The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-02-25

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William Converse cut his foot quite
badly Saturday.
Lizzie Whitford is visiting friends
in Stafford Springs.
Radium comes now trifle higher
$50, 600. 900 per pound.
Mrs. Gardner went to visit her son
in Burnside last week.
Rev. s. W. Clarke is visiting his
daughter in Springfield, Mass.
The board of relief finished their
labors for the year on Monday.
Charles M. Miller has recently sold
fine horse to Morris Marcy, Mans
field.
Spring will be here betimes, for
the bluebirds have been seen and
heard.
Jesse L. Emo went to Hartford re-
Gently to see the authorities about his
district matters.
The text at the Congregational
church Sunday was James 1: ~.
Theme, "True religion.
Joseph Fuller is about the same
lying quite comfortable, we hear, at
the home of his niece, Mrs. Lyon.
E. A. Morse has an ailing horse
the Carpenter horse-on his hands.
The malady is in one of the hind feet.
Mrs. g. H. Davis resigned her po-
sition as superintendent of the Con-
gregational Sunday school last Sunday.
You mustn't say q word, however
just and proper the remark might be,
for if you do, the very devil will be
to pay.
Dwight Bramble and his men, after
finishing the job in State Line, are to
set up his saw mill in J. f. Whit
ford's lot.
What's the use of sending abroad or
to our southern states for oranges
when Mrs. A. D. Dimock raises them
at our own doors?
"Have you changed your dater?"
is phrase that will be understood by
five persons at least in town-a sort of
post Office joke.
Charles H. Davis farm has been
sold to Bohemia family from New
York city. Mr.. Davis and family are
to remove to Palmer, Mass, next
week.
Mrs. Sarah G. Meacham, 60, wife
of George B. Meacham, died Sunday
morning at her home, 139 Cedar
street, Springfield. Mrs Meacham
was formerly Miss Sarah Burlington
of Wilmington.
Jennie Church says that George A.
Cosgrove has some 500 hens and pull
let's, while her flock of only rs Ply
mouth Rocks yielded 46 eggs last
Saturday during the week. Now
these two champions in the egg line
are the best of friends, but they will
crow loud and long for their favcrite
fowls.
Charles T. Preston sold the old
Roderick Fenton farm, then owned by
Thomas Tomlinson, to Amos Old OF
Three Rivers, Mass. and Mrs. O. Fl.
Davis, his daughter, who has Just
sold it to N. Y. Bohemian, is years
ago. This has been the home of tha
Davises ever since, the children, iii
but one, being born there.
The late Cyrus Joslyn was 10 years
old, almost 80. Rev. George NV.
Sheppard of Stafford off1ciated at the
funeral and at the interment. Cyrus
Joslyn, son of Marvin Joslyn and
Martha Cooper Joslyn, was bonn in
Pomfret Feb. ~, 1924. Fifty one
years ago he married Miss Embline
CLARK. He is survived by two chill
dren, George and Frank, besides the
widow.
Rev. s. W. Delzell of Clinton
preached for the Baptists Sunday. AT
the church in the forenoon his topic
was 1.-THE doctrine of the Grown"
founded on various passages in the
New Testament. Mr.. Delzell is a
very forcible speaker, and he treated
his subject in masterful way. He
was formerly a Presby terrain minister,
a brother of the pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Mansfield sever
al years ago. The candidate made a
good impression on a majority pres
ent. Sense, not sentiment, in his
case, and he has extraordinary orato-
rical powers. -
Cyrus Joslyn, an aged resident in
the locality known as Eldredge Mills,
died Wednesday morning. He was
in the lumber business years ago, and
was an uncle of Col. Charles M.
Joslyn of Hartford. He lost an arm
while in a mill, and had been in fee
BILE health for some time. He had
lived with Frank Joslyn of Late
Springfield Republican, Feb. goth.
This would have been all right if
the young man on the paper had not
"edited' too much. The copy did
not say the deceased chad lived with
Frank Joslyn of late.' The copy
said he had cared for him of late.
The funeral took place at the house
Sunday at O'Clock p. M, the inter
ment being in the new cemetery ex-
tension. The deceased has always
led frugal, industrious life, and was
an honest man.
The following from the postmaster
of Wilmington, s. O., the only other
Wellington in the U. S., besides this,
may be of interest to some readers:
"Our Wellington is very small
place, only about one-half dozen
stores, post Office and three churches
two Presbyterian and one Episcopal
The country is thickly settled. And
now in regard to when it was named
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