The Press., 1904-08-24

Ines0 are great Old August days.
Miss Emma f. Robbins is visiting
friends in Westford.
Mrs. Wilbur seems to be rallying
from her serious illness of week ago:
Rev. Mr.. Gardner again supplied
the pulpit at Moose Meadow Sunday
afternoon.
There is q class in German, Mr..
Wolfe, ST., teacher, in the Baptist
Sunday school.
Andrew Sparks of New York has
been visiting his cousins, Josiah and
Miss Marion Sparks.
Mrs. L. E. Scott, daughter and son
will return to their home, Princeton
street, Springfield, Mass, ON Saturday.
A large party from the local union
attended the W. @. T. U. exercises
at the Willimantic camp ground last
Friday.
In reply to our recent squib about
these pouched waists we are told that
they are certainly hygienic. All
right, then.
Rev. Mr.. Gardner at the Congrega-
tional church preached from Psalms
119: $500. Subject, David's Chris
tian experience.
Owing to the heavy rainfall Satur-
day, there were several disappointed
ones here who intended to go on the
excursion to Watch Hill.
How mean. underhanded acts be-
tray themselves in demeanor and
face; iii other words, A guilty con-
science needs no accuserl'
Master Philip Pagan of Walling-
ford is spending his vacation with
his grandmother, Mrs. E. @. Trask,
at the Glass Factory village.
Mrs. Julia A. Carpenter, her daugh-
ter Emma, and her grandson, Master
Ernest, Of Shelton have been visiting
at E. H. Burdick's, returning home
Monday.
The Misses Lizzie and Helen Knox
came to Mrs. Carpenters last We'd
nesday, ON their return from a visit
to their grandmother in Massachusetts,.
Its indeed hard, in this Waterfalls
tic, deviltake- the hindmost age, to
make anybody believe that there are
any thoroughly unselfish souls around.
But there are, and they are truly the
salt of the earth.
We have reason to fear that, after
all, the scheme for the free rural de-
livery route will not succeed, although
all hands have signed the petition, it
is said. We hear many say that only
Daleville would be benefited.
Mrs. Wolfe, wife of the pastor, &C.
cupied the Baptist desk Sunday after
noon, speaking interestingly from the
words, Fear not, little flock; for it
is your Fathers good pleasure to give
you the kingdom Luke IL: 81.
There are letters in this post office
for the following unfamiliar names
Mrs. Jennie B. Switzer, Mrs. Mary J..
Lynde, Joseph Counter, Mrs. Frank
III. Whitenack, care of James Free
man, Mrs. Will J. Whitaker, Miss M.
M. Marshall, F. L. Seward
Why don't folks when they address
their letters make a good, plain W
for Wilmington, and good, plain M
for Millington, and SO save much con-
fusion &seores of letters get tangled
by the above mentioned lack of care.
We have hereinbefore referred to this
matter, we presume.
Many will remember Capt. Henry
R. Jones of New Hartford, who came
here a few years ago, and in his Ca
pacity as chief installing officer estab-
lished the local G.. A. r. post. His
new $12, 200 house was entirely de-
stroyed by fire last week. The loss
was covered by insurance.
Through the efforts of Mrs. Preston,
president of the Ladies' Aid society,
John Merrick of Minneapolis, MINI.
Mrs. Sidney w. Crofut of Hartford,
Mrs. Rose Phillips of Andover and
Charles T. Preston have donated tC
and set up in the Baptist parsonage q
$45 Glenwood range, with pipe, etc.
We were both amused and some.
what edited the other day, when ar
elderly New York woman told us il
her quaint dialect that the reason she
had never married was because the
man she wanted she couldn't get, ani
the man that wanted her she would
not have. The same old story, frank
ly told.
A young peoples society carried OF
by old people misses it's mark. Ont
is always amused by photograph o.
young peoples convention of any
kind in which gray hair and balt
heads abound.
Apropos to the above, the local En-
deavor society has been heretofor,
carried on with the idea that no on
was too old to "Endeavor It ha
been lately organized as a young PEG
pies society, pure and simple.
A delegation from here attended tn,
annual Ashford union Bible meetin,
at the grove owned by Robert Amidon
near the Congregational church il
Westford, last Wednesday. The da,
was propitious and the attendant,
good.
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A mass of lovely flowers graces tn,
front of Jesse L. Eno's residence.
It was unmistakable in Pastor Chap
pell's speech that he is pronounce,
Roosevelt man.
A ball game near by amused an,
interested the large gathering at tn,
close of the exercises.
The speakers were Revs. Chapel
of Warrenville, Wolfe of Wellington
and Gray of Staffordville.