The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-04-12

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# Some folks will bite off their ow
! noses. -,
Where ignorance is bliss it is foil.
to be wise.'
Annie Tamasco is now living at tn
Baptist parsonage.
Fresh, native dandelion green's wer'
relished here last week.
| The Finch party at Mrs. Pierce,
last week was both large and lively.
Miss Pierce returned Monday tx
her school duties in Northfield, Mass
Willie CLARK, only SON of l.. B.
CLARK and wife, visited them last
week. - ss.:. ..
Comrade James Fl. House of Man.
chester visited relatives in town last
The PASTORS subject at the Baptist
church was "The joy of consecra.
tion.'' ..,~
Mrs. Katharine CLARK has gone to
visit her daughters in Springfield and
Holyoke, Mass.
The W: G. T. U. will meet at the
Baptist parsonage Saturday afternoon
at $50, sharp.
The wife of Frank Dawley, form
er resident, is seriously ill at their
home in Westford.- Z :~
Gardiner Hall, Jr::, has now to con-
tend with the two-fold calamities of
blindness and deafness.
=. F. Whitford is to sell his farm
and personal property at auction on
Tuesday, the 25th inst.
Miss Mabel Cummings, teacher of
the Center school, spent last Sunday
at her home in New Haven.
'f'When you go to preach in the city
take your best coat. When you go to
preach in the country take your best
sermon
We hear that there was no defense
at the recent Blakeley conservator
trial-as under all the circumstances
we advised.
In our continental domain there are
l, 1888, 321 more males than females.
In the eastern states females prepon-
derate, however.
Many folks throughout the country
side will regret to learn of the death
of 'Big Steve,'' W. P. Stevens, at
Willimantic, Monday.
We are under obligations to Hon.
W. A. King, Willimantic, for an edi-
ton de luxe of his report as attorney
general of Connecticut.
Miss Cummings, teacher of the
Center school, whom Mrs. Preston is
boarding the remainder of the term,
resumed her duties yesterday.
William Himmel of Jersey City,
N. j., has bought the Wolcott- Fuller
place in the north part of the town,
and has moved thereon with his wife
and six children.
The work of renovating the Baptist
ladies parlor has begun. The pic
lures of the former pastors have been
stored, and yesterday Willie Studley
tackled carpets, plastering, etc.
George Baker of Mansfield, on his
way to carpenter for Rev. A. Gardner
last Monday, was thrown from his
Conveyance and quite badly hurt. His
attending physician thinks he will not
be able to resume his work for some
time to come.
Had not the annual meeting of the
cemetery association item been divided
last week, we should have escaped
many questions relating therteo. Then
the meaning of "that unsightly
structure" would have been obvious,
as we hope it is now.
A great, strapping athlete, on pres
entation of himself for higher class
in one of our colleges the other day,
was asked the difference between op-
timism and pessimism. "I know, 4"
he replied, "but I can't tell. It's
eoAoOHAAS AAo 4aOAbuOo duu AOuSA-
tude. -
The topic at the Congregational
church Sunday was "The three great
things in human life," Ps. 1911.
The .sermonette to the children was
on the words, ''Mine eyes shall see
the King in his glory" An interest
ing feature of the service was solo
by Miss Whitford. The pastor in his
prayer touchingly alluded to the re-
cent catastrophe in India, to Wales
and to Evan Roberts, and to his great
work there.
Clarence F. Potter, 81, formerly a
Wilmington boy, who in 1891 married
Miss Clara G. Sharp, youngest daugh-
ter Of Albert Sharp, died in Schroon
Lake, N Y, of consumption the Sd
inst. a. His widow, two children, boys,
his parents, A. J. Potter and wife,
now of Willimantic; three sisters,
Stella, Mrs. Henry Arnold of Wilt
mantle, Orrie, Mrs. Albert Anthony,
Mansfield, Bessie, Mrs. A. Turner of
Waterbury; two brothers, Arthur J.
of Port Henry, N. Y, George B. of
Willimantic; an uncle, Rev. L, L.
Potter, of Hartford, and an aunt, Mrs.
Edgar Wedge, of Bantam, survive
him. Rev. A. P. Wedge of Lowell,
Mass, is a cousin, of the deceased.
All. the above mentioned persons, were
former residents here.
South Wellington.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Denman spent
Sunday with relatives in Whitman
Miss Iva Latham is recovering rath-
er slowly, having a bad day last Sun
day. -. 49,. ... ..
George Fl. Baker is building the
new automobile hOuse for Origin