The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-04-07
James Wood is laid up with trouble

with his back.
A. W. Kingsbury has had his new
wareroom wired for electric lights.
II The boys are practicing baseball,
and the indications are that the town
will be represented with good local
team again this season.
Stafford.
Mrs. David Holmes is in Springfield
visiting relatives and. friends.
Claude Pinney of Yale is spending
his Easter vacation with his parents.
Miss Bertha Druley of Boston is a
guest of Mrs. Mary Prince for few
days.
Selectman Myron Leonard has been
confined to his house several days by
illness.
Miss Lucy Wilton of Hartford is a
guest of her cousins, the Misses Alice
and Addie Wilton.
Miss Efie Dunbar, who is teaching
at Terryville, is at her home in Hyde
vile for the Easter vacation.
Monday, April 4th, the pond was
frozen completely across from shore to
shore and long ways up the channel.
Rev. George Thompson of Brook
Ign, N. Y, was guest of his moth
er, Mrs. Emily Thompson, last week.
The Easter concert at the Universal
list church last Sunday evening was
we'll rendered by all the participants.
Charles Pero has rented one of A
D. Cady's houses, and will take pos
session as soon as some necessary re-
pairs are made.
Giles ellis, who has been living
in the little house at the north end of
the bridge, has moved his household
goods to Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Converse Fisk
announce in their wedding invitations
that they will be at home on Stafford
Street after May 18th.
Miss Gertrude Wightman has re-
turned from New York and Orange,
N. J., where she has been visiting
relatives for several weeks.
The Hydeville Ladies' Tea party
had it's last meeting of the season with
Mrs. Luther Crawford yesterday, and
there was large attendance.
The family of Edward Fletcher,
who have been living in one of A. D.
Cady's houses, have moved their
household goods to Adams, Mass.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid society
will meet for work next Wednesday
afternoon and serve their usual supper
at 5.45, with Mrs. Mary Green and
Mrs. Joseph Connors as hostesses.
Charlie Conner is using crutches
to aid him in his getting about. He
cut his foot with an axe a few days
ago while chopping wood, making
bad wound, that required nine stitches
| to close.
The body of Mrs. Emily Barton,
who was formerly Mrs. Allen Willis
of this place, and who died in West
Warren last week, was brought here
last Friday and buried in Hillside
cemetery.
All departments of the P. G. S.
commence the spring term next We'd
nesday. AS was expected, Miss Ger
trude Wightman has been appointed
to the room formerly taught by Mrs
Fl. g. Fisk.
Subject of the Y. P G. U. meeting
at the Universalist church next Sun
day evening will be Humility an in
dispensable virtue according to Chris,
tian Standard The leader will be
Miss Isadore Durham.
The young men of the village are
arranging for another social dance to
be given in Memorial hall next week
Friday evening. Jordan's orchestra
will furnish music and there will be
good prompting. A bus will leave
from the railroad station at the
Springs at 100.
A quiet home wedding was solemn
lied at the home of the BRIDES pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel MAGICAL
lum, in Hydeville at noon Monday,
their daughter, Miss Elsie E., being
united in marriage to Henry c. Fisk of
Stafford Street. The couple are both
we'll known young people and have
host of friends. The bridal pair left
on the afternoon train for a pleasant
wedding tour, and on their return
will commence housekeeping in Mr..
Fisk's reconstructed house on Stafford
Street. Mr.. and Mrs. Holtham, who
have been occupying the house, have
rented the Grant place.
The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Weston
was held in the Universalist church
at the hour appointed last Friday,
and although the weather was about
as bad as could be, the church was
we'll filled. The whole service was
very impressive, and the intense in
terest manifested showed the high es-
timation in which the deceased was
held in this community. Seldom, if
ever, has there been such display of
flowers as was seen in the church, and
their artistic arrangement was due to
the fine taste of George Kepler of
Norwich. The one ruling passion of
the deceased throughout her whole
life had been the cultivation of flow
ers, and as her life had been in the
midst of natures beauties, SO was her
death surrounded by the beautiful
blossoms. Mrs. M B. Fisk presided
at the organ, and Mrs. Ruth Thayer
Burnham of the Springs sang three
solos, One Sweetly Solemn Thought, :"
Homeland" and "Sleep On Mr..
Marvin, in his we'll chosen remarks,
showed deep feeling as he spoke of
the rnanu uirtuas of tho docaasod