The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-03-15

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married this evening.
No, don't trust the elusive dollar t,
these charlatan advertisers any more
DR.. Remington of Pawtucket, r. I.
was guest of Miss Lucy Eldredge las
week.
Save your own skin when you have
done all that is possible to save the
skins of others.
The finch party, held with Miss
Mabel CLARK, last Friday night, was
an enjoyable occasion, we hear.
We hear that Frank D. Preston OF
Mansfield, formerly of this town, was
recently badly injured by fall upon
the ice.
The man who makes other men
look small is in imminent danger of
getting himself disliked. It is human
nature -
We have been pleased to hear de-
tailed accounts of the recent inaugu-
ration at Washington from an eye
witness.
ID. b. Gardner returned from Wash
ington, D. c., last Thursday night.
He left Saturday for another business
trip south and west.
Joseph Hansen and Rose Gross are
to be married this evening at the
BRIDES house, the old Leonard Holt
place, near the Hollow.
We we're we'll acquainted with the
late Gov. Boutwell, of Massachusetts,
He was a superb man in every way,
but his recent anti -imperialistic views
puzzled us.
I Nellie Carpenter has taken the
place of John Chandler as. caretaker
of the Baptist church. The latter
has gone to his sister, Mrs. Topliff g,
South Coventry.
G. B. Robbins, assisted by Marvin
Chisolm and Eddie Carpenter, moved
Charles A. Robbins and his wife's
household goods en- route for Middle
town last Friday.
Commercially expeditions all around
the arrival here on the Hill of the
including the Springfield Re.
publican at $50 on the morning of
their publication.
Charles Brock, who used to be in a
store at the Four Corners, is settled
at North Woodstock. He married for
his second wife the Widow Prentice,
formerly of the north part of this town.
Claude R. Taylor is serving his 49,
months sentence at the Fitchburg,
Mass, house of correction. He need
ed that cape, he confessed he stole
from the woman in the case, about as
much as he needed an elephant.
We are indebted to Col. VIII. Hall
for Washington papers containing full
accounts of the inaugural exercises.
including ball, etc. In this con-
nection we would thank ex-senator
and Congressman Lilley for
seeds.
The talked-of realty sale between
E. A Morse and a N. Y. Bohemian
party, is off, we understand. We now
hear that Ed. Eldredge has sold his,
the old Simeon Carpenter farm, to N.
Y. Boheimans, and is to move upon
his Uncle, Lucius Eldredge's place.
It is interesting. at this writing, to
NOTE the large bodies of water in front
of the. premises of g. Robbins and G.
7. Preston, and to hear the fecetious
and caustic remarks by passers by,
such as, for instance, "Gee, If I lived
here I'd have boat and "By
thunder, I'd tunnel under this en-
bankment of this new state road and
let this darned water off, "Three
are some folks in town guess
wouldn't stand it long" But we are
getting used to these taunts, etc.
We speak from experience when we
say: Pay no attention to the charla-
tan and fraudulent advertisements in
the 1O!cent magazines and other
periodicals of that ilk. The U. s.
post Office department is stamping all
letters addressed to these parties
fraudulent, as fast as they can get
the data necessary, One of these
parties used our name in testimonial,
consulting us, causing innocent
parties to be f1eeced, as evidenced by
numerous letters we have received.
Let the blind and deaf especially, and
all other parties, leave these film
hammers entirely alone, as we; en-
phatically, too.
Hurrah the Springfield Republi-
,an has evolved another comparative
y new word, "kinetic' thus, speak
ng of Roosevelt's inaugural, in a re-
,ent issue-''this highly kinetic per-
But we have no use for
The obsolete word "intime, used by
/ writer in the Atlantic Monthly in
is February last issue, which, by the
way, brims over with good things,
lsed In the very caption OF an article
IN Matthew Arnold. Again we OBJ
erve in this same issue of the Repub-
lean, 5th inst, that Mr.. Whiting in
lis editorial, 1sspring About Her
Business, uses the plural noun thinks
-''These are the thinks that should
rave been thought" ETC., and SO we
i've and learn.
Generations ago Rev. Gideon Noble |
vas the pastor of the "First Church |
# Christ" here. Some time during
lis long pastorate an ecclesiastical
ouncil assembled to try him for the
lleged charge of drunkenness while |
N duty The alleged and imme-
late charge which led to the trial
vas an exhibition of Stiffness in the
'ulpit one Lords day, when his dea-