The Press., 1892-07-14
WELLINGTON.

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 WELLINGTON. | (CorrespOndence.) ''
 Widow Harvey Merrick, from Bris tol, is on her annual visit here. | Money may be the root of all evil but, after all, it now seems to be the ia vorite bulb throughout all christendom.
 -Dea. B. B. Tyler, of Meriden, return ed yesterday after few days visit here.
 An interesting praise service song and testimony held in the Baptist church last Sunday in the absence of the pastor in New York. The participants were women, nearly ten to one, as usual in devotional meetings at the present time. Confessedly, they are the life ot the church, and yet they have no hand ir administering its affairs. .-~
 The Glass Factory once had circu. lating library. The proprietors were Spofford Brigham, J. Macfarlane, William Sha1fer, William Still, Elisha Johnson, and Harvey Merrick. Q, temporo, Q, maores!
 Edward Still and wife, of Bridgeport, were in town last week, guests of L. B. Clark. ]*a@ "''
 The corn and oat fields belonging to Chas. II. Rider were ravished by loose cattle last Saturday.
 Miss Ida Clark, one of Willingtons favorite young women, has been danger o1lsly i'll in Springfield recently. She is slowly recovering, and expects to be at home soom.
 The promise of huckleberries and | other small fruit is quite good in this vii cinity.
 Here on the Hill we can see the elec- tric lights of Hartford, Rockville and Willimantic, but the nearest manufactur- ed lightning, that of Stafford Springs, is hidden from our vision.
 Fred Trask and Henry Squiers have gone to New Hampshire picking blueber- ries for the market.
 Edward Morrison is on the receipt of pension of twelve dollars per month on account of the army services of his de- ceased son, Charles.
 The infant daughter of c. G. Dave, of the N. Y. Globe, was buried from the house of it's grandmother, Mrs. Baldwin, yesterday afternoon.
 Hartford Courant: Trad Edwards, one of Hartford's best known citizens. died at his home, No. 23 Williams-st., July 8th after an illness of two years from general nervous prostration. Trad Edwards was born in 1919. He came to Hartford from Willington in 1843 and commenced work for Joseph l.. French. After he had served faithfully for number of years, MT. French took him into partnership, the firm being Joseph L. French & Co. For some years they were together in the general bakery business until MT. French sold his inter. est to J. Henry Kelley of Norwich. The firm was then Edwards {. Kelley for a few years, when MT. Kelley retired and MT. Edwards conducted the business alone. Not being contented with the conveniences at the French bakery, MT Edwards built in 1861, and moved into what is now known as the Parks & Say. age bakery. This was a model for its time, and in it was the first rotary over used in Connecticut. In this very over was baked all the bread and hard tack used by soldiers in Hartford during the war of the rebellion.
 In 1865 Mr. Edwards was elected coun cilman. Afterwards he went into the board of aldermen, and he served the city for eleven years. In 1872 he was ap pointed county commissioner, and while he was commissioner the new jail was erected, taking all the time he could spare from his business, and at times more. In all he devoted many years to the service of the city without any com. pensation. In 1877 Parks < Savage bought out the bakery, and MT. Edwards went on the road for them as agent up tc the time his health failed him. He had been faithful employee, appreciated by his employers, we'll liked by the trade and respected by his brother salesmen.
 In 1862 his oldest son, c. w. B. Ed wards, left the high school and went into business with him. This was about the time the new bakery was completed or Albany avenue. The firm was Trad Ed wards & Son until the son retired in 1873 with good feeling on both sides. 1 AF ! 1sIs can from the day he was made voter te the day of his death. He had been member of tho North Baptist churof since 1844.
 He leaves two sons, c. w. B. and A E. Edwards, and an aged wife, who has tenderly cared for him, through his two years of suffering. They had been mar ried upwards of fifty years. She vii probably make 1t her home with her old est son, c. w. B. Edwards.
 South Wilmington Correspondence. l John Parker and family, of Pawtuck ct, R. l., are visiting his mother. Ms Ann Parker, and his sister, Mrs. Gardner Hall.
 l Rev. Jared Brackett, of Saratog, Springs, N. r., is visiting his grandson l Wm. H. Brackett.
 Master Claude Grant last Monday while playing in his yard, stepped upol the teeth of a rusty garden rake, cutting three bad gashes in his foot.
 Miss Hattie Slingsby, accompaniet by her friend, Miss Bell Kelly, is hom' on a vacation.
 Mrs. Ashly, of Hartford, is visiting with Grandma Hall.