The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-03-29
WELLINGTON.

& 1Gy Is now GD0 WOrO W vs.
/ or cup against are getting to bt
commonplace phrases.
The robin, or the migratory thrush
correctly speaking, has arrived, with
! the bluebird and song sparrow, to
herald the appearance of spring.
The Misses Mary and Ida Topliff,
formerly of this town, now of Spring
field, Mass, spent last Sunday with
t their anut, Mrs. Ann Lee, in Somers.
At the Baptist church, Sunday,
Rev. O. W. Wolfe preached from John
/ IL: 21-"Sir, we would see Jesus. "
! Subject, Foreign intrusion. " Truly
| masterful discourse.
There being only three members
present at their advertised meeting at
the town clerks Office, the Cemetery
association adjourned one week, at
the same hour and place.
Can any one tell us where the old
Incoming house, belonging to the
CONGREGATIONAL church used to stand ?
In oIden days these incoming houses, !"
we have been told, with a capacious
fireplace and stone chimney, where
people could get warm and eat the
mid day lunch, between divine SER
vices, were convenient and wholesome
adjuncts to most of the New England
meeting houses, which were not
warmed at all, even in winter. Here
the old Incoming house," we have
been told, stood little south of the
present Congregational church.
There recently appeared in neigh
boring city newspaper an account of
the loss of some $50. 900 to various
parties in that county through the
failure of the Storey Cotton company
of Philadelphia. 1t is said that there
are numerous victims in this vicinity
if the report of the failure is correct.
For six months or more we have been
in receipt of numerous communica-
tions from this concern, and we have
always said that the paying of such
enormous dividends would lead to a
sad ending We hope the reports are
not true, for we dislike to hear of any
one losing money in any direction,
but dealing in futures of any kind ia
risky business.
Some time during the night of the
goth inst the general store and post
office belonging to Hans M. Hansen,
Jr., was again burglarized. This
time some $40 post Office money was
taken, besides a cheap watch and
something from the store. The meth
DDS of the burglary we're such as to
cause strong suspicion in certain di-
rection. The police of neighboring
boroughs and cities having been noti
fed as to the affair, it is hoped that
the culprits may soon be arrested.
Under the rules and regulations the
post office department will not bear
the loss of the money. Mr.. Hansen
had hardly gotten into working order
since the duties of the new r. F. D.
had been placed upon him, and was
caught mapping. There is consider
able excitement over the affair in the
neighborhood. The watch taken, at
least, may lead to the detection of
the burglar.
A number of years ago there was
Jealous member of the Baptist church,
the late Eber Durham, who married
Marion, daughter of Oliver Holt, the
teacher of the late Pres. Jared Sparks,
who, having no heirs at law, left his
fortune, which was considerable for
those days, to a group of churches in
the Ashford Baptist association, the
bulk of it, however, gong to provide
for a permanent fund for the erection
of Baptist meeting house at Mans
field Depot. This sum having been
at interest for number of years now
amounts, we are told, to nearly $15,-
900, and the conditions for building
this meeting house have not yet been
met, as we understand. Recently a
hearing was had before the Mansfield
Judge of probate relating to the ap
pointment of a successor to Andrew
K. Brown, lately deceased. We are
of the opinion that interesting ques-
tions of law will be raised as to the
ultimate disposal of this estate.
Some years ago, but not so far back
as the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary, there lived in town
very worthy citizen, honest, scru-
pulous, well-to-do, a devoted Chris
tian with all, and particularly neat
and tidy in all his ways. At one
time he had person in his employ,
sort of general utility man, perhaps,
who is his make up was exactly the
opposite of his employer, being nota
bly, untidy in his habits. We never
knew his name, and probably never
shall know. He was particularly
guilty of laches concerning the milk
ing and caring for the family COW.
One morning, on bringing in the
shining pail full of foaming milk,
with the accustomed gathering of
dust and filth on top, the late mill
proprietor looked at it askance and
said quizzically, "Look here, Jake.
Hereafter you can take two pals, one
for the milk and one for the dirt. "
The proprietor had no further trou-
BILE in that line, the milk being
brought in one pail, clean and whole
some.
This is an old chestnut, perhaps,
to many, but we are tempted to give
it nevertheless. 1t was originally a
W. @. 7. U. affair, and possibly we
may not give the exact wording. A
young man was fastening to take his
seat in a steam car in a city where a
W. G. T. U. convention was in pro-