vinton family at one time occupied the place where Daniel Leonard now lives. Two of the sisters married Kings-Mrs. John King, whose husband built the house where Rev. James Tufts now resides, and Martha, Mrs. Dwight King, of Monson, recently made a widow. Mrs. Mary A. Shaw and Mrs. Walter Smith, of Monson, both widows, are also sisters. Henry Vim ton was a brother, and there were one or more whose names have. escaped the writer's informant. Mrs. Gotham Shaw was the mother of several children, of whom two daughters, Mrs. James Loomis, of Palmer, and Mrs. Maria Cotton, 8 wid- ow, who resided with her mother at the time of her death. She has buried four daughters the first wife of R. M. Reynolds; Rose, who died, few years ago, and is well remembered; Lavinia and Caroline She also had two or more sons.
 -Monson friends are glad to extend greetings to Mrs. Adda A. Lawton, and her son, Harry, who have recently arrived at her former home at State Line from Canada.
 North Monson, now that the mill is shutdown, is rapidly becoming depopu- lated, but rumor has it that the Heerys are about to start up at once, without waiting for new dye house, etc.
 James Shaw has moved his goods into the Foskett house, and recently the home of R. Lindley.
 -Wm. Sizer moved his family to Wind sor Locks on Wednesday.
 A HORRIBLE SUICIDE.
 Monson, Sept. 17th, 1888.
 Monson people were terribly shocked this morning at hearing of the self-de- struction of Arba Squier, one of Monson's prominent business men. He awaked last night, at about twelve o'clock, in deplor- able condition of nervous restlessness {: but his wife succeeded, as she supposed, in relieving that morbid state of mind, from which, now that he is dead, it is an open secret he has suffered since his re- turn from California, three months ago. He appeared to go to sleep, and she, anxi- ety temporarily allayed, certainly did, and did not know that he had left the room until the rising hour. An early business caller sent her in search of him, and he was found at the foot of the stairs leading from the house to the barn or shop, stiff in death, with ghastly wound in the vii cinity of the heart, and another, long and unsightly, about his neck. The coroner, Carlos Gage, was summoned at once. Henry Rogers and Richard Coltman were also called ill. He was found in half re- clining posture, with his head resting against neighboring object, and had evi- dently fallen there from exhaustion caused by the profuse flow of flood; but the jug ular vein Was not severed. The wound in the side was probably first inflicted. He had been to the watering trough, whose , waters were dyed with his blood, and bloody marks lined the route to and from the trough. He has been suffering from g , carbuncle on the neck, which had never ) healed, and supposed to have been caused by blood poisoning. It is reported that since his western trip he has been exceed ) ingly nervous and irritable, but he seemed to exert himself to appear natural in thu presence of outsiders, so his deplorablt mental condition was not generally known He had formed the habit of getting up il the night and taking walks about tht 3 premises and vicinity. Within 3 few dayl F he had threatened suicide, and asked hi wife if she didn't think it would be nice tc die together. ''No, don't P she replied and that prompt and emphatic reply prob l ably saved her from sharing his fate. s A physician was consulted Saturday concerning the adyisability of sending hin : to an asylum. Yesterday, Mrs. Squier : hoping to change the current of hi thoughts, urged him to accept an invita- tion to visit his brother, Horace Squier The drive was pleasant one, and he en loyed himself so well that on his arrival a U homo ho 6ociro1 &~, nerS h00Rr s