The Press., 1893-11-23
WELLINGTON.


 Social and entertainment tonight under the auspices of the Y. P. s. c. E. at Wesley chapel, Holland side. Tab leaux, music, light refreshments. 10 cts
 admission, refreshments 5 cts. Encour age these enterprising young people b, giving them full house. Their socials are always well managed and pleasant. Bertha Young, who arrived home
 last week from her summer sojourn witt the Willimantic Linen Company's exhibit at ''the White City," is visiting her grand
 mother, Mrs. Lucius Preston. Rev. s. Thatcher, of Warrenville exchanged last Sunday with Pastor Brown.
 Miss Ethel Bronson is suffering from a sprained ankle.
 -"Farming is good thing to get into to stay in, and not simply to get out of as
 soon as possible" The grange will show
 you the truth of this.
 Remember the tongue twister social
 at Baptist church tomorrow (Friday)
 evening. You can practice by repeating
 rapidly ''She sells sea shells"
 -''It is better to go back to the farm- ing community and be a genuine power there than to swarm into professions al ready overstocked, and add a teacupfull more to the stream of obscurity that con- stitutes the bulk vof city life." Let us have a grange, the educating effects of 1 oIoI h. fo1& nd in, munity.
 Charles A. Cough, distinguished inventor, recently from Europe, G. A. R. Inspector John J. Brierby and " s. o. Frank Shaffer, of Francis Long Post, c. A. R., Willimantic, were guests of Chas. T. Preston last week.
 livery few persons in town, l think, are aware that we have county house in our midst," said Albert Sharp, the other day. Yet it is @ fact. The old county house before the last one destroyed by fire was bought by the Wilmington Glass Co.,, taken down, removed and set up on the northwest corner of the highway leading from the Glass Factory village to Sharp's nils. The late Robert Sharp was the contractor and the late Marcus Johnson the first occupant.
 At the first stated meeting of the new G. A. R. post here it was unanimous ly voted that it be named Elisha Johnson Post, No. 86, in memory of the first vic tim of the Willington volunteers in the late war of the rebellion, whose body now rests in the family lot in the old ceme- tery. The deceased comrade was mem- Der of Co. D, 14th Reg't, Conn. Vols, en- listing in the early part of the war-1962. He was namesake of his uncle, the late well-known Elisha Johnson, a former warden of the Conn. state prison, whose widow now resides in Wethersfield. His great grandfather, of the same name. was in the revolutionary war. He was a brother of Legrand, of this town, Dr. Fred E. of Mansfield, Dr. Truman John son, medical missionary in Burmah, and Mrs. Grace J. Huntington, of Mans field.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Rev. Samuel Thatcher, of Warren vile, preached good sermon in the hall last Sunday in exchange with Pastor Brown.
 The fall term of school will close Wednesday, Nov. 29th. There will be exercises pertaining to our national Thanksgiving day.
 Thomas Denman, who left here a short time ago expecting to work in Stam- ford, is in town.
 Walter Carpenter, of Stafford Spgs, is doing the painting on Selectman Kor- per's house.
 D. c. Manning, who is working ill Westfeld, Mass, is in town to-day.
 -Wm. H. Bracket has been appointed corresponding secretary of Y. M. c. A. for the town of Wilmington.
 Mir. Perrin, who is manager of G. | Hall, Jr., & Co.'S, office in New York city, | was guest of Gardiner Hall Tuesday, ~
 ASHFORD.
 John F. Brooks, of Ashford, whose death on the 23d ult., at the age of 79, | was recently mentioned in The Press, was citizen of sterling worth, deserving | of more than a passing notice. He was son of Abijah Brooks, who, half century or more ago, was leading citizen of Ash ford. John F. lived with his two sisters, Maria and Sally A., the former little his senior, and latter little his junior. All three were unmarried, and command ed respect as worthy members of family honored in the annals of the town. Their home was within a half mile of the place of their birth MT. Brooks was demo- crat, as was his father before him, and in his active days an influential man in party councils. Twice he came near an election to the legislature when his party were in a hopeless minority in the town, and he was put forward as the most available candidate. He was honored with many town offices, selectman, assessor, etc., and was justice of the peace until dis qualified by age. Strong in his convic- tions, and always swayed by a sense of duty and right, he was respected as and as a citizen. He was quiet, unassuming, and devoted closely to his own affairs. In the years of the active period of his life he was we'll known to business men of Stafford Springs, and often seen upon the streets of the borough.
 Westford Correspondence.
 The school in Dist. No. 8, taught by Miss Emily J. Chism, closed Saturday, Nov. 18th. Whole number of scholars, Miss Olive Lougee was neither absent nor tardy. Prizes for scholarship were taken by Misses Olive Lougee and Julia Chism.
 Rev. MT. Brown, of Wilmington, preached here last Sunday.
 Mrs, Abbie Kinney visited old friends | in Southbridge last week.
 Miss Annetta Morse is stopping with Samuel Smiths family for the present.
 70. F. Huntley, the veteran miner, vicinity, which bids fair to amount to something. We hope it will, as the pub lie are pettino a little tired of the nas st