The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-03-28
WELLINGTON.

A connoisseur says, "Girls, be sure and
have plenty Of gr0Uy chicken pie night !"
Mary Francis and her friend, Will
Davis, of Derby, VT, are at her mother,
Mrs. Rufus Robbins.
A son, Harry Mason, has recently been
born to Alice Mason Brown and Stephen
Brown, Mansfield City.
Let US step up like little men and pay
our Tolland County Fire InsuranceSas-
sessment. 1t can't be helped.
Eliot Brown, Tolland side, removes
April 1st to the Maine farm he has lately
bought at Chestnut Hill, Mansfield.
David Eldridge Is in feeble condition
at present. This, in addition to his
blindness, makes him comparatively help
less.
G. E. Beans of Ohio is canvassing this
vicinity for a Commemorative Biograph.
ical Record" OF Tolland and Windbam
counties.
Miss Helen Thompson, an evangelist
from Maine, an old friend of Rev. Chas.
L. Snow, has been In town few days.
She went to her field Of labor in Bath
Me-, Monday.
L. johnson has recently taken these
contracts: The W. U. Telegraph Co.,
$1,000 poles; 1000 do. for N. Y. Tel.
Co.; 5000 do. for French cable line, and
5000 do. for the Commercial cable line.
We have to-day advertised, at dis.
lance, the old stand of Moses L. Dimock
general store, for sale. But this will not
prevent negotiations with would-be near
by purchasers. A live, capable, true blue
young man can do good business on
Wilmington Hill.
Sylvester 8. Wilton, Westford boy
son of Ashbel Wilton, Is at the head OF
the great New York firm, 1.-THE Worces-
ter Salt company" Some idea of the ex-
tent of the concern may be had when it lie
considered that the works produce 300,
900 pounds of kiln dried salt per day,
with engines of 1900 horse power,
1t Is a significant fact that the four
Wilmington brilliant young ministers,
Daniel J. Glazier, George Soule, Julius
E. johnson and Ira G.. Bidwell, died in
tLeir early manhood. All were strong,
eloquent preachers, and occupied or had
been called to prominent pulpits In Bos.
ton, Providence, Fall River and Madison,
Wis.
During the heat of the recent presiden-
tial election we guessed, through the G.
A. Edgerton presidential Suspender''
Co., Shirley, Mass, on McKinley's popu.
lar vote for prize. We missed, but we
got pair of the most comfortable and
durable article that we wouldn't do with.
out, whoever is president. II Leach nor
Abel do not keep that kind of suspender
its time they did.
Our older residents will recall Mrs.
Susan Preston Spaulding, highly es.
teemed lady, who, with her husband, the
late Nelson Spaulding, and their son,
used to live on the place now owned by
George A. Cosgrove. MIR. Spaulding, a
brother of the late Mrs. Nelson Whitford,
greatly improved the farm, after he
bought 1t, plentifully stocking 1t with
fruit trees, etc. She recently died in
Eastford, at the old home of her father,
Silas Preston. She was a sister of the
late Mrs. Augustus Corbin. She joined
the Baptist church here in 1869, and was
one of its oldest members when she died.
Wherever she lived she was greatly loved
and respected. The late pastor Of the
church here, Rev. G. II. Brown, with old
friends, used to call on her in Eastford,
reporting their visits as seasons Of great
spiritual edifcation. She cheerfully aid.
ed the church financially whenever called
on, and its clerk erased her honored name
from the roll the other day as the passing
Of an select lady" indeed.