The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-02-05
WILMINGTON.

the dwelling house OF Charles ID. KY
der is being shingled.
Two persons joined the Baptist church
by letter last Sunday.
Is war imminent for this nation over
the Venezuelan business
Mrs. George Wilson Is recovering from
severe attack of inf1ammatory rheuma-
tism.
''What state, In spelling 1t, is high In
the middle and round at both ends
Ohio"
Whist parties are no longer fashionable
In Washington. You must be able to
converse" If you want to be stylish there.
The friends Of Widow Edward Morrison
will be pleased to know that she is now
the recipient of $12 per month U. s..
pension.
Rev. G. L. Snow discoursed last Sunday
forenoon on the words, ''The blood of
Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses US from
all SIM"
The prospecting woodchuck not having
been able to see his shadow on Monday,
Candlemas day, is presumably out of his
winter quarters.
Never use the words ''scholars' for pu-
pills. Scholars like Socrates, Herbert
Spencer and Emerson don't grow on every
bush, while the woods are full Of pupils.
Miss Hattie c. Robbins returned from
Norwich last Saturday. She was warmly
greeted as she resumed her position as
organist at the Baptist church last Sun
day.
Alfred House has again been made hap
py, this time by the presentation of a
watch, the money paid for 1t being solic-
tied among his friends by Mrs. Nellie Car
penter.
George B. Taylor, formerly of this
town, is now working as weaver 10 a
worsted mill in Mystic. That factory
turns out some of the finest goods In the
country.
One hundred and fifty persons have
been killed outright, and many more &C.
riously injured, In railroad disasters, in
| side the last two months, In this country
and in Canada.
There are now nine billion dollars OF
life insurance carried In this country,
with assets of two billions. The business
is three times greater than that of Eng
land, for instance.
John F. Whitford has bought the old
Curtis place Of George B. Taylor. Mr..
Whitford says he cold recently to Demond
& Bramble only the wood and timber on
the land. The land itself still remains 10
his possession.
Lots of notable days come this month,
Candlemas, Lincoln, st. Valentine and
Washington-and also, tomorrow, the
birthday of our good and esteemed neigh
Dor, George A. Cosgrove.
We are requested to ask everybody who
Is to attend the social Tuesday evening
to bring something appropriate to read or
have read about Abraham Lincoln. His
birthday was on the 18th inst, but the
10th is near to 1t.
For many years Hartford has been
noted for real estate operators. The first
real estate agent" In that city was the
late Henry l.. Rider, and at the present
time two former Wellington boys are
prominent In the business In that city
A. Judson GlaZier and Lester l.. Potter.
Venezuela was the first Spanish colony
in South America and the first to throw
off the Spanish yoke. Little Venice
was thought to be the Ell Dorado Of the
Golden West. Seventy-flve per cent. of
her population cannot read or write. The
allied European ships now
'Lie off sightless coast
And haul and back and veer."
1.-THE most important matters in our
communities are those pertaining to our
schools and churches" said Neighbor
Wishwell, one day recently. "Supervis-
ion for the former, and common sense, If
you please to call 1t that, for the latter
are greatly needed in their administration.
The schools in our town, and, say, two or
three adjoining towns, ought to be grouped
so that competent school visitor, or su-
pervisor, could devote his whole time to
them, at cost, perhaps, of about that
now paid to the dozen or so persons now
the "acting school visitors" In these
towns. From what I hear our schools
are going altogether too much In happy
go-lucky fashion. The teachers need gu
ptrvision as we'll as the pupils. Neither
teachers nor pupils can be allowed to do
as they please quite all the time. Now
the churches" and Neighbor Wishwell
drew long sigh, "they need grouping,
too. Both the Congregational and the
Baptist churches are the same in polity,
each law unto itself, too much so it Is
sometimes feared, and they need super
vision also, sadly in some cases. Take
the local church, and two churches In the
town of Stafford, the one in Westford, the
one In Ashford, one perhaps in Mans
field, all receive aid from the state socie-
ty. Now suppose the money it takes to
run these weak sisters could be ''pooled, p"
and one good, snap2y minister be en-
ployed to take charge of them all. Let
the churches be opened every Sunday for
their individual Sunday schools and lay
reading of sermons, and the we'll equipped
minister preach rousing sermon to the
people, say once month. The Baptist
churches In these same towns are weak,
struggling institutions Of that order. All
but the local church receive convention
aid" How much better work could be
done were all these churches placed under
one minister, right one and good one,
and money devoted to the local poor, mis-
sions, repairs, etc., as very wholesome
and needed consequence All these