The Press., 1920-08-05
HOLLAND

Mrs. Ellen West of Ellington is the guest of her son, c. Hubbard West, of Snipsic.
 Mary and Loretta Higley of New York are spending some time with MT. and Mrs. I. Tilden Jewett.
 Miss Viola Shearer of Oakland was recently the guest of her grand parents. MT. and Mrs. John M. Bowers.
 Miss Alice Sisson of Little Compton, R, l., and Miss Annie Hill of Mantle, are the guests of Miss Bernice Hall.
 Mrs. Edwin S. Agard returned home Monday after spending month at Charleston Beach, Rhode Island.
 Charles and Agnes Stucky have sold their farm known as the kingsbury farm to Fanny Greengerg and William Gatlin.
 Frankman and Gorky have sold their farm known as the Newman place, to Abraham Shepiro of West Hartford and Frank Stone
 Mrs. E. M Baker and children, Eliz- abeth, William and Joseph, of Dallas, Texas and Miss Phyllie Newcomb of Hartford are guests at the Steele house.
 East Central Pomona Grange will hold it's annual field day on August II, on Holland Green. All those attend ing are expected to contribute furnish ings for the table. Patrons will be met at Holland avenue at 10.30. stand ard time.
 Death of Col Joslyn.
 ColonelCharles Mason Joslyn, for years one of the most prominent law yers and public officials ill the state. died yesterday morning at 4.15 o'clock at his home. No 245 Pennington ave- nue, Hartford. He had been i'll poor health for nearly five years. He was born in Holland, Conn. March 20. 1S49, son of Edmund and Roxana (Cobb) Joslyn. On his fathers side he was of Huguenot descent and on his moth CTS side, Welsh. He was educated at | the Holland High School and at Mon son Academy, Monson, Mass. From | the latter institution, he was graduat- ed as Valedictorian of his class i'll 1870. and with the highest rank as speaker and writer. He was fitted | for Yale University. but, instead of pursuing his course there. he entered | the law office of Waldo, Hubbard x | Hyde in Hartford. Colonel Joslyn was receiver of the Stafford National Bank, whose creditors were paid in full with interest within one year of his appointment He was represent ative in the General Assembly from the town of Holland in 1874 and rep resentative from Hartford in 1885, when he was the democratic candidate for speaker He was -aide-decamp on the staff of Governor Richard D. Hub bard in 1S77-78 with rank of Colonel. and judge-advocate general on the staff of Governor LuZon B. Morris in 1S93-94, with rank of brigadier-gener- al For many years active in the councils of the democratic party, Col onel Joslyn was in frequent demand as a speaker and presiding officer at the party conventions. He became a republican twenty-one years ago, in the campaign of 1896, leaving the dem ocracy at the time of the first nomi- nation of Bryan for president, but re- tired from active politics from that time on. He married December IS, 1879, Miss Minnie l.. Brown of Provi- dence, R. l., who survives him. He | also leaves a daughter, Emily Joslyn | Butler, wife of Robert P. Butler, and | two grandchildren, Joslyn Butler and Philip Gale Butler, all of Hartford 1 A sister, Mrs. Oscar H. Leonard o1
 Holland, also survives him. There are
 two nephews, Charles H. Leonard and
 Rufus Leonard and two nieces, Mary
 R. Leonard and Florence J. Leonard
 The funeral services at 2 o'clock to-
 morrow afternoon at the house will be conducted by Rev. Warren s. Archi- | bald, pastor of the South Congrega- tional church, of which MT. Joslyn was a member, assisted by Professor | Arthur L. Gillett of the Hartford | Theological Seminary. The burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Convertible Skates. A Chicagoan has invented con- ! vertible skate. Which reminds us though 1t Is nothing appertaining | to the subject-did you ever notice how quickly a man sobers when his wife sights him? The convertible
 skate Is not new by any manner ot | means-Ruffalo News.