The Press., 1889-08-29
m0NsON. .

l MONSON.
 l -Geo. s. Peck of Waltham, Mass, vis-
 ited his father, Levi Peck, short time ago, riding the entire distance on bicycle. l tCorrespondence.)
 George Thompson returned home Sun-
 day after few weeks vacation.
 Mrs. Sarah Andrus, and daughter
 Mary, of New Haven, are rusticating at
 State Line with their cousin, Mrs. Fl. w.
 visiting her grandchildren there. Mir. and
 Mrs. Harvey Dyer of Canterbury, Conn.
 have also favored Mir. and Mrs. Smith with
 a visit recently.
 Mrs. Jennie Porter Arnold, the Hart
 ford writer, has been the guest of MT. and
 Mrs. 0. H. Bradway the past week.
 Schools in districts No. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and IA began their fall term of eleven
 weeks Monday with the following teach
 CTS Mary F. Bliss, Rufus Stebbins, Lulu
 Walker, Charles Jewett, Bessie Sutcliffe, l Mattie Oollis, Flora Converse, Carrie Whiting, Eliza Walker and Minnie Whit
 ing. The districts with the odd numbers
 are to begin Sept. 2, with these teachers ::
 Mabel Anderson, Mrs. Helen A. Bacon,
 Lizzie Sullivan, Alice Sutcliffe, Justin G.
 Carew, Lilla Whitney, Ella Bradway, Clara
 Clark, Minnie Noble. The opening day
 being at different dates will enable teachers
 to visit schools without t'taking day"
 It is thought to be an excellent idea.
 James Stacy takes the position Sept.
 1st vacated by Frank Pease, as cream col lector of the creamery association of Hampden.
 Edgar Brewer and wife, and son
 Montie, accompanied by Miss Anna King,
 all of East Hartford, have been enjoying
 carriage drive and a visit with Stafford and
 Monson friends, giving to their relatives in the family of Oliver Bliss the lions share
 of their society.
 A six horse load of tally-ho coachers
 took trip to Peaked mountain Monday afternoon, arriving at the summit just in
 time to serenade the sun as it was going to roost. The mountain echoes were quiet ing down for the night, but they footed
 them into sociabihty and got up such a
 tuneful filtration with them that all the
 surrounding hills joined in the jubilation. James H. Tufts begins his duties next month as instructor in mental and moral philosophy in the University of Michigan at Ann Harbor. Monson contains plenty of hero worshippers who believe that the universe holds no position too high for him :, to reach.
 !: It is refreshing to see how we'll affairs l, about the town farm are conducted. Neat. ness predominates everywhere. There are , now IA inmates, of whom Catherine Hum , is the oldest, aged 90. She is demented and objects forcibly to wearing clothes, ) and is consequently closely confined tc
 her room. A suit made strongly of new
 bed ticking lasted her but few days. Next in age is Ira Andrus, very deaf old man of 85. Amanda Smith is 79, a really nice, ladylike woman, who ought to have friends among her relatives. Alfred Ben nett, aged 76, is most comfortable in bed Luna Hyde is 75, and blind from child : hood. She has failed much in year o, two and is losing her mind. She picks her bedding to pieces and mutters to her self constantly, chewing all the time witE her toothless gums. Sylvanus Pease, who . is 72, is able to assist little iD the farm : work. Lyman Rider, who is 51, has for merly been an inmate of lunatic asylum : and is now kept in close confinement. Car . oline Dixon, aged 46, is mildly deranged. She goes out frequently with her heai done up in ssa rag" to gather herbs. Hel
 language.impressed the visitor as that o
 an educated woman. She imagines tha 2 she has consumption, but congratulate herself that her 'scough is dead. She as Isures people that she has been dead sev eral times, but doesn't mind anythinf l. labout that. She 'gets right up and st ]. does Sister of Charity" as she calls th, T matron, Mrs. Vail. Charles Dorman is 38 and is deranged. Maria Jewett, also 38 seems to be the happiest woman in town 7 She made point of showing us her room ' which is profusely adorned with advertis J ling pictures, the pride of her heart. Sh, 2 2 is extremely anxious to make a collection of black beads, and is very fond of music l. Honora O'Brien, aged 32, seems intelligent > and very devout, but she has been par
 alyzed and one hand is sadly deformed l. With little premonitory help from thu m we'll hand she can hold in it an object abou a which it is made to clasp. Mayo Ferr, 7- looks strong and healthy, with which de e fscription his mental faculties hardly com .a pare. He is 30 years old. Edith Pease ' 21, and has been unfortunate all her life tt Sadie Hatch, the youngest inmate is | IS years of age, and of feeble mind. Doe e not this brief review give the Christian Q Endeavor Society hint? pI THAT BL1ssFU1 PICNIC.
 !e The appearance of Wm. A. Francis an, family of 7v Snohendon among the Blisse
 and LEslla 0g Ionson, and the Prebles an, Washbasne6 of Stafford, was the signal flo le lue a gathering of congenial spirits at Ever n green park Friday. It was .farmer' a1 ai picnic, and everybody was farmer tha u day but Frying Preble, wheelwright c ', Orcuttville, who drove in with flock O 2, them, ,and had the usually solemn cast of hi le mind and countenance seriously disturbed le E. o. Lull and Oliver Bliss, managers c y the museum, had considerable trouble { . convince him that it was all right-tha
 that was the way farmers always acted al
 ter they got through hayimg. They treat
 ed him to fine lemonade, as they did tn
 farmers, and he seemed to like 1t. Tn 6. music was tip-top. Your correspondent regrets exceedingly that he is not farme
 or he might have been there and enioye
 it all. There was Miss Anna Smith, fol O. merly of Stafford, and Miss Grace Cor
 tralto of Worcester @ who did som
 splendid singing on sPeekaboo, "Rig-s
 ljig-jig" and "Away We Go" and eyery
 thing, and there was one that want ssyNhiS,