The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-02-04


| Communion at the Baptist church
next Sunday.
j Rev. d. v. Moor is now preaching
in Odell, Ill.
Now for the annual avalanche of
seed catalogs.
Don't hate your trousers because
they are patched.
Our neighbor, Cosgrove, picked s1s
dozen eggs last month.
Mrs. William Eldridge is now able
to go out of doors some.
Miss Marion Sparks returned from
her Washington, D. O., trip Friday
evening.
Dove ever examine ourselves to
see how thoroughly selfish we are at
the bottom?
q. A. Morse and wife spent Satur-
day and Sunday with their children
in Stafford.
A distant subscriber to The Press
says: st couldn't get along without
The Press. -
The item last week should have
read Rev. s. W. Clarke, not "Mrs. -
s. W. Clarke. u.s.. .-....
s. p. Morrison is still confined to
his house, and will not be able to
respond to store orders for the present
Among the articles looted at the
Hansen burglary were three watches
two too many for ordinary wear for
one man. .,..
Rev. Mr.. Gardner's topic ut the
Congregational church Sunday was
daniel, the uncompromising youth -
Dan. 1:8.
The two. years-old child of Ernest
Wilson met with a painful accident
last week, falling from a chair and
breaking it's elbow.
{ The Y. P. S. 9. e. will give a val
entine social in the conference room
on Friday evening, the 18th inst.
Particulars next week.
Rev. and Prof. PEBBLES, who used
to supply the pulpit here now and
then, coming from Storrs, is now
preaching in northern Vermont.
Advertising letters in this column
is entirely gratuitous on the part Of
both the writer and printer, the de-
sign being to accommodate the public.
A woman in town has four toes on
one foot, while her brother has six
toes on one of his feet, thus main
tanning the normal number in the
family.
All the mail matter that was in
the old post Office has now been re-
moved to the new one, which, for the
present, will be open at all hours of
the day and evening.
Sylvester Cunningham and family
and Mrs. John d. Taylor, now OF
North Windham, lost nearly all they
possessed by the fire last week, and
much sympathy 10 felt for the losers.
This is woodchuck week. We
guess the interesting little creature
will have hard time in getting out
of the ice and snow to see which way
the cat will jump for the coming sea.
son. ..s. .....-s#t s....
George B. Taylor of Mystic hat
quit-claimed all his right and title
to the old Curtis farm to John f.
Wh4tford. The grantee has had pos
session of the tract of land for some
| time. -..-.....'....
Horace johnson, the weather proph
ct, says we are going to have another
cold snap the 16th-the last one thi,
winter and then mild weather, with
an early spring, presaging excellen
crops. ~. r....-...... ........
Antiphlogistine, the rage now fol
Inflammation, is simply a clay fount
in Colorado, and was long used as {
remedial agent by the Indians. It il
sent to the east by the barrel, and il
perfumed, to suit, by Wholesale drug
gists.
At the Baptist church Sunday Rev
Mr.. Osgood preached from Lev
IL: 16, II. The peoples1seem to like
him better and better, and'a call ii
probably imminent. Whether he will
accept or not still is q question. FL.
has wife and two small boys.
When, where and how, we some
times wonder, did the first fellow
take it into his head to place his leg,
in right angles with his trunk, or, il
other words, to. sit down. It will b.
recalled by some that Sancho Panza
devoutly blessed the man who invent
ed sleep.
: Apropos of the present war clouds
ooh, if I we're Queen of France,
Or, still better, Pope of Rome,
I'd have no fighting men abroad,
No weeping maids at home.
} All the world should be at peace,
And if kings must show their might,
Let those who made the quarrels
Be the only ones to fight
The party who recently broke int
Hans M. Hansen, Jr's., store at Wes
Wellington, is suspected, and step
will soon be taken for his arrest. A
warm welcome will be given to any
further burglarious intrusion, we are
told; something that will take hole
of mans trousers, and a little shoot
ing, perhaps. .
Unclaimed letters in post office Jan
81: A. W. Hull, Jackson 8 Shar1
Co., Edmond st. Jean. Louis Lacho
pelle, w. L. Gone, Mrs. j. O. Miller
Emma Hurlock, Mrs. L. ID. johnson
Miss Mary Weisbaker, Miss Ethel Il
, Collier. Wellington Gas Light Go.
Rev. Theo. Brown, Albert Gilbert
David Bancroft heirs. Estate Mrs