The Press., 1904-09-07

Mrs. Gardner has been at the sea
Ishore.
Philo Church of Rockville visited
relatives and friends here last week.
M. Masinjka has returned to New
York to resume there his trade as q
painter.
The Austin family have returned
from Mrs. Cummings to their home
in Lynn, Mass.
Mrs. Esther B. Dimock of Moose
Meadow spent Thursday night at Mrs.
A. s. Pierce's.
Some folks prophesy another cold
winter. but we guess it won't be the
next coming one.
John Barrows of Hartford passed
through here Saturday on a visit to
friends in Ashford.
Miss Annie Tinky and her father
OF Boston we're guests at George A.
Oosgrove's the past week.
Miss Hattie Narrower returned last
week from her visit to her relatives
in Hartford, Glastonbury, etc.
Rev. g. w. Sheppard and his
youngest daughter of Stafford Hollow
called on friends here last week.
There's no need of frothing at the
mouth over the elections till about
the middle of next month"; ever.
Charles Converse, now living in
the Sibley house, Stafford Springs,
was on business trip hither Satur-
day. -. ....... 81.
There has grown to be an awful
big hole through our head from letting
things go in at one ear and out at the
other.
There are two foreign letters in the
Office to be called for: Mrs. Eliza
beth Lee and AL Signor Guai Minnetti
Battista.
Charles H. Davis and wife, now of
Palmer, Mass, spent Sunday in town,
guests of Rev. A. Gardner, attending
the Congregational church in the
forenoon. ~.
Eleanor DeWolfe spent her eleventh
birthday at the Sunday school picnic
Saturday. Besides, she was the re-
cipient of little presents from relatives
and friends. .... 49,
The wife of Rev. G.. W. Wolfe will
preach in the Baptist church, Stat
ford, next Sunday forenoon for Rev.
G. w. Sheppard, who is absent on
his vacation.
The Sunday school picnic was util-
lied by some in inspecting the new
cooking range and the various late
presents to the young couple at the
Baptist parsonage.
George Brown was brought home
helpless from severe chill by his
fellow employee, Losche. Thursday af-
ternoon A physician was summoned
and he is now recovering. :,
On the evening of the nickel social
at the Baptist church, a pretty. little
blue cape, highly priced by the own
er, was lost on the Hill. Will the
finder leave it at the p. o. .~....z
Miss Alice Emily Knox. youngest
daughter of Frank Knox of Hartford,
is at Mrs. Carpenters to spend a
week or so. She is a great-grand-
daughter of the late William Shaffer.
Rev. d.. Y. Moor's subject at. the
Congregational church was "Why
should I be a Christian" founded
on the last clause of ROM. 70: l.
(which is your reasonable service. {"
Communion followed the discourse.
Rev. @. W. Wolfe discoursed upon
"The temptations of Christ, as mar
rated in Luke 4: a. One person was
admitted to the church, subject to
baptism, which will come in the near
future. The candidate was formerly
Methodist.
Potatoes are yielding phenomenally
six bushels of "Green Mountains
from less than two rods of land-land
that some ten years ago had not been
ploughed up for 200 years-and they
are founders, too.
Mrs. Isabella Taylor, 85, widow of
the late Alexander Taylor, died re-
Gently at the home of her son, Will
liam Taylor, at Bondville, Mass, and
was buried in the new cemetery last
Thursday morning. She was a good
woman and had many friends in this
vicinity.
George e. Sparrow has secured the
services of a Willimantic lawyer in
bringing suit against parties man
and a woman-to be determined on
the Hill. in Justices court, ON Sat-
urday, 10th inst, at 9 a. m. The
plaintiff sought to attach in the
amount of $3.50, claiming $75 dam
ages.
The Baptist Sunday school voted
Sunday to invite the North Tolland
Sunday School association to hold
their next meeting with it. So, with
out doubt, the association will so
meet, as two gentlemen, officers OF it,
called on the local ministers last Fri
day and said it was Willington's
turn etc. Although the local Sun
day school above mentioned will be
the entertaining body, it is understood
that all the Sunday schools in town
will help provide for the entertain
ment in the Baptist church Friday,
Sept. %. The local committee ap-
pointed consists of Pastor Wolfe, Mrs.
Preston, Nellie Carpenter.
The mid-week prayer meeting, sup
plemented by the reception given to
Rev. O. W. Wolfe and wife was we'll
attended. The reception" exercises,
consisting of music, presentation
speech, rendering the various articles,
1 including a dinner aet wotor cot