The Press., 1898-07-21
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Cherries are poor and scant as gen. aral thing in this locality.
 Mrs. Arthur Potter and child of New Britain are at 0. D. Lockwood's.
 Miss Mabel Clark expects to teach the district school, Holland side, next term.
 The time for the stated meeting of the local grange is tomorrow eve-29d inst.
 Mrs. Sleight is summering, as usual, at Rangely Lake, Maine, with Boston friends.
 Clayton Morse and wife of New Haven and Robert Morse of New York are at E. A. Morse's.
 The heavy shower of Monday night, al- tho a grateful visitation to vegetation, made the roads still worse.
 Sudging from the samples of new pota- toes we have had from different localities in town, they turn out rather small.
 Our highways, especially the cross roads, still wait for the guide-boards as long ago prescribed by law-with penalty for noncompliance.
 As 6 pointer towards the interest of our people in common school education at present nearly one-half of the districts failed to hold their annual meetings last month.
 W. D. Irons, formerly of this town, is quite i'll at his home at the Springs. A dozen or so of his grand army comrades came down and cut and cured his hay on his farm here in short order last week. The W. c. T. U. meeting at the chap el, Holland side, was largely attended, and the program arranged by Mrs. Pratt was successfully carried out, we hear. There were a trio by Mesdames Hall and Pratt and Rev. s. w. Clark, and a solo by the latter.
 "It was the common soldier, God bless him where name and fame never get be- yond the home newspaper, who won the day. In all wars the generals win too much glory and the common soldier too little." The above is from the Spring field Republican of last Friday. It's now some time since there has been a whack at the old soldier pensioners.
 The friends of Clarence Preston have had no direct tidings of him since his regiment was on the eve of authorization (9th inst.) at Charleston, $. o., on the Yale, with Gen. Miles, for Santiago. He then wrote, "AIl we'll, enough to eat ano drink. Start for Cuba today" How he landed and his experiences on shore al Cuba remains to be told. Letters from his regiment will probably reach friends | hot ho of xxoobr Jic o1 dress is Go. K, Sixth Mass. Vols, Santi ago, Cuba. A two-cent U. s. stamp takes letters there. This, in answer to many inquiries.
 Last Friday a party made up of c. A R. and w. R. c. members started out fol a ng-contemplated drive to the un known picturesqueness of Union and Mashapaug. They met by agreement al Eldridge Mills at a. m., sharp, drove eastward a short distance upon the olG turnpike. and then, piloted by Comrade G. B. Marble, struck off upon one of the ancient grass grown highways with which all our old New England towns are in. epticably interested. Having faith 1T their leader, they followed on o'er hill and dell, past ruins of 1ong-ago home steads, pasture, tillage and orchard over grown with brush, with here and there { rose, lilac or currant bush, or a clump O. tenacious yellow lilies telling a pathetic story of the march of years. And jus here the march of the driving party cam, to 8 halt. Big tree fallen across tn, road!" called the leader of the battalion "Go for an axe to the nearest house. The squad, consisting of himself, obeyee orders. The veterans each took turr showing off their knowledge of wood ped the roadside grass, the dogs pros pected for small game in the thickets- the W. R. c. dispensed lunch--and tn, diversion proved, after all, an enioyabl' one. On again until 8 boulder in tn, path called another halt. This being re moved, and three or four miles of "cord uroy' being traversed, the party emerged upon breezy hilltop where a smooth much-travelled highway lay invitirgl.
 before them. 'Is this the usual road t, | ing back. "Oh, by no means" was tn , reply. "We have been cutting off corn
 CTS. This used to be the way when wa F 8 boy. We've come out just where knew we should" "And you've brough your company all through alivel Gu } respect for you as topographer and , strategist is greatly on the increase "We ain't there yet," came warningly
 and, indeed, we were not. "March, ol
 stacle" and we went on, and are happ 2 to testify that Union is high, sweet
 breezy, fertile, progressive-ine every wa [ so much more attractive than VI had sur
 posed, that it was with regret that at tn sign of the "post and wheel" we left tn t slightly heights and plunged into the shad
 darkness of the pineries leading to tn beautiful pond-born to shine unseen an f to waste its sparkles on the forest ail
 Presently we came to a point where tn l road divides. We have been led to sur pose that there was public park calle
 "Mayland Park" but following one c the roads we came upon printed sig t warning off intruders, a sign that, seem
 ingly, should be posted at the dividing c the ways. But the party were in for ii 3 and stole forward seeing no sign of If
 save q pair of slippers in hammock, baby carriage and a figure in white duo emerging beyond the cluster of dwellings I Some one asked, Where's Maylan
 Park2" 'This is it." "Ohi" At "Pin Tree Inn," there were the horses and cal 3 riages of preceding pleasure parties
 boats, children, dogs, groups of merr people every where, and the hostess, Mrs Foster, ran down the steps from the ve
 randa with cheery welcome. Soon
 load of young men came dashing up
 there were youths and maidens upo
 wheels-there was the genial hostess
 make everybody acquainted-and tn guest from different towns, counties an U <oka cd oh oh