The Press., 1905-12-13
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this writing.
 S. P. Morrison is digging a we'll just east of his dwelling house.
 On account of pressure of other matter our genealogies must go over to another month.
 Big, fat buck deer. with wide seen near the house of Eli Wood, Westford side.
 During the hunting season, just closed, there were AZ persons killed. About half this number were victims in football games.
 We had no mail here on the Hill Thanksgiving, the same being legal holiday. We, and folks beyond us to the east, did not get The Press un- til Friday.
 Winnifred Brown and wife have removed to the Leander Hull place, near the Daleville school house, now owned by Getohell of Boston. Brown and his wife are still keeping board CTS.
 We are pleased to note that Mrs. Studley is much more comforta ble. Her eldest son, William, is her faith full care -taker. Both he and his younger brother, Frank, are very con- siderate of and kind to their mother | these days.
 Mrs. c. s. Amidon and Miss Emma F. Robbins are exploiting a bed quilt scheme for the benefit of Miss Isabel Merrick, who is now an invalid at Everett, Mass. The vicinities of the Hollow and the Hill are being can- vassed respectively by them.
 We are ill receipt from a western source of the following information about the Taylor family: Thomas Taylor, after the death of his first wife, Experience Freeman, married Mehitable Atwood of Mansfield, who subsequently, as widow married the father of the late Col. Joseph Merrick and after his death Joshua Pearl.
 Word has just been received of the death of Mrs. D. L. Royce, 43, on Sunday. She has been great suffer CT for a long time from tuberculosis, and her exit from this world is for her happy release. Much sympa- thy is felt for the family. The de- ceased was a bright and ambitious woman, with much retirement of character. Besides her husband, she leaves one son, Meroyn, and daugh- ter, Beatrice The funeral is this af- ternoon at 1 o'clock.
 We did not hear until lately of the death, by cancer on the face, of John Day, an old and faithful workman al the Dalaville mills, last fall at the house of W. F. Squier. Westford side. Before his death he gave by deed tc Mrs. Squier, as payment for services rendered to him by her during his ill ness, expenses incurred etc., the house and lot once owned and occupied by William Snow. which the deceased had recently purchased and occupied Rev. MT. Hayes, who, some years since, was candidate for the Storr and Wilmington Congregational pull pits, and is remembered with interes and pleasure by many hersA is now the pastor of the Congregations church in Windsor, Vt., and as chap lain of the prison there had tue un pleasant duty of officiating at th' obsequies attending upon the hanging of the notorious Mrs. Rogers last week.
 We hear that the new Connection
 Woolen company at Daleville ha been incorporated with a capital O
 $5O,OOO. May the enterprise sue
 ceed. s. S. Welch, the manager seems to be a man of push, and ha
 already identified himself with tn towns social affairs. Electric light
 are being introduced into the plant while the company's general store i
 being garnished for new occupacy ] The company has already a larg stock on hand, and it is expected tha . the mill will soon be in active opera
 tion. The dam has been repaired ant new machinery has been substituted for the old.
 Frank l.. Hanover, 65, native o this town, a brother of the late Uria Hanover, died in Willimantic las week. He was sign painter in tha place for many years. Both he an his wife have been i'll for some time His malady was Bright's disease : Rev. MT. Levitt, pastor of the Con
 gregational church, officiated at hi funeral. It may be remembered tha one of his sons tried to commit suicid
 in Willimantic. some time since. Be , sides his widow, who is now in poo . health, he left two sons and tw , daughters, and all only brother l Henry, who lives west. The bod . was buried in the Willimantic ceme tery.
 We were mistaken, we are assure
 by the person herself, in stating i this column recently that Mrs. Saral f Glazier Bates, now of Lincoln, Neb
 raska, had been a professor in Lasselle : we should have said Wellesley col 8 lege She was the first person to re
 ceive the appointment of professo
 there, she having graduated fror Vassar in it's first class. So she Ina the honor of being member of tn opening class in Vassar in 1865 an ' the first professor of Wellesley i a 1875. She is a pioneer indeed in tn higher education of women. Lincoln