The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-07-21
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Judge Holman's.
Cherries are poor and scant as gen
eral thing in this locality.
Mrs. Arthur Potter and child of New
Britain are at .. D. Lockwood's.
Miss Mabel Clark expects to teach the
district school, Tolland side, next term.
The time for the stated meeting Of the
local grange is tomorrow eve-22d 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 grateful visitation to vegetation,
made the roads still worse.
Studying 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 walt for the guide-boards as
long ago prescribed by law-with penalty
for noncompliance.
AS q 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
l. 1Ra
his farm here in short order last week.
The w. G. T. U. meeting at the chap
81, Tolland 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.
cit 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 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 embarkation
| Goth inst at Charleston, s. c., on the
Yale, with Gen. Miles, for Santiago. He
then wrote, "All well, enough to eat and
drink. Start for Cuba to-day" How he
landed and his experiences on shore at
Cuba remains to be told. Letters FROM
his regiment will probably reach friends
before the close of this week. His adj
dress is Co. K, Sixth Mass. Vols, Santi-
ago, Cuba. A two-cent U. s. stamp takes
letters there. This, in answer to many
inquiries.
| Last Friday party made up OF g. A..
r. and W. r. @. members started out for
a long contemplated drive to the I'M
known picturesqueness of Union and
Mashapaug. They met by agreement at
Eldridge Mills at 8 a. M, sharp, drove
eastward a short distance upon the old
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 In
their leader, they followed on DER hill
and dell, past ruins of long-ago home
steads, pasture, tillage and orchard over
grown with brush, with here and there a
rose, lilac or currant bush, or a clump of
tenacious yellow lilies telling a pathetic
story of the march of years. And just
here the march of the driving party came
to a halt. "Blg tree fallen across the
road!" called the leader of the battalion,
$50 for an axe to the nearest house"
The squad, consisting of himself, obeyed
orders. The veterans each took turn
showing off their knowledge of wood
craft. The horses, glad of the halt, nip
ped the roadside grass, the dogs pros
pected for small game in the thickets-
the w. r. G. dispensed lunch--and the
diversion proved, after all, an enjoyable
one. On again until boulder in the
path called another halt. This being re-
moved, and three or four miles of "cord.
uroy'' being traversed, the party emerged
upon a breezy hilltop where smooth
much-traveIled highway lay invitiIgly
before them. els this the usual road tc
Union?" some one asked, ruefully look.
ing back. ooh, by no means, " was the
, reply. eve have been cutting off corn
ers. This used to be the way when was
boy. We've come out just where
knew we should" "And you've brought
your company all through alive! Oul
j respect for you as topographer and {
} strategist is greatly on the increase.
''We amt there yet," came warningly
and, indeed, we were not. "MdrcA Oh
stGcle!" and we went on, and are happy
! to testify that Union is high, sweet
breezy, fertile, progressive in every way
so much more attractive than We had sup
posed, that 1t was with regret that at III,
, sign of the ''post and wheeP' we left tn,
t slightly heights and plunged into the shad,
darkness of the pineries leading to tn,
{ beautiful pond-born to shine unseen ant
[ to waste its sparkles on the forest air
Presently we came to point where tn
| road divides. We have been led to sup
pose that there was public park calleC
Maryland Park but following one o
the roads we came upon printed sigl
warning off intruders, sign that, seem
ingly, should be posted at the dividing o
the ways. But the party we're In for 1t
) and stole forward seeing no sign of lif
save a pair OF slippers in hammock,
baby carriage and a figure in white duel
emerging beyond the cluster of dwellings
T Some one asked, where's Maryland
Park ?" "This is It," "Oh" At "Pin
Tree Inn," there were the horses and car
3 riages of preceding pleasure parties
boats, children, dogs, groups of merr.