The Press., 1906-12-26
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~4AAAN 04ON Mrs. Caroline Ryder Robbins is re
 covering from 8 slight illness.
 Miss Alice W. Pratt is spending tn, Christmas vacation at her home.
 Mrs. Preston has sent out by mai some 50 holiday gifts, souvenirs, etc
 Mrs. Gilbert Ide is still obliged tc receive the bi-weekly calls of hel physician
 Nellie Carpenter was quite i'll last week, requiring the daily attendance of her physician.
 Dwight B. Gardner was at home Christmas. He is now on his way to Kentucky in his line of business.
 Alzen is the name of a metal just discovered. It is something like cast iron, but is harder and can be highly polished.
 Armitage & Amidon have moved their steam saw mill to a part of the Cowles farm, between the Hollow and Daleville.
 People hereabouts seem to be "Christmassing" more than usual for some years, and many go abroad to buy gifts, etc.
 J. J. G. Dave expects to enter the Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs for the short term beginning January 3, 1907.
 "Just now it is quite easy to join in the chorus of moral reform. But it is quite as difficult now as it ever was to be honest, truthful and just. ''
 The compliments of the season to all our friends and acquaintances, from yesterday on through New Years. Best wishes also throughout the now year.
 The late Andrew Jackson Sparks was member of the Hartford City Guard veteran association, and his death was recently officially announced by that body.
 Mrs. Esther B. Dimock led the Endeavol meeting at the Baptist con- ference room Sunday evening. She was the guest over night of Mrs. Caroline Robbins.
 Charles Deverouk proves to be g very popular mail carrier on this route. He was formerly connected with the New York city post office. He is Slav by birth and descent.
 The shrieks and roars Of steam enignes of many kinds, heard in our large oenters, are nuisances in very deed. Ninety eight per cent. of them are evils which ought to be sbated.
 Notwithstanding the fall of snow a goodly number were out at church Sunday. The singing of Bohemian children at the Baptist church was an interesting feature of the services.
 What constitutes "a remote part of Holland county?" It's distance from We are led to this ob- by reports of the Bishop. Williams trial in different city news- papers.
 The railway accident on the New London Northern, near Willimantic, was the reason of there being no mails this way on Friday. The next day, of course, there was g double portion of mail matter. ..
 Lee Buckland, formerly we'll known ill town, now of Hartford, recently fell on the sidewalk in that city, his hip. He is a son-in- law of the late Deacon Rufus Rider, and is now in his 9Oth year.
 People in this vicinity are satisfied at the outcome of the boy murderer's trial lately held in Rockville. But how much better, pecuniarily, at least, had the same result been reach ed at the beginning, thus saving the state considerable money.
 Christmas day was an exceptionally fine one, and there was more made of it than usual in this vicinity. The usual Christmas guests, A. D. Dimock and wife, J. A. Dimock and wife and Q. T. Preston and wife were invited to A. s. Pierce's, but the latter couple were not able to go out.
 Can any one tell us about the late Aunt Phoebe Kennedy? Where she came from and who and where are her living relatives? She used to live on the lot on the Hill between the cross road and Anton Wostrel's, in a house once occupied by the late Silas Glazier. We recall among our earlier that she was once the victim of a so-called practical joke, ''put up'' by two quite prominent young men, then denizens of the Hill, the damages of which their parents were not slow to pay. Those two lads died long ago.
 The Christmas festivities at the Baptist church were a booming suc- cess. Christmas eve was a typical one, as far as weather was concerned, and the church was we'll filled. The exercises through the evening were faultless. Here is the program {: Opening song; invocation by Pastor Wolfe; three reoitations, Tony Wos- trel, Elinor Watrous, Florence May Pierce; singing; four reoitations, Myrtle, Alice Ward, Charlie Lyon, Ida Korner;" singing by the four recitations, Roy Will bur, Mary Pobour, Aldrick Vanasek, Tony Hak; dialogue by the school i; singing; three recitations, John Wos- trel, Alice Pobuda, Anis Wostrel i; singing; two reuitations, Harry Ward, Frank Vanesick; benediction; dis of gifts from the tree. The audience room was beautifully deco rated and the Christmas tree was 8 fine one. Miss Hattie O. Robbins,
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