The Press., 1905-04-19

Mittens were called into play last
Saturday morning.

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The r. F. D. route, Holland side,
will begin it's work the 18th of next
month.
Charles Lathrop and wife of Hart.
ford were at "Maple Corner'' last
Thursday.
Now for ball! AS we have he re-
inbefore intimated the world owes
much to ball
We don't believe in splitting auxil-
iaries any more than we do in split
ting infnitives.
George FL. Baker, who was recently
injured, has recovered so that he is
again at work in town.
j. F. Whitford will sell his per-
sonal property and farm at auction
next Tuesday at 10 a. m.
II. M. Hansen, Jr., is building an
addition on to his store and post
office at the r. r. station.
Miss Emma F. Robbins is training
the Congregational church children
for the concert Easter Sunday.
Mrs. Rhoda Lyon Hansen is slowly
recovering from her illness under her
physicians and her mothers care.
Ice formations, and snow flurries
prevailed in this vicinity the early
part of the week, and mittens were
in evidence.
What a world of trouble would
have been averted had not been assas-
sinated the good, honest, great heart
ed Lincoln 40 years ago. ...
People were glad to see Mrs. A. D.
Dimock at church last Sunday, sick
ness preventing her being out since
the beginning of the year. sEssS
The monument man, Adams, who
recently died in Rockville, was the
son-in-law of the late Joseph Ell
dredge, formerly of this town.
There is more to the yellow peril
than people in general realize. We
stand almost alone in our sympathy
with Russia, in this vicinity.
There is SO much good in the
worst Of US, and so much bad in the
best of us, that it hardly pays for any
OF us to talk about the rest of u.s.
1t still remains a mystery why the
late Mr.. Wolcott of Ashford was not
buried in the family lot in the old
cemetery, where he had put up a nice
monument.
Our copy did not say that the late
George E. Sparrow was 81. In fact
he was IS years old. We could not
ascertain his true age at the time of
writing the item.
During the closing four months of
the year last past there were 14,978|
casualties on the railroads, 951 being
killed outright, which reminds one of
the great battles of our civil war. 81
The body of Mrs. Henrietta Dem
ing King was finally inferred in the
family lot in the old cemetery, the
body having been removed hither yes
terday from Willimantic, where she
lied.
Friday, the Dist, being legal hol-
iday, there will be no school in the
Center district. No appointment was
made for. religious services, although
Mr.. Wolfe read the governors proc
lamation relating thereto.
A man who has travelled from Maine
to California recently told us that
ne would not have known, had he not
seen it exploited in The Press and
other local papers, that there was
such place as Wilmington.
Gilbert Chapman of somers, we'll
known dry goods pedler in this vi
cinity, whose mother, Miss Niles, |
was Wilmington woman, has recent
ly sold his farm, and, with his fam
lily and that of his son-in law, has |
to Hazardville.
The public has been duly notified |
through The Press and by the public
sign post that Jane Sparrow, widow
Of G.. E. Sparrow, will be heard on
her application for the appointment |
Of an administrator on deceased in
5estate estate, tomorrow, the Goth,
in Tolland, before the court of Pro-
bate, E. S. yAgard, judge.
The subject AT the Congregational
church Sunday ,$wes GA peculiar peo-
ple," Deut. Il, 2. The sermonette
was a continuation ON the words, |
mine eyes shall see the King in his
relating touching story of |
. poor abused London boy, in illus
raSfon. At, the Baptist church the |
jext WAS James 2, 80; theme, "a.
Divine friendship
The discussion on the evenings
;opic, "Glorifying God in our recre-
at the Y. P, S. g. E., was
interesting. The leader,
Rev. Mr.. Wolfe illustrated his posi-
ion by relating an anecdote of al
young minister who was solicited by
! girl TO dance. After a prayer by
The minister, he holding her by the
hand meanwhile, they gave mp the
and religious revival
9nsue1 instead.
*FOne of THE discouraging aspects
If the controversy now going on con-
,erning tainted (Rockefeller) money
IS that some newspapers are taking |
advantage of the opportunity to get a
,lean bill of health in morals, by de-
sins which do not affect
;heir own circulation, while they
carry broadsides of advertisements
which they know ito be false as the
'ather of lies could make them."
The Misses Palmer and rDunning
arrived from New York by boat Fri
lay morning last. :Asusual they re-
,eived warm welcome from their
Did friend and Heighbors. They do
not know as yet whether they will
eside here permanently this sulamer
'r not, the serious illness of Miss Pal
Spmur 20 omit rnCu;~;,,~ how oftouti0n