The Press., 1903-12-17
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ling, either of take or give kind. All the sick ones hereinbefore named are better, Mrs. Mary Francis Davis being decidedly on the gain. ..a
 Wilbur Duncan and family, includ- ing his daughter. Gertie, and her hus- band. are now living in Hartford.
 No divine services on the Hiii Sun- day on account of the storm, the rain and wind of which did not abate dur ing the morning hour.
 The annual meeting of the Congre- gational church was held yesterday at 3 o'clock p. m. At this writing we could not give the result.
 From stockholder to brakeman, rail- road folks are arnenable to the laws as to common carriers as they pound the iron from point to point
 Miss Marion Sparks left Monday morning for Washington, D. O., to spend a month with her aunt, Miss Asenath Holt, our only surviving school teacher, by the way, and with other friends there. ..,. | We hear good reports of the conduct of the recent Sunday school convention i'll the M B. church in Stafford Springs. The good and finely served lunch and the absence of hustle and confusion w4re especially noted. .... ......
 Presumably communion will be ad- ministered i'll the Baptist church next Sunday, the occasion of the observance zation. Of course, the ordinance had to be postponed last Sunday.
 Mrs. Preston, in her paper con- cerning the history of the Sunday school, to be read at the commemmo- rative occasion next Sunday, will cause some, perhaps, surprise, as she reads over list of some of the former members.
 Look here, boys! Uncle Sam wants a man as interpreter Dutch and Flemish pay $1, 900 yearly, a drafts man, an electrotype moulder and a trained nurse for the Philippines, pay $75O yearly and found. Will give particulars if written to or called on.
 Representatives from the humane society at Hartford drove out last week, and ordered killed a horse owned by a party who now owns and occupies the old Oliver Holt or Julia Dilworth place. The mate had been killed previously at the railroad sta tion, it being too weak to get up after slipping on the ice.
 Gardner Hall, Jr., has concluded to sue to recover a part, if not all, of that $25O, ,OOO that it is alleged was sort of buncoed out of him by repre- sentatives of the White Mountain Paper Co.,, alluded to in this column some time ago. Suit has been brought in the U. s. district court to recover the aforesaid amount.
 If anybody has sweet tooth, he or she can get relieved by sending $1 to Lamont, Corliss 6 Co.,, 78 Hudson street, New York, and getting pret- tily decorated family can of four pounds of Mackintosh's s Toffee, real old English staple, both delicious and economic. She has tried it and says it's the finest thing in that line she has ever tasted.
 She says, after some experience, that there is no need for folks in this vi- cinity to go any further than Stafford Springs to do first-class shopping, Xmas or other This is free "advertise- ment'' for D. Robertson's & Co.'S "city" store, and for others all along the line.
 There are 631, 900 rooms in the city of New York where the only light ob- tainable is by opening door into an other room In some of these rooms are women at work making 600 paper boxes for five cents, and where four. year old children help to cover but tons. You can't get these sort of folks to leave the city-the sounds, sights and smells are so alluring.
 It is hoped that there will be better skies than last Sunday when the 75th anniversary of the organization of the Baptist church will be observed next Sunday, the 2Oth. Although, as has been said, the observance will be of an informal character, interesting letters from former pastors will be read, special music rendered, etc. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend this service commemmorating the founding of an institution that has never harmed the community much, to say the least, during it's existence. Services will begin as usual at 10. 45 a. m.
 1T SNOW to goodness, ' said Neigh Dor Wishwel as he entered, after hitching his horse, and the use of some expressive explosives over our new causeway, that had somewhat inn peded his entrance on our premises, "what the old cat has got into our school children nowadays! just met two or three of them and asked them who were the governor and the presi- dent, where were the four corner towns of the state-Thompson, Ston- ington, Greenwich and Salisbury, and what is one-half of one-eighth, and I'll be blessed if they didn't one and all say q dunno to the questions, ex- cept the mathematical one, one little chap saying very promptly one- eighth. Then I asked them the difference be- tween colon and semi colon, and I dunno came again. Oh that I had a copy of Webster's old spelling book to pass around, that text book that taught pupils something, and oh for some of the old school marms and schOOlmasters who taught manners.