The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-03-31
O. T. Jewett of New York has

been in town this week.
Eli Parizeau will open his ice
cream season on Saturday.
Miss Irene Beebe has recovered
from an attack of the measles.
John Burr entertained surprise
party at his home last evening.
Mrs. Catherine Hicks has gone to
Hartford for an extended stay.
Adelbert Needham expects another
car load of horses next week Friday.
At st. Edward g church in the past
two Sundays 800 people received COM
mHnion.
Mrs. Keefe has moved to the house
near the Congregational church, own
ed by the Central wooden mill.
There will be special Easter SER
vices at the Methodist church Sunday
morning, and Sunday school concert
in the evening.
Court Oronoco, Foresters of Ameri-
ca, will hold special meeting this
evening to elect representative to
the grand lodge.
Rev. A. N. Nichols has been ap-
pointed pastor of the M. E. church at
East Lyme, and will go to shis new
field of labor as soon as he can arrange
his affairs here.
Easter services at St. Edwards will
include masses at s. 80 and 10. 80, with
vespers in the evening at 7SO. An
appropriate musical program has been
arranged for the occasion.
At the meeting of the Current
Events club next Monday evening, in
place of current literature, Mrs. W.
H. Smith and Miss Brown will give
an account of their winter in Bermu-
da.
| Stafford.
Miss Addie Wilton is at home from
Chester for the Easter vacation.
Stated communication of Wolcott
lodge, No. 60, F. & A. M, this even
ing.
Charles Dimmick has resigned as
janitor of the Baptist church, and is
succeeded by Willie Brown.
There will be Easter concerts in
both the Baptist and Universalist
churches next Sunday evening.
Mrs. M. J. Coughlin was called to
Lowell, Mass, last week Thursday
by the serious illness and death of her
father.
George Braithwaite has resigned his
position in the Riverside mill, and
accepted a similar position in the
Hope mill at Staffordville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kemp. who
have been living in one of A. D.
Cady's houses, have moved to the
vicinity of Grow Hill, where Mr..
Kemp is employed in a steam mill.
The many friends of little Dick
Pinney will sympathize with him in
his affection. His parents have been
obliged to take him to a hospital in
New York city for further treatment.
All members of Stafford grange are
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Frank Lasbury Friday afternoon at
1.45, for the purpose of attending in
body the funeral of their late men,
Der, Mrs. Ellen Weston.
Some week or two ago Frank Las
bury succeeded in getting near enough
to one of the wild deer in West Stat
ford to get snap shot of the animal
with his camera. Herbert Thresher
has enlarged the photograph, and it
not only makes handsome picture,
but also an interesting souvenir of a
real wild Stafford deer.
Rufus Moulton, 70, died at his home
last Thursday after long illness of
dropsy. The deceased came to this
town about twenty-five years ago and
had made his home at the place where
he died, at the corner of the macadam
road and the old road to the Street,
since that time. He is survived by a
widow. Funeral services were held
at his late home Saturday, with burial
in Hillside cemetery, Rev. E. A.
Burnham of the Congregational
church at the Springs officiating.
The following program had been
arranged for the lecturers hour at the
regular meeting of Stafford grange
next Tuesday evening, but the sudden
death of Mrs. Ellen Weston will ne
cessitate some change: 1.-The enjoy
ment and advantages of the old-fash-
Toned singing school, Mrs. Ellen
Weston; "Under present educational
methods will American children be-
come as capable singers as their
grandparents were?' 1. May Colburn ;
readings by Miss Mamie Lord and
Miss Annie Wobbecke.
Mrs. Ellen Weston, an old and
highly esteemed resident of this viii
lage, died at her home last Tuesday
afternoon, from the result of an oper-
alton for the removal of gall stones,
performed some months ago. Sell
dom, If ever, has person been taken
by death from this community whose
loss will be more keenly felt by a
large circle of friends than that of
the deceased. Mrs. Ellen Weston was
the daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos Harvey, and was born June IT,,
1889, in the house across the street
from where she died, her whole life
having been spent in that one local
ity. She was married in March,
1862, to Rufus Weston, and for many
years the couple were widely known
as singers and musicians of great
ability. Mr.. Weston died October
9Th, 1883. 1t needs no words of ours
to tell what her life has been, always
cheerful and ready in all cases of
need to render all the assistance in