The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-03-17

j Its long. way that has no mp hill
j It is said that 8. p. Morrison 10 te
resume business ut the old stand.
| The insurance folks had to pay out
some ninety million dollars for frel
last month.
R.. e. Bates sold a good pair Of
working horses, with set Of harness,
to +. u. Lataille, Monday.
Some of the personal property Of
the late @. n. Joslin will be sold at
auction next Wednesday at 10 q. m. !.
Oh, that cat query. why, d kitten,
OF course. That query may have been
a chestnut, eve do not know, we can
mot tell. y - RI. ~, FL !:
We hear that Hans NJ. Hansen, .Jr.,
Is to soon start q. delivery. wagon
about town from his store near the
Frailroad station. VA ~
+ w. e. Slater, since the sale Of his
farm, has rented the Origin Weston
house. Of recent years owned by. the
late Charles D. Ryder. i 49, t.
Rev. Mr.. Gardner preached effective.
Ily in the Congregational church Sun
fday from Gen. 5:11 and ID " Kings
f.: IA, Subject. "The translateds''
Miss Jenny Church recently exhibi-
ted an egg from one Of her Plymouth
Rock hens that was indeed .alound-
en- weighing a'quarter Of q pound ].
/ Miss Mary Kingsley, daughter of
Mrs; James Taylor, is now on the
road for. q picture firm in Vermont,
holding . responsible position, it is
said. 50, 49,. ... 49,.
Last Sunday SON OF the late Wall
ter Morrison, with others, joined the
Congregational church in Willimantic,
on the eve Of the departure Of Pastor
s1s'ofRe.Se - - q: r. -. st....
Yes, the spring is very laggard this
year. Last year we had garden
planted on the 9Th OF March; and the
biuebirds,, etc, we guess they were
blue jays. -
Il Mrs. Urania Barrows Ide, widow of
the late Gilbert Ide, passed her 8Oth
birthday, f4th inst. Among others
sent to her was box of eut flowers
from friends in Rockville. ~,
We note in the February number of
the First Baptist Monthly" Hart
feTd, that Miss Grace Knox had q
handsome umbrella and q fur COLLAR
cite at birthday party given in her
honor at the suffeld street chapel in
that city Jan. 4. III
w. E. Slater, the owner and occu-
pant of the. old Rev. Er. Hubbe1l
Loomis place near the Hill, with the
long double row of maple trees in
front of the premises, sold it last week
to New York Bohemianspafties, who
have already moved into the house.
Note the influence, our "little"
local papers have throughout the land !:
A physician in Ohio happened to see
in late Press an item In this column
about an ailment fastened on an &C.
quaintance Of his. He sat down and
wrote ont . prescription for an effect
i've remedy and sent it to her.
In an interesting article entitled,
" Clearing The Trail for Civilization"
in the current number Of the Connec-
ticut magazine, the editor says:
Read building has become science,
and the necessity of unobstructed
travel increases with the material
advancement and development of the
...-' .s..-....
AT the Baptist church. Sunday, Rev.
Mr.. Cam of the Newton seminary, an
ordained minister, -discoursed very
beautifully on the subject, "The
kingdom of the child, - founded on
Matt. 1873. Notice was given out
that there would be church meeting
on Sunday, s7th, to act ON the matter
of calling Mr.. Wolfe. l..
A mishap occurred by reason Of the
sinking of the wheels of the wagon
which was transporting new engine
and boiler for Armitage & Amidon,
last week Tuesday, as it was being
taken from the railroad station to the
lot. for which it was destined. The
accident happened on q springy part
Of the road near the Hill, and the
wagon was eventually righted and
proceeded on it's way. u
The paragraph going the rounds Of
the papers about q certain old SOL
dier's pension is incorrect and mis-
leading, we are credibly informed.
The 'seffort'' alleged to have been
made in his behalf was entirely un-
known to him. A recent item in a
vicinity paper was entirely erroneous.
The original effort" paragraph was
duly noted. The whole story was
started by Norwich paper.
Now that another Lincoln day has
passed, how many Of the pupils in our
schools can tell how long the "Black
Hawk war, in which that great man
engaged, lasted? And, by the way,
the late Mrs. Clarissa Eldredge Russ,
who was the predecessor In the Pierce
cottage on the Hill, used to tell of the
rayages Of the Indian on her Premises,
then in the far west, during that war
how, for instance, they utterly de-
stroyed a field of wheat she and her
husband, the late Thomas Russ, had
taken great pains to cultivate and
weed out-a nathetic tale 49,
The following from the Springfield
Republican of the 18th inst. contains
a little more information than was
handed us for publication in The Press
last week -
The past winter has generally been
considered pretty poor one for poul-
trymeD depending on egg production
for an income, but an exception must
be made in the case of George A. Cos