The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-12-27
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old and young
The double minded man is unstable
in all his ways, the good book says.
"There is no greater blessing than
to find ones happiness in ones work. y
Last week the copy should have said
Talmon Rider, instead Of Thomas
Rider.
"To think straight, feel straight,
and act straight comprises the whole
duty of man.
R. E. Cartier dissolved partnership
with Roland L. Squier, Mansfield
Four Corners, last Friday.
The older we get the more inclined
are we to bark back examine the ori-
gin and history of Christmas. Easter.
etc.
Friends must wait for the continua-
tion of this genealogy' business I'M
til there is less pressure on these col
umns.
Dwight B. Gardner came home to
spend Christmas. He dined with
friends on Thanksgiving day in De-
troit, Mich.
In a recent interview Pr sident
Roosevelt remarked. If the homes
are all straight, the state will take
care of itself.
Jacob Goosen returns to New York
city soon, where he can utilize his
growing family in the grocery and
meat market business,
The congressional library in. Wash
ington, D. g., contains 1,344s61S
books. The library has been visited
the past year by about one million
persons.
A S. Pierce, who had returned
home from New York, and his family
and O. T. Preston and wife recipro-
Gated Christmas dinners Sunday and
Monday.
Thursday, last week, was the short
est day in the year, and now we must
bear in mind the old adage: AS the
days begin to lengthen, the cold be-
gins to strengthen. That day this
year was dark one, too,
Fred NJ. Preston, of Lord & Taylor's
great dry goodss house, New York
city, and his wife celebrated their
wooden wedding Christmas day at the
home of Mrs. Preston's father, Rev.
| L. H. Higgins, West Hartford.
Mrs. A. D. Dimock returned home
from her recent visit in Jewett City
and Norwich rather indisposed. She
contracted a cold from sitting in a
cold audience room while attending q
public meeting in the latter place.
We don't care rap about love MAX
| ing as love making; We have been
there ourselves. But the sly, hypo-
critical kind, where the parties think
they are smart right under the noses
of heads of households, is another mat
| ter.
Miss Alberta Harley, who has just
sustained a painful operation in a
hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
writes that she is making good re-
covery,. although still very eak.
She Nag able to rethrn to i me
last week.
By the way, in saying the er
we get,'' some folks seem nos 5s@sgar
in mind that we are all in the same
box, all growing old, and the youn ger
portion of the community will "get
there" before they know tiff expe-
rience counts for anything.
At the Congregational church Sun
day, Rev. A. Gardner preached from
Jer. GIG, ASK for the old paths
and walk ye in Them Subject,
"The brotherhood of man. The
speaker commented largely on the
virtues of our Pilgrim and Puritan
ancestors.
At last there is some clue to the
late Salem Rider. IT seems that he
used to live in one of the late Origin
Dimock's tenement houses, near the
road leading on to the late John Har-
bison's. While living there he work
ed on velocipede, but with his fami-
ly moved out of town before the
vehicle was completed. In those days
machines of that kind we've a great
rarity.
We were somewhat amused not long
since, when we were quietly sitting
in barber's shop in Stafford Springs
waiting for our turn. and could not
help hearing one customer say to an
other, while both we're sitting in the
barber's chairs, evidently chatting one
another about the growing blindness
of one of them: "WelI, "said the
ar-visioned one to the other, who
was afflicted with failing sight" they
may say what they please about blind
men, but 1 never saw one yet who was
not able to pick out the handsomest
woman on the street,
Over five million American women
have to scratch night and day to gain
livelihood in this country. In his
recent annual message President
Roosevelt, in commenting on this
fact. says that there is need of full
knowledge on which to base action
looking toward state and municipal
legislation for the protection of work
ing women. The Introduction of
women into industry is working change
and disturbance in the domestic and
social life of the nation The de-
crease in marriage and especially in
the birth rate has been coincident
with it. He considers this whole
matter social question of the first
Importance ..--
The great rush evidently Christ
mas night was at the Congregational
church and at the hall in South Will
| linptOn We were nresant ar the