The Press., 1920-02-12
WIIIENGTON

Miss Florence Wilson is kindly assisting Miss Mersereau for a time
 Mrs. Adalaide Eldredge, her many friends will be glad to know, is much improved in health
 Arthur Joslyn is employed by Hans VI. Hansen, Jr., in the store and on the order and delivery truck. CeorGe CCsgr0yo passed his S2. fIrthday the 9th, receiving many to- fens ot a,fccI0n and esteem from relatives and friends.
 Ifa. E&tclle J. Pratt. during the long spell of strenuous weather, has cen in Willimantic at the home of lel son, Robert P. Pratt.
 The schools have not been in ses- SlOn since the rOadways became i'm pa&sai Ie, the schOOIhOuse roads being one Of the worst for drifts On wednesday, the 4th, a nine Ib, son arrived at the parsonage receiv- ing most cordial welcome from Rev. and Mrs. Bacheiur. The naine is Theodore, for the pastor, as is fitting congratulations
 Cards have been received from Bed ford Hills, N. Y, from MT and Mrs. Floyd E. Ayers. announcing the
 lrth on February End of an eight pound daughter, named Margaret Jeannie Esther. Felicitations for daughter.
 Mrs. Fred NJ. Preston of Orlando. florida is very ill at her home of
 influenza. People there are very much afraid of cOntagiOn and. al
 hough a physician is in attendance, it $ impossible to obtain the services of a nurse.
 On Monday morning Miss Ricketts slipped on the icy crust near the Hillside mail box, badly spraining one Of her ankles. Her cries for helD drought assistance, who carried her to the house and the doctor was summoned by telephone He res pOnded as soon as possible, leaving hls car at selectman Ruby's and ma king the rest of the way on foot. If vas pretty Lad sprain that will require attention and careful usage for an indefinite time. Sympathy of friends and neighbOrs is unbounded. Miss Rlcketts is such an active person n the small community that it is impossible to imagine her shut-in.
 No mail from Thursday until Monday. The Press even did not get through rom Stafford Springs. Conditions did not differ from that of other snow-I ound country hamlets. On the t11ll there were no church services, on account of unbroken roads. Peo- pie were thankful to be well enough lo get on without calling the ever "Orked physician, who made the OraVeSt of effort, by day and by night 0 reach his patients. Dr. Converse, being no quitter, broke both his auto moi lies, and went for several days
 Il hired car, broke out roadways, 8hOveled snow and did quite a good deal of Wading to reach his patients :: going in some instances as far as pOssil le with machine and being met 1y horse and sleigh
 basket} all team from Stafford Springs will come down Friday night and play the Scout basket ball team, here, at Scout head quarters. The game will commence at 8 o'clock sharp, admission 15 cents. A large attendance is hoped for.
 On Saturday evening at the town hall the newly organized Girl Scouts, under the auspices and training of Mrs. Alice Tyler Smith, will give an entertaining little play and all who are al le to attend should give the girls the encouragement of their presence.
 George V. Smith is in Hartford in attendance upon the poultry show and other features of Farmers Week. l Despite the weather and the roads l several have gone in from hereabouts. | Frederick Tyler was so unfortunate on Monday evening as to step upon rolling stick of wood in the soft snow, while al out the duties of the
 farmstead receiving a serious injury
 to his foot. Owing to the impossible
 respond immediately and, despite the application of home remidieS, the in jured memt CT is badly swollen and
 very painful.
 The state road snow auto blow anC force of men were busy all day Tues
 day digging a way over the Hill. |
 was hard digging with pick-axe anC
 shovel and the snow falling all tht
 while. As one watches a horse dragg
 ing a low sled slowly through thu
 drifts, time seems to have followed
 the suggestion of the song and turned backward in it's flight, but the ol'
 does not seem preferable and on
 feels no younger.