The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-04-07
WELLINGTON.

What always makes the coach dog
spotted?
A woman's head will turn as a
new bonnet goes past.
In Europe they make gloves and
stockings out of paper.
Edna L. Pierce returned to North
field seminary on Monday.
The Segee place will be sold at auc-
tion Saturday, April IS, at 10 a. m.
Fred Jones has been sufferer from
muscular rheumatism for several
weeks.
Grace Morse spent Easter with the
Misses Dunning and Palmer in New
York city.
The tract of woodland belonging to
Mrs. Lydia A. Warren will be sold ut
auction next Wednesday at 10 a. m.
The young candidate for the Bap-
fist pulpit did not announce his decis-
ion as to acceptance of his call last
Sunday.
Jesse l.. Emo has sold to Joseph
Langhamner the old Bradley place,
Westford.
We read of lots of "self-made"
men, but seldom or never of wife
made men.
A critic suggests the phrase "Cozy
croft Farm" is Pathological. Well,
what if it is, let 'em call it SO, if
| they so choose.
William Converse is teaming in
Stafford for his father-in- law, Mr..
Blair, with whom he and his family
are now living.
Charles Benton has sold his team
horses to Medic Labonte. The former
has not yet decided where to locate !;
is looking around.
The widow of Rufus Weston, form
erly of this town, his second wife,
Mrs. Ellen N. Weston, died at her
home in Stafford last week. She was
bul led Friday.
There are some readers of The Press
who will doubtless be interested to
know that Dasie Dimock Browns
baby, Hazel Eliza, is as pretty as a
pink and as blooming as a rose.
George Baker, the carpenter and
builder, has bought the auckland
Moore Pasco place, near the railway
station, and has rented it to A. De-
Wolf, the latter, with his family,
having already moved in.
A needless, shameless and brutal
Dissertation of the NJ E. church
chapel, Tolland side, was recently
perpetrated. The guilty parties must
have been put to sad straits for ways
and means with which to do mischief.
John F. Whitford has not yet sold
his farm, "Sunnyside. - 1t is now
hoped that he and his family will re-
main with US. It is said that the
party who was negotiating for Mr..
Whitford's farm finally purchased of
w. Slater.
Announcements have been received
of the marriage of George Otis Rich.
of Coventry, r. L., which took place
Sunday at the home of the bride.
They are to reside in Willimantic, and
will be at home at the corner of Main
and Valley streets after July LIST.
The interment was conducted by
Rev. J. III. Newhall of the M. e.
chruch at Willimantic, who accompa-
MED the body hither. A beautiful
flower piece contributed by the Will
limaftic chapter of the d. A. R. and
other flowers we're in evidence at the
grave. Her pastor, Rev. E. A Bowen,
of the Baptist church officiated at the
funeral.
At the meeting of the Wellington
Cemetery association on Monday the
old board of officers was chosen. The
outlook for the near future as to much
needed improvements in and about
the old cemetery is promising. The
road approach from the south along
Lake Snap is to be widened, etc. The
association, as we'll as the public in
terested, far and near, is largely in
debted to the generosity and public
spirit of W. H. Hall.
Last week there appeared in the
Hartford Courant the following !:
Charles T. Preston of this town has a
leaf of the Charter Oak pressed and
preserved in an interesting album of
letters and pictures by his grandfather,
the late Amos Preston. We wonder
has any one else preserved Charter
Oak leaves? One response, received
Saturday from Mrs. George Hubbard
of Hartford, says she has twig with
five leaves, pressed under glass, pick
ed up by her husband the morning
the historic tree fell. She has, also,
piece of the wood.
Tom Baxter, son of Edward Baxter
of Staffordville, appeared at the house
of J. F. Whitford about II O'Clock
Tuesday morning with his left foot
bleeding profusely, having cut him
self badly with an axe while working
for W. E. Demond in the woods near
by. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitford and also
Mrs. Cosgrove, who had been sent for,
were unable to stanch the flow of
blood by the use of the usual appli-
ances, and soon the boy, with his
father, started to see a surgeon at
Stafford Springs. The result is not
known here at this writing.
We clip the following obituary
from Hartford paper of the 29th
ult. It is concerning an old time re-
spected resident here =
Mrs. Minerva Grant Snow, widow
of George Bartholomew Snow of Will
lington, died Saturday evening at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles