The Press., 1908-02-19
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STAFFORD SPRINGS

STAFFORD SPRINGS.
 Miss Carolyn Brown is guest of Hartford relatives.
 Mrs. M. J. Leach is visiting Mrs. w. W. Leach in Palmer
 Mrs Carl Howes of Hudson, Mass. ;, and Miss Lucy Wheeler of Berlin. Mass, are guests of Mrs. F. F. Dun field.
 Miss Gertrude Peters has returned from 8 two-weeks' visit in Westfield, where she has been the guest of her sister, Mrs R J. Williams.
 There will be a union service at the Methodist church next Sunday even- ing. Rev. H. A Blake of the Con- gregational church will deliver the sermon.
 The fourth quarterly conference of the Methodist o"urch will be held in the church parlor Friday evening at o'clock. The presiding elder, John H. Newland, will be present.
 Grace Church Notes: During the coming Lent there will be two week day services, Friday afternoons at 4 15 and evenings at 7.3O, except March 9th, as we'll as other services to be announced. Preachers from Connecticut. New Hampshire and western Massachusetts are expected at 8 number of these Service at Buff Gap sohoolhouse next Sunday at 3 p. ID. n Rev. MT. Adams officiating.
 George H. Siswick, 65, died at his home last Thursday evening. MT. Siswiok had shock about three years ago, from which he never fully re- covered. His condition was aggra- vated by a fall which he sustained few months ago, when his hip was broken. MT. Siswick had lived here about 23 years and was an excellent citizen. He was mem Der of the local branch of the United Workmen and of the Masonic lodge of Mystic. He was also 8 member of the order of St. George. He is survived by widow, two brothers, Thomas of Maynard, Mass. and Joseph of Norwalk, and a sister in England. He also leaves four sons and two daughters. The sons are John and George of this town. Sidney of Mystic and Alfred of Waltham, Mass. The daughters are Mrs. Louis Stevens of this town and Mrs. s. s. Taylor of Waltham, Mass. ho hn1 I,Sc lot home Sunday afternoon, Rev. Thomas lyric of the Methodist church ofhci- ating. The burial was in the Staf- ord Springs cemetery.
 The following in regard to Dr. Dwight, president of Yale college, is taken from recent book by Rev. Ed ward Everett Hale, entitled Tarry at Home Travels. Tine old sign. board has not been preserved, but if it is in existence it should be placed in the public library
 I am afraid that dear Dr. Dwight is more often spoken of now as the president of the college than as the leading poet of his time. But Con- necticut people in particular and their descendants of two, three and four generations ought not to forget his verses. AS go over the railway to- day am almost sorry to see that Stafford Springs is becoming a great manufacturing town. But the dear old hotel where the invalids of a | century ago repaired in their own carriages with their own spans of horses and their own negro drivers is still extant, and, if you will ask at the right place, they will show you played over the bath house with this verse of Dr. Dwight's:- -.a .. .9
 70 health, thou dearest source of
 bliss to man,
 I woo thee here, here at this far
 famed Spring. ...
 Oh, may ere long welcome thy
 return!
 Irradiate my countenance with
 thy beams,
 And plant thy roses on my pallid
 cheeks !'
 To tell the whole truth, I never think of Dr. Dwight as the theologian enuountering Voltaire and Volney in the lists of battle, but as dear old poet with the roses of Stafford Springs beaming on his cheeks once pallid. AS they are finding radio activity in mineral springs just now, will not some one ride over from Hartford and Soc how much there is at Stafford?