The Press., 1894-04-19
WELLINGTON.

| ,4 l Congregational ladies' social this af- ternoon and evening.
 VI Mr. Billings, who is at present SUD- plying the chnrch in Westford, will preach in the Congregational church next Sunday forenoon.
 Post 8e, G. A. R., will meet in their hall Saturday evening next, 21st inst. ! Woman's Relief Corps, No. AS, will meet at the same time and place. The notice last week was mistake.
 -s'The measure of mans real char acter is what he would do if he knew it would never be found out'
 Rufus Osterhaudt still lives in pre- carfous situation. Dr. Newton was called in consultation yesterday. l Mrs. Matilda Bronson, mother of Miss Ethel, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been visiting at her father, Geo. A.Cosgrove's. | The board of school visitors have ap- pointed H. c. Gurley collector of school district No. g, to fill a vacancy, John Neil having resigned.
 Mark Mowry has hired the Ormsby place. His sister, Nellie, teacher of the Daleville school, is keeping house for him at present. His wife is expected home from the south this week. Mrs. Martha Marcy of Hartford is at her father, Augustus Miller's.
 -J. F. Twiss of Three Rivers, Mass, was at Charles H. Ryder's last week. | f,,l1 off ok ing, as mentioned above, is requested, al- so of it's auxiliary, the Relief Corps. The town at it's recent meeting having refused to make an appropriation to be expended under the direction of the selectmen in the observance of memorial day, under the statute, sec. 138, it is to considered wheth- CT the proposed public exercises, includ- ing procession of adults and children to the cemeteries, speaking, music, etc., shall besabandoned. In any event, the graves of the soldiers will be decorated by their living comrades. That war was a sol- dier's war, you know. Twas their own private business, in which the present generation is not concerned, so let the veterans themselves, now old chestnuts, pay the expenses of the most sacred of the nations holidays.
 | Said the other day one of the oppon- ents of both the new post and the new grange here: "What's that damay march, in on to Washington now? Its nothin' but part and parcel of these I'd grangers!"
 -Apropos of the saying, 'I never knew such weather before," is a scrap from AL bert Sharp's diary:
 1873-Saturday, April 18th: Cloudy and cold in morning, and showed most of time after 10 o'clock, but melted consid- erably as it fell. Sunday, 18th: Went up to church, but no meeting. Snow 3 inches deep at home and inches on 'the Hill. :"
 1875-Monday, April 18th: Went to Vernon at night. Tuesday, 12th Severe northeast snow storm all day. Wednes- day, 14th Cleared off in morning, but roads so filled with snow that left wife and child and drove home alone, taking all of forenoon. Found men shoveling out roads in many places.
 Notice dates as compared with April 11th and 18th, 1894.
 ! Eddie Brooks is teaching the Village Hill school, term of ten weeks, beginning last Monday. ! The Egyptian donkeys" returned Efrom their exhibition in Hartford yester- day.
 If the proper arrangements can be I made, Prof. Rooms of the StoIrs Agricul tural College, a Grand Army man, will be the speaker decoration day.
 -Dandelion greens from under the snow were relished last week. It is re lported that South Wilmington parties hac some two weeks ago, but the report is not verified.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 A fire was started in the woods or Homer Neill's lot Tuesday. About twenty acres were burned over before it could be controlled. But for the timely assistance of men from the village, the barn would have been burned. These had sharI E fight to subdue the fire after it had gotter into the moving. Damage about $1O0 the cause is unknown.
 -Seleotman Korper has John Brick ot Stafford Springs, with assistants, grading and beautifying the grounds about his residence.
 The ladies of South Willington think this good field for good dressmaker. Moose Meadow correspondence.)
 Rev. H. P. Snow preached in Moose Meadow church last Sunday to quite g large audience good sermon from Matt : 9:2l. Subject, "She touched but the hem of his garment and was made whole. Mr. Snow is from Providence, and has leone to reside with uS Sunday nreach , ing services from this date will be at II 8