The Press., 1885-06-25
WILMINGTON.
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r Elizabeth Turner Bancroft and h.
 husband, of Ellenville, New York, were s town last week.
 z We are favored frequently with bnl : dles of English and Scotch newspapel ? from Rev. D. r. Hammond, who at la,
 accounts was engaged in his highly s,l, cessfnl work in Glasgow. Wild rumors concerning the allege 1 wealth of the late B. J. Weinberg and hi
 brother, and it's disposition, the testacy (
 intestacy of the. deceased, etc. etc., agitat
 some portions of tlle community. The N
 Y. papers speak of the late E. J. Wenber
 as q bachelor
 Fifty eight dogs are registered thu
 far. There are some delinqnents yet, th
 selectmen say, and prosecutions are agai
 imminent.
 I When paper with national repnta
 tion like the Springfield Republican, witt
 it's able staff of editors, its corps of tn
 finest writers on both sides of the Atlanti
 it's valuable farmers department etc., i
 offered for 50 cts. for six months ther
 cannot be much hesitancy among the peo
 pie as to what paper they will take. Sc,
 posters in our post offices and stores The children's festival at the Congre gational church and at the hall, Sontl Wilmington, passed off both creditably ant
 pleasantly.
 Lorenzo Goodell of Woodstock. ant
 his daughter, Mrs. Mackey of California
 have been visiting their amt, widow Le ander Hull.
 | Mrs. Elizabeth Holt, now of Hartforl is visiting at her fathers, Samnel Wilson at the old place.
 As fire in the house has not been un comfortable the last two or three days the following may be an appropriate piece ol reading Sixty-nine years ago. was the year without summer Frost occurred every month ill the year 1916. Ice form ed 1-2 inch thick in May snow fell to the depth of three inches in the interior oi New York, and also in Massachusetts and Connecticut in June ice was formed to the thickness of common window glass throughout New York on the 9th of July Indian corn was frozen 30 that the greater part was cut down and dried for fodder in August, and farmers supplied themselves from the corn produced in 1915 for the seed in the spring of 1917.
 Frank Carpenter is now in the em. ploy of E. X. Buck & Co.,, as travelling salesman.
 A strawberry and ice cream festival will be held in the Congregational vestry this evening.
 The winder's strike at the thread miiis ln Wlllimantic necessitated the discharge for week or so, of the operatives in the finishing department, among whom are some fifteen or twenty belonging to this town. None of these latter joined in the strike.
 We have been requested to call atten- tlon to the statute of 1882 which prohibits the gong at large of horses, cattle etc. on any highway or common. Penalty. fine not exceeding seven dollars, with costs.
 Frank Cnshman has taken the grass to cut on the Chas. P. Rider place,
 Contrary to expectation the hay crops will be rather slim in this vicinity.
 Miss Stella Potter IS home on yaca- tlon from the school in Everett Mass.
 Helen Vinton has returned from New Haven. and will spend the summer with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Lockwood. By the Way, Capt. Lockwood furnished us with the first box of strawberries raised hereabonts. They were gathered the 18th inst.
 Miss Angie Baldwin is home ou her vacation from Wesleyan Academy. Her chnm, young lady from Florida, is to spend part of the summer with her.
 Formal complaint has been entered against the Bee Hives"
 -Joel Smith If Leominster. Mass with his brother Emory of Gurleyyille' made calls on friends in town yesterlav The latter is suffering from recent paraly sis.
 Prayer meetings on Sunday and Wednesday evenings have been resumed Tn the conference room of the Baptist church Cheerful Workers meet at the above. place next Saturday at p. m. Members of w. E. M. s. are invited to hold their quarterly meeting at same time and place. Frank Nelson is in town for day or two.
 -Monson academy graduated it's ,85 class of fourteen on Tuesday. The class Of 'S6 promises to be considerably larger. The past year has been continuation of the accelerating prosperity winch has come to the old school since has entered upon its fourth quarter century of life. Much of the credit for this is due the ef- forts Of Prof. Cummings, by his improve nents of system and the interest he has awakened among friends of the school. He goes to take charge of the preparatory de- oartment at Howard University. Washing 'on, and will be succeeded by c. c. Gere. graduate of Middlebury college, and having several years experience as teacher of clas 'ics. Two other teachers close their work with this term, and their successors are not selected.
 The essays read by the graduating class were all we'll prepared, and received ibe- al praise.
 At the trustees meeting R. M. Reynolds 'f Monson and Rev. J. F. Forbes of War 'en were elected to the board to fill vacan- ,ies.
 After all those English fellows are not lalf slow, you know. A popular weekly paper, made up of odds and ends from other papers, guarantees to give $500 to he legal heirs of any person found dead with copy of the aforesaid paper on his person: This scheme of advertising might De indefinitely extended. The. clothing nen for instance, might guarantee weekly payment to all persons hnrt while Rearlng a suit of their clothes. It must
 be that John Bnll shall beat us in ad-
 Ftising.
 A farmer near Newark, Ohio. found his Darn was being robbed. He finally tied rope to his door-bell every night and awaited the result Tn a faw niOhfs he ,o