The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-03-07
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Mrs. Clarke is still absent on her
Massachusetts, visit.

Massachusetts, visit.
&C. 1t is the penalty that genius pays
to mediocrity to be Misunderstood. "
"Let them laugh, because to laugh
is always the refuge of the foolish. +"
Mrs. Annie e. Dimock Houchans
returned from New York city Satur.
day afternoon.
Abraham was an old fashioned gen.
tleman of the earlier time whom the
world will never forget.
All the sick and ailinR ones here.
abouts are getting along we'll, or as
we'll as could be expected
March came in somewhat like q
roaring lion, and now, we are told,
that it will 60 out with lamb like
docility.
birds of feather flock together
and they will stay together no longer
than they are drawn by common aims
and desires.
What became of the bluebirds and
robins that had made their appear.
ance here, during the recent cold
snap, also the crocus and other early
plants?
A boy baby found a welcome last
week at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Brown. Walter Brown is his
name, we hear, and Moses L. Dimock
is his at-Rrandfather.
Bear in mind the social at the Con-
gregational chapel tonight. Succo-
fash is allowable, we believe, among
all Christians during Lent, if not
cooked with too much pork.
A friend from Belchertown, Mass. ,
writes us that Stillman Weston, for
merly of this town, died there this
winter, and that Boardman Weston is
the only one of the family left in
town.
From our own personal experience,
and in behalf of all cosufferers. we
pronounce the advertised nostrums for
the removal of long standing cataract
by absorption. etc., to be a delusion
and snare. 1t has been costly ex'
perience, but, never mind, we have
proved to our entire satisfaction the
truth of the old adage.
Merrick T. Marcy and wife of
East Hartford have locked horns over
cross suits for divorce. He is broth
er of Morris Marcy, formerly of this
town, now of Mansfield, also grand
son of the late Augustus Miller. Un-
doubtedly there will be some interest
ing morsels of evidence offered when
the cases come before the Hartford
courts.
Mrs. Della Lincoln Buck, widow of
the late Edwin A. Buck of Whitman
tic, died in that city Wednesday after
noon last. Mr.. and Mrs. Buck were
married in Westford some SO years
ago, and were we'll and favorably
known hereabouts. One of their chill
dren is George Buck of Palmer, Mass.
formerly in the hardware business in
Stafford Springs.
The Congregationalist of Boston,
the Puritan Recorder of our early
boyhood, passed its ninetieth birthday
last week. We recall the time when
quite stable bundles that paper, the
Waterman and Reflector, now the
Waterman of Boston, the Religious
Herald and Christian Secretary, Hart
ford, came to the Wilmington post Of
ace when the late Jonathan Weston
was p. M.
The minutes of the last Ashford
Baptist assooiational meeting, held at
Septem Der, 1905, have
not yet been printed, on account of
the using of the money raised for the
purpose to pay for the expenses Of the
various speakers secured for the ocoa-
sion. The churches must chip in
again in order to have the minutes
printed, as has been the custom for
three quarters of a century or so, &C.
cording to the ways of the fathers.
There is an effort being made in
Washington to reduce the expenses of
the R. F. D. service in the country.
It is claimed that there is an annual
deficit of $14, 900, 900, due chiefly to
this branch of the postal service, the
total thereof being some $29, 600, 900.
Reduction of salaries and abolishing
of routes are talked of. We shall not
be disappointed at all if we catch it,
eventually, hereabouts, the present
arrangement, as far as the Hill is con-
cerned, at least, being too good to
last.
We learn by the papers that Rev.
G. W. Sheppard of Stafford is to
leave this part of the country April
LIST. 1t will be remembered that some
years ago he supplied the local church
for several weeks, baptizing a large
number of converts. He will be
missed throughout the entire associa-
ton. of which he is at present moder-
ator. He lie an urbane, Christian
gentleman, and has been powerful
factor for good throughout the COM
munity. May success attend his la
bors in his new field!
We recall wildly as wEilom &C
both the father and grand
father of the late David Calhoun,
who was killed in the streets of Hart
ford last Thursday by fire engine.
The grandfather was Rev. DR.. Cal
houn of North Coventry, who used to
exchange here with both the Baptist
and Congregational pastors, Rev.
Messrs. Bancroft and Oushman, and
who prayed in the pulpit with. his
eyes wide open, al has been hereinbe-
fore stated. The father, Hon. David
G. Calhoun of Hartford, was the SEN
ior partner of the late law firm, Cal
houn & West of that city-the late
Mahlon r. West. formerly of Stafford.