The Press., 1910-07-27

George Bridges is seriously i'll with typhoid fever
 Armitage & Amidon lost one of their valuable team horses last week.
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 Donald H. Lawson of Middle Had dam is spending his vacation at Mid wood Farm.
 Mrs. A. T. Allen. is spending a month with her sons In Hartford and New Haven.
 The item, last week, in reference to the text chosen by Rev. George Oostiss, should have read verse 16, insteaa of G'' verse 2
 The condition of R Horton dur. ing the past week was a little more encouraging, although the gain is necepsarily very slow.
 Monday night. about 10 o'clock. light was observed southwest of this town and smoke was perceptible in the alr.. Aasa thunder shower was in progress in thab direction at the time, 1t was feared that some building had been struck by lightning
 Last Sunday was one of the most nncomfotta days of the season, and Monday was also hot and snltry. The showers whioh passed all around us. giving us only sprinkle, Monday night, pooled the air and brought 8 delightfully."- refreshing breeze yester- day morning A @
 Have you noticed how busy the barn swallows are these days, teach. ing their children the art of aerial navigation. and skimming over the new mowns fields in search of insects Observers say hat the barn swallows never fail to start on their migration to the south during ths month of August sa
 Housekeepars are. wondering what they will find to fll their empty fruit jars this year. BlaebsIries, would: have been plenteous and good, with the usual amount of rain, but it has been so dry that they, are very small hardly worth gathering. Huckle- berries and blaokberries must also be badly stunted. a ss f.s Ehe body of Miss Lavinia M. ;Hol. man of New York was brought to Union July 5th for burial in the east .osmetery. Miss Holman had been a steaohs pr in the New York normal Col- legS for many ears. Since her re- ltiremehsF flVe or six years ago. she had divided her time between her .snmmer home In Niantic and New York, until about year ago, when, her health falling, she went to live with cousin, Dr. Oalista Vinton Luther, who conducts Q aanitarium at Say brook, where she died July 1. The body was accompanied by Dr. Luther and Dr. O.. N. Lawson of Middle Haddam, another cousin. A short service was held at the ceme- .tery, Rev. Fl B. GoOdselI of North kAshford officiating. attended by mum ;. bar of relstiyes of the deceased. Miss Holman's father, Salem Holman, was the frst person to be buried in the east cemetery.
 Now that the all too familiar and dangerous nuisance, tho house fly. is receiving SO much attention, 1t Ia in- teregting Go note that a large share of the Tesponsib for this pest is placed .upon the man of the house, who is either too thoughtIess or too shiftleks to clean ID the filth about his barn and out-buildings. As everybody knows, flies are not raised In She house, but breed In hlth outside. so 1t ia t'up to- the 'gude mon" him-I self to abolish the pest If he can. This seems . fficult problem on the farm, where so many domestic ani malls are kept, but those who have studied the subject declare that al though the task may be difficult. 1t ia not impossible. Carting away of fertilizer and frequent use of land plaster h the care Of stables are said to De great helps in preventing the breeding of She troublesome horse dy and cattle hy, as we'll as the house ily.
 K Thomas Rlndge. one of the oldest resdients of Union. died July 20th at the age of s2 He had been in feeble health for several yeara, but had bsen able to get about tho house until . few days before hls death. Mr. Rindge was . native Of Hampton, but came