The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-05-04
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quito are In evidence
g. B. Robbins now has quite neat
and serviceable two-horse team.
There was quite hegira OF towns folk
to Stafford Springs Saturday last.
Communion at Baptist church next
Sunday, covenant meeting preceding.
Miss Lena Whitford has gone to Ware,
Mass, to resume her position as tele-
graph operator there.
Has anybody else noticed that 1t is
hard nowadays to start young cherry
trees? Has the cherry material In our
soil become exhausted?
Farmers are venturing the opinion that
grass and hay will be worth something
this year. The abnormal yield for the
past two seasons can hardly go on for
ever.
J. F. Starkweather gave highly en-
tertaining stereopticon show to the local
grange last Friday night. 1t will be re-
peated, with additional pictures, at the
next meeting.
Owners of dogs who have registered
them according to law: G. T. Preston,
Chas. E. Amidon 2, L. B. Clark, l.. B.
Gibson, g. H. Ladd, A. H. Walker, A.
J. Whitman, Fred Gilman.
Harry Morse is hardly holding his own.
A conference of doctors was held Tues
day. One lung Is much hardened and
enlarged. Unless this somewhat abnor-
NAL condition is soon remedied, removal
to hospital may be undertaken.
1t is said that the first saw mill In town
was built in the gorge near the highway
below F. M. Barrett's. We had sup
posed, however, that that honor belonged
to the mill built by Calvin Topliff at the
place now called Daleville.
David Eldredge's blindness increases.
He comes out to meeting occasionally,
but is comparatively helpless at his table
and about his house generally. Singular
that that sort of human bodily infirmity
elicits SO little sympathy outside of our
hospitals and larger communities.
A large number of leading citizens of
this town have signed a petition to Sher-
if Dickinson for the appointment of Gill
bert P. Babcock as deputy jailer, in place
of John A. Brown. We hear that there
is little doubt of the success of the petit
ton. Wyllis of Mansfield has secured
South Wellington names for the position.
Neighbor Wishwell, in his observations,
can not help noting the neighborly kind
ness existing in communities like this In
case of sickness. 1t Is certainly one oil
the amenities of country life that on oc.
casion sends ripples of sunshine over the
somewhat cold, stiff, forbidding surface
of New England rural life. In this con
nection he is led, he says, to allude, along
with the governor of New Hampshire, te
the decadence Of religious faith and Gus
J toms in these communities. 1t strikes
him that when folks went to meeting
more generally than they do now, there
, were more chances to exchange anG
assimilate individual views in regard tx
many things, give and receive neighborl.
greetings, and so, on Sundays. at least
emerge bit from the chrysalis of petit
ness, selfishness and narrowness that per
chance had been imperceptably growing
in texture and fibre through the week
Yes, Neighbor Wishwell, as Yankee O
the old stock, always says "going t.
meeting" instead of to "church"--excep
from Greek, Roman or Anglican (Epis
, copaD point of view. An edifice devote
to divine worship Is to him a "meetin
house" just as In the days of his fathers
except when referring to the houses O
worship used by members of the abov
named communions. That branch O
the Prostestant body known as Congre
gational in polity, and this includes tn
4 Baptist, Unitarian, Universalist and som
1 other and smaller persuasions, can neve
have Churches" ie., places of worship
SO long as it adheres to the beliefs an
B practices of the fathers. "The father
(poor deluded souls) where are they !?
4 etc.
South Wellington Correspondence.
8 There now number SO Cyclists in tn
place.
j Chas. Fl. Barnes of Bristol has bee
) visiting Walter Allen.
!; Gilbert Worden of Beckett, Mass
!; spent a few days with q. HI. Worden thi
9 week.
. Ernest Stills of Hartford spent Sunda
: at Homer Neil's, riding to and from o
:. his wheel.
W. E. Battye has taken the contract t
dig and build the foundation for a.
> Spicer's new house.
Mr.. Adolph is going to make some &C
ditions to his house and barn. Lumbe
y has arrived for the job. George Bake
= of Morrow will do the work.
ii Contractor Sullivan of Willimantic wi
commence work soon on hundred-foe
veranda to be built on the south side {
the house occupied by Representatiy
Origen Hall.
A much-needed improvement has bee
made in replacing one of the old woode
bridges on the depot road with ne
+ one. Edward Eldredge and men did til
work Sunday.
; Chas. G. Essex went to New York la
% week to be treated for a trouble of con
plicated nature from which he has bee
.r a sufferer of late. 1t is hoped he ma
find relief If not cure.
20 Representative Origen Hall, not carir
ID to wait for arbor day, has set out abo,
his residence some Norway naples. s
f. lectman Korper was not to 10 heater
10 SO went one or more better by plantiI
Of some of foreign name, the German nj
D. pie, Senator Hall following with row
le Irish maple and winding up with Il
yankee birch" It is hoped these ge
tlemen will live to see these Trees grow
Z handsome shades.