The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-10-03

in low localities, there have been
none on the Hill.
Rev. O. L. Snow, a former local
pastor, has been visiting his brother,
William Snow, Hartford.
Friday was almanac day for Octo-
Der. We may now expect good
weather for another month.
Miss Gardner went to Willimantic
last Friday to meet her mother on her
return home from her recent visits.
Editors must take some things for
granted. If they don't, they are fools
and will have short-lived career.
Rev. Austin Gardner furnished q
poem to be read at the anniversary of
the church in Warren, of which he
was for some years pastor.
The Flynt Granite company, Mon
son, Mass, have been doing a job of
work on the foundation of the new
house of Hans M. Hansen, Jr.
That man who tells the truth in
whatever vocation or avocation of
life, with unpleasant consequences to
himself, it may be, because he will
not be liar, is hero.
Dwight B. Gardner drove over
from Rockville to the Congregational
parsonage recently, Miss May Phelps
of that city accompanying him, both
returning the same day.
We note that Charles Devorak and
Andrew Whitman, Glass Factory viii
lage, have been appointed letter car
riers by the U. S. government, on the
R. F. D. postal route No. 1, which
passes over the Hill.
Referring to the office of state
treasurer, now that Stafford is furnish
ing candidate, the late Hiram Rider
of this town held that office for a
period of four years, from 1888 to
1912, faithfully and we'll.
The dog scare has now reached this
town. Station Agent Bugbee thought
his dog had run away, mad, last
week, but he came back to his home
two or three days later all right, we
hear. We are told that all owners
and keepers of dogs must have them
muzzled or confined, for the present,
by the authority of the town officials.
We are also told that several dogs are
still running at large, to and fro over
the Hill, at least.
The relatives and friends of Com
rade Walter Ell. Hutchinson and his
wife, nee Althea Burnum, now OF
Bristol, celebrated their wedding an
adversary in that place recently. Many
substantial gifts were made by their
daughters and others, and altogether
we note that the occasion was a very
happy one. Oomrade Hutchinson and
wife have been frequent visitors of
late years at her sister, Mrs. Lincoln
Whites, Westford side. He was not
only member Of the same regiment
and company, but was also tent-mate
of ours.
Rev. A. Gardner is present at the
celebration this week of the 175th
anniversary of the Congregational
church in Buckingham, formerly
Eastbury, Glastonbury, Oct. Sd. Our
old friend and fellow member of the
Hartford county bar, the late Hon.
William s. Goslee, wrote the his
torical sketch of that organization in
last Fridays Oourant. Rev. Mr..
Gardner. present pastor of the local
Congregational church, was pastor
there some 13 years in the 7O's and
sos. His picture, taken at that time,
accompanies the article above men,
toned.
Rev. O. W. Wolfe and wife and
Mrs. Annie A. Preston were delegates
from the local church to the eighty
second meeting of the Ashford Baptist
association, South Woodstock, last
week. Charles T. Preston accom-
panied his wife thither.
NOTES OF THE MEETING.
The venerable Rev. Asa Randlett
was present, and his address made a
deep impression on the meeting.
We were pleased to meet old ac-
quaintances, who were delegates, Miss
Helen Cranska of Thompson; Mrs.
Fayette Goss of Willimantic; Ex-mail
Driver Chapman and wife, Rev. MIR.
Wilcox and wife of West Woodstock
Mrs. Burleson, Oomrade Judge Pond
of Brooklyn; Rev. Mr.. Stubbert of
Putnam; Rev. Leonard Smith and
wife of Spring Hill; Mrs. Bellows of
Brooklyn, N. Y, who was compli-
mented by resolution of the associ-
alton for her services as soloist and
for singing at the different sessions
Mrs. Wildes of Spring Hill, whom we
found out at the tables Tuesday to be
sister Of two former comrades in the
civil war. She was born on the
premises now owned and occupied by
the Smith brothers., Ashford side.
On our return from Putnam to Will
limantic, by invitation, we occupied
the same car, a chartered private one,
with the Shubert opera company,
which is now presenting Veronique,
the Flower GIRL" which played in
Willimantic that evening and is now
playing in Hartford. She said she
never saw such a bevy of pretty girls
as constituted the leading cast and
the chorus in her life. They treated
us with extreme courtesy, and we
fancy that should we meet them again
they would recognize and speak to us.
The ladies of South Woodstock gave
a spread of good and substantial food
on both days of the association.
Woodstock is famous for it's fruit,
and we bronght home some beautiful
and luscious samples, "The Maiden