Milford chronicle., 1891-01-16

again enter into welded bliss. The
party was a success.
LINCOLN ITEMs.-William I. Chip
man and Richard Johnson, both OF
this place, are learning telegraphy
under the tutorship of William Nor
rison, station agent. Mr.. Morrison
has $4,000 for learning one person.
Miss Jennie LeCompt,Of Philadel-
plia, is visiting friends, and at her
old home, in this place.
Miss May Cordray, who has been
visiting here, returned to her home
in Greenwood this week.
Miss GeOrgianna Clendaniel was
the guest of Fisher Welch this week.
Rev. John Pool occupied the pull
pit in the Methodist Church last
Sunday a week.
Rev. Harry 0. Frazier has been
appointed pastor for the Lincoln
Circuit until Conference. He
preached his first sermon in Lincoln
last Sunday evening, making fav-
orable impression on the few pres
ent.
George w. Risler went to Phila-
delphia last week to purchase goods
for a new store in Lincoln. The store
was opened last Wednesday by Will
liam Risler, who, it is understood,
will sell everything in the line of
general store. The building occu-
pied is that owned by Charlie Tat
man, known as the "Fisher store"
built by Dr. Daniel Fisher, Lincoln's
first physician, after becoming a
town. This will make the seventh
store in our town, and we hope that
Mr.. Risler will make q new depart
ure in this new stand, in order that
people living in and around Lincoln
will be able to purchase articles of
necessity, without having to go to
Milford with their trade and cash.
Fully one-thirG of the money earned
in this vicinity goes into the pockets
of the prosperous merchants of Mil
ford, simply because they make a
speciality in some particular branch
of business, keeping all grades OF
goods to suit all customers; thus
being able to sell better goods cheaper
than they can afford to do; who with
small capital, launch into business
on small scale, with an inferior spat-
tering of everything known in any
branch of the mercantile business.
There is an excellent farming
country around Lincoln, and it is
fast filing up with intelligent people
from other States. Our town is not
dead vet, as some say; but will have
a prosperous future if the citizens
living here, instead Of shutting their
ewes to their own interest and those
of the commonwealth, will be on the
oui vive for new industries and man
ufactories, that should be encour-
aced-not driven away for lack OF
interest and encouragement by cit
izens unfavorable to improvement.
There are grumblers in every town
who are miserable themselves and
delight in making others likewise.
We have them here.
Edward Masten, who had been
working in the lumber woods Of
northern part of New York, died
last Saturday a week from typhoid
pneumonia. His father, Clement
Masten, of this place, telegraphed to
have the body prepared that it might
he brought home. But the wires in
that part of the country being down,
the dispatch failed to reach its des-
tination. Henry Masten, brother
of the deceased, who lives in Phila-
delphia,was sent to to bring the re-
,noins here for interment; but ere he
got there, his brother had been laid
in his grave in the hills of the Adir-
ondacks. The strongest sympathy
is felt for the parents, who little
thought when he went away last
autumn, that they had looked for the
last time in this world on their strong,
bright and intelligent son.
George Swain is the only one in
this vicinity who has harvested any
ice this winter; others are waiting
for thicner ice. SENATE