The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-01-30
WELLINGTON

WELLINGTON
! The board of relief will meet il
the town hall Friday, Feb. 1st, at II
a. m.
Dwight Baker Gardner was at las
accounts in Kentucky travelling fol
I his firm.
The topic at the Congregations
church Sunday was "Am I my broth
er's keeper?"
Miss Florence May Pierce left Mon
day a. m. to enter the girls seminary
at Northfield, Mass.
The selectmen of Glastonbury re-
Gently appointed Hubbell L. Glazie1
constable of that town.
Covenant meeting at Baptist con.
ference room Saturday at 3 p. m.
Communion Sunday forenoon
Rev. Charles H. Brown and wife
of Saxton's River, VT, were guests
Sunday at George A. Cosgrove's.
The beginning of all science is the
art of putting things in their right
places. 1t is called classification.
We are told that there will be a
masquerade at the Mountain Park
Pleasure club house one week from
Nnext Saturday night
Mrs Barney, the celebrated worlds Is
W O. T. U. prison visitor and lec-
Carer, will speak in the Baptist church
l1ext Sunday forenoon.
We had some pretty cold weather
in this locality last week, from 12
to 20 degrees below zero being re-
ported in various parts of the town.
Dorothy Pierce led the Endeavor
meeting in the Congregational chapel
Sunday evening. Mrs. Wolfe sang
an effective solo, accompanied by Hat
tie O. Robbins.
1t is said that Lee W. Buckland,
now of Hartford, whose fall on an
icy pavement in that city was noted
il this column few weeks since, is
still confined to his bed.
This year there will be five Sun
days in the months of March, June,
September and December, when the
good people of the town can enjoy
extra Sunday meetings.
How is this for a legislative chap
lain's prayer? "We thank thee, God,
that we are all alive this morning,
sober and out of JAIL" which was
recently offered in a western state
capitol.
Harold W. Pratt of Providence, r.
l., spent Sunday at his home here.
He was accompanied by Arthur Walk
er OF Pawtucket, who visited at Miss
Lucy Eldredge's, where he has passed
many summer vacations.
Anton Neuman assisted the jani-
tress in clearing the Christmas deco.
rations from the church and in clean
ing the furnace and pipes Friday, pre-
paratory for the funeral of Albert
Sharp Sunday forenoon.
Yesterdays saying on our FOOLS
was: "Of all sad words of |
tongue or pen, the saddest are these
l dinna ken, - accompanied by a
'ut representing an aged physician at
the side of an aged patient.
A party of the friends of the worthy
couple, Hans M. Hansen, Sr., and
wife, Tolland side, entertained them
on the occasion Of the thirty fifth an
niversary Of their marriage at the
Mountain Pleasure Park hall in that
ocality last Saturday evening.
"Those who remember how the
merchant marine onoe furnished an
honorable career for Americans will
lot long be content unless something
8 done to make the American flag
loat over peaceful merchant ships
penetrating every harbor in the
vorld.''
"The absurd idea that patriotism
las anything to do with our enforced
abstinence from buying merchant
hips abroad is relic of the civil
var. The law was intended to pre-
ent men, who for unpatriotio pur.
'oses put their ships under foreign
lags, getting them back again in
lines of peace
The late Deacon Albert Sharp and
is esteemed wife, Laura Ann Holt
harp, and their daughters, Jennie
nd CLARA, were for many years high
respected and esteemed in this COM
1unity. They we're useful and influ.
ntial in all the religious and social
lfe and have been much missed since
heir removal from the locality.
The friends about here of Dwight
'aker Gardner were much relieved to
EARN that he was safe and sound in
exington. KY, last week, being ap-
rehensive lest he might have been
ne OF the victims of the numerous