The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-03-16

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week with his sister in Wilbraham.
Misses Edith and May Broadway and
Josephine Newell attended the teachers
meeting at Willimantic last Saturday
Miss Newell remained for visit with hers
sister also Visited relatives in Hartford
before returning home.
Attendance of scholars in Center school
grammar department. Not absent during
term ending March 8 Eva Roberts, Ma
bel Graves, Mary Jensen, Mary Hansen,
Neils Jensen, Henry Holmes, Lyrald
Tilden; number of pupils, 90; average
1871
Franklin Ellis has purchased the farm
formerly owned by his father and will
take possession April 1st. His mother,
Mrs. H. D. Ellis, will make her home
with him. Mr.. Carpenter and family, who
have been living with Mrs Ellis, will re-
move from town.
Report of the primary department OF
the Center school for the term ending
March 9Th. Pupils perfect In attendance;
George r. Andrews, John G. Hansen,
Charlie L. Roberts, Eddie W. Roberts,
and Raymond r. Roberts absent one
day, Kathie A. Broadway and Leona E.
Shearer. The spring to rm will commence
Wednesday, March Goth.
Special effort has been made to max
the coming church fair, to be held next
week Thursday evening success. The
entertainment will commence at 7.30 and
will consist of music and the play ''Tfm-
othy Delano's Courtship," with the fol-
lowing cast
Timothy Deano' misery country gent a4asVss
Aunt Tabitaa, an ambitious old maid,
Mrs NJ A. Gold
k kcs ssr eIsG Brother Josephine e SsTs
- - Carianna Hopkins.
Ice cream, cake and home made candy
will be served. A cordial invitation Is ex-
tended to all.
StanOrdville.
John Bedding Is in poor health.
Mrs. r. M. G hamberlin is. one of the
many who are sick.
Rev. I'll. M. Vail, who has. been very
ill, Is getting better.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Sanger Wednesday morning.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Booth last Sunday morning.
Mrs. Chas. Eager is very i'll. She had
q shock a week ago and does not seem to
rally.
We are very glad to know that the
Summit Wooden Go. are starting up their
mill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Root and son of Spring
field are visiting her aunt, Mrs. George
Ferry.
The reading circle will meet with Mrs.
H. G. Durham at Hydeville next Monday
evening.
Mrs. M. Ritter, who has been visiting
her sister in Hartford, has returned to
her home.
Miss Stella Pease is quite i'll at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Edgar Colburn,
In Monsoon.
Levi Peck of Monson has recovered
from the i'll effects caused by the recent
accident to his foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leander Duncan are in
Worcester, spending a few weeks with
their son, A. l.. Duncan.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E
church will meet at the house of Mrs.
Mary Belcher on Thursday afternoon and
evening. All are invited. =.
On account of the inclemency of the
weather the Ladies' Aid social, which
was to have been held last evening al
Ebenezer Colburn's, was postponed until
Saturday.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ E
church will hold measuring" party a
the vestry next week Thursday evening
The name of each lady present, will b.
printed upon a slip of paper and deposited
in a box. Then the gentlemen will be re
quested to draw one of the slips for theil
partner for supper. They will then bt
required to pay at the rate of 2 cents pc
foot for the first five feet of his stature an,
at the rate Of one cent per inch for ever,
inch over five feet, and the same for hi
partner. There will be no further expence
WELLINGTON.
Mrs. Frank Joslin and child hav
moved to Newtown.
The spring term of school in the Cente
district will begin Monday next, Goth.
Meeting of the local w. c. T. U. at tn
chapel, Tolland side, Saturday, 18th, at
p. m.
John Alderman has been granted
pension of six dollars per month, wit
some back pay. -
Mrs. Chas. II. Davis and child .hav
been visiting her father, Amos o. Olds
at Palmer, Mass.
Florence Pierce entertained q party
her young friends on the occasion of he
birthday last Saturday.
| There will be q sociable at the Coz
gregational church next Wednesday ev'
ming. All are welcome.
Four persons united with the Congreg,
tional church last Sunday, one by baptist
and three on profession of faith.
A former Wilmington boy, Walter Leigl
son OF the late Lewis Leigh, Il silk dy'
at Daleville, is candidate for mayor {
New Haven.
Mrs. Jane Newbery, widow Of the la
Deacon Alva Holt, former residents
this town, died on the 10th inst. at IL
Old Peoples home in Hartford. Her az
was a.
Frank Carpenter and wife, former res
dents, are enthusiastic members of Il
Wethersfeld grange. An exchange tel
of their prominent participation in a r
cent entertainment given by that grang
| How very sensitive some folks are ov
their ages! AS far as the mere measur
ment of time allotted the human race I
his planet is concerned, it matters We
little whether you are thirty five or seve
ty-five.
Il. Ladue has moved from Northam