The Press., 1896-04-23
WELLINGTON.

tended to women?" will be the subject for debate at the regular meeting of the grange Friday evening.
 The literary club closed it's course with a pleasant and profitable meeting last Friday evening.
 Nellie Morrison is in Willimantic for two weeks.
 I've can all do more than we have done, And be not whit the worse; Itnever was loving that emptied the heart, Nor giving that emptied the purse."
 Daleville school commenced Monday. J. A. Stark weather teacher.
 Mrs. George Sparrow is seriously ill., Dr. Converse, of Westford, is attending | her.
 Mrs. Rufus Robbins daughter Mary Frances, from Ellington, and her step daughter, Mrs. Hattie Frances Davis, of Derby, Vt., have been visiting here the past week.
 Mabel Clark spent her vacation with her aunt, Mrs. Church, in Willimantic
 The last Post and Corps meeting was l "OAA aCCCIIOVO' AuOI0 WdS LuuSlC bllO reading for the good of the order.
 Dandelions and cowslips are as early as usual, but these few hot days have been rushers.
 Chas. Amidon lost a valuable horse, from collie, last week. MT. Gibson's horse was sick with the same ailment, and Geo. Cosgrove's Ben" is still in the hands of the veterinarians.
 Remember the free lecture, under the auspices of the Grange, at the Baptist church next Tuesday evening, the 18th. and all, we fancy, have had as much ex- perience as they care for in hand picking potato and rose bugs. Let us give the Storrs professors full house. "Knowledge and wisdom far from being one, Have oft times no connection.
 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much Wisdom is humble that he knows no mOre."
 B. A. Morse is fitting up a new horse barn and carriage house. His son, Lewis, from Stafford, is the carpenter.
 Mrs. Urial Hanover is visiting in New London.
 Rev. F. A. Holden will preach in the Congregational church next Sabbath.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Charles Macfarlane has been visiting relatives in Willimantic.
 Harry Allen, of the Boston Dental Col lege, spent Sunday at home. | Cpooiol oF I o50o No. A, F. & A. M., Saturday evening.
 Representative w. H. Hall, c. c. Es- sex, D. c. Dimock and Origen Hall are in New Haven attending the state con- ventiOn.
 A couple of Stafford ball players were down here last S. S~turday, and if the Staf- lords don't play any better than they did the South Willingtons had better try and arrange a game
 Last Friday afternoon Saml Nichols wood-lot caught fire somewhere in Gun gy Hole," and burned over quite a large tract of land. It would probably have made it hot for somebody if shower had not come up just in the right time tc smother it. It is the same land that was burned over sixteen years ago. It is not known how the fire started, but it is sup. posedk that some one smoking dropped a spark, and, as the woods were very dry, it caught fire quickly.
 (doose Meadow correspondence1
 Rev. o. c. Terry preached an excellent sermon last Sunday. He remained ovel Sunday, calling on friends of the society on Monday.
 Mrs. Mary Prentice and son, have hired of George Rider the "Ballou" farm, and will occupy it soon.
 F. H. Ballou and family, will move this week to the E. E. Mathews farm, Rock Meadow, Union.
 Sunday evening, May 3d, the old and young are especially invited to attend church ct o'clock, and listen to some thing interesting from our pastor, Rev. o. G. Terry.
 Alonzo Bruce, who has been sick fo1 long time with consumption, is failing.
 ROCKVILLE.
  in the interest of good roads, appropri- ated $3O0O for the improvement of Wind sor avenue, beginning at the city limits, and extending towards Talcottville, as far as the appropriation would permit.
 Bedding Bros. & Co. $ silk mills begins running tow-thirds time, forty hours a week, on Monday. The new time sched- ule is the same as adopted by the woolen mills of the city in February.
 It is stated that the Rockville & Filing ton Street Railway stand ready to build an electric line to meet the Hartford Manch> ster & Rockville railway at Tal- cottville if the selectmen of the town of Vernon will grant them the privilege of building on the highway from Rockville to Talcottville via Windsor avenue, as soon as a completed layout is made. The managers will ascertain if a right of way can be obtained from Windsor avenue under the tracks of the New England railroad west of Burke's crossing through the land of private individuals as far west as Levi Grants on the Talcottville road If the managers meet with any success ir the securing of right of way over pri vate land, an application will be made il the near future to the selectmen.
 ELLINGTON. | Crystal Lake Correspondence.)
 l.. A. Aborn has bought of parties ir Springfield 8 large young horse, which together with colt of about the same age that he owned before, will make hin a fine pair.
 MT. and Mrs. Alburtus Baker were a the Lake last week, having been calico from Addison by the death of Mrs. Ba ker's mother, Mrs. Clark, in Holland.
 Ira H. Lewis will receive from Hart ford this week a fine young horse pur chased there.
 Preaching as usual next Sunday morn