The Press., 1893-03-02
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| tCorfespondence.) ! Miss Alice Holt returned to th ] Moody school, Northfield, Mass, las
 Friday. Walter Allen and wife and Clarenc
 Preston, of Newtonville, Mass, visite, at C. F. Preston's last week. Mir. Allel IS senior member of the firm of Allen
 Hall * Co.,, Boston. He left on Monda, last for New York, Clarence Preston re turned last Friday to his position witt Cobb, Bates and Yerxa, Boston; and Mrs Allen returned to her home yesterday.
 Failure of our mail carrier to perform hls trtps,f on account of alleged snow drifts, was the cause of the non-appear ance of Wilmington items last week. Ever up to this writing our mail man is irregu. lar in his trips
 Who says this Is not an "old- fashion. ed" winter?
 darret Ladue has leased the Edward Morrison farm for the coming year.
 Rev. O., H. Browne has been suffering from an attack of rheumatism.
 --George Knight, how of Mystic, and his friend, Miss Maud Bunnell, of that place, visited his parents here and friends in Stafford last week.
 We found in our cellar the other day an old political souvenir coin, that doubt less many of our older folks will call to mind when it was all the rage. On it's face are Martin Van Buren (with his proaleA born Doc 5, 1782.a On the re- verso hre apaif of acales, ss1s4O, ,""whigs,, up, Hdemd.sfats'' down, and the legend, " Weshed n the balance and found want ing. '-S@'e ' lA--4
 -Olbert c. Brown, Jr., and wife of Boston, visited at the Baptist parsonage last week..
 s Show me who thou art aoitA, and I will tell thee what thou art.-Sancho P0nsa.
 @Legrand Johnson butchered a fine fat OK last Monday.
 -Pastor9Thompson failed to put in ap- pearance at the chapel last Sunday, where quite number of people had assembled. Drifted roads probably the cause.
 Just awhisper to soldier-haters: The pensions that grateful nation, now the richest and most powerful on the globe. has bestowed on the veterans who went forth and set their bodies in defence of it's life in the late war of the rebellion. are not going to be interfered with in any great degree by the new administration that goes into power the day after to- morrow. Furthermore, the state exemp- ton law, as applicable to the veteran sol diers, will not be repealed this session. Mark the prediction!"
 The Daleville mill was shut down last week on account of shortage of water.
 Mrs. W. P. Cortis and Miss Jennie Golding returned from their visit to West. field, Mass, last Tuesday.
 A bright-faced little chap, ticketed through from the Tewksbury, Mass. aimshouse to party in Holland, got off at our railroad depot last Monday, We hope the little fellow will find a good home.
 A petition that Mrs. Rider be retain ed as postmistress at East Willington. signed by democrats in town, has been forwarded to Washington.
 '-L. B. Clark lost horse recently.
 Herbert Study is quite low from con- sumption. He and his two brothers have been living with their mother at the Glass Factory for some time.
 Many of the roads in town still re- main unbroken. Teams have been il dus- trfously at work on the principal roads.
 We noticed short time ago a sug- gestion from a writer in one of our coun- try papers that the country correspond ents of these, journals hold in the near fu- ture gathering at some convenient point In the county and talk up congenial mat ters, compare notes and salaries, and so on, over supper. All right, of course, the supper will be at the expense of the editors, while at the same time the core spondents will discuss the points of these '~AAo~e SOAooAS' Ao PkcSolCc OL tue laG- ter will not be wanted, it is thought, for it may be that thethin edge of a strike will there and then be entered. Think of the effect on the calculation of The Press Journal and Leader after few issues without line of ''hems' from the vari- ous towns of their constituencies! Breth- rem, when and whera shall this convention be held? @',- "."
 The law provides that school visitors in the several towns shall annually recom- mend to the State Board of Education the names of persons whom they consider suitable to be received as pupils in the Normal schools. The visitors of this town would be happs to assist any such young men or women, who intend to