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

Bridgeport papers note that Judge
Joel Fl. Reed of Stafford is making
hard shedding for those who expect to
get divorces easily in his court. No
trivial cause has any weight with
! him.
The following account of the death
of s. William Page, who resided in
this borough during his boyhood days,
| is taken from Council Bluffs paper
l"S. William Page, died at Elida,
New Mexico, the evening of March
9th, after an illness of but "a hours,
of acute Inflammation of the bowels.
Mr.. Page, with his wife, left Council
Bluffs only one month prior to his
death, to make for them a new home
in the sunny southwest. where he had
previously acquired land for farm.
s. W. Page was born in Worcester,
Mass, and in 1876 came with his
parents TO Weston, Ia., and after the
death of his father, in 1869, succeed
ed the latter in the grain business and
farming, and like his father enjoyed
the confidence of the community in
which he lived. He resided there
until four years ago, when he mar
ried Mrs. Minnie Lee and came to
Council Bluffs, residing here until
departing to New Mexico He was
widely known and had many friends
hereabouts, who grieve with his
mourning wife, mother and sister. -
Lucian M. Horton died at his home,
No. 81 Hartford avenue, Wethers-
field, last Wednesday of a paralytic
s5f2ck. He was born in Stafford in
NAG, and was the son Of Betsey Au-
reila and John Alden Horton. He
went to Wethersfeld in 1869, when
July 81 he was appointed an officer
in the state prison. In June, 1872,
he was appointed jailer at New Ha-
ven Jail, serving there six months.
In January, 1873, he was appointed
jailer at the Hartford Jail, then To-
Gated on Ford street. He was reap
pointed at the state prison in 1897
and appointed steward in October,
1888, remaining at the state prison
until his last illness. Besides his
wife he leaves one daughter, Mrs.
Alfred Fl. Watkinson, and three sons,
Lucian Sanford Horton of Hartford,
employed at the Neal, Goff s. Inglis
company, John Francis Horton, a
clerk at the Aetna Life Insurance
company, and W. Alden Horton, a
student at the Wethersfield high
school. He was a communicant and
the Oldest vestryman of Trinity
church. The funeral was held from
the church on Friday. The burial
was at Wethersfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Burbank of
Longmeadow, Mass, have the sym
pathy of large number of friends in
this borough in the death of their
Miss Grace Beckwith Bur-
bank, which took place at her home
last Wednesday. She suffered an un-
usually critical operation for appen-
dicitis March 25, 1906, and only
partly recovered. She was apparently
slowly regaining her health until
about Christmas, but since that time
had declined. Grace was the oldest
of James and Mrs. Martha Burbank's
and was born March 20,
1879. She was graduated from the
high school in the class of
'98, and later was a student in Mount
Holyoke college, leaving after two
years on account of her grandmother
illness and subsequent death. All
her life Miss Burbank was closely
identified with the best things of
Before her illness she
was active in the work of the First
church, president Of the Christian
Endeavor society, teacher in the
Sunday school and ever ready with
heart and hand to assist in the other
of church or parish.
The funeral was held Saturday after
noon at the home of her parents. The
Home City quartet sang "Orossing
the Bar" and Beautiful Isle," and
again for the occasional "Siloam.
The bearers were Charles Beckwith,
Rev. E. o. Dyer, W. O. Harding,
Charles Chandler, John W. Harding
and Malcolm Beckwith. The burial
was in the Longmeadow churchyard.
It may be of interest to readers of
The Press to know the result of heat |
ing Woodlawn this winter with soft |
coal, which has been accomplished |
with 20 gross tons of Henrietta coal,
against former consumption of 40
IONS of Anthracite coal. With that
amount the large dining room could
never be heated comfortable in cold |
weather, and it has now been heated |
by the addition of two more direct |
stacks or radiators besides the one |
Indirect stack formerly employed for
the purpose. This makes IL stacks |
in constant use, four of them being |
Indirect. This great change of ONE