The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-04-14

: drinks.
:, Mrs. Louise M. johnson is expected
? in town tomorrow.
, Mrs. A. s. Pierce is having some.
thing of sick spell.
Mrs. John F. Whitford is not quite
SO we'll, having had relapse.
II Charles A. Robbins of Mansfield
was at his parents last Saturday.
what always makes a coach dog
spotted?' Why, spots, to be sure.
Stafford "Reminiscences, now run
ming in The Press, are very interest
ing. ##-#.a.
Yes, as said in this column last
week. our town population is increas-
ing. ..
i The boy who cut his foot, as mar
rated in last Press, is doing we'll, we
hear.
Mrs. s. w. Clarke is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Scott, in Springfield,
!; Mass.
The w. c.. T. u. will meet at
South Wellington on Saturday after
noon at $50.
Miss Bertha Young came up from
Willimantic to attend the funeral of
Charles Hyde.
| Anybody who wiggled through the
past winter has good deal to bank
on for the future.
The Keens farm on Village Hill
will be sold at public auction next
week Tuesday at 10 a. m.
Beware of the hundred or 80 eye
and ear nostrums you see advertised,
especially in the cheap, ten-cent pa
pers. We speak from experience.
The Burdicks are to build a small
house on the old Thomas Rider place,
Moose Meadow, to be occupied by
James Burdick, now of Eagleville.
Mail Driver Chapman's little boy
cut his foot badly Monday. His
neighbor, Mrs. Glass, dressed the
wound, she being an experienced
nurse.
| Saturday last John G. Ryder bought
of Mrs. Charles A. Robbins the equity
of her little home, just east Of the
Center school house, moving out of
the Baptist parsonage thither.
Parties from Willimantic came up
in the rain Monday to survey the old
Simeon Williams farm, their report
to be used as evidence in the Adamek-
Williams trial-if ever the case is
tried.
Samuel Gillas has moved from Stat
ford to a house near Henry Wood
wards, Ashford, where he has taken
up his abode with Nancy B1akely,
and where he has hired out one year
to Mr.. Woodward.
Notices of a republican caucus, to
be held at the hall in South Willing
ton on Friday evening, 22d, at 7
clock, for the purpose Of choosing
delegates to attend the state presiden-
tial convention, are posted.
Mr.. Wolfe has accepted the call of
the Baptist church to become it's pas
tor. A more formal acceptance will
be given next Sunday, and the details
of the candidates ordination will
doubtless follow in the near future.
Charles Hyde, who, in recent years,
has been living with his relatives,
George Rounds and family, Moose
Meadow, died and was buried last
week. Rev. A. Gardner attended the
funeral at Mr.. Rounds and conducted
the services at the interment.
The case of A. Ademek VS.. Charles
P. Williams. controversy over the
acreage that was supposed to go with
the Simeon Williams place that the
defendants sold to the plaintiff some
time ago, is set down for trial to-day.
Mrs Preston, who made out the
conveyances, is at Rockville as wit
ness for the defendant.
What makes folks so careless about
their paid up mortgages? The prop
er thing, of course, to do is to quit
claim the property back promptly, but
often this is neglected, thus making
the title of the realty appear cloudy
on the town land record books. A
deal of trouble, too, all around would
be obviated.
Rev. Truman johnson, M. D.. a
medical missionary in British India
for many years, formerly Of this
town, arrived in Boston last week.
He will probably visit relatives and
old friends here soon. 1t is thought
he will not again return to his old
field of labor. He will soon join his
wife and son in California.
"I 'spose folks get kind O. sick OF
my talk sometimes said Neighbor
Wishwell, "but feel that must say
a word just now about Charley Dean, -
he went on, his face wimpled with
honest Indignation as he read over one
of his letters he had just taken from
the p. Ms. hand. ''Just hear this
I've just received from Boston way, "
, and he read as follows: The act Of
!, Mayor Dean in borrowing money in
the city's name Ito pay school teach
ers) in what seemed to be an emer-
gency was an irregularity, but SO slight
J one that the legislative boards,
knowing the mayor we'll, took no note
of it, and would never have done sc
but for Jack Davis, whom Dean Of
} Tended by leaving him off the finance
committee. A Maiden citizen said to
, me, "We all know Mr.. Dean, and
we all know Davis. Davis one vote
J to ''impeach" the mayor, the day his
motion was Laughed out of court, -