The Press., 1899-09-07
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Grange meeting tomorrow night.

Communion at the Baptist church next |
Sunday morning.
Rev. Charles H. Brown preached in
Groton last Sunday.
Miss Lucy Eldredge is recovering from |
quite severe attack of sore throat
A. ]. Sparks recently returned to New
York from visit to his father, Joseph |
Sparks.
Charles FL. Davis has been drawn as
juror for this term Of the Tolland county |
superior court.
The sale Of the Lillibridge real estate
and personal property at auction takes
place next Wednesday, at 10 a. m.
Rev. Prof. PEBBLES gave touching and |
interesting commentary on the scripture
lesson, the twenty third psalm, as q pre-
face to his sermon last Sunday.
Joseph A. Fuller of Middletown has |
been stopping with his niece, Mrs. Mary
Lyon, part of the summer. Some years
ago he conducted large grocery business
in that city.
Yes, the potato yield Is enormous. So,
now, story Of our own will do, perhaps.
A little patch 35x15 feet yielded ten bush
els. In many of the hills were over
twenty spuds all of table size, some one
pound avoirdupois.
The pastor, ex-officio, Mrs. A. ID. Dim
ock, Rose Hall and Lizzie Hall are dele
gates to the Ashford Baptist association,
whose meetings are now being held In
Danielson. Mrs. Brown accompanied her
husband, the pastor.
Miss Martha Brown of Pascoag, R. l.,
daughter of the late Thomas Brown, who
worked In the Daleville mills many years,
visited at Daniel Eldredge's the past
week. Mr.. Brown died at his home In
that place some two years ago, where he
and his family had worked number of
years.
Lucien 81. Fuller, who married Har-
riet, the only child of the late Dea. An
drew 81. Fuller, formerly of this town,
but who lived for many years in Wilt
mantle, died at Mount Hope the list inst. +,
and was buried in the family lot WILL
mantle. His only child, Agnes, Mrs.
Daniel A. Barrows, of New Haven, sur
, wives him.
Father Time must go on trolley from
Willimantic to South Coventry now-a-
days, as witness the eager couples on
their way to matrimony. After all, troll
ley or no trolley, Is II not better for young
people to marry and start In for them
, selves than to wait for years to begin
where their fathers and mothers left off ?
, All things carefully considered, we don't
know but early marriages are In the line
of progress.
Neighbor Wishwell desires to remark
+ on an observation he has often made, es-
pecially in communities like this, when
attending ''socials'' or gatherings of that
ilk. He thinks that when the women
and girls straightway group themselves
together and go to whispering with their
. hands to their mouth, steadfastly keeping
aloof from the male portion of the gath
ering, it betrays great and unseemly con-
seriousness of sex. A girl or woman ap-
pears, he thinks, to a far greater advan-
, tage to en- er at once upon an open, frank
comradeship with both sexes. This sort
! of demeanor certainly tends to do away
with an awkward stiffness and to pro.
= mote general cordially, frankness and
good cheer. In gatherings, particularly
o under the auspices of religious society
one must remember that sin Christ Jesus
/ 10 10 In > oko
South Wellington Correspondence.
Miss Fanny Denman is visiting friends
u at Gales Ferry.
Florence Charter has returned from 9
two-months' vacation.
Leslie Korper is attending the grammar
school at Willimantic.
. Miss Edna Worden Is visiting relatives
and friends at Dalton, Mass.
u Alfred Peterson of Brooklyn, N. Y, II
% visiting his sister, Mrs. T. G. Denman.
u Miss Jennie Britton of Willimanti
70 spent Labor day with her sister, Anna.
Peter Watson has been visiting will
- his brother, VIM. Watson, of this place.
10 Miss Edith Scott and Miss Nellie Nor
~ Letters remaining uncalled for In tn
70 post office: Stephen Ford, Mrs. s. May
~ her.
=, G. g. Essex is remodeling the interio
~ y. of his house, formerly the barber shop
~ into tenement.
Miss Winifred Fitch of New York
Dc visiting her mother, Mrs. Eliza Fitch
Is at Grandma Parker's
" Some sixteen Ancient Order member
20 of this place attended the smoke talk g
. Stafford Springs, Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Holman and chi
+, dren of Bridgeport have been spending
20 few days with Senator w. 81. Hall an
q family.
~ John F. johnson of Hartford, distrit
no supreme deputy of the Maccabees of Coz
.,r necticut, called on the members in tn
place the past week. He is trying to o
ganize tent at Stafford Springs.
Mrs. VIM. Parker of Willimantic an
ba daughter, Mrs. Rose Sharpwell, of Paw
tucket, R. l., John Taylor and wife I
.s faWtuckot and son, Dr. Alfred TaylO
of New York city, were guests at Gard
i, ner Halls the past week.
Cornell Greene lost COW some fol
ar weeks ago and was. unable to locate Il
Ia. whereabouts until week ago, while g,
ca ing through some woods, he came upe
is it. The cow was undoubtedly killed /
lightning, as the hoofs were torn off, n
ia other mai ks showed.
a. Moose Meadow.
George Wilson has moved into Il
house with his father, B. FL. Wilson.
There will be cottage prayer meetir