The Press., 1903-12-10
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| T recovery, it is hoped. 1s:> t ?. le The engagement of Hans M. Hanser
 and Miss Rhoda B. Lyon is announced Il Frank Chism has been under the
 weather a little of late from an attacI of grip. s.s.l ] G. B. Marble and wife, having duly returned from the west, were at church
 Sunday.
 Covenant meeting will occur this evening preparatory to communion next Sunday. .. George Gaylor and family have gone to Northampton, Mass, where he has job in the insane asylum. A household has been gladdened by the appearance of a little daughter, Ida Rhoda; parents, Charles Korner and wife. The proceeds of the last ladies' so- cial had to go to help pay for some of the oats used at the recent associa- tional gathering. ..... - The Baptist Sunday school voted I Sunday to have Christmas tree and exercises in the meeting house on the evening of that day. z f..
 This season the Springfield Repub- lican printed the twenty ninth con secutive Thanksgiving story from the pen of Mrs. Preston. -.. .-.
 Francis Dorsey will sell his farm near the Roaring Brook school house at auction Friday, the 18th, at 10 a. m. MT. Dorsey is to move to Wales. Among other features at the Christ mas exercises at the Baptist church will be the rendition of dialog by Mrs. Preston, 'The Gospel of Work. ]" Miss Hattie Narrower is much better, as is also Miss Alice V. Cos grove, who has all attack of tonsilitis where she now is, in Newport, Vt. . "Some people are never content in any company where they do not occupy the center of the stage So long as they are merely listeners, they are un- easy" a'
 The fAdamesk- Williams suit has again been put over, this time on &C., count of the plaintiff s absence in New York city. A material witness of his was also absent with him.
 We are now in receipt of many "press clippings" from the "bureaus;' about the new pronouns, "hes" and "mer.'' But we shall not 'give' quite yet $50 per thousand for 100 clippings.
 It is a very regrettable fact that the earlier volumes of the Connecticut Reports were sold years ago by the then first selectman to then young lawyer in Ansonia; regrettable in more than an economic sense.
 At the very enjoyable ladies social in the conference room Tuesday even- ing Miss Alberta Hardy of Nova Scotia took the first prize, pair of dainty balances, while Oscar Himmeler bore off the booby prize, a jumping jack.
 We hope that Christmas this year, in this locality at least, won't be a selfish one entirely. All, old and young, must remember that they should give as we'll as receive. Sometimes we have thought that Christmas tends to selfishness. -t
 We will give cookie or big red apple to mer who will tell us when was the last royal veto in England. All hees will have to do will be to read little correct English history. Please notice the use we put to our new personal pronouns in this para graph. .... ......-.. ... ....
 Miss Ellen Sparks, daughter of the late Daniel Sparks, of New York, formerly of this town, and who spent a portion of the past summer with her cousins, Maria and Josiah O., en- joys the retired school teachers, , Brooklyn, N. Y., pension of $50 per month, very proper sinecure for a faithful performance of most useful duties for a series of years. -. MT. Bakeman, son of Rev. Dr. F. | w. Bakeman, of Chelsea, Mass, a member of the middle class in Newton Theological seminary, occupied the desk Sunday in the absence of the pastor. He took no text, but simply brought a message to the people, he said, "The religion of Jesus Christ, " which he eloquently and effectively discoursed upon.
 ''The religion of Christ is suited to tired men and women and children. It is suited to the office, the cradle, the sewing machine, the headache, the heartache, the nursery, the school room, the lonely attic, the evening ramble. It should sweeten all the moments, thoughts and feelings, the voice, the conversation, the tolls and af1ictions of life, the temper, and the heart; and all may have and enjoy | it." ..<-........a ..... ..-... .-.-#.. The New York Herald, in a recent issue, has this to say about our new personal pronouns, "hes' and Inner" /: | OudIA0S |. IOoGOA, yCoAS u6O O young lawyer in Hartford, Conn.,, of recent years resident of Wilmington, Conn.,, veteran of the civil war, now nearly blind, but an enthusiastic philologist during all the years, sug- gests the use of two new personal pronouns, hes for he and she, and 'mer' for him and her. These time and ink savers, blends from the two old phrases, may be speedily adopted throughout the world of letters. '' As we tried to say here last week, the new words seem odd now, but every new thing has to go through the sprouts.
 The Deacon Barrows hereinafter mentioned was cousin of the late Mrs. Solyman Taylor: The New Tab H. oR D.