The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-08-28

CATIONS 6G 6h0 Churcn06 SUNDAY.
D. B. Gardner and wife came tol
the Congregational pargonage Mon
day.
School in East Wilmington district
No. 8 will commence next week Tues
day.
Harold Pratt has a baseball. ice
cream social this evening at Pleasant
View.
Miss Mamie Pierce of Central Falls,
r. L., is visiting her aunt and cousins
at the Pierce cottage.
The rain was welcome, although
count of it's long delay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oosgrove returned on
Monday evening from their visit at
Saxton's River, Vermont.
Mrs. Louise Adams from Detroit.
Michigan, has been for ten days with
her sister, Mrs. Fred Squire.
Miss Annie Trouton of Manchester
spent few days last week with her
friend, Miss Alice V. Cosgrove.
Mrs. Jennie Waldo Knox. daughter,
Helen, and son, Howard, of Hartford
are visiting her aunt at Mrs. Emily
Carpenters.
Ice cream social at F. W. Pratt's
for the benefit of the West Wilmington
baseball club Wednesday evening.
Orchestral music.
Mrs. Preston being i'll Sunday and
not able to go out, Pastor Wolfe took
her place as superintendent of the Bap-
tist Sunday school.
I'm all things throughout the world
the men who look for the crooked will
see the crooked, and the men who look
for the straight will see the straight. F"
Miss Edna Gould Pierce is at home
from Providence, r. l., where she
has fine position as stenographer and
typewriter in the Office of a manu-
factory.
Alonzo s. Pierce is to have charge
of the wiring for electricity of very
large tourists hotel, the contract
having been taken by his company in
New York city.
There was a musical at the Palmer
Dunning's Crest Cottage" Monday
evening, in which some of the musi-
cal visitors participated, as we'll as
the usual local musicians.
Miss Alice Vanderbilt Oosgrove en-
tertained party of young people last
Friday evening in honor of her friend,
Miss Annie Trouton, of Manchester.
Ice cream and cake were served.
Former residents cannot say enough
in praise of the road from the Hill
to the station, that newly improved
strip ON the fat west Of the Glass
Factory getting a due measure of
commendation.
Rev. Mr.. Higgins, whose house and
contents, including most of his valu-
able library, was burned in West
Hartford last Friday, is the father of
Mrs. Janet Higgins Preston, wife of
Fred M. Preston, we'll known here.
The seats for the school house are
tied up somewhere with other freight
in process of transportation. The
old seats and desks have been removed.
and it is now somewhat doubtful
about school beginning Tuesday, Sept.
Sd.
Extensive repairs are being made on
the highway near Babcock's bridge
that, when completed, will be a very
great Improvement, although just
now they do not enhance the delight
Of driving, although by no means
impossible.
Rev. Leonard Smith of Spring Hill
will be present at the Endeavor meet
ing Sunday evening at the Baptist
church as visitor of the Willimantic O.
e. union, and will make an address.
Mrs. e. B. Dimock is the assigned
leader for the evening. -
Clarence s. Preston of Boston.
with Allen, Hall s. Co., interior
decorators, was the guest of his aunt,
Mrs. Annie, A. Preston, at Maple
Corner last week. He returned via.
New London, Block Island and Provi
dence, having a delightful trip.
If you discover an error in news
paper these days, do not pat yourself
on the back with delight at your own
acuteness and say wisely: 81 sup
posed that correspondent knew more
than that" but, rather, say nothing,
but think: "There is seldom an
error. typographical or any kind, in
this journal; probably the type
setter or proof reader is away on va
cation a..
If a correspondent is to be trusted to
state facts, it is safer to print items as
they are written and thus save anus
ing errors. For instance, one paper
last week had an item regarding Mr..
Palmer Dunning, not understanding
that Miss Palmer and Miss Dunning
are the heads of the delightful part
nership at REST Cottage" and that
theysare known by their many friends
and acquaintanoes , as the Palmer
Cummings, and that there is no Mister
in the firm.
japan, though gaining famous
victory in her war with Russia, Is
burdened : with an enormous debt.