The Press., 1906-01-31
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Miss Gardner returned this week
from her recent visit.
The outlook hereabouts for a good
ice crop is discouraging.
Mrs. s. W. Clarke is visiting in
and Holyoke.
The Chinese say that this winters
weather is the mildest known for some
IL, 900 years.
We wonder how many sick with
colds now were out in light clothing
Sunday before last.
Edwin Clinton Shaffer is on our
probate court books as the adopted son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Carpenter.
In the Marcy genealogy it should
have been stated that Mrs. Evaline
Marcy Kingsley married James Tay-
lor.
A flock Of wild geese passed over
this vicinity, northward, last week,
rather of q phenomenon for this time
of the year.
Andrew jackson had his Tom Ben
ton, Lincoln his Sumner, Grant his
Roscoe Conkling and now Roosevelt
has his John-C. Spooner.
The late U. s. Brig. Gen. Joe"
Wheeler, is all right; but the late
Gen. Lee, that arch rebel, was not all
right. This is our humble opinion.
The county president of the W. G.
T. u, Mrs. E ]. Holman, had charge
of and addressed their county meeting
at Somersville last Wednesday after
noon.
GA new word has been invented in
England which seems to meet felt
want As the feminine of suffra
gists, suffragettes has come into use.
Why not?'
"No disappointment is more bitter
than that which comes to q successful
man of affairs when he discovers at
last that, with all his getting, he has
not got understanding, spiritual
or social worthiness.
There has been much sickness of
late among the children of the Gen.
ter school, Dasie Buck, Dorothy
Pierce, Annie Wostrel, Tony Wostrel,
Mary Parasack, Mary Hak and others
being afflicted. We hear of no seri-
ous results rs yet.
Edward NJ. Dickinson of Amherst,
Mass, was a guest of O. T. Preston
Friday night. He represented A. H.
s. Co., Springfield, Mass.
in the matter of q new directory for
Somers, Stafford, Union and willing
ton. The work will be issued in
about one month.
The funeral of Mrs. Fuller was
held last Thursday at the house of her
ION in-law, George E. Lyon, Rev. G.
". Wolfe officiating. The burial was
N the old cemetery beside her late
husband. The flowers were exquisite
md abundant. The Episcopal ritual
was used at the committal service.
The corner stone of the present
Congregational church edifice was laid
with appropriate exercises April,
1876. Among the current newspa-
Ders of the day deposited in the box
N the corner stone were The Press
md the late Religious Herald. The
ate Rev. Erastus Cotton was the mas
er of ceremonies.
In common with some great news
papers we long ago adopted the motto,
Tell the news and the truth about
t." 1t applies to this column,
whether folks like it or not. The
ditor must judge whether the truth
must be spoken at all times or not.
Fault finders and would be critics can
nut this in their pipe and smoke it.
Money is a most excellent go-be-
ween, medium Of exchange,
Medium for getting things that are
n themselves desirable; but it is a
angular saving Of power if we get the
things at first hand. In this
way the poor often get even with the
'ich. They do not have the money,
nut they have the thing that money
,uys and do not waste the time earn
ng the money.
The probate records in Tolland
how that the commissioners appoint
ID by the court recently on the estate
# the late George E. Sparrow allow
d $42. 40 on the bill of $133. IA pre-
ented by DR.. F. E. Converse, also
hat the Gilbert Ide farm was an.
raised at $65O-less a mortgage of
accrued interest and taxes
~, the equity in the premises being
20S. Also that the administrator
vas allowed the fee of $35 for his ser.
ices.
The late Mrs. Fuller outlived her
not quite ten years, he
ying September, 1895. Mrs. Mary
,yon, her only child, as we'll as her
can now congratulate
upon the excellent care |
upon her during her life,
specially during her last sickness
wing to i'll health she went from
ONE but little, and consequently was
OF generally known outside family
riends and relatives. Friends and
slatives from out of town were pres
ut at the funeral. Rev. Mr.. Wolfe
nd Mrs. Wolfe sang Some time we'll
Understand. - The bearers were Hans
[. Hansen, Jr., Charles Korner and
ddie J. Lyon, her grandchildren,
nd Oscar Himmeler. So, rapidly
re passing away the old soldiers and
heir widows.
The following of local interest
FINISHED by "Scribe, Rev. Mr..
7olf, pastor of the Baptist church in
loomfield, is taken from last weeks
!. Y. Examiner: ''The Wilmington
1urch has haen greatly hlaSsod in |