The Press., 1897-11-04

The funeral will be held at St. EdWardS church Saturday morning at 9 o'clock.
 Regular meeting of Winter w. R. c. tomorrow evening, at 7.30 sharp. A full attendance is requested, as preparations will be made for inspection, which occurs | Nov. 18th.
 Winter W. R. 0. Is preparing for c supper at society hall, on Friday evening, Nov. 12th A supper, consisting of clam chowder, etc., will be served for 90 cents. An invitation is extended to all.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. w. Beckwith celebrat- ed the 5Oth anniversary of their wedding at their home on Crown street Tuesday evening. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith are hale and hearty after their fifty years of welded life, and bid fair to celebrate many more anniversaries. Their neigh bors and friends who know them we'll and | appreciate their kindly worth, certainly hope that they may enjoy many more as pleasant family reunions as that of their golden wedding anniversary. The gath ering was a surprise to MT. and Mrs. Beckwith, but MT. Beckwith thought Tuesday that his grandchildren were ar- irving in town in greater numbers than usual, and asked c. F. how it was that three, who came from Springfield, were not at school. Including the children and grandchildren, there were twenty-four present, and MT. and Mrs. Beckwith were presented with couch, $50 in gold, and other presents. The same set of china that was used at the wedding, fifty years ago, was used at the anniversary Tuesday. I Nh1eo Mir and MTc II R Burbank and children, Grace, Eunice, David, Lulu and Laura, of Longmeadow, Mass; Mrs. T. 0. Tiffany and daughter, | Ruth, of Meehanicsville, N. Y.; Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Tracy of Jewett City; Mrs. J, M. Smith of Hartford Miss Georgie | Beckwith Mir. and Mrs. F. J. Chandler and children, Esther, Charles, Maud and May; MT. and Mrs. 0. F. Beckwith and children, Malcolm and Louise. All mem
 bers of the family were present except Dr. T. o. Tiffany, who was unable to be present, owing to an accident in which
 his knee was injured. Both MT. and Mrs.
 Beckwith come from old and well-known families. MT. Beckwith's ancestors date back to the Tempe family, direct descend ants of William the Conqueror. MT. Beck
 with was born at Greenport, N. Y., seventy-six years ago. At ten years of age he shipped on coasting vessel, and after about eight years service in this line he came to Connecticut and learned the tanners trade at Coventry. Later he served as an apprentice in the card shop of A. DeDslow at Hartford, and still later an appr enticeship to the machinists' trade at Rainbow, Conn. He was employed by the Seymour Paper company at Windsor
 Locks, from 1863 to 1868, as master me- chanic. This position he resigned o be- come foreman of the Rider & Whiting
 Card company, which in 1869 did business
 on Westford avenue. In 1870 MT. Beck
 with started for himself, and even now,
 at seventy-six, can be found each day at
 the head of one of the departments of the
 manufactory, managed by his son, c. F.
 Beckwith Mrs. Beckwith was born in
 Lee, Mass. Her maiden name was Miss l Sophia Foote. Her great aunt was the
 mother of Henry Ward Beacher and Mrs.
 Beecher Stowe. Her great grandfather
 received grant of what is now the town of Coventry from King George II, in re 7 cognition of valuable services rendered
 to the King.
 r 85O, 900 for Park.
 The residents of Stafford were much surprised and pleased to hear that the will of Isaac P. Hyde of Southbridge Mass, who died October 21st, which was filed for probate at Worcester last Friday
 provides for the establishment of public park in his native town of Stafford. The
 estate is valued at $10,OOO real and $50. 900 personal, and after bequeathing $ l, ,OOC each to two of his sisters, $5,OO0 to his
 widow, and $5, ,0OO in trust for the benefit of his sister, Harriet A. Marble, the resi-
 due Is left in trust to the widow, Eliza F.
 Hyde, and John M. Cochran of South
 bridge for the town of Stafford, on tho
 condition that the town accepts the gif and appoints trusts to control the funC f for the establishment of public park tx 8 be known as Hyde Park, the income O
 the fund to be devoted to the use of tht : widow during her life, and at her deatl 5 to be used for the maintenance of tn, 5 park. At the death of Harriet A. Mar
 ble, the trust fund of $5, 900 left for he
 benefit is to be turned into the park fund
 MT. Hyde was born on Stafford Street il 1883, at the old Blue house, and was tn [. son of Isaac Hyde. He learned the ma L. chinist trade'in his early life, and worked
 at his trade in town until in middle life
 when he moved to Southbridge and start e ed in the cutlery business, in which h. J was quite successful. He married Mis-
 Eliza Foster of Mapping while living il
 Stafford.
 Stafford.
 }. MT. and Mrs. Charles Bromley move 'f from Hydeville to East Lyme on Monda, e last.
 e Miss Hannah Black of Willimantic e made visit to her friends here the frs e of the week.
 The carload of potatoes expected D H. F. Cady have arrived, and he is no7
 delivering them.
 l. Mrs. R. M Griswold and daughter, ( Hartford, were guests of Ms. John Law al renee last Friday.
 tt Mrs. George Chaffee of New Londor T. was the guest of Mrs. Mary Beebe tn Le latter part of last week.
 a Subject for the meeting of the Y P. Il c. B. this evening: Crust Christie y what ?" A cordial invitation to all. le The blacksmith recently engaged b le J. G. Wightman moved into the vacar I'd tenement in the hotel block Tuesday a 'There are many strange things abov /, and beneath the sea- and there are som 1t strange things over in Holland now-s sr days, also.
 'r Saturday and Sunday mornings wer " V decidedly winterish, ice being nearly a 70 inch thick Sunday morning on water le It outdoors over night.
 2, The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptil 70 church meet next Wednesday afternoo I'd for work, and of course will serve the h. customary supper from 5.3O until 2. a- Frank EdsUn, who for some years hs " lived on the Isaac Cady place, is movir a into the village this week, and will occr le py the east tenement in the Howe hous sad Miss Fife Lincoln of Woodstock, Ohi