The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-06
WILMINGTON.

Joseph A. Dimock is recovering from,
rusty nail wound in his foot. 81
Miss Edna q. Pierce enters the North
field, Mass, seminary Sept 1st. :
Lizzie Knox, daughter of Frank Knoz
OF Hartford, is visiting friends here. !
Widow J. Clayton Fuller of Spencer
Mass. Is visiting at her father, Matthew
Burdick's.
+. d. Preston and wife drove up from
Mansfield Sunday and called on old &C
quaintances.
Mrs. LIE June and her sister, Grace,
visited their aunt, Mrs. Munyan, In Mans
field last week. !,
W Master Thomas Smith, oldest son OF
Henry Smith of Manchester, has been
visiting at George A. Cosgrove's.,
Mrs. Morse and her daughter, Mrs.
Le June. visited Mrs. William Gardner,
Spring Hill, last week Wednesday:
We were astonished to learn the other
day that an adult, intelligent pupil Of our
schools did not know who aAtlas"-i Is.
MRS. Gertrude LIE June, her little son.
Joseph, and Master Adrian Morse, re.
turned to their homes Saturday morning.
Mrs. Abby Marcy Phelps, youngest
daughter of the late Dyer Marcy Of Penn
sylvania, called on friends In town recently.
And now "kid'' for child is used In
an editorial In a neighboring city paper.
But no mention is made Of the kids moth.
er, who, Of course, is q goat. /.
;s"Shut up, Johnnie. Don't you see your
questions annoy your papa very much? p
"Huh, mama, faint that that 'noys him.
Its cause he can't answer ,em that makee
him mad"
Rev. Charles FL. Brown and wife re-
turned from Asbury Park last week,
Mr.. Brown proceeded to Newport, vt.
the next day, while Mrs. Brown relnains
here for time.
A fine headstone to the memory o.
Esther May DeWolf has been set up II
the Howes- DeWolf lot in the old GENE
terry. A number of her old friends went
to see the stone last week.
10 Mrs. Mary Francis Davis, who, will
her husband and mother, Widow Rufus
Robbins, has been living for some time
at Samuel Nichols, Is at present confined
to her bed by reason Of complication O.
ailments.
The Baptist ladies will give socia
Tomorrow evening. Musical and literary
program and supper. Among other out
of-town friends who expect to be present
Is the wife Of former pastor Rev. Charles
II. Brown.
Saturday evening delegation from the
Hin attended the surprise birthday party
OF Eddie Lyon. Notwithstanding the pre-.
viors stout refusals to hold no more such
parties, or to attend them, there was
good time and large attendance.
Miss Emma T. Robbins and Florence
Pierce visited at A. d. Dimock's a couple
OF days last week. While there they went
to accompany party to visit the Doug:
lass monument In Ashford. Another cpl.
sode during the visit was the presence OF
three Emmas at tea at J. A. Dimock's.
Automobiles are getting to be com.
mon sight even here in this town. By
the way, why didn't the new law ordering
the numbering of the machines provide
rather for numbering pedestrians and 9th.
ere on our highways, so that they. could
be the more easily identified when killed
or injured
Mrs. Pierce entertained a party OF
friends on the occasion of the fifteenth
birthday of her daughter, Edna, last
week Wednesday. Among other things
that graced the festive table was dec
grated cake with fifteen deliberately frost.
ed yellow daisies and the figures 1883
19O3," contributed by Mrs. Houshen.
ThesCongregational ladies are to give
a social Wednesday evening, 18th. The
millinery contest'' part of the program
will be an attractive feature doubtless;
The men are to trim the bonnets which
the women are to bring Eve undertand
any old thing will do) along with the
trimmings, which they, the women, will
wear to supper. There's to be prize fol
either the best or the worst trimmed bon.
net-which, we do not learn. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
"Well," said Neighbor Wishwell, driv
Ing up, there's been another baptisine
down In that lakelet. That, I believe
makes some twenty who have received
that rite In the two or three years last
past, and I've heard lots of talk, pros anG
cons, about the business ever since thai
first large batch was immersed. For thai
matter, s'pose there has always beer
lots said since Jorden days. Some say
that that there lakelet has raised the ole
boy with the mill wheels ever since thai
first batch was attended to, on account O.
the deviitry that was washed off, etc.
etc. On the other hand, about as goo6
class Of folks say, among other things
We'll, s'pose the church had refused tt
admit the candidates when they had pre-
sented themselves, after Miss Lords L.
bors around here for instance, after duti
full and proper encouragement by godt
Christian friends, what a bowling ther
would have gone up from the outsiders
Is it not better that young folks behave
and try to do better even ten days thar
to go on raising the devil the whole time !?
] don't know exactly what to think some
times, but guess It. will all come out
right In the end. For my part, say Il
we've got Bible and system of religion
built on it, decent kind Of country tc
live In, a scale OF morals to sustain, why
let's square ourselves accordingly, and
urge others to do the same. Another
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