The Press., 1905-09-13

! S. P. Morrison has built new chin
mics to his house.
Mrs. Radford sang again at the
Baptist church Sunday.
Life is like travelling backward
in cart; we see only what hat
passed and is moving away from us. >
The present per capita circulation
of money in the United States il
$31. 40, smashing all previous rec
ords.
Among others whom J. Osborne and
wife of Rockville called upon last
Wednesday were Mrs. CLARK and Mrs.
Robbins.
Mrs. Samuel Nichols of Unionville
and Mrs. Nellie M. Worden and little
son of Willimantic we're guests at S.
?. Morrison's last week.
Franklin G. Wolfe left the Baptist
parsonage last Thursday for his school
duties in Pennsylvania He has been
teacher there for many years.
A recent local newspaper states that
William Brownlee of Wilmington and
Mrs. Ida M. Brownlee of East Hart
ford we're lately divorced. Cause,
desertion.
Ruth A. Higgins, eldest daughter
of DR.. W. L. Higgins, formerly of
this town, now of South Coventry,
enters the Willimantic high school
this term.
Earl @. Church of Hartford, we'll
known in this vicinity, especially in
Rockville, brother of Miss Jennie
Church, is shortly to be married, it
is announced.
The dialogue at the ladies social
Friday night did not materialize, but
a good time was enjoyed nevertheless.
1t is said that the dialogue will be
given later on.
J. Osborne and wife of Rockville
were in town Wednesday last, look
ing at various places for sale, but re-
turned without purchasing. Too much
land, too little land, too high prices
were the objections.
Comrade Walter H. Hutchinson and
wife of Bristol called on his old bri
gade, regimental, company and tent
mate, @. T. Preston, last Wednesday,
on his way to visit his brother-i in
law, Lincoln White, WestfOrd.
"He who works for money gets
money, he who strives to become vir-
tuous becomes virtuous, and he who
seeks for wisdom becomes wise. But
the reward of one kind of striving
should not be expected to follow eff
fort of another kind. "
The Hill was represented at the
committal service over the remains of
the late Samuel Nichols in the West
cemetery. near by, last Wednesday,
Rev. G. w. Wolfe, pastor of the Bap-
fist church, officiating. Verify, the
town has lostsa good and valuable cit
izen.
The wife of Joseph Besse, who used
to live on the John A. Brown place,
recently died in Hartford. A re-
QUEEN high mass was said last Thurs
day in St. Anne's French Catholic
church in that city. In days gone by
she was a valuable assistant to he1
husband in the catering business
there.
Rev. Michael Joseph Twomey OF
Eanielson, pastor of one of the
churches there, to whom allusion was
made in this column recently, has &C.
copied the call to become pastor OF
the largest Baptist church in Maine,
Portland. There has been a large
quantity of wind fall peaches on the
market of late, owing to the recent
heavy rain and wind storms.
We were brought up in the belief,
which was subsequently strengthened
by law studies, that it was neither
right nor legal to do busienss on Sun.
day. We claim that even a marriage
solemnized" on that day, a mere
civil contract in this country, is il.
legal, but it won't do to say this out
loud, for the question of the legiti.
macy of children might be raised
The firms of Armitage & Amidon,
Needham 6 Bramble, Keefe Bros.
and W. E. Demond are busy in dis
patching loads of timber, boards,
etc., to our railroad station and other
points. Among the drivers of the
teams, we are told, are Charles HI.
Ryder, Ernest Wilson, G.. B. Rob-
bins, George Brown, Frank Joslin,
Alfonzo Ruby, Burt Ruby, Winni-
fred Brown and Merrill Cushman
The new state road comes handy
for this lumber business. We're we
able we would ourselves remove the
little rolling stones from this road
bed.
The postponed social Tuesday even
ing seemed to materialize into an i'm
provised serenade, starting at Crest
Cottage" singing at every house and
gaining forces as they went, until ev-
cry hilltop house had been honored
and delighted. The wierd and unique
procession met a team driven by W.
F. Essex as they marched up the road,
who expressed himself as delighted.
There we're two flutes, two banjos and
horn of some sort which furnished
the instrumental part. The affair
was gotten up in honor of Mrs. Pal
lner, the leading soprano of the occa-
sion, who, with her daughter and
son, we're to leave for their home in
New York city the following day.
We were told some time ago the
following old-time story, and we have
been asked to resuscitate it in this
column: 1t occurred years ago, in
the days when every town furnished
it's quota of military men and it's