The Press., 1888-03-22
WILLaNaiTON.

-h0V. J. J. [Gu1uu VIII lecture Ou -1E0- land" at St. Bernartt's church, Rockville, Sunday evening.
 WELLINGTON.
 The Harvey Bidwell farm, in the north part of Willington, will be sold at auction on Saturday, April 7th, at Il a. m.
 (Correspondencs.)
 Nov let the little chaps carefully pre- serve the papers containing the account of the great snow-storm of March, 1888. They will be handy to refer to when they shall be, in their turn, the "oldest inhab- itants, and referred to by the boys and girls of their day as to the big storms of the past.
 Mrs. s. Taylor is visiting in Spring field, Mass.
 People about here, in some cases, get quite warm in disputing over the matter as to who had the biggest snow-drift in front of their house to shovel away.
 -G. o. Southwick, the Willimantic cor respondent of the Hartford Courant, was among the worshippers at the Baptist church last Sunday. It was the only di. vine service held in town that day. MT. Sonthwick's family are spending the week at Mrs. Joseph Holt's.
 We know now, minister and all, what it is to handle the shovel.
 Mrs. House, who recently, with her son Alfred, moved to the Babcock place, over the river, opposite the thread factory, is quite sick.
 William Parker of Manchester made 8 visit at his mothers last week.
 Had we only thought of it we could have improvised some very serviceable snow-shoes out of a couple of wide barrel slaves by boring holes in them and lacing the boots to them. We could then have got out of our pretty close environment a little.
 -S. Taylor, Charles Nichols and Wm. Waldo, as distributors, have apportioned the estate of the late Francis J. Bentley to the three sons, which wholly merged to them on account of the recent re-marriage of their mother, the widow, according to the provisions of tue will. Charles F. has the homestead, stock, farming tools, furni- ture, Ec, with 95 acres of land William F. has the wood and timber lot near the Glass Factory school house, also 8 srrout lot, and Herbert G. $450 cash-to be paid by Charles, the latter assuming all obliRa- tions.
 Capt. Lockwood, nothing daunted by the blockade, delivered his milk to his customers at the Thread Factory on foot Snow-shoes did the business. He knew how to build them from his Canadian ex- perience.
 The South Willington school closed the 9th inst.
 Mrs. Newcomb is reported to be i'm proving.
 Dove Ide has bought out his fathers right in the mill at the Hollow, also some pieces of land near his house. = Readers of the Courant have a treat in the sermon last Sunday by Dr. Walker of the Center church, Hartford, on the Great Snow Storm. Its awful grandeur and power is most graphically portrayed, while his estimate of the quantity of snow that fell is curious and edlfying.
 Miss Emma Robbins has returned from Liberty Hill. She was accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. Minnie Robbins, and her son, who spent the Sabbath here.
 It is said that MT. Cowles of Hartford IS to move to the Amanda Wheeler place this spring.
 Alas, the helplessness of man when the elements get to business See Job xxxvii, 5, 6 and 2.
 $. P. Morrison has bought MT. De- wohs strip of land near Lathrop Man ning's.
 Mir. Marble has relinquished the re- spensible position he has long held in G. Hall & Co.'S. mill, and is going to farming. He has bought of W. D. Holman that DOT tion of the late B. Arnold estate known as the Huling place, Holland side Although Mir. Marbles removal does not place him and his interesting family at distance from his old friends, yet his townspeople are sorry to lose him as an actual inhabit- ant. Holland now gains one of Willing tons most esteemed citizens.
 MT. and Mrs. James Macfarlane have the deepest sympathy of their old friends and neighbors in this vicinity in their re- cent bereavement. Jamie was a favorite here with both young and old. He was pleasant, gentlemanly, oblig1ng lad, who will long be kindly remembered. GA mo- tice from the Willimantic Journal is copied on 1st page.) His remains were buried in R. Terry, pastor of the Baptist church of ficiating. The drifts and unpropitious weather prevented large attendance at the burial. The clerks in Julius Pinney's store, which was closed for the time, at- tended the funeral in body, rendering 8 beautiful floral design-a pillow of flowers, with ''Rest" in purple violets. 0. H. Ri- der's six-horse team, with gang of men, while at work on the road to the depot the second day, joined forces with the thread factory team and made path to the ceme- tery in readiness for the burial the next day.
 In making our humble contribution to the literature of the great snow storm of March, 1888, we are handicapped by both field and vision, although there was no dearth of snow which, was piled into as. big drifts by the furious gales as any town, borough or city smitten by this unprece- dented eastern blizzard could boast of. We despair of competing with the vigorous and imaginative pens that have so graph ically presented and infinitely detailed the situation in the columns of the more ore. tentious journals of the day. In fact, il is matter of tha lkfulness that we have no casualties or cases of suffering in ouI