The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-02-21
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Newton of Stafford Springs recently.
The board of relief, F. W. Pratt,
E. A. Morse and A. D. Dimock, held
meeting at the town hall Monday.
The papers say that Gardiner Hall
is getting along we'll, although his
blindness has been aggravated by his
recent fall.
We hear that George Brown has
gone to work drawing poles for the
new line between Rockville and Stat
ford Springs.
Miss Abigail Chism, Westford side,
has resigned her position as teacher
in Willimantic and began her labors
as teacher in her new field, Rocky
Hill.
And now the Windham County Fire
Insurance company, Brooklyn, has
given up the ghost Preston B. Sib-
ley of Killingly was it's last presi-
dent.
The serious illness of Mrs. Clee
worth at the home in Westford delays
the full removal of W. F. Squier and
family back to their old quarters at
the Hollow.
We have received at the hand of
Mrs. Durham q recent copy of the
Greedy Tribune, containing the no.
tice of the celebration of her 99th
birthday, mentioned in this column
last week.
We are requested to say that the
sale of liquor and the drinking there
of are suspected at the Hollow, and
that it is hoped that the publishing
of this alleged charge will be deemed
sufficient warning.
Said country parson once, on be-
ing jolted out of his wagon on ter
rible road, picked up with his collar
bone broken: eff ever 1 go to hell
want to go over this road, for l
want to feel glad when 1 get there. y
Mrs. Scott and her two children,
Madaline and Everett, of Springfield.
Mass, we'll known here on the Hill,
performed as musicians at Lincoln
celebration at the Chestnut street
evening school in that city last Mon
day evening.
The mills in Minneapolis, MINI.
alone turned out IA, $3.50, O95 barrels
| of -four last year, while the mills in
the entire northwest ground up 1O2,
246, 900 bushels of wheat in that
time. Gracious! Who eats all this
bread stuff?
, Lee auckland of Hartford, who
| married Cornelia Rider of this towI
some years ago, has had a specia
pension act of congress passed in hi'
favor through the efforts of Ex-Gov
: Bulkeley, .: S. senator, on account
of being a Mexican war veteran.
T Eyes, things are hard sometimes
/. And we must live on and bear Cod
e will. Because He makes a plan TO
t us, and there will be always some
: thing coming, we cannot tell, day b.
day, what may be, only He never for
, gets us or leaves anything out. -
n | lHS ?. ,. ". r. oO
r cial, given at the parlor of the Bap
!, fist church last Tuesday evening
: marked a pleasant occasion, and
3 goodly sum of money was realized
An enjoyable episode at one of tin
y tables was the reading of an origina
: appropriate poem by Rev. A. Gardner
- At the Congregational church Sun
day morning the pastor, Rev. A
). Gardner, preached from the words
Y Lord, save us: we PERISH" Matt
s:25. Subject, "A storm on the Sc
u of Galilee.'' At the Baptist churo
= the text was Matt. 8 81, "The har
= vest truly is plenteous, but the labor
r ers are few.
Y Speaking of the Baptist ladies
8 "church parlor," under all the fact
:. we guess that the term is the mos
D appropriate. "Vestry" is a roor
!, where ministers of the Episcopa
. church change their vestments, an
. where the vestry meet. "Confel
4 ence" is a Methodist term, primarily
Q while "chapel" is a very compreher
r sive word.
N In the middle of the last century
Il Boston Unitarian was asked to aid i
o building a Congregational church i
e Maine, where he had great land pos
sessions. He gave so literally ths
the collector expressed great surprise
Said the -giver in explanation: Sc
r do not accept your doctrine, but d
d not believe that anything but the fes
v of heIH-will keep those fellows dow
It east from stealing my lumber"
! We have in our possession bool
y elements of Useful Knowledge,
20 owned by the late Joshua Preston
# Sr., published in 1902, by Hudson
tt Goodwin, Hartford. 1t used to
d owned by our grandfather, a brothe
IS of his, the late Amos Preston, and III
10 der the owners autograph is til
e quaint couplet:-
- If you this book do not like,
Then try to keep it out of sight.
Some say that the term "conferenC
room" should be used, while othe
70 say the more modern term ''parlor
q would be the more appropriate. tt
~ room, with its carpet, tinted wall
~ piano, and it's former likenesses of IL
. church's former pastors which used
is adorn the walls, fine Rochester lamp
etc., would seem to suggest that tt
= latter term would be the proper on
but we don't care a rap which ter
is used, SO that all the Baptists a
suited.
Rev. Jacob David, an alumnus
Newton Theological seminary, we
known to many persons in town, wi
gave addresses on the eve of his d