The Press., 1905-11-08
WILMINGTON
Next week we will try to furnish the Glazier genealogy.

the Glazier genealogy.
 Mrs. Cosgrove accompanied her daughter, Mrs. Sleight, to New York last week.
 Charles H. Nichols, with his steam saw mill, is again at the wood-piles in this vicinity.
 The exports and imports of the United States for the year last past were over one billion dollars in value.
 People in this vicinity who knew Mrs. Elizabeth Bowles of Mansfield were sorry to hear of her recent death.
 People who would like to see the genealogies of their families in this column will please send material therefor.
 Mrs. Preston gave a Hallowe' en lolly-pop candy pull for the Pierce family and their cousin, Miss Hattie o. Robbins, last Tuesday evening.
 There is talk revived of having a general store on the Hill. There are now five concerns who take orders and deliver goods in this locality, to say nothing of other general stores in town.
 Ice formations are getting to be pretty thick, and there are other in- dications of the approach of winter. We sincerely hope and trust that it will not be as severe as the last two preceding winters were.
 N. O. Ward, wife and children, Holland side, gave a Hallowe'e 'en party last Tuesday evening. The company was large and the occasion a very en- joyable one. A bus load, driven by Charles H. Ryder, went from this vicinity.
 The old short=out foot path from the Hill to the old cemetery has been again made passable, and the head stones theFeip of the late Royal c. Eldredge and Ariel Eldredge have been righted up. Other headstones there need the same attention.
 
 All our energy is not poured into one compartment of human life. One may have mortal disease which units him for some kinds of exertion and yet leave untouched stores of energy which may be used without detriment and without shortening life. This is the reason why some of the best work in the world has been done bv invailds. This is the reason also why some other invalids give up work and die, carrying with them nnexpended energy which might have been 4sed with advantage te themselves and other people,
 Time did not permit us last week to give any extended notice of the death of the late J. Duane Parsons. The following from Tuesdays Cour- ant will, perhaps, cover the ground. pqane," as he was familiarly call ed, who always had good and noble heart was ap old schoolmate and lifelong friend of ours, and we heart fly say "Requiescat in pace l'': James Duane Parsons a former resi- dent of this city and last year presi dent of the Veteran Association of the Hartford City Guard, died suddenly or heart trouble Sunday afternoon at his home in Springfield. He was porn ln Wlllington August 15, 1885. went to "estford at 12. attending the puollc Schools there, and from there went to Suffield, attending the Con- nectlcnt Literary Institution for a year ol so, and making his own way oy working in. the tobacco fields and on 1arms.. In 1850 he came to this clty and worked for several years in OolG armory. He joined the Hart Ioro City Guard on April 1a, 1861. put the next year removed to Spring held to live. In time he became su- perintendent of the Taylor 6 Tapley Manufacturing company, and after it became the United Manufacturing company he continued with it, being at the time of his death vice -presi. dent and manager. He was also a di- rector in the Fiberloid company at Indian Orchard. He was a deacon and one of the oldest members of the State street Baptist church, and was vice-president of the Massachusetts Baptist Sunday School association. Politically, he was a republican, and had served in the Springfield council as member of the city committee. He was for many years a member of Roswell Lee lodge of Masons. His wife, who was Miss Sarah Callender of this city, and whom he married October 4, 1859, died April 26, 1904. He leaves a daughter, Mrs, L. F. Morris, and son, George W. Par sons, both of Springfield, and a sister, Mrs. Sophia W. Harlow, of Woroes- ter." The funeral was largely and attended at the State street Baptist church last Tuesday after noon. A short prayer service at his late residence, 60 Byers street, Springfield. preceding. His pastor, Rev. Dr. Hahn, remembered at Staf- ord Springs as a recent lecturer there, yave touching and forceful discourse rom John 14:21. We quote in this from the Springfield Re- publican: "His health was seeming y as good as usual Sunday morning, nd he attended the preaching service tt the State street Baptist church, in which he was deacon and one of the ldest members, and he also attended he Sunday school in the afternoon. j 1e offered the opening prayer at the alter service, just two hours before is death, and at praise service held ust before the opening of the Sunday chool service he repeated the 21st erse of the 14th chapter of John,