The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1900-04-12
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/ with heart trouble.
1 Miss Estella Bartlett is teaching the
Village Hill school.
Chas. H. Ryder Is recovering from an
attack of pneumonia.
Tax Collector Dimock is ready to re-
ceive the taxes, as per his notice in an
other column.
Frank D. Preston is repairing his barn
and making other improvements about
the premises. ..
Misses Jessie Holt and Rhoda Lyon are
to report the sermons for the Y. p. 8. G..
e. this month.
Jason Allen has been drawn as Juror
for this term of court in Tolland-or
Rockville rather.
The East Wilmington Y. P. g. G. e. will
hold social at G. s. Amidon's tomorrow
evening. Supper, ten cents.
The Congregational ladies' social had a
pleasant time last evening. No notice
had been given US for this column.
Mrs. M. L. Dimock remains about the
same, while Mrs. George E. Sparrow's
condition is much improved at present.
Contrary to expectation on all sides, no
reference whatever was made In the Bap-
fist pulpit last Sunday by the candidate,
Mr.. Snow, to his call the previous Sun
day.
Congratulations among friends here are
in order in the matter of one Of the mar
riage notices this week. The bridegroom
is connected with the N. Y. World news
paper.
1.-The next century will be not TO much
in the hands OF admirals and generals
as In the hands of the master mechanic.
future"
A republican caucus, according to arti-
Giles posted Monday, has been called to
be held In the town hall tomorrow even
ing, at 7.3O. 1t is for the purpose OF
8 choosing delegates to the state and dis
. trict convention, to be held In Hartford
3 May and 8, which will choose delegates
: to the next republican national conven-
D ton, to be held in Philadelphia JuLe 10th,
j the body that is to nominate the republi.
s can candidate for president. This caucus
!, will also choose town committee to act
t for the next two years.
: The Baptist ladies' social Tuesday even
ing, 18th inst, promises to be an attract
- i've affair. The dialogue, Murder Will
Out" will be spoken by the Misses Rob
bins, Dimock and Lyon, and Mesdamef
Carpenter and Korner. A debate on thu
question, "1s 1t expedient for church so
Gals to give suppers ?" will be feature
Affirmative. Mrs. A. D. Dimock, G.. A
Cosgrove, G. T. Preston negative, Dea
E. D. Hayes, Mrs. W. ID. Holman, Mrs
Sarah Slingsby. A vote will be taken q
the close. There also will be Rotations
Admission, including supper, ten cents.
Hiram Edwards, brother Of the lat
= Trad and Porter Edwards, native of thi
town, but for the last fifty years resi
), dent of Hartford, died of grippe In tina
city last Tuesday. Our older resident
may recall his parents, Amos and Celen
da (Dexter) Edwards, who lived in tn
south part of the town. Two marie,
. sisters, of a family of ten children, sur
:, vive him. He never married. He was
comrade of ours In the civil war In Lousi
ana, and served In the 18th Conn. Vols
. He was good man and good soldier
: the color bearer of our regiment at tn
battle Of Georgia Landing. and was sho
in the mouth there, the wound at fire
considered fatal. He was a very zealou
a Grand Army man, and there was larg
of turn out of his comrades of the Nathanie
'f Lyon post, who had charge OF the service
10 at his funeral at Hartford Sunday after
s. noon. The burial ritual was conducte
by another Wellington boy, Commando
Eugene D. Ames.
"Its queer" sighed Neighbor Wishwe
Is the other day, "that the water-powe
privileges scattered all about In thee
hill towns are still suffered to run t
waste. For instance, look at the disuse
m one at Aldrich's mills, on the road frol
(. Wilmington Hill to Stafford Springs.
, dynamo could be put In there that woul
ys transmit power on wire to the Willing
ton railway station that would set whir
ag ing the wheels of big factory, neal tt
a. tracks, and be the means of starting
large village. The day Of mills and ten
an ments close under dam and in lit
NJ sitting hollow is past and gone. Ele
tricity can now carry power to desirab
lis and salubrious localities. No more nee
IT, of breeding places Of malaria. This ne
". possibility Of transmission of energy sha
most benedcially change all the phases
nd factory life. These natural water su
ok plies down In the valleys are to make Il
Ie. hill-tops pulse with new life, with pa
lg. untoward sanitary and moral condition
IT. entirely eliminated. Yes" continued tn
le- wellwishing neighbor, with increasir
asst enthusiasm, Let US look unto the eve
,m lasting hills from whence cometh o.
sre strength p" And now should any ale
capitalist or syndicate ''catch on' to tn
specific locality, the charge for this chro
icle of Neighbor Wishwell will be ten p
= cent. of the value R the plant!
- West wilmington.
The reception to the new members
the W. G. T. u, last Saturday p. M,
GU the hall was largely attended. The hs
'n- being transformed into reception roo
with potted plants, palms and rugs.
o. pleasing program by way Of entertai
on ment were a solos by Miss Ida Hall al
're Miss Jennie Farwell plano duet
Mrs. Alice Hall and Miss Farwell; l
Wy marks by the local president and sket
q. Of W. G. T. U. work, "Why we belong
o. read by Miss Rosa Hall, together wi
VOC singing from the White Ribbon hymns
'on Refreshments were served and a soci
lo- time enjoyed by all.