The Press., 1906-05-09

Mrs. Urania o. Ide is much i'm proved in health. Faithfulness is faithfulness or whatever scale it is set''.
 Mrs. Wilbur is caring for her sis ter, who is i'll in Marlboro.
 Consumption has about 100, 900 vic. tims yearly in this country.
 Serious cases of measles in the south part of the town are reported.
 Mrs. Rhoda Lyon Hanson has fine new Estey piano, a surprise gift from her husband.
 People did not tumble over each other hereabouts in celebrating Arbor day last week.
 Mrs. Nellie Carpenter and Miss Harriet O. Robbins drove over to Vest ford last Wednesday.
 George Brown has disposed of his four horses to Adelbert Needham and has gone off to work. We had a copy of Webster's old spelling book. but gave it away to a friend some time ago. Dr. Converse and family removed from Westford to his new home near the railroad station last week. What is the difference between a hill and pill? One is hard to get up, while the other is hard to get down.
 Much sympathy is expressed in this locality for Arthur Watrous, now of Stafford, who recently broke his leg there.
 The time has been when most of our kitchen gardening was done i'll March, but we cannot attend to such things nowadays.
 John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world, earned his first dollar digging potatoes; and he is proud of the fact, too. Last week Ezra A. Morse, wife and youngest daughter moved to the Rich ardson house, which he recently pur- chased ill South Wilmington.
 Rev. 0. W. Wolfe and wife drove to Willimantic May 1st, calling on acquaintances on the way. Miss Lucy Eldredge also visited that city on that day.
 Anton Hak has lost his good family horse. He goes to New York city the 14th to have his hair cut, he says, and to do stroke of business, per. haps, also.
 There is especial good and useful reading in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly, notably "Man al an Actor," and the article on Iibel and islander.
 Mrs. Gardner was not quite as well last week, necessitating calls from her physician, who is of the opinion that she can be permanently relieved of her malady, indigestion.
 It is good news, if true. that our beloved and popular president will abstain from hunting big game and other spectacular hunting perform ances during his term of office.
 The quarantine tag has been re- moved from the Bohemian house at Sharp's mills, and it is said that there is now no danger of diphtheretic con- tagion, the sick child having recover ed.
 J. F. Whitford and his daughter, Lizzie, of Cromwell were guests at George Rounds last week. Mrs. Whitford is reported as no better. Her eldest daughter, Mrs. Moor, is still with her.
 Mrs. Nellie Carpenter and Miss Hattie Robbins, on their return from their Westford trip the other day, saw two young deer in the brook just be- yond E. H. Burdick's, between his house and Forestville.
 And so Comrade "Thode'' Needham is gone, to reinforce the vanguard of our comrades already encamped on the heavenly shore" His father, "Uncle Sid'' Needham, was one of the brightest men, ill our opinion, that Stafford ever had within her borders.
 Bramble & Demond have removed their steam saw-mill over to Holland. The Molochs of steam aw.mills cut and slash into our woodlands fearful ly. We are just i'll receipt of a letter from Nebraska, which, among other things, says: "How I would like tc ride from Holland to Wilmington, as use to with my father, over the hills and through the woods; Oh, I hope they are not cut down.