The Press., 1904-03-10

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| Jimmy Burdick of EagleviMe is Wis
iting his relatives at Moose Meadow
G. B. Marble is recovering from al
affection of the ear, having escaped
pneumonia. e2
Mrs. Harriet Cunningham and Miss
Wyllis of Chaplin visited their friends
here last week. a
Mrs. j. j. Himmeler, West willing.
ton, is stopping at her father, A.
Cowles'. for while.
j. f. Whitford came near selling his
place to New York Bohemian last
week. Only fifty dollars stood in
the way.
George A. Cosgrove was under the
weather Sunday, sending for the doc
tor to relieve him from q malady akin
to the grip. ~.
you'll Always Be the Only Girl
For Me- is the fad now in the lire
of that kind of words and the music
set to them.
We are requested to say that there
will be preaching at the Baptist
church next Sunday in any event, ex-
cepting bad weather. " ID
DIR. A. A. Lawrence of West Med
way, Mass, was on his annual tour
hereabouts last week, stopping at
Charles T. Preston's. .. a.s.
Advertised letters: Edward st.
Jean. Lewis Lachapelle, Miss Hansin
Demand, Charles Hopkins, Dominica
Chiciso, Angus Anderson.
We don't quite feel as if we were
out of the woods in the matter of
weather, for the great blizzard Of 1888
began on the 18th of March.
Rev. Mr.. Davies, who used to
preach here, is now rector of st.
Johns church, Salisbury, as friends
in that locality recently wrote us.
The Bently boys, now of Eagleville,
recently bought the timber on the
island" in that locality, formerly
belonging to the late "Wash" Moore.
The Center school, Miss Riley
teacher, who went to her home in
New Haven. is having. q two-weeks'
vacation. The next term will begin
Tuesday, 2sd inst.
We must now be economical in the
matter of our camphor supply, for
Japan has the monopoly of that pro-
duct, and she uses lots OF, it in making
her smokeless powder.
Rev. A. Gardner, at the Congrega-
tional church Sunday, preached from
John $3.50. Subject, "The word. :"
1t being "Bible Sunday the topic
was an appropriate one.
Mr.. Wolfe again preached for the
Baptists Sunday. His theme was
"Grace. Text, I'd Peter, 8: 10. 1t
is expected that the young candidate
will occupy the desk next Sunday.
The birds are having q hard time
this winter. One of Demopd's wood
choppers tells us that he has fed Ave
chickadees all the season daily with
his luncheon crumbs. They have be-
come SO tame that they fly up on his
knees when at his daily repast.
All the sick and ailing in this vi
cinity are about the same. @. T.
Preston's broken thumb has nearly
resumed it's former condition, while
the late postmaster, s. P. Morrison,
is on the gain. E. A. Morse had a
short sick spell last week, but is now
all right.
Poo" Adirondack Murray is dead
We we'll remember listening to his
last sermon in Music hall, Boston, in
which he used over and over the
phrase, "We do not know, we cannot
tell. He subsequently waited on
us in the oyster line in his restaurant
in Montreal, Canada. -..- .....
It is said that seventy five cents
worth of iron can be converted into
$3.50 worth of table cutlery, or $6, 800
worth of needles, or $50, 600 worth of
buttons, or $500, 600 worth of watch
springs = thus showing progressive
value of mechanical and technical ed
ucation; or the significance and value
of skilled labor. Now which of
these products from the seventy five
cents worth of material would our
boys prefer to help to make?
Charles P. Williams and others had
quite an encounter with a deer re-
Gently. They first discovered the
poor animal, torn and bloody, being
chased by two hounds. Some of the
party wanted to shoot the deer to end
his misery; but Williams said no,
'twould be against the law. So the
deer was freed from the dogs as far as
possible, and the last heard of the
bleeding animal was when it was off
in the woods running for dear life.
Yes, we personally are decidedly on
the side of Russia. It won't do, for
one thing, to make fun of the "Yel-
low Peril, F." besides we can't forget the
stand that nation took, alone among
all the great European powers, when
we were in sore strait and stress dur
ing the civil war. We personally re-
member seeing her fleets in our har-
Dor during the dark days of 1868,
when Napoleon and England were on
the eve of helping the southern con-
federacy.
Some of the older readers of The
Press may call to mind the annual
visits here years ago of Miss Naomi
Barns of New Haven, afterwards Mrs.
Essi Stanwood of that city. Her
mother was cousin of the late Hon.
s. T. Preston. We recently received
word of the death of her only son,
Loren. 40. in that citv He WAS az