The Press., 1893-08-17
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 I (Correspondence)
 This drought is getting to be seri- ous matter.
 IA mans got to have layer of coun- try experience somewhere in him. Soon- CT or later man rots if he lives too far away from the grass and green trees"
 Two or three type errors in last weeks items, but the world still moves.
 -Joel Enc has engaged to teach the center school the coming year. We opine that the scholars will get down to busi- l ness now.
 1-F. w. Pratt was chosen committee for the Glass Factory district at the an- nual meeting.
 Merritt s. Dunham is to teach the Potter district school the coming year. Mrs. Mary Steadman and daughter, of Hartford, are visiting at Mrs. Esther Slafter's.
 -Huckleberries are scorce and small.
 Folks will get married, young and old, do and say what you please. Its been the strenuous order of nature all along the ages. But, s'they did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that No ah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.''
 The pastor, Rev. J. M. Phillips, and | Deacons J. 0. Sparks and w. H. Braek- ett were chosen delegates to the associa- tional meeting in Andover the 9th and Eth prox.
 George Gallup, wife and daughter, of Mansfield, visited friends in town last week.
 It is reported that Chas. P. Rider, , now of Moline, H., is seriously ill While Mrs. Charles Snow and family of Willimanlic, with her mother, Widow George Snow, of this town, were return ing from Stafford Springs last week, the l horse took fright from the ecars passing near the Stanton place, and the occupants of the carriage were thrown out. Mrs. George Snow's hip was injured. The oth- CTS escaped unharmed, we understand.
 Widow Charles Shafer, with her son, Walter, and two of her younger children, have returned from Derby to their farm in the south part of the town. The dwell | ing house has been recently repaired. South Wilmington CorrespOndence. -75 tickets for the excursion were sold here Saturday. +-. ..-.... .-.. | Mrs. Fannie Scott and daughter, Edith, are visiting at Mantle. | Miss Amy Williams and Robert Hull, of Willimantic, are spending a few days with friends in town. -e.>
 MANSFIELD. | John Hove, an old resident of Eagle vile, was found hanging to the rafter in the loft of a barn belonging to John Cos tello, at o'clock Tuesday evening. He had been incorporate lately, and it is supposed that in a fit of despondency he Hoye's body had been hanging several hours before it was found. He leaves a wife, who is in Ireland, and four children in Willimantic. A brother lives in Will | limantic and another in Mansfield. (Correspondence.) l Miss Mabel Dimock gave party to her young lady friends Tuesday, Aug. 15, i'll honor of her guest, Miss Edith Rich ardson, of Hartford. Those present were the Misses Julia and Mary White, Misses Ella and Sarah Boynton, Miss Alice Stan ley, of South Coventry; Miss Ida Corbit, of Ware, Mass. Misses Garvey, Grace Corbit, Edna Lewis, Lottie Smith, Min nie Bowers, of Mansfield; Miss Ella;Brown of Morrow.
 The young people of Mansfield gave a very pleasant entertainment at the chapel last Wednesday evening. The "Willing Workers served ice cream af- ter the entertainment.
 The organ pipe shop closed all day Wednesday so the help could attend MT. Sanford Weaver's funeral at North Gov entry. He has faithfully worked with them for years, and will long be remem- bered by them.
 -Messrs. George Brown and Frank Smith of Hartford spent the Sabbath with Merritt Smith and family.
 Mir. and Mrs. George D. Smith of Westford were the guests of Miss Lottie Smith over Sunday. Miss Ida Corbit of Ware, Mass, is visiting Miss Grace Corbit.
 Mir. Abram Snow and daughter, Fan nie, of N. J., are stopping with Mrs. Caroline Snow. MT. Howard Snow and wife of N. Y., are also S opping with Mrs. Snow.
 Mrs. Wm. Corbit is visiting friends in Middletown this week.