The Press., 1902-12-11
STAFFORD SPRINGS


 Daniel Sullivan has lost his valuabl setter, "Flora."
 Regular meeting of Winter Post. c. A R., next Wednesday evening. 6
 The Country club Is planning for New Years social and assembly at tn, Springs house.
 Mrs. Rebecca Page, who has beer spending some time with his daughter 1T Worcester. has returned to her hom, here.-
 Paul, the 13, year-old son of Paul Cham pagne, fell recently and fractured his collar-bone. Dr. Smith reduced the frac tured bone.
 Mrs. Charles Fox left last Friday even ing for Boston, and she sailed Saturday for the island of Sicily in the Mediterran can, where she will spend the winter.
 An item in the New London Morning Telegraph Of Nov. 18th states that Miss Margaret Sullivan of this town, who has been teaching in Canterbury, has taken g
  Correspondence school of that city.
 At a, recent meeting of Winter Post, c. A. R., the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: O., A. Adams s. V., John Arnold; J. ", W. P. Anna don serg., Michael Cozzens; chap, A. N. Nichols; O. D., A. l.. Howard O. G., Brown Marble; adjutant, J.W. Witt Q. M., J. c. Cleaveland.
 The Parish Priest" at the opera house, last Thursday evening, drew fair sized house, and deserved even larger attend. ance. 1t is 8 clean attraction, and all the parts were taken in creditable manner. If there were more plays on the road of the merit of "The Parish Priest.n 1t would be a service of qualification to the public. D. t..-.-,...s. --
 The passenger train service on the Cen tral Vermont has been very irregular for the past few days, owing to storms and other causes. The evening train from the north has been especially delatory, and .has arrived anywhere from one to three hours late. A change of time went into effect this week, by which the first train for the north which has been due to leave at 7.18, Is now to leave at 6 5t when on time, and connect with the first train for Springfield on the B. & A.
 Col. Charles L. Dean was elected may. or of Maiden for the fifth term this week by handsome plurality of over 1900 The local friends of MT. Dean are natur. ally pleased with the popularity which he enjoys in the city of his adoption, and re- gret that he Is not able to be around and receive congratulations. As the result of an accident last Friday the mayor is laid up, and will be for several weeks 1t Is feared. The accident occurred as he was leaving the house after attending the fu- neral of prominent citizen of Maiden He slipped and fell to the sidewalk, rup- turing one of the principal fragments cov- ering the knee-cap of his left leg. The Injury Is nearly as serious as a broken bone, and his leg has been placed in cast. At last accounts he was as com- fortable as could be expected Charles Wallace Newell, 54, a former resident of this town, died at his home in Springfield last Thursday morning of angina pectoris. Mr. Newell was born in East Greenwich June 16th, 184S. When boy of 16 he enlisted in the 18th light artillery, and was honorably dis charged In 1865. He returned to his home here, where he married Miss Carissa A. Eaton Feb. 3, 1869. Later he went to Marysville, Cal, where for three years he was an overseer in a large woolen mill. He then returned east and located in Brattleboro, Vt. For the past 15 years he has resided in Springfield, and for the five years preceding his death he has been associated with H. E. Rumrill In the plano business in the Forbes & Wallace block. He was a prominent grand army man, a member of Wesley Methodist church and Mason. Besides his father, Calvin D. Newell, of this town he leaves widow and one daughter. His daughter is the wife of Rev. J. Frank Chase of West Roxbury, Mass. The flu. neral was held from his late home ir Springfield at o'clock Sunday, Rev. Dr. Charles F.. Rice of Wesley church and Rev. D. T.. Corwin Walkins, former pastor of the old State street Methodist church, officiating. Members of Wilcox post attended in body and assisted in the services. The body was brought here Monday for burial at the Stafford Street cemetery. F..
 (Communicated.)
 One. hears so much these days of sue. cess in fife, and the interpretation of the word being generally accepted as mean. ing only along the line of the bare ac. cumulation of wealth, that 1t is pleasure to record an instance of true success, Given 8 life brought into the world under circumstances of hardship, almost pov. erty, surrounded by influences far from encouraging to physical, mental or moral health, the hereditary influence of pas sionate and perverted appetite, throwr Into the evil influences of camp life, with all the attendant debasing Vaccinations of its surroundings at an age when most susceptible to every base instinct-re. turning from the campfire and battle field to social atmosphere laden with debauchery and intemperance, feeling the influence of all these and suffering by the contact. While under such influences caught by the spirit of 8 Methodist prayer meeting and the earnest attention of 6 devoted exhorter, given all these condi tions, and we have the beginning of lift which ultimately became sweet, noble unselfish, manly and helpful Christlike ness. From the turn in the impetus O the will and the. opening to the vision O the possibilities of right purposes ant