The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-08-02
Mrs. Gardner visited friends il

II Mrs. Gardner visited friends II
, Monson last week.
Whortleberries are not very abun
dant in market as yet in this locality
The inexperienced public speaker i
apt to scatter and founder when he
tries to be personal in his addresses.
James Lawrence having left town
the selectmen have appointed W. +
Essex to look after delinquent dol
owners.
Jacob Goosen's son, Henry, is re
covering from a painful accident re
ceived while at play in his father
barn recently. @.-
There were some so participants IL
the picnic in Coventry Saturday, ant
the showers did not wet them so very
much after all. 49,.
Can anybody tell why old potatoes
and good ones, too, are SO abundant
at this season of the year? The new
crop overlaps the old one in nearly
all cases. ...>.... >.
William Wallace Rider of Albany,
N. Y, former resident, spent his
birthday with friends here last week.
He was born not far from the Moose
Meadow school house, south. Hif
nearest relative in town, a second
cousin, is Mrs. Caroline Rider Rob.
bins.
W. W. Rider was the guest oi
Charles H. Ryder while in town,
who, with his brother, John g., and
Mrs. Caroline Robbins, q second cous
in are the only living vicinity de.
scendants of the once somewhat mn.
merous Rider family in town. t:-.
John Alderman, formerly of this
town, tried to kill himself with laud.
anum in Rockville recently. The
first accounts of the tragedy stated
that the dose was fatal, but now the
report is that he will recover. The
previous contents of his stomach evil
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Candidates for the next Legislature
are already in the field, we hear.
The older we grow the more thank
full we are that no bee of any sort
ever buzzed in our individual bonnet.
But let it be understood right here
that we don't decry laudable and
proper ambition in that direction.
"When boy carelessly picks up a
horse shoe just fallen from the anvil
he learns a lesson which might point
for him a moral in later days, when
burning questions are to be handled.
People often burn their fingers be-
cause they are in too much of hurry
to settle things that are better han
died when they are cold"
The requisite number of names
having been secured on a petition to
the selectmen for special town meet
ing, notices are up for one to be held
at the hall in South Wilmington Fri
day evening, to see if the town will
appropriate $4,000 for road improve
ment, o-thirds of that sum being
finally paid by the state, of course.
1t is said that the farm of the late
George E. Sparrow had been in the
possession of his second wife, Miss
Hancock, for the last 20 years, and
that the possession of it went by law
to her four children, Elliot, Bert,
Marten and Daisy, the widow, the
deceased's last wife, having her right
in it, of course, and that Marten Spar.
row has already bought two of the
shares.
We learned through the Hartford
papers some time ago that George W.
Bracket, formerly of this town, had
been offered a lucrative position il
the Panama canal enterprise, but thai
he was obliged to decline on account
of i'll health, etc. By the way, what's
the use of planning SO many differ,
emit kinds of construction? Why not
have a tide-water one and done will
it? It will be much better in tho
long run. and will finally prevail.
At the congregational church Rev.
A. Gardner, who had fervently pray.
ed for the president and his fellow
peace commissioners during their com
ing deliberations in efforts to secure
peace, preached from Heb. IL: 16.
Subject, "The ancient worthless" OF
"That better country At the Bap-
| fist church the topic was "The mis-.
takes of Micah, - founded on the 18th
and 9Th chapters. Rev. O. w. Wolfe
also prayed for the coming great peace
commission in this country.
At the funeral of Mrs. Draper last
week two trios we're rendered by Rev.
Charles W. Wolfe, Mrs. Wolfe and
Miss Sarah Dunning, LEAD Kindly
Light" and Sometime Well Under
stand" Flowers in abundance were
contributed by neighbors and friends.
Rev. Mr.. Wolfe's remarks were appro-
pirate and uplifting, and altogether
the services were tender and impress
i've. The remains of the deceased
were buried by the side of her moth
or, in the family lot in the new Gem
etery. Mrs. Diapers sister will re-
main with him for the present.
The towards castle is the pulpit
from which the preacher may say
what he pleases, and no one on the
floor of the house may make reply.
The phrase was coined when the min
lister was settled for life. Now that
the law has changed the conditions
of settlement and abolished the colo
NAL laws which provided for minis
terial support the ancient paraphrase
begins to be used in a new sense, tt
describe the preacher who dares moi