The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-07-23
HUMANITARIAN.

WILMINGTON.
Miss Jessie Holt Ia not as well as usual
Mrs. Belle Sleight recently returned
| from q visit to Boston.
There will be some apples, and there's
plenty of small fruit In this locality.
Quite lot of folks went from the Hill
and vicinity to take the cars Monday.
]. LIE June came up from Brooklyn, N.
Y, and spent Sunday with his family.
"It seems to me that Atlas was simply
q gentleman with protected nightmare. .
George Brown and wife went to Hart
ford last week on a business and pleasure
trip.
Daniel Dunning, bis family and sister
rode down to the agricultural college last
week.
George A. Cosgrove, as the town health
officer, attended the meeting OF the state
board Tuesday.
Charlotte Houston and her brother,
Allen, of Mansfield were at the social
Tuesday evening.
Real estate In this vicinity is raising ia
value perceptibly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Its
somebody's else.
1t appears In the town clerks Office
that Frank Mason and d. Lee Royce are
qualified constables.
Benz. q. Robbins has newly shingIed
the barn on the premises. Martin Chism
and son took the job.
Have we got to catch 1t rainwise for
these forty days just because 1t rained on
st. Swithen's day, 18th inst !?
What's the use of fussing and teamlng,
putting up Ice In the depth of winter, II it
all goes before July even Is over
Miss Hattie G. Robbins and Miss Edna
G.. Pierce visited Mrs. Annie Dimock
Houshen, Moose Meadow, yesterday.
Speaking of Rev. George W. Sheppard
of Stafford, the N. Y. Examiner has a
fine picture Of him In its issue of July 9.
There are people, quite sensible ones,
too, who stoutly maintain that cultivated
leisure is the highest notch of existence.
Little Joseph LIE June sang very pref
tily "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, y
at Miss Dunning's sing, Thursday even
ing last.
Assurances are given that first class
teacher, possibly normal school gradu-
ate, will be secured for the Center dis
trict for the coming year.
Jasper johnson, of the senior class of
Harvard university, was In town Satur-
day looking up his ancestry belonging to
the line of Capt. William johnson of Rev.
olutionary war antecedents.
The meeting of the local w. q. T. u,
which was postponed Saturday on ac-
count Of the rain, will try again at the
same hour and place next Saturday, 25th,
8 p. M, In the Baptist conference room.
We hear that spur track at our rail-
road station is talked of. 1t would GER
tainly be great accommodation to the
who do considerable business at that To-
cality.
Peter KuchIe of New Haven, through
Vincent Horky, has sold the Henry Felch
place to Gottlieb Jehle of New York city
Mr.. (proneunced) Tailor, with his wife
and two daughters are to occupy the
place soon.
David Dunning, wife, son Ransom and
daughter Esther, of northern New York
spent a week or so with the Misses Dun
ming and Palmer. Miss Dunning Is a
sister and aunt of the visitors, who left
for the Hudson, Niagara Falls, etc. Mon
day.
Speaking Of Captain and Editor Jones
Of the New Hartford Tribune, he Is one
of the best and braVest of men. His ears
would have tingled had he heard the en-
comiums buttoned on him at the Tuesday
evening gathering-even here In Willing
ton.
"The reason that SO few people can
rest Is that they are on bad terms with
themselves. They don't like to be alone,
or without excitement, because some I'M
ruly part of mind and heart will make
discord, and complain, or accuse, or look
out upon the future with foreboding."
At the Congregational church Sunday
Rev. Mr.. Gardner preached from Matt.
28:41, the theme being "Watching and
praying" At the Baptist church Rev.
George w. Shephard's of Stafford dis
course was on the Significance of the
words OF Christ, SIT Is finished" John
1880.
There will be a church meeting next
Sunday at the Baptist meeting house, for
the purpose of passing upon proposed
additions by letter and by baptism, imme-
diately after the service, now beginning
at half-past two p. m.-Sunday school al
1. 80 p. m.-changes that seem to suit the
people very we'll. ..a...
"a good word deserves to be said OF
ruts. 1t Is not the ruts we get into, but
the things they lead to that are bad OF
good. The use Of the rut, with its mod.
ern development, has indeed been the
chief means Of modern civilization. The
car wheel, as 1t fits the rail, is nothing
other than rut made circular and mo.
bile"
The G. e. society's social Tuesday even.
ing was decided success socially and
financially. Interesting features of the
occasion were the singing by Miss Dun.
ming, leading and greatly enllvening 1t,
the reading of "In the QuicksaDd" from
the June number of The Century by Rev.
@. L. Snow, and solos, with self accom-.
paniment, by j. Arnold Houshen, which
brought down the house.
Some folks hereabouts may remember
Capt. Ell. r. Jones Of New Hartford, who
installed the G.. A. r. post here a few
years ago. He stopped over night with