The Press., 1897-07-29
MANSFIELD.

age not being sufficient for even an or dinary season.
 MANSFIELD. The apple crop, as we predicted earlier in the season, will be short and of inferior quality. .... Miss Florence s. Swift was the guest of her friend, Miss Anna c. Jacobson over Sunday.
 The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs. P. G. Hanks next Friday afternoon at 3. 30 o'clock. -r..
 Horace Baker, who has been sick for 8 long while, is improving and expects to be able to go to work i'll the shop soon.
 We are told that the passage of the tariff bill will surely bring good times, and if so, thousands will be made happy.
 For the last twenty-three days the aver age temperature at sun rise, as shown by the thermometer, has been 64o. Heavy rain-storms and thunder-showers causing little change in temperature, the same stifiing heat continued day and night.
 The roads are in such bad condition that there is but little comfort in driving over them. The contractor evidently Is not used to repairing roads, and has taken more of a job than he can handle, and the public suffer for want of good roads to travel over.
 Not far from fifty-f1ve years ago we re- member two weeks in succession of very similar weather to that for the last two weeks, and many tons of hay and acres of oats were lost. In those days having was all done by hand labor, and each mower vied with the other which could mow the cleanest and best swath.
 Many farmers managed to secure their hay crop before the wet, cloudy weather came on, but others were in the midst of their hay and oat harvesting, and many tons have been cut over week, waiting for sunshine long enough to dry out the water so as to house 1t. There has been plenty of farm laborers, and with farm machinery and plenty of sunshine having would be short job.
 Joseph Battell Morrow, 78, died at his home, Morrow, Saturday. MT. MerroW was born in East Hartford and was for many years manufacturer of knit goods at Morrow, until the burning of the mills several years ago. Then the Morrow Machine Go at Hartford was started, in which Mr. Merrow's two sons were as- sociated with him. Mr. Morrow leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters. The children are: Miss Harriet Morrow, Miss Mary Morrow, Mrs. Martina Washburn, the wife of J. H. Washburn of Kingston, R. l.; Joseph M. Morrow and George w. Morrow of Hartford. Mir MerroW's funeral was attended at his late home ata1 o'clock D. m. Wednesday,.
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 s. D. Yeomans has gone to Hartford to work.
 Mrs. o. H. Conant has been spending 8 few days at her sisters in Hartford,
 H. A. Mason is harvesting his oats, some of which measured feet. inches
 Edward E. Simonds expects to work for w. E. Fenner, commencing next Mon day. -..
 The sacrament of tho Lords supper will be administrated in the M. B. church next Sunday.
 Professor Wilbur Cross of Y ale College has been the guest of his sister, Mrs. George Dimock.
 Mrs. H. E. Simonds and daughter, Ethel are visiting Mrs. Simonds' sisters in Newington and New Britain.
 The recent rains, which have done so much damage to the farmers, took H. A. Nason's foot-bridge down stream. A new one has been erected.
 MT. and Mrs. Colburn and there little daughter, Edith of North Windham spent Sunday with Mrs. Colburn's aunt, Miss c. N. Turner. When they returned they took with them Master Raymond, who has been visiting here for little while.
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 Miss Sadie 0. Willard is at her home in Merrows.
 Miss Marian B. Agard is visiting friends in Bayon, N. J.
 Harry B. Agard has the agency for the Buffalo fire extinguisher.
 The men are at work stretching the wires for the new telephone line.
 Miss Mary Ann Arnold, formerly ot this place, but now of Orange, N. J., is visiting at Edmund Joslyn's.
 Evangelist E. E. Wood of Lynn, Mass. has been spending a few days in town. He spoke at the M. E. church Sunday evening. .E
 The belt factory is running ten hours 8 day for the first time in many months. They are rushed with orders, and have turned out some large ones lately.
 Mrs. Dwight Webster entertained a party of young people on Thursday even- ing, from to II, in honor of her niece,