The Press., 1891-07-30
wILLINGTON.
,Correspondence.)

{COrreSpOndence)
 Mrs s. Taylor has been visiting friends in Mansfield.
 Miss Bertha Young, of Willimantic, l has been spending few days at Lucius Preston's.
 A collection for missions was taken at the Congregational church last Sun- day.
 Charles A. Rider came on recently to accompany his daughter, Bertha, to his new home, now in Newark, N. J. He is employed by his brother-in-law, Dr. Wilbur Holt, who enjoys, it is said, a very large practice in dentistry. George Rider is also with Dr. Holt
 Mrs William Waldo is at J. B. Car penter's. @H.-a
 Mrs. Samuel Swift has been visiting friends in Springfield. Charles Robbins went to Newport, R. l., last week, and returned with his wife and daughter. .. Miss Annie E.. Dimock, her friend and associate nurse, Miss Whiton, of New York, and her cousin, Mrs. Cheney, of Jewett City, are at A. D. Dinock's. Mrs. Dimock's father, MT. Brown, is spending his usual summer vacation with | her. -.. | On the noon train from our station to | Palmer the other day we had the curios | ity to note the relative number of men and women passengers on board. In the car on arrival at station, men, 12 wo- men. Came on board at Stafford Springs men, women at South Monson and Monson men women. Subsequently we made like count on a train from here to Willimantic and found about the same proportion. Bless their hearts, let them take their outings and enjoy themselves
 Mrs. Alice Upton of Hartford visited her sister, Mrs. Della Rider, last week.
 Season after season every house holder on the hill is urgently solicited to take boarders. Some say it don't pay, while others don't fancy the occupation. | Frank Johnson, of Providence, son of the late Truman Johnson, called on friends and relatives Monday last.
 A very good picture of the Baptist church and the adjoining vestry has been taken recently. If a sufficient number of copies are wanted by parties in town and by friends scattered abroad they can be furnished at 50 cents by applying to AL bert Sharp. The profit from the cost at wholesale, IS cents, will go towards re- pairs on the church ceiling.
 Attention is called to conservator's notice among the advertisements. @
 An ice cream social under the aus- pices of the Y. P. s. c. E. will be given at the town hall tomorrow evening. There will be musical and literary exer- cises.
 -Dr. F. l.. Dickinson and wife and Eli Smith and wife, nee Harriet, daughter of Ralph and Marilda Merrick Griggs, of Rockville, passed through town on Tues- day to visit Miss Belle Merrick and her sister, Widow Truman Johnson, now with the former at Ashford town.
 Gilbert Holt died recently at Rock vile, where he had lived since leaving Wilmington. The Leader had an extended obituary notice. Robert Beebe of Hartford and Wal lace Dimock of Mansfield, grandchildren of the late Shubal Dimock, recently called to see the old tavern stand that was for, merly kept by their grandfather. The mother of the former is Celesta Dimock, who was born in the old tavern, and Wal lace is son of Eugene Dimock. ':i i 70. Gustavus Holt, now of Lexington, Ky, has been for some time the owner of wells or mines from which he gathers large quantities of printers ink. His brother-in-law, Daniel Eldridge, has shown us copies of newspapers, bill heads, etc. :, printed with this ink just as it came from the ground, sort of bronze color Other specimens are printed with this subter- ranean, ready n ade ink, with little l lamp black added. An innocent, and, we think, timely query we recently made in this column in regard to an equitable adjustment of the cost of maintaining our roads provoked quite vigorous rejoinder in the last
 Press. There's bit of sophistry attached to the assertion of a well known legal
 doctrine as applicable to the use and maintenance of our highways. To be sure, our roads are dedicated" to the , general public. But the town controls them, every time. Both the written and unwritten law have something to say in : the premises, boo the highways shall be
 used by the dear public. For instance, the statutes prohibit the drawing of logs
 and stone in certain manner; and there : is penalty for drawing vehicle with a : chained wheel. The common law says
 these country roads of ours are "dedicat. . ed'' to the public for the common inter course of society, for such travel and traffic as might reasonably be expected tc
 pass over them, not for unusual and ex traordinary loads. Now it is fact that these ponderous trucks of timber do cut up our roads fearfully and injure the sluices and sluice bridges. The principle asserted that the use of the town high
 ways is always an ''incident'' to the pri
 vate transaction (sale) between the seller
 and buyer of a timber lot we hardly think will hold water; and the suggestion thar : the former ought to be the party to sex
 that the lumber merchant has safe, unre | stricted and free passage over the tow1 . highways is indeed 8 novel if not
 ''queer'' one. Now in closing this sub . ject, which we care not to discuss an, . farther, we will gratuitously drop bit O common law into the ears of our tow1 , fathers for their benefit should there eve
 come demand for domagesby the drivers , or owners of these big wagons: Townl . are not required to make preparations fo
 the safety or convenience of those wh,