The Press., 1883-04-05

l IS uuOCl CO1lubCU UO OO c1AA oIAO WOAAA OA oA~> company, furnishing the help, (at present about ten hands, delivering finished work at fixed price per piece, the company furnishing room, power, stock and tools WELLINGTON. l (coRREsPoNDENcE.> For quiet hill-town like Willington with it's somewhat circumscribed field o1 action, and the rather uneventful lives o, it's citizens, for the most part, it has a present quite large corps of newspapel itemizers. If good people from out of the country, or elsewhere, can be attracted t. settle in Wilington through the publicity of events happening here, these 'labors 1 will not be in vain.
 The Press must have a few subscrib- CTS in distant parts of the country. Re gently one of its local advertisements was answered by party in Michigan. The statistical table of the Ashford Baptist Association for 1882 gives mem bership of 2,192 for its 16 churches. The church here numbered 143. The church | in Willimantic is the largest in the associa- tion, numbering 412 The church edifces there and in Putnam are each valued at $25, 1000.
 Joseph Tennant has leased the Willard farm, Moose Meadow.
 Many people hereabouts are afflicted with hard colds.
 Mrs. McCarty's little daughter is or from Chelsea, Mass, visiting her mother, at D. Morrison's.
 | Mrs. Newman $. Marcy was accompa lied to the asylum, Middletown, on Satur. day last by her daug ghter, Mrs. Mary Snow, and A. J. Potter
 -Ihe highway surveyor for the Hill district this year is Dea William Eldridge. Herbert G. Preston was in town last Monday.
 Mrs. Tuohey, who was sent by the town to the Middletown asylum not long since, died there some two weeks ago. She was buried in Stafford at the expense of daughter of Jas. Cooney. Little, if any, maple sugar is made hereabouts this season. That article is now selling for 30 cts. per pound in Spring field.
 -"Faith" is the subject for the unior prayer meeting at the Congregat1 church vestry next Sunday evening. Mrs c. Durham Rider, soon after en tering the B. & A. p. m. train for Palm ] CT, Tuesday, discovered that she had los I ct, probably.
 The last reading circle for this seasoE was held at W. H. Holt's Tuesday evening
 Parties from here who attended the fellowship meeting at the Baptist church Spring Hill, yesterday, report an unusual ly large and profitable gathering. Rev Messrs. Chaplain, Holman, Williams, Mor ris, and others spoke. A good dinner wa | 4o rfcg& 4Lo han A the p. m. services the church was packed | SOMER~. l -Courant Mrs. Harriet Pease, whc died at Somers, Friday, at the advanced age of 90, had been remarkable for the ac tivity which characterized her later years She was woman of strong bodily ant mental make up, and retained good healtl and vigor to degree very remarkable fo one of her years. She had taken pride i taking charge of the dairy on her son' farm during the past winter, and had at tended church and taken part in the socia life of the town up to her prostration few days before her death with pneumonia
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 The children and grandchildren of Dr B. D. Hamilton celebrated the 76th ami versary of his birthday at the old home ol 1 the 18th inst.
 1 Capt. T. D. Johnson of Monson, Mass. has hired Warren Kibbe's cottage for tn ensuing year.
 In the death of Mrs. Emery Pease Somers has lost one of those rare persons who seem to have quafed from the ''foun pneumonia on the 29th, having nearly com pleted her eoth year and being the oldes person in town. She was the mother o Hon. Leverett E. Pease, who at this writ ing lies sick with the same disease, and Ii a critical condition.
 We hear of calla, owned by Mrs Samuel P. Hubbard, that in defiance Q weather, is doing marvels in the way o buds and blossoms
 The skating rink closed the season o1 the eve of the 18th with 8 concert of voca and instrumental musie, at whieh MT. F Brown of Hampden gave some fine corne selections, and Miss Emma Pease and Mis- l.. s. Kibbe contributed songs, all of whicl were enjoyed by large audience. Rev. c. H. Gleason will supply tn pulpit at Somersville, recently vacated b. the resignation of MT. Aver, as their SCI vice is held in the morning, and his owi church has service in the afternoon, | Miss Lee's select school is supplyin a long felt want in Somers, and our peopl feel bound to it's support by instincts c self preservation. It is believed that Som CTS is coming to appreciate better the val ue and need of young blood, and that sh will cooperate in the education and amuse ment of her young people at home.
 MT. Orin T. Burden spent Easter Sun day with friends in NaW Rritssin and speak highly of tie special services in the variou churches on that occasion.
 As spring opens the demand for ter ements seems 10 be unprecedented, an many changes are expected. Already ou street has the appearance of old time Ne,