The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-04-25

Willie CLARK was at his parents
home over Sunday.
Mrs. Gardner returned from her
visit to Burnside last week.
Mrs. Ida Clarke Dawkins, with her
husband. is now in Pueblo, Colorado.
The family of O. H: Davis, former
ly of this town, now of Palmer, Mass.
have fine new piano.
Miss Emma Weed, daughter of a
former supply Of the Congregational
pulpit, was married last week in
CRANKY.
The old friends and acquaintances
Of Mrs. Clarke we're glad to greet her
at the Congregational church Sunday
forenoon.
Miss Harriet @. Robbins is visiting
her mothers cousin, Mrs. Harriet A.
Lippett, Norwich. She expects to re-
turn on or before Saturday.
Dandelions are in evidence, health
full and toothsome as we know from
experience. She takes pains to plant
seeds in her dandelion patch every
year.
We were told on good authority,
besides it was a common report, that
Mrs. Holman had sold her farm, Toll
land side. 1t seems that it is strenu-
ously denied.
Mrs. Scott returned to Springfield
Monday evening. On the way from
that city hither she and her mother,
Mrs. Clarke, called on Mrs. Q. H.
Davis of Palmer, formerly of this
town. i
Mrs. Katharine Clarke and her
daughter, Mrs. Scott of Springfield,
Mass arrived at Rev. S. W. Clarke's
Saturday. Mrs. Clarke had been up
on a long visit to her daughters in
Massachusetts,.
Memorial day is again at hand.
Last year we tagged some twenty
four union soldiers graves, she and I,
at our expense and alone, and deco
will do this service this year?
On account of the rain last Sunday
many vicinity Easter services we're
postponed until the following Sunday.
It is an old saying that the martens
and warm weather always come to-
gether, and our martens have arrived.
Miss Isabella Merrick's ancestral
bedquilt has finally gone into the
possession of Mrs. Charles L. Dean of
Maiden, Mass, formerly of this town,
she paying ten dollars for it. So, it
would seem that with the previous
sales of tickets and this recent out
right purchase, Miss Merrick did a
good stroke of business.
The Mr.. Hunter spoken of last
fseek preceded the late Herbert G.
Preston as clerk and manager of
Charles Mather's large general store
in Williamstown. Mass. He drove
from the railway station to visit the
early home OF his old friend and to
call upon his eldest brother.
John Merrick, formerly of this
town and native, now of Mime
aPolis, MINI, passed his eightieth
birthday on the 10th inst. He re-
ceived many letters of congTatulation
from his old friends in the east, Hol-
yoke, Mass, Wilmington and other
points. Mr.. Merrick was a prosper
Gus and useful citizen of the former
place for many years.
At the Baptist church in the after
noon the pastor, Rev. Charles W.
Wolfe, repeated his sermon of the Sun
day previous by request. Such SER
mons bear repetition. He announced
that something over forty dollars was
raised by the church for the Japanese
fund, had been sent to headquarters
and a receipt therefor had been re-
ceived. He also gave out that Rev.
Mr.. Divine, the missionary of the
state convention, would occupy the
local pulpit next Sunday.
Does it ever occur to the thinking
part of our communities chat the old
soldiers had something to do with
making the country what it now IT,,
able to appropriate its millions for the
San Francisco sufferers? We have a
country able to care for it's own when
such emergencies arise, not calling
for q foreign dollar. Even the most
impecunious of the old veterans need
not feel sorry that they cannot indi-
vidually subscribe to the various aid
papers now in circulation for the re.
lief of the San Francisco sufferers.
There was quite scare in this To-
oality last week, among the women
folks especially, when the Springfield
Republican, in its Monson news. said
that Claude Taylor, the outlaw, had
been identified in that town and was
probably heading for the border towns
of Connecticut. If the suspected boy
is not the same person alleged to be a
recent highwayman, etc., it's too bad.
1t must be confessed, however, that
these recent nearby outrages happen
ing so soon after his release from the
Fitohburg, Mass, institution and
various alleged identifications, some
of these suspicious are we'll founded.
Claude was going to turn over a new
leaf when he was free once more, and
we are sorry for these rumors that of
late come so often to our ears We
do not know that we can criticize
these timid people, for the suspect
knows all the 'ins and outs'' of this
and neighboring localities. We have
been told recently that Deputy Sheriff
Helm of Stafford Springs has had in