The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-09-03
WILlINAroN.

l WICK.
There was no Sunday school at thu
Baptist church Sunday.
The Misses Pierce returned to Soutl
Providence, r. L., Monday.
Potato rot prevails to some extent
in some localities in this region.
Mrs. Gardner has taken a trip tc
Maine to be gone several days.
How often is the neighborhood OF
village report father to the wishl
Miss Bertha Young is now on the
Willimantic exchange telephone SER
vice.
School Book Agent Lyman of An
dover was guest of Charles T. Pres
ton Friday. .
Mr.. Burdick, our Oldest resident, is
in fairly good health at present, and
saws little wood now and then.
Miss Abby Chism has gone to Will
limantic to resume her attendance at
the normal school there
A lazy mans epitaph:
"Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me
never,
I'm going to do nothing forever and ever"
Alice V. Cosgrove returns to New
port, VT, tomorrow to rejoin her
aunt and to resume her duties at the
high school there.
Is it possible that no young man in
this part of the state is scrambling for
that Cecil Rhodes scholarship at Ok
ford, England, $500 year, cash?
There was a party at Frank Chism IS
Saturday night with double purpose,
to surprise his sister, Miss Abby
Chism, and to celebrate his birthday.
D. Lee Royce has been appointed
by the board of acting school visitors,
w. I'll. Hall and Charles FL. Hobby,
to be one of their number to fill va
cancy.
Mrs. Preston has loaned a number
of antique articles for the "Connecti-
cut house, furnishing for the St.
Louis exposition, some of which have
been already forwarded. ..
A good, kind uncle came from Chi
cago to Norwich the other day and di-
vided 81 900, 600 among his relatives
in the latter city. Will not some
such uncle come this way?
George Nichols of Holyoke, Mass. :,
has been visiting his relatives in
town. George hated to return from
his vacation, he had such good time
with the girls land boys) here.
Mrs. Mary Jane Church Smith has
been visiting her sisters, Mrs. E. A.
Morse and Mrs. William McVeigh.
Her daughter, Mrs. Ballows, is board
ing for the summer, as usual, with
Mrs. Gardner, Spring Hill.
J. A. Houshen and wife were guests
at "Maple Corner Thursday, last
week. They have returned to New
York city. Mr.. Houshen goes back
with health greatly improved and will
resume his duties on the N. Y. World
The Ladies' society of the Baptist
church will hold social, supper, lit
erary and musical entertainment next
Tuesday evening. All who are inter
ested in the entertaining of the associ
alton are requested to make an effort
to be present. +.
Speaking of the death of Rev. @.
w. Potter, former pastor here, some
one in our hearing, an old resident,
said: st have never known Baptist
pastor here who did not leave in much
better circumstances, all around, than
he was when he came" ...
We know of hale and hearty wom-
an in middle age who is the mother
Of twenty-eight children, twenty five
boys and three girls, six twins. She
ought to be put in communication
with President Roosevelt, in reference
to the subject of Grace suicide" his
utterance concerning which has made
him SO unpopular among the women.
Dea. J. Osborn and wife are going
to Rockville to live, having hired q
pleace there. The. worthy couple
leave this community, where they
have as upholders and partakers OF
good citizenship, been valuable helps
churchwise and socially for several
years with both the regrets and good
wishes of their neighbors and friends.
President Roosevelt said in a recent
speech: Remember that the preach
ing does not count if it is not backed
up by practice. There is no good OF
your preaching to your boys to be
brave if you run away. There is nc
good of your preaching to them to tell
the truth if you do not. There is nc
good of your preaching to them to be
unselfish if they see you SELFISH with
your life, disregardful of yourself. -
Rev. Charles W. Potter, former
pastor of the local Baptist church and
who represented the town in the leg.
islature, as we'll as one of his sons
and his son-in-law, Edgar F. Wedge,
the last democratic representative
from the town, died at the home OF
his daughter, Mrs. Wedge, at Bantam,
the 27th inst. He was IS years old
his last pastorate was in Rowayton.
The interment was in Rev. Lester l..
Potter's family lot in Hartford Mon
day afternoon.
How much better off would these
girls have been had they crested" in
quiet places, in this region, for in.
stance: "The strenuous life at New.
port has proven too much for some Of
the young women who have endeav.
ored to keep up with the giddy whirl.
Some of them began to show signs OF
being nearly all in, and physicians
who were consulted have ordered the
wearied girls to quieter resorts. New.
port life this summer has been too ex.
acting for all but such as are of unus.
1,1Nv Sn1 %ior,