The Press., 1902-09-25

graduate of the Chicago ophthalmic col
lege and hospital, and Is in his tenth year
of practice. Mr.. Monroe has made
occasional trips to Stafford since 1894,
and has the reputation of giving the very
best ocular service obtainable.
Miss Blanche Depeau Is quite Ill with
typhoid fever.
Mrs. George Cummings has returned to
her home In East Longmeadow.
Rev. Arthur st. James, French pastor
and missionary, from Worcester, Mass,
will preach at the Baptist church next
Sunday.
Mrs. Clara Cummings Is expected homo
from Saybrook this week and on her ar
rival Mrs. Angelina Weatherby will make
her home with her.
Miss Flossie Harvey of New Haven is
a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Ellen Weston.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Wightman, Clifton
and Helen Wightman spent Sunday with
relatives In Hebron.
W. V. Odell Of Staffordville has sold
his store in that place and taken a situa-
ton as boss carder In the Riverside mill.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ledoyt and Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Ledoyt and infant son of
South Coventry visited at Andrew L.
doyt's last week.
A. II. Simonds Is in Hartford to-day at
tending the dedication exercises of the
monument to the First Connecticut Heavy
Artillery, In which regiment he served
over three years as member of Co. :.'B."
Hiram A. Cady, we'll known citizen
Of this village for nearly forty years, died
at the home of his sister, Mrs. D. F.
Hewlett, in Stafford Springs early last
Monday morning from the effects of an
overdose of morphine. The deceased
was born in West Stafford May 2Sth, 1881,
and has lived In this town nearly all Of
his life. He was married In May, 1871,
to Miss Mary Cady, who died the 10th Of
last May. He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. D. F. Hewlett of Stafford Springs,
and Mrs. Walter M. Fuller of Springfield.
Mr.. Cady was veteran of the civil wsr
and a member of Winter Post, u. A. R.,
having enlisted June goth, 1861, In Co.
B, Fifth regiment Connecticut volunteers,
!, regiment that afterwards became we'll
known all through the army as the Fifth
Foot Cavalry" October 21st, 1868, he
was transferred to Co. D, Veteran Re-
serve Corps. and received his discharge
from the army June goth, 1854. Funeral
services were held at his late home Wed
nesday afternoon at 2. 80 O'Clock, Rev. J.
P. Marvin of the Universalist church
officiating. He was buried beside the
i. body of his wife In the Stafford Springs
cemetery.
ii A most terrible accident and fatal In its
result occurred at the home of Martin
Sparrow, who lives on the Willis place,
just above what used to be the Hydeville
school house, about five O'Clock last Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Viola Bailey, who
was Mr.. Sparrow's housekeeper, was do
ing her baking and was using some wet,
green wood for that purpose. Becoming
impatient at the slowness of the fire, she
went for the kerosene oil can and raising
the lid of the stove she poured the oil
from the can directly on the fire. An ex-
plosion Immediately followed, the bottom
of the can blowing out and scattering the
burning oil over her whole person. She
rushed to the sink and began throwing
water over herself. After exhausting
this supply she remembered tub out
of the house and started for that, her
clothes all In blaze. She was all alone
at the time, but her screams finally at
> tracted the attention of Mrs. Clarence
White, who Is her nearest neighbor, and
who Immediately went to her assistance.
By the time Mrs. White reached there she
was terribly burned, every particle of her
r clothing, except small shred of one
= sleeve, having been consumed. The poor
r victim was assisted into the house, cover
3 ed up as we'll as possible, and then Mrs.
= White went for assistance to the house OF
, Jarvis Hatch, another neighbor. DR..
9 Newton was summoned, but the unfortu.
nate woman was SO terribly burned that
? nothing could be done to prevent her
death, which occurred about ten O'Clock
the same evening. The deceased, whose
maiden name was Miss Viola Congdon,
was only seventeen years of age and her
home was in Providence, r. l., although
, she had lived for time In Lebanon, also
In Wilmington, where her grandparents
, still reside. Besides her grandparents,
r she leaves husband, from whom she was
1 separated, father and mother, and one
little sister about eleven years of age
Funeral services were held at the house
Sunday afternoon at two O'Clock, Rev.
F. w. Gray of the Staffordville Method.
LIST church officiating. The body was ia.
ken to Wilmington the same afternoon fol-
burial.
StaHordville.
Herbert A. Bosworth has been i'll.
= A. Arthur West is suffering from Sc.
, we're cold.
Mrs. Clare Lemonde Is i'll at her home
on Colburn Hill.
4 Maurice Ritter spent Sunday with rela.
L. tives in this place.
John M. Moore of Springfield, Mass.
: was In town last Sunday.
Q Henry Sands killed a black snake siz
= feet long on top of gravelly hill recently.
Mrs. Lovica Cummings has gone to
Union to spend few days with her broth.
or, III. F. Corbin.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Pinney Of South
8 Manchester were the guests of Mr.. Pin
: ney's brotherIn-law, A. 8. Eaton, Sun.
. day.
:. Rev. F. W. Gray and family returned
from Schenectady, N. Y, last Saturday
morning. Many friends are glad Of theil