The Press., 1905-03-01

tered by storms and hard usage. It
was exposed to every wind that blew.
The winter was cold and bleak. We
burnt a fabulous amount of wood in
that spacious room, having a chimney
at each end. The battle of school
life was fought between two fires
and we we're often chilled by the
crevices in the defective floor and
walls. It was satisfaction to learn,
not long afterwards, that substantial
repairs had made the place comfort
able for succeeding teachers in winter
terms.
Many of the dwellings,. which
then were the homes of many of the
pupils. have long since been demol-
ished, and the inmates are also gone.
OF the heads of the families, who
then sent to the school, not more than
one or two are now supposed tn be
among the living. Every house,
standing then as now, is memento
of the dead. ....
The old school house still remains
Its antique cupola, the most notice
able relic of the past in all the land
scape, still greets the eye of the Wis
ter long absence That bell rings out
the same school warnings, which the
Oldest inhabitant has heard ever since
he can remember.
Tho fo11op;n~ - ,,o,~,a. - -
catalogue of pupils in the "Street''
school, Stafford, Conn.,, during the
winter of 1894 Examining COM
mittee, Rodolphus Woodwork. Esq i,
DR. VIM. N. CLARK and DR.. Samuel
Carpenter; district committee, DIR.
J. @. Dow; teacher, Charles Ham
mond; number of boys, "A; number
of girls, 80; whole number of pu-
pills, 80.
Names of boys-James d. Ruby,
Francis Woodwork, Joseph M Griggs,
Horatio G. West, Joseph E. Winter,
James Young, Jacob Childs, Nathan
iel Sibley, John H. Grant, Arba Hyde,
Edward Davis, William Adams, Har-
rison Weld, Robert Fuller, Hosea Har-
vey, Henry Smith, Alonzo West, Hor-
ace Fenton, Benjamin Child, Chaun-
cey Woodwork, Edward Fuller, Sam
uel Davis, Philo West, Aholiab Cor
bin, Theodore Winter, Henry E.
Grant, Charles Harvey, John Davis,
Preston Pond, Charles B. Webb, Mahl-
OH r. West, Charles E. Grant, Mar
tin M. Smith, Willis Winter, John
Gilmore, Jacob d. W. @. Anderson,
Gilbert Smith, Pliny Fuller, John A.
Anderson, Henry Dean, Francis Smith,
Francis Hyde, Henry Scripture, Jul
JUS @. Anderson
Names of girls-Mary Davis, Fan
ny Roath, Marriet M Lathrop, Eliza
A. Webb, Charlotte Olmstead, Amelia
Cady, Phebe 9. West, Almira Childs,
Sarah A. Winter, Sarah A. Harring-
ton, Harriet Grant, Priscilla Carter,
Emily r. Winter, Eliza r. Winter,
Emily Hyde, Sarah Woodworth, Fan
ny Grant, Mary Pond, Katherine
Grant, Lucy Ann Grant, Nancy Ad-
ans, Harriet Smith, Margaret Hyde,
Jane Fuller, Eunice Childs, Eunice
Grant, Elizabeth Corbin, Sally Pond,
Sarah Hyde, Elizabeth Walbridge,
Mary Anderson, Emily Fuller, Caro-
line Adams, Frances l.. Corbin, Clar-
issa Fuller, Pamilia Walbridge, Eliza
beth Hyde, Saphronia Pond.
One man complains of the liquor
reform. 1t Obliged man in his en-
ploy to leave his work and walk two
miles, to the Hollow, to get fuel for
getting up steam.
Joseph 9. Burley has sold the
blacksmith shop and tools at the Hol-
low to Wightman & Son, the carriage
makers.
The officers of the savings bank at
Tolland have leased the old wooden
mill at the Hollow to E. B. Crawford
of Worcester, who carried it on dur
ing the last two years that it was in
operation.
Born.-In South wellington, Jan.
Goth, 1875, a daughter to George P.
Curtiss.