The Press., 1904-05-25

HOME NEWS.
sT,FFoKn SPRINGS.

The engagement of Miss Cora M.
 Milner of the borough and Arthur w.
 Logee of Danielson is announced.
 MT. and Mrs. Otis Chapman an.
 nounce the engagement of their daugh-
 ter, Florence Genevieve, to Daniel Avery of West Stafford. Many are becoming skeptical over
 the possibility of the proposed cleo
 tric railroad between Worcester and
 Hartford. It has been so long since
 the scheme was first launched that those who have said from the first
 that it would never be built are be- ginning to think themselves prophets. The road had ceased to be topic of
 conversation, but another ray of hope
 has appeared. Last Friday T. O,
 Hinds and J. F. Shaw of Boston and
 w. H. Trumbull of Salem were in
 town. These are the leading spirits of the proposed enterprise, and they were making a tour of inspection of the proposed route. They said that work would have been commenced on this end before now but for the neces- sity of double tracking the road be- tween Worcester and Boston. It is probable that some of the preliminary work will be done in Stafford this season, but it will probably be next year before active operations all along the line are in progress. The fnan- ciers behind this undertaking have already spent over $1OO, 900, which would seem to indicate confidence in its ultimate possibilities.
 The following is from the Daily Herald, Spartanburg, s. O. :-
 In the early morning of May 1, at the home of MT. Alden, occurred the death of Miss Leila Lincoln Foster, head of the department of modern languages. of Converse college. She had been at Converse for only one season, but the community needed not even so long time to recognize the superior quality of her work-its ac- curacy, it's thoroughness, it's finish, its attractiveness that only the best instructors can give; and the direc- tors and students realize that in her death the college has sustained an irreparable loss. Her preparation had been of the best. She had spent the early years of her girlhood in France and Germany, acquiring such profic- iency in the languages as only all acute and active intellect can attain. Her education was completed at Smith college. Thus the broad culture of travel and education was given to a mind strong and eager, and this was with a nature so exquisitely refined, so childlike in its candour and trustfulness that all who knew her must needs recognize an unusual yet the very delicacy of her nature created 8 reserve which WAS abandoned only when ties of friendship were strongest. The few months of her stay might seem to warrant only acquaintances, but her winning personality drew to her friends most warmly attached-friends who tended her in her sickness, who waited anxiously for tidings of her condition, who hoped even to the last for her recovery. Throughout her illness, her room was a bower of flowers, slight expressions of the sym fa1 n11 over, she was still surrounded with flowers, and the room where she lay, all in white, fit emblem of the spot less purity of her young womanhood, seemed all of roses. The fresh spring flowers with their delicate fragrance and soft colors gave nothing of fune- real sadness, but exhaled the fair promise of an awakening to the per feet life. Only few friends were present. The service was read by the Rev. MT. Magruder, and the beauti ful hymn, "Sleep Thy Last Sleep," was played by MT. Alden. Then she was borne away to her distant home in Stafford Springs, Conn. AS is of ten true, she who seemed fittest to live, was taken away. Emblematic it is that death came in the early her life was in it's early Much work remained for which she was ready, place in life, which she alone could fill. To hu- man vision, it seemed that she was taken too soon away. The sympathy Of friends whose own love for her teaches them in some measure to real ize the burden of sorrow that rests on those who are her nearest and dear est, goes out to the mother and sister in their bitter bereavement.