The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-02-13

we'll.
@. II. Hobby and family have re
moved to Worcester, Mass.
The prevailing type of grip abou
here has not taken dangerous turn.
There has been quite a snow -fal
the past week, and blizzard weather
also.
To have an ideal higher than ones
conduct does not make one hypo'
critic.
Rev. @. W. Wolfe conducted the
services at the funeral of the late
Mrs. Miller.
What shall we do with our ,OOO,-
600 immigrants year? Assimilate
them, of course.
Saturday. Sunday, Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday last were decid-
eddy Indictment days.
F. ". Pratt is the agent of the
Vernon creamery in this vicinity,
gathering cream, etc.
Francis Romaiue Tucker has sold a
span of horses to Willard Eldredge.
A nice span they are, too,
Country folks can enjoy the privi-
lege of feeding the starving birds dur
ing this inclement weather.
William Bussey, now owner and
occupant of the Felch place, near the
Ashford line, is i'll from lumhago.
Flippancy and aptnesa at retort are
not always indicitive of wisdom.
There is a time for all things-Eccles.
81.
A native of India can live there on
IS per month, while it costs an Amer
lean ~ per day to live in the same
place.
The late B. F. Wilbur was buried
in the Hill cemetery last Saturday af-
ternoon. Rev, Charles W. Wolfe con.
Quoted the funeral services.
A young man, rich or poor, who
cannot do hard work with a good end
in view, and enjoy it, is not the stuff
of which good citizens are made.
We hear of the SERIOUS illness of
William Rocye, Eldredge Mills, and
of that of Mrs James @. Jennings
aud her mother, who lives with her.
How many readers of The Press,
we wonder, will call to mind that the
birthdays of our three immortals,
Washington, Longfellow and Lincoln,
occur this month?
Comrade Alfred Cowles is the old.
est veteran of the civil war in town.
He will certainly benefit by the
new act of congress, signed by the
president last week, increasing his
pension to 800 per month.
Every dog has his day, but what
the legislative solons will do this
winter about the CANNES remains to
be seen. In passing we will remark,
9 1t is always pitiable for the inno-
cent to suffer for the guilty.
The mails in this locality were
somewhat uncertain last week. On
some of the days the r F. D. carrier
on route No. l could not get through
on account of the snow drifts, and
had to turn about and retrace his
steps.
Rev. Charles W. Wolfe, pastor of
the local Baptist church, has recently
been made chaplain of Uriel lodge of
Masons, Merrows. This ia one of the
Oldest lodges in the country, it hav-
ing been removed years ago from Toll
land thither.
Lovillow Bogue, a civil war veter
an, who, with his wife and father,
also veteran of the civil war, used
to live in the present Bohemian "club
house, - formerly owned and occupied
by the late John B. Whitford, died
recently in Coventry at the age of 81
years. a
The impossibility of procuring any
one to dig the grave of deceased
resident during the inclement weather
of last week shows the need of a re.
ceiving vault in our Center cemetery.
A tool-house is hardly the place to
commit the bodies of our deceased
friends.
Many people in this vicinity, as
we'll as in other parts of Holland |
county, especially the women folk,
will breathe easier now that Taylor,
Dimlow and Bishop are safe behind
the bars in the state prisons of Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire and Con-
Observation-Disclosures, Concord and
Wethersfeld.
There are nearly 100000 insane
persons in the various institutions in
this country. SINCE the we'll ap-
pointed modern hospitals have been
in vogue more cases have been found
and enumerated. The insane are
cared for much better than they were
a generation ago. But, nevertheless,
statistics show that insanity is on the
increase in this country, not so much
in the south as in the north.
Willie F. Walker, who used to go
W sohOo% W Us A6Fo IL poWu, slAce
prominent New Britain man, and
who was a son of the late Rev. Will.
liam @. Walker, former pastor of
the local Baptist church, has mys-
disappeared from his home
in New Britain. Some think he was
killed by the cars, and others that he
has been foplly dealt with. Time
will tell.
Benjamin F. Wilbur, who lived
or some time in the James McFar-
ane house, Glass Factory village,
lied last week. He was a member
If the local G. A. r. post, Elisha
Johnson, No. So, being a veteran of
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