The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-04-05
MANSFIELD.

Schools in this town began last
Tuesday morning.
6. o. Southwick is making an ex.
tended visit out of town.
Harlan Ide was at his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. @. Ide's, over last Sun.
day.
Miss Elsie Baker of Willimantie
was a recent visitor with relatives on
Spring Hill.
Miss Emma johnson is spending
several weeks with Mrs. Harvey Full
Ter at the Corners.
The spring term of the Connecticut
Agricultural college began last Tues
day morning with chapel service at
7.45.
Miss Lillian Hewlett of Warren
Vile has entered the employ of P. G..
Hanks & Son in their mill on Hanks
hill.
William Day and family from
Eagleville are occupying the house
owned by A. B. Pebbles on Spring
Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Fuller enter
tanned a number of their friends at
their home st the Corners last Satur-
day evening.
DR.. E. G. Sumner has sold the
Hinckley place at Mansfield Hollow
to Samuel Chappell of Chaplin, who
has taken possession.
Misses Helen Whitaker and Maggie
Gill are moving from the late Frank
lin Dunham's house into Maria
Browns house at Gurleyville.
Rev. Leonard Smith of the Spring
Hill Baptist church gives a banquet
to the members of the church Mission
Band in the church parlors this
evening.
John J. Farrell, who has been at
tending a veterinary college in Chi
cago, returned to his home in Storrs
last Saturday for the annual summer
vacation.
The Junior League of the Methodist
church held an entertainment in the
church at Gurleyville last Wednesday
evening, under the direction of Mrs
G. Fl. Pease.
The bodies of Mrs Caroline Storrs
Freeman, who died in Bridgeport,
Tuedsay, and her son, Herbert B.
Freeman, who died in the same city,
February %, were taken to Storrs
for burial Saturday. Mrs. Freeman,
who was the widow of James Otis
Freeman, was 80 years old and her
son was 81.
Arthur Stearns, son of Valette D.
Stearns, returned last week from an
absence of over a year. He started
from home with 500, and in large
measure worked his way along on
the trip, which included a journey
across the country, with a stop at the
st. Louis fair and in several locali-
ties in the west, the Rocky mountains
and the Pacific coast, returning home
from San Francisco by steamer by
way of Panama. 1t took him twenty
days to sail from San Francisco tC
Panama.
Mrs. Henry Able, a woman 70
years old, attempted her life last
Thursday evening at her home in At.
woodville, by taking a dose of lauda.
mum. Neighbors administered anti
dotes before a doctor could arrive, sc
when he did arrive the woman was
out of danger. 1t is stated that she
had been taking laudanum in small
doses for long time, and although
she is nearly blind, she knew where
the bottle of medicine was kept, ano
drank large dose. Dependency il
given as the reason for the attempt.
Mount Hope.
Lucy Copeland spent a few days al
her home last week.
Miss Grace Russ is visiting rela.
tives in New London.
Everett Chaffee began work fol
David huSS, april 1sG.
Mrs. Gilbert Mathewson is caring
for her sister, Mrs. NJ. Church.
Clinton Grant is seriously ill with
measles and pneumonia. We hope fol-
his speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Burdick have
moved to Morrow. Mr.. Burdick il
to be foreman on the Morrow farm.
Whooping cough is prevalent. The
attendance at school is very small, 81
many of the children being ill will
the disease.