New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-07-26
STILLMAN GIVES
!: BRIDE A FORTUNE
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all its festivities, they collectively
assured the correspondent.


assured the correspondent.
Wedding Attendants.
John will give his sister away IN
marriage.
Miss Belle, a full-fedged, healthy,
dimpled miss of less than 20 years
will be the bridesmaid.
Mrs. Wilson. who is short, OF mid
die age, and who has lived her en-
tire life along the st. Maurice river
will carry out all the Responsibilities
of the brides mother.
In addition to clearing up these
uncertainties, the Wilson's went INTO
considerable detail as to their rela-
t,on with the Stillman family, and
the stories of discord which nave
been going around.
II is this way, said Mrs. WILSON,
mixing broken English with French:
Mother Wilson Explains.
ct was born and raised on the
81 Maurice river. My father was
French Canadian, and my mothef
was Scotch with little irish IN her
blod. NV father was trader Win
the Hudson Bay Company My
bushand-he is dead,-was from
the Orkney Islands.
Eve lived on our place next 10
the stillmans' place at Grand Anse'
and we knew the stillmans ever
since they came there. Lena knew
Rud since they were little DTS OIL
people.
"About four years ago. l ana
Lena and John and Belle ana ls''ac
al went to work for Mrs. stll1mah'
We worked every summer for her.
T was cook, l knew her and kne"
Mrs stillman wanted her 10.
cuv. and Alexander and all OF
them.
Romance Develops
ut was Just last simmer mat
nnd and Lena began to like eacfi
other. I don't care. It's their pusl-
rssa. Well, Lena said she was go
3ns to marry Bud, and that was all
risht, I like Bud. He always IS d
f,ns boy. We like him very much
.rhen Mrs. stillman bought THIS
house here In La Tuque and sne
told me she wanted me to live IN
It and keep 1t as long as l lived
and she was going to live IN u
when she came here and was not
at Grande Anse. So last fall lett
the place on the st. Maurice next
to the StiIlmans, and came here and
Lena went to New York to school,
Mrs. stillman wanted her, too. l
am not 4 Catholic. I'm a scotch
Presbyterian. But when we hved at
Grande Anse there wasn't any
school but the Catholic school for
Lena to go to-; so she went 10
Catholic school, and learned to be
4 Catholic.
Changes Her Mind
"she was going to be married by
a Church Of England minister, put
then she changed her mind, and
had to be married by a priest. That
was her business, and 1t was all
right with me.
.There was some argument about
that but I didn't care.
Then the Stillmans came up 10
Grande Anse, and they found that
someone had gone into my house
and taken all the furniture out OF
1t. They thought 1 did it. But
didn't. But week ago Sunday, Mrs.
Stillman sent a man from New York
down here and he told me to get
out Of this house right away.
II said I would, and I'm still
here. Mrs. Stillman wanted the
wedding at my house at GranGe
Anse, and she told me to scrub 1t
all up and I did, and it's all cleaned
up. But the furniture is gone, and
I don't know who got It,"
Mrs Wilson showed the CORE
spondent the La Tuque house in
which she Is living. In the parlor
Is a modern Chesterfield set with
overstuffed chairs, an elaborate
radio phonograph, bridge lamps
wall lamp and an ornamented
chandelier with no lights in 1t.
A Christmas Gift
"see this" she said, Mrs. Still
man sent 1t here for Christmas" and
she pointed out the Cesterfeld set.
"Oh, don't know what all the
trouble is" she said. Il think she
wanted me to have a great big we'd
ding at my house on the St. Maurice,
and I have no money for 1t. Even
now. have to work"
Mrs. Stillman, she said, pays her
salary to maintain the Latuque
house, but she Is not certain that the
salary will continue.
Lena Is happy, very happy she
said. but she Is not excited. She
takes everything cool"
when she was leaving you to-
night, and knew she was leaving for
the last time as Lena and the next
time she came here would be as
Mrs. Bud Stillman, did she cry?"
the correspondent asked,
Lena Was Happy
mo, she did not cry" Mrs. Will
son answered. she was happy"
II always hoped I would be brides
maid" said Belle. Lena's sister.
And am going to be. 7 think it
will be wonderful" She beamed and
her pretty dimples showed alluringly
as she spoke.
Il think Bud Is fine. I've known
him long time" she said.
John, the son, spoke up with
words Of affection for Bud. showing
that whatever the difficulties be-
tween the Wilson's and the stilmans
may be they don't affect Bud and
Lena.
Mrs. Wilson has never seen her
daughters wedding dress and Belle.
who todaysis to be bridesmaid, has
never seen her bridesmaids gown.
They We're uncertain as to who
would be best man but believed it
would be Fowler Mccormick. Of
Chicago.
I'VE know him." Mrs. Wilson said.
said. HE has come many times to
the Stillman camp"
1t was revealed that this year,