The Press., 1896-09-24
WELLINGTON.


 26th, at p. m., to nominate town officers and transact any other business proper to come before said meeting.
 (Correspondence.)
 Mrs. Waugh and child returned to their home in Pittsfield Tuesday.
 Tho reports of the selectmen and school visitors are in the hands of the printers.
 Aver, of Holland, is now busy in stock ing the coal bins for the winter in this vi- cinity.
 B. A. Morse Is at work on the founda- tion for new barn, in place of the one recently burned.
 Now comes the time of year for hedg- ing, evasion, fraud, etc., in regard to tax es. The assessors will be on their travels betimes.
 -> Grange meeting tomorrow evening. It is hoped that committees on new appli- cations for membership will find it con- venient to be present time.
 Occasionally things happen in this world in themselves so funny that 1t is like painting the lily or gliding refined gold to undertake to say anything funny about them"
 Three persons will be baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist church next Sunday afternoon. The ordinance will be administered by the pastor at South Willington, where the candidates live.
 A party of Miss Nellie Morrison's friends in South Wilmington came up and surprised" her last Friday evening. Judging from specimens, we think that the collation. must have been both ample and fine.
 Washington's farewell address is good reading these days. "He was not a pa- triot for the moment, but for all time He is not out of date, even in the age of electricity; he dealt with the continuous life of the race"
 We notice of late regular and quite ex- tensive "Willington' correspondence in one of our county papers, but it Is con- fined to matters and events in one school district in town-presumably where the writer lives. Be more cosmopolitan, friend.
 In the nature of things would there not be wholesome fitness in having clear and convenient places for hitching horses near public places, such as stores, grist mills, blacksmith shops, &c? Do not the prOprietors thereof owe 1t to their customers to keep the approaches there to clear from old boxes, timbers, iron, rocks, and all sorts of debris?
 John c. Fuller, for many years a resi- dent of this town, and whose serious ill., ness was mentioned last week, died at the house of his son-in-law, George Lyon, the 18th inst. The funeral services were held in the Baptist church last Friday af ternoon, the pastor officiating The de- ceased was a relative soldier, having served in Go. l, 21st Reg't Conn. Vols, and was 8 jealous member of the local G. A. R. post, which attended his funeral in body, detail acting as bearers, and which conducted the services at the grave
 The local grange went last night to the Mansfield grange meeting at Storrs col lege to reciprocate the fine entertainment given here by the latter last June. The program was as follows: i, medley; 3, recitation, George Bracket B. piano so To, Mrs. w. H. Hall 4, medley, arranged by W. H. Hall, with solo by him, 5, Talk on Mexico, Rev. Chas. H. Brown; 6, duet. Miss Emma L: Brown and Mrs. w. H. Hall; 7, Geo. A. Cosgrove and MT. Parker, with banjo; 8, dialog, "Grandpa's Best Hat,'' written by the lecturer, Mrs Chas. T. Preston, and characters repre- sented by Mrs. Harriet F. Eldridge, Mrs. Belle Sleight, Miss Emma L. Brown, Miss Ethel Bronson, Miss Nellie F. Morrison, Geo. A. Cosgrove, A. H. Eldridge, Ben nie Benton, Chas. T. Preston In re- sponse to repeated encores, "Hi Diddle Diddle, The Cats in the Fiddle" (mixed chorus), was given. The dainty and de- licious supper provided for the visiting patrons at the close of the exercises was highly appreciated, while the moonlight drive was thoroughly enjoyable. Hurrah for the Mansfield and Wilmington granges !!
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 It has recently come to light that J. Henry Morrison, who 1t was supposed had committed suicide, is alive and at work at his trade (machinist) in Salem, Mass MT. Morrison, it will be remembered, left South Wilmington last June, where he had been. stopping with his brother, leaving a note in his tool box saying that he had gone to "that undiscovered country from which no traveller returns'' and advising his friends not to look for his body as it was not worth the search. A diligent search for several weeks was made by his friends, who fully expected to find his body not far from South Wilmington, but until his wife, who lives in Pawtucket, R.. l., received 8 letter from him recently saying that he was in Salem at work and all right, not 8 trace of him had been found. When MT. Morrison went away his mind had become somewhat un- balanced from extensive drinking. -H0rt- ford C0etrG71t
 Rev. Wm. Parker, of New York, for merly of Nebraska, will preach in the Congregational church on the Hill next Sunday, at o'clock, as candidate,
 MT. and Mrs. J. w. Harrison spent Sun day with relatives in Yantic.
 Miss Hester Hall is attending the young ladies' new school at Storrs.
 Miss Nora Parker has been spending the past two weeks at her home in Leeds, Mass.
 A baby boy arrived at Cornell Greens on the morning of the 18th.
 Letters uncalled-for in the post office <: Henry N. Clark, J. w. Richards, Edwin Smith.
 A party numbering sixteen from this place gave surprise party to Miss Nellie Morrison on the Hill last Friday evening. After the preliminaries had been passed over whist was nlaved Mrc T w uor rison and Joseph Ktngsbury taking first prize and Miss Rose Nichols and George Brackett the booby prize. Supper was served, and it was we'll into morning be- fore the party took their departure
 W. F. Essex and John Himmelar cap- tured horse thief Tuesday night. Capt Hiflhouse, of Willimantic, came through on the o'clock train and described the team and man to MT. Himmelar, at West WillingtOn. MT. Himmelar accOmpaniod