The Press., 1894-09-13
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The Connecticut Farmer of Septem- Der 9th gives page of biographical sketch of Gov. E. H. Hyde, of Stafford, accompanied by fine large portrait.
 Edward O'Neill, town liquor agent of Ellington, complained of for illegal selling, and who appealed from trial to the superior court, has been found guilty by jury and fined $15O, costs increasing this to $500. This is rebuke to the se- lectmen of that town, who appointed a having no regard for restraining laws, to a position that should never be filled save by discreet law-abiding citizen. It is 8 great triumph for the law and order league of that town, which has got in some good work during the past year.
 Editor Pratt in Rockville Journal |: While at Putnam last Thursday attend ing the summer meeting of the Connecti- cut Editorial Association it became our pleasure to enjoy the hospitality of MT. Kennedy of the Windham County Stand ard, with that of his amiable wife. Among other pleasures arranged for us by MI. and Mrs. Kennedy was visit to the spot made historical by General Putnam in the town of Pomfret, and known the country over as "Wolfden." The drive to this spot from Putnam was one of rare delight. We delayed at the old Hastings Stand for dinner. This is one of the old stage line hotels, and was kept years ago by MT. Kennedy, senior, so that Mate" was visiting the scene of his boyhood ex- ploits, of which the then neighbors per- haps could relate a strange and astonish- ing thing were they living. Passing on a couple of miles we turned into woods road which was rough and rugged, to say the least, which we pursued for 8 half mile, then a walk of five minutes over the same trail doubtless that the redoubtable general took when he went determined to rid the region of the depredations of the troublesome wolf The den runs in under ural crevice between the rocks, which ar engagement was the result no doubt of some eonvulsion of nature. The entrance is less than a yard square, and grows nar- rower as it proceeds. The passage is tor tuous, and a good-sized man finds it diffi- cult to effect an entrance. At it's inmost part there is said to be quite a chamber where the aforesaid wolf made her nest T T. T Ac,s,, Tl,o spot is historic and has many visitors.
 The editor of the Holland County Leader, B. l.. Burr, and his wife are en- toying 8 trip through Maryland and Vir- ginia, visiting en route the Antietam bat tle-feld. Hartford Times: Francis Pinney, who was selected to enter the naval academy at Annapolis, and who has been for the past two months at the academy engaged in study preparatory to his examination, telegraphs his father, Lucius Pinney, of South Manchester, that he has passed the examinat tion successfully. Young Pinney is a graduate of the Hartford high school. His father served as private soldier in the civil war, in the Twenty fifth Connec- ticut-one of the youngest lads in the service. Patriotism and efficiency are hereditary in the family.
 The Willimantic normal school open. ed with larger entering class than ever before at the opening of the year. The total number of pupils in the school is likely to number about seventy-five Four young men enter the school this year and thirty-six young women: Bes. sic M. Apt, Mansfield; Alice Afford
 Windham; Grace Arnold, Putnam; Egg bert A. Bass, Wells Wilcox, Coventry
 Annie Belle Britner, Margaret Courtney
 Willimantic; Katharine L. Brown, Fran ces T. O'Neil, Emma Tyron, Windham
 Bertha Carpenter, Plainfield; Emma J Chappell, Coventry ;. Henrietta M. Cope land, Lottie Whitehouse, Ashford; Ines A. Daniels, Stafford; Grace l.. Hanna Montville; Albert E. Lyman, Columbia
 Nancy c. McNeeley, Rose s. Turner, Ids May Meller Josephine H. Young, Cecelis M. Sullivan, Norwich; Nellie Murphy Bozrah; Edna c. Remington, Scotland
 Agnes c. Sugrue, Bridget A. Sullivan Windham; Margaret Sullivan, Stafford Springs; Coral E. Tracey, Lebanon; An nie D. Tarbox, Sprague; Elizabeth L Wheeler, New London.
 -Willimantic Journal: At the Hart ford Wheel Club races in Hartford, New