The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-09-28
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DR.. @. A. Ryder, Bridgeport, writes
enthusiastically to friends here OF the
st. Louis fair, which he has attended
Three Thousand one hundred ant
fifty-one lightning fires the year las
past in this country caused loss o.
81, $50, 437.
Mail Driver Chapman's wife saw
recently on her route three deer, moth
er and two young ones, beautifully
marked in color.
We ourselves know full we'll, ant
SO do others, that we can write Eng
lish correctly, so we never get frantic
over typographical errors.
Few of us stop to consider what
vast and wealthy nation this Of
ours is, and what Uncle Sam car
" Afford to lay out if he sees fit.
Next Sunday the services at the
Baptist church will begin at IL
O'Clock a. M, instead of $50 p. m.
and will so continue until April next.
There will be a monograph enter
tainment at the Village Hill school
house Friday evening, commencing al
7.3O. Admission, 10 and Is cents.
The proceeds 90 for the benefit of the
school.
A Jagermano pipe, bought in vi
emma, Austria, has lately been pre-
sented to us, and, of course, we feel
as big as all out doors over the new
possession.
Speaking of thome department
work, +" discussed in the recent Sun
day school meeting, at one time there
was furnishing branch of this sort
connected with the Baptist Sunday
school, and also a very helpful one
connected with the Endeavor society
here. 49,.
We have hereinbefore said, we think,
that folks can get into gear and &C
where and when they will. Our at.
tention has been called to this fact
lately in cases of non attendance
where manifest and bounden duty
calls, and attendance where such duty
don't call.
Ice formed last Wednesday night
for the first time this year on the
Hill, and mittens were not superfuity
the following morning. The summer
last past has seemed to many to be
very short, but it has been a grand
one and it has given us pretty good
weather, take it all in all.
Rev. DR.. s. I. Ives, go, a very
gifted man, whom older readers will
recall as native of Union, son of the
pastor there for many years, died Of
apoplexy in London, Eng, last week
His remains are on the way to thi.
country. He was for many years 9
noted professor in the Chicago Theo
logical seminary.
The theme at the Congregations
church Sunday was 'Soul-rest in
Jesus, - Luke II: %. The talk tt
the children was from the text, il
Genesis, 81 am thy shield.'' A La
dies social was announced for the
following Tuesday night. At tht
Baptist church the subject was "Th'
claims of God on man.
Julius Reed was recently brought
here by William Barter seriously il
with pneumonia, and is at this writ
ing lying in bed at his room in the
Blake house, ell part, formerly occu
peid by George Snow and wife and N
s. Marcy. It is said he is likely t.
recover. Rev. Mr.. Wolfe called OF
him the other day, finding him seri
ously ill.
In regard to that case of Sparrow
Parker, which was non-suited the
other day, the statute says: eff 6
Justice is absent, etc., at return day
he shall notify, or cause a notice te
be placed on defendant, when he will
try the case''-General Statutes
1888, s. $50. This provision no
being in the Statutes of 1902 may
cause some misapprehension in the
minds of both lawyers and the laity
This is simply another instance of TIT
errors in the last named revision
This in response to some inquiries.
The republicans have made the fol
lowing nominations for town officers
Assessor, Charles w. Eldredge; boart
of relief, F. W. Pratt, Ezra A. Morse
selectmen, Adolph Korper, William
D. Ruby; agent of town deposit fund
George A. Cosgrove; treasurer of tow
deposit fund, Sylvester P. Morrison
collector, Dewitt O. Dimock; schoo
visitor, Walter A. Allen; auditor
William F. Essex; registrar of elect
ors, William III. Hall; constable
James F. Lawrence grand jurors, W
o. Eldredge, Dennison Walker, JESSE
l.. Emo.
One of the largest meetings eve
held by the North Holland Sunda.
School association was the local at
traction on Wellington Hill last Fri
day. The day was a fine one, ant
the town residents as we'll as the larg
company of visitors, mainly consisting
of two bus loads from Stafford Hol
low and Stafford Springs, evidentl.
greatly enjoyed the occasion. Tn
program, which was late in makinl
its appearance, was carried out in al
attractive and edifying way. At tn
business meeting the following officer
for the ensuing year. were chosen
President, F. F. Patten, M. E
church, Stafford Springs; vice presi
dent. Rev. Charles w. Wolfe, Baptis
church, Wellington; secretary an
treasurer, Rev. f. w. Gray, M. E
tchurch, Staffordville. It was vote
to hold but one meeting annual