The Press., 1902-09-25

York city Friday to be gone some ten
days.
The women of this country wear out
fifty million dollars worth of corsets
yearly.
| Miss Jennie Morrison of Windsor, for
merly teacher here, Is visiting friends
In town.
Dwight Gardner of Chicago, ILL.,, is Wis
itlng his parents at the Congregational
parsonage.
1.-The most agreeable people receive ad-
Vice graciously, and give it sparingly and
with discretion"
The fine flowers that graced the Bap-
ttst desk last Sunday came from North
| field, Mass.
Hospitality Is virtue among barbarous
nations, and an article of sale among CIV
ilized peoples.
Alfred Cowles, late of Co. "K," 18th
Regt. Conn. Vols, attended monument
day celebration In Hartford to-day.
The G. E. society meeting last Sunday
night, Miss Gardner leader, was largely
attended and unusually interesting.
Mrs. Reuben Edgerton, who is still
| with her friends in Tolland, Is suffering
considerably from a recent sprain, we
hear.
Ii the president calls our senior U. s.
senator, Hon. o. s. Plat, cold Hickory, !"
why not call Mr.. Roosevelt "Young Hick-
ory ?"
A surprise party was entertained Satur-
day evening by Clarence and Clayton
Richardson. A very pleasant occasion Is
reported.
The delegates to the W. G. T. U. con-
vention at New Haven, chosen by the To-
cal union Saturday, were Mrs. Pratt,
Mrs. Allen alternate.
Said we'll known speaker and writer
not long ago, 1.-The surrounding circum-
stances are SUCH" etc., etc. Where igno-
rance Is bliss, tits folly to be wise.
| Referring to kerosene oil explosions, it
is strange that people will persist In pour
ing oil from the can on fire. The recent
lamentable tragedy at Hydeville affords a
local warning.
| There's an r in the month of Septem-
Der, so Stroud, the fish and oyster man,
Is on deck again. He Is an old, expert
enced hand in his line, and patrons on his
route like both the man and the wares he
carries.
good people Is their eager sympathy for
the whitewashed william of romance, and
their unwillingness to believe of a living
man that he Is not so bad as he Is paint
ed"
The topic at the Congregational church
Sunday was "Proper inquisitiveness the
high road to knowledge" Mark 9:32. The
theme at the Baptist church was "Whole.
heartedness In Gods SERVICE" II Chron.
31:21.
/ A fine monument was set up last week
for the late Lucius Eldridge and wife In
the Harvey Merrick lot in the old GENE.
terry. L. q. Merrick and Marion Edger.
ton of Bristol, Mrs. Edgerton and others
from Tolland met on the grounds Mon.
day.
FL. Whitford Jones of the Cleveland
(Ohio) engineering company, son of Mrs,
Anna. Whitford Jones, now of Wooster
Ohio, and grandson of the late Dea
| Id how
last week. He stopped at Mrs. Legrand
Johnson's.
Mrs. Annie A. Preston, as association
al director for womans' home missions
and Rev. G. L. Snow as pastor of the To-
cal church, attended the meeting of the
Ashford Baptist association, in addition
to the delegates hereinbefore named, al
Putnam, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The late Lucius Eldridge, whose re
mains, with those of his father, were re-
Gently removed to the Harvey Merrich
lot In the old cemetery, was one of oul
old school teachers. The epitaph on his
tombstone reads, "Happy In life, peaceful
In DEATH" a most befitting one indeed. E.
The remains of Mrs. Viola Bailey, who
was so shockingly burned in Hydevillt
last week, were brought hither for inter
ment Sunday. Rev. A. Gardner officiatee
at the grave. She formerly lived at Geo
E. Sparrow's, and had been recently
, housekeeper for Martin Fl. Sparrow IL
Hydeville.
A couple from the north part of thu
, town came down here last week Tuesda,
red hot to be married. They tried two
, justices and two ministers to tie them
first soliciting the loan of one dollar will
which to get license. They went ava!
unsatisfied as far as legal jointure wa
concerned. But its too bad to make fur
of such folks.
A town picnic, under the auspices of al
, Its Sunday schools, will be held on thu
Hill Saturday, the 9th inst, from 10 a
good time Is expected. Games, races
etc., will be In evidence, and about moor
all hands will partake, In picnic fashion
of refreshments provided and brought by
all the participants. If the day SHOULD
prove stormy, the gathering will be post
, poned to the next Saturday.
Friday evening last a delightful violir
and piano rehearsal was given by thu
Misses Dunning and Gardner at Rev. A
GARDENERS. Miss Dunning's talents as
violinist were kept comparatively secre
till just before her return to New York
Another summer she kindly proposes tt
. let her light, of that sort, shine also. She
Is an exquisite violin player, and the rem