The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-04-18
UNION.

day.
On account of the storm last Sun
day the Easter concert will be givel
next Sunday.
+ MIR. and Mrs. F. L. Upham o
Stafford spent last Thursday with he
sister, Mrs. L. M. Reed.
Mrs. T. Olin Newell, 80, dice
quite suddenly last Thurs day of al
pendicitis. The funeral was hell
last Saturday afternoon at the Con
gregational church, Rev. Mr.. Roge
officiating.
State Forester Austin f. Halves o.
New Haven has been busy the pas
week with force of men planting
Seeding pine on the place formerly
owned by Webster Brothers, which
farm is now a part of the 3OO-acrF
tract owned by the state in Union
Twenty thousand young pine. two
years from the seed, have been put
out on the moving land and open pas
ture adjoining. These two year ole
!, seedlings were bought in Illinois anc
cost So. IS per thousand. They are
we'll rooted, thrifty looking plants
and being set so early in the season
are likely to get good start before
warm, dry weather. Planted in rows
six feet apart and about five feet be-
tween plants in the row, gives ap
proximately 1900 plants to the acre.
The cost of planting has been about
81 per Thousand, or 80 % per acre,
which, with the cost of trees, makes
the total cost per acre about $9. %.
The tool used for planting is the or
binary mattock, which makes hole
and loosens the soil. The tree is in
serted in the opening with the hand,
and the soil firmed about the roots
with the feet. Three or four men
work together, one carrying a supply
of the little trees in basket and
passing them as needed to the plant
ers, who travel six feet apart back
and forth across the field, being guild
ed by stakes set the proper distance
apart and at convenient intervals. A
"crew' of three men will set out
to p acres in a day. Mr.. Halves also
bought 20, 900 one-year- old pine seed
lings from Vanderbilt's Biltmore es-
tate in North Carolina. The price
of these was -. so per thousand. A
piece of ground upon which potatoes
we're grown last year has been worked
into good condition, and beds made
about 4x12 feet. Into these beds the
little seedlings are set thickly in
rows, seven or eight inches apart. It
is expected that these will grow suf-
ficiently during the summer to be used
another spring for planting the open
land on the Severy farm. The for
ester is able to get the pine seedlings
at this low price because of buying
so many, and as it is the purpose of
the state to interest and assist indi-
viduals in making paintings of their
own, he will furnish trees to anyone
who wishes them at the prices named
above, and will give advice as to
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to thoroughly understand his bust
ness, is full of energy and enthusiasm
and is not afraid of hard work. His
work for the state here is being
watched with interest by many, and
some land owners will doubtless be
led to set out some of their waste
acres to pine. Several have already
expressed purpose to do so another
year.
| Mashapaug.
Peter Thompson captured the first
sucker of the season in Cleveland
brook last week.
Felix Bouvia, one of the oldest and
most successful farmers of Mashapaug,
is dangerously i'll at his home.
M. H. Kinney and family are plan
ming to occupy their residence here in
the near future. Mr.. Kinney has
been building two new boats for Fred
Moore.
Charles dos horse and load of
wood got stuck in the mud going
down Cleveland hill last week Friday.
The horse threw himself and broke
one shaft.
Tax Collector H. R. Howard has
received the rate book and will be
found at his residence, excepting such
dates as specified in his notice, to be
found in the columns of this issue.
Spring work is getting Roadway.
Fred Moore is grading in front of his
residence, reshaping the plot next the
road beside his wall, setting out
shrubs, and intends in the near future
to remodel the small cottage north of
his residence for summer campers.
Constable Hicks of Brimfeld was
in town Thursday looking for clues
to whereabouts of Claude Taylor.
Taylor lived here as a boy and be-
haved fairly WELL but he has devel-
oped criminal tendencies. He was
released from a Massachusetts Jail in
March and is wanted by Connecticut
authorities for horse stealing. Tay
lor is about Is, but looks 23 or "a.
He is said to carry a skeleton rifle,
%, and when hungry or in need of
money demands it with his eye squint-
ing along his rifle sight, like west
ern train robber holding up AL ex-
press. However, Taylor points this in
strument of torture at people only OF
old age and feeble of body. Never
theless, people about here are rubbing
up old shot guns and leaving them in
handy places about the house. Tay-
lor does not dare go into a large town
for fear of capture, and hence sneaks
about Ashford, Wilmington and Union,
living in old barns and deserted
houses. He has not been seen for