The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-04-10
WELLINGTON.


brother, John, at Storrs.
Men may come and men may go"
but work goes on forever.
Needed repairs have been made on
the Center school house as the result
of the recent entertainment.
Miss Florence May Pierce led the
Endeavor society at the Oongrega-
tional church Sunday evening.
Services were held as usual at both
churches on Sunday, but the texts and
topics have not been handed us.
Miss Alice Pratt and Miss Florence
Pierce delayed their return to the
seminary at Northfield, Mass, to at
tend the funeral of Charles T. Pres
ton.
Mrs Gilbert Ide is quite comfort
able at this writing, while Mrs. Stud.
ley's cough is more troublesome. The
inclement weather is trying for peo-
pie in delicate health.
Jesse Emo, it is said, has sold the
John Wright place to Bert Ruby, and
the Nelson Emo place to John D. Tay-
lor. Everyone regrets to hear that
Mr.. Emo and his interesting, helpful
family are planning to leave town.
The death of Mrs. g. D. Ide was a
shock to the community. AS Abbie
Wilson and later as Mrs. Ide, the
whole of her girlhood and early mar
ried life having been passed here, she
had a host of friends who mourn her
early death. The bereaved husband
and the young son and daughter have
the sympathy of all. Friends were
present at the burial Sunday after
noon.
Julius P. Maine of Florence, Mass. :,
a native of Wellington, held his an
nual scramble for marbles and PEN
MES last Saturday. Mr.. Maine pro-
vided 16, 900 marbles and alleys and
$40 in pennies, participated in by
boys and girls II years of age and un-
der. The children enter into the
sport with a spirit of fairness prevail
ing throughout the scramble. None
of the contestants has ever been hurt,
SO it is evident that Mr.. Maine knew
what he was doing when he selected
this method of sport for the children.
In the scramble for the pennies the
girls were arranged on one side of the
street and the boys on the other.
The Springfield Union prints the fol-
lowing in regard TO "Jule" Maine :
"All children throughout the city
know him, for who is there who has
not seen julie Maine going about
his business arrayed in the cap and
frock which are changed only with
the seasons. and which are of light
or of heavy weight as the time of the
year is warm or chilly? And who is
there in all Northampton who has
not learned with the years which
have passed that the heart under the
frock does not change with the sea-
sons, but is ever warm and true ?
julie Maine is no man of the sea-
SONS, but is the same at the end of IL
months that he is the day he delights
to throw the marbles and pennies to
the boys. Mr.. Maine has been a res
ident of Northampton for 33 years.
He came to the village Of Florence
in April, 1874, coming from Willing
ton, Conn, where he was born 6S
years ago, and where he passed all his
life until he came to Northampton.
He has always been a butcher and
when he came here went into bust
ness with his brother, George W.
Maine. For q number of years the
Maines did a large business, but in
1890 George W. Maine died, and
since then Julius P. Maine has car
ried on the business by himself The
brothers were snccessful and made
money. It 10 stated that the survivor
is still on the make, and that he
has accumulated fortune which is
not far from $75, 200. That may be
the work of the guessers-but the
man who throws the pennies and mar
bles is a wealthy man. Mr.. Maine
has daughter who has been blind
from early childhood. One of the
finest customs of the warm hearted
man is that he never misses day
when there is a pleasant sky, but
takes the girl and her mother to ride.
They may be seen driving about the
city or may be met on the pleasant
and shady country roads-mother and
daughter on the rear seat of the car
riage-and the father in his frock
of blue) on the front seat driving the
horse.''