The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-08-23

cOA40CCOr Oh SCHOOL u1SGE4CO NO. 4.
There are 70, 900 Buddhist temple
and 100000 Buddhist priests il
Japan.
Miss Edna Gould Pierce returned
from her duties at the girls seminary
Northfield, Mass, Monday evening.
Despise not the day of small things.
The poultry products of this country,
it is said, fetch more than it's wheat
and corn crops.
Sirius still reigns supreme, as is
fully attested by some of the weather
these days. However, we soon shall
be out of his grip.
The pastor and people of the Bap-
fist church will renew the attack on
the devil and all his works with in
creased energy next Sunday afternoon,
the vacation of two weeks, with closed
doors, then being completed.
Amos Waldo of Tolland, who re-
Gently died in the hospital in Hart
ford, was brother of the late VIM.
Waldo of this town. The former has
been little "out'' of late years, at
one time trying to commit suicide by
cutting his throat, it may be remem-
bered
Funny, isn't it, that the Getty"
newspapers won't ever mention the
name of their smaller country contem-
poraries? They take pains to elimi-
nate the name, The "Jonesville Ga
zette," for instance, from the copy,
and are satisfied by saying the local
paper"
If we mistake not in our figuring,
there are only of the old Wilmington
stock, in town, adult persons, whose
father and mother were both. born in
town, Charles H. Ryder and John G.
Ryder. If there are others now liv-
ing in town we wish to be informed
of the fact.
At last there is one person, but that
person is New York city reader of
The Press, who sympathizes a little
with us in our attitude toward Rus
STA. We quote from recent letter
" Although do not admire the gov
ernment of the Russians, do not
trust the willy japanese.
Mrs. CLARK and Miss Palmer were
the only ones from this locality who
ventured out in the rain to attend the
Ashford Bible meeting at Westford
last Wednesday. They came back
surprised and disguised over the nom
naturalization of both audience and
speakers. That meeting never ''post-
pones," we hear.
There was a bonfire on the COM
mon in front of the Congregational
parsonage Monday night. Ears of
corn, etc., were roasted by means of
it and a sumptuous repast followed.
Singing and story telling enlivened
the occasion. Dwight E. Gardner
engineered the affair, while one of
the old and dead trees at the Baptist
parsonage furnished most of the fuel.
A party from Holyoke, Mass. drove
last week over to the old home of the
late William Whiting of that city,
near the old Origen Dimock home
stead. The house, which was low
and painted red, near the river, is
now entirely obliterated, as is also
the old mill, where Whiting used to
work for the said Dimock as the
miller. .'.et Il
"That was a good word of Secre-
tary Bonaparte that, while we can
conceive better government than
that of the United States at present,
our most pressing duty is to try to
make the people true to the kind we
have. 1t is an old maxim that
streams rise no higher than their
sources, but it will remain true so
long as streams rum"
We hasten to assure our friends of
the surrounding hill tops that the
beautiful, artistically arranged pile
of wood, brush, etc., when set agoing
on this hill Monday evening, was
nothing but huge bonfire. It was
not temerariously set on fire and was
watched with interest and enthusiasm
until the dying embers furnished the
expected roast. Rev. Mr.. Gardner
original poem, read as he sat by the
great fire, with the singing of ap-
propriate songs, made the occasion a
rare and quite festive one. "Come
again."
Comrade G. B. Marble is a good
man to have with you in an adven-
ture. For instance, if you are driv-
ing and have a breakdown, he knows
how to make things as good as new.
And in the case of the losing of a
gold headed ancestral cane in the
stream, beneath the bridge in a not
far away borough, he could stand on
the bridge and give good advice, with
good results, but was powerless to
save the owner from a previous duck
ing. And, o Lord what a ducking
that must have been on that cold
April day! lax
AS intimated in last Press the rain
interfered with the Baptist social.
1t wasn't much of a chil0ren's enter
tainment as it turned out, but there
was goodly attendance, the Wilt
mantle bricks of ice cream, cake, etc..
were excellent and the music, games,
etc., passed off pleasantly. There
was a recitation by Florence Pierce,
while the crowning features were
duets by Rev. O. W. Wolfe and
Dwight B. Gardner, rendering college
songs, etc. Miss Dunning's playing
on the organ and D. B. GARDENERS
flute added greatly to the interest OF
the occasion. "Come again.
south WilllngtOn.
Mrs. E. J. Holman is at James