The Press., 1896-03-12
WELLINGTON.

1 topic, What shall farmers raise and what shall they buy ?" and spelling match
 -Rev.A.J Mcleod. of Stafford Springs, will occupy the Congregational pulpit next Sunday. Services at 2p. m. ''Help whOmsoever, whenever you can: For man forever needs help from man: Never day should die in the west Till yOuhave comforted some sad breast. :" Perry Henries, who has acted as mail driver. for the past IS weeks, closed his labors Tuesday morning. He and his wife are now living with the Dixons in o. D. Lockwood's house. James Macfarlane is now proprietor of the opera house candy store, WiIliman- 1 tic.
 William Foley, has an uncalled for letter in the post office. "Watch whOmsOever, whenever-yOn must;
 Knowing full we'll there are few you can trust
 Never day has died in the west But some one has euchred me- doing my best'
 Bertha Young of Willimantic is vis- iting her grandmother, Mrs. Harriet Pres l ton.
 It was worthy of mention in the re- cent notice of M. l.. DimOck's 30 years terms of office in this town that for 20 years during that period he rang the bell and made the fires for the Baptist church without charge. A pleasant party, under the auspices of Mrs. Hannah w. Rider, was given as a surprise to her husband last Wednesday evening. There would have been large gathering, doubtless, had not the weather been SC unfavOrable and the roads so very bad. Those in attendance were J. J. Hemmeler and wife, Miss Emma l.. Brown, James Carpenter and wife, Miss Dasie Dimock, Mrs. Mary Lyon and daughter, Mrs. Mary Herman, Miss Rose Nichols, the Messrs. Starkweather, John WhitfOrd and daughter, Dwight Bramble. A supper. games and dancing filled the evening.
 
 diOus shed near his blacksmith shop at the Hollow. He, as we'll as his helper, Arthur Wood, are good horse shoers, it is said.
 Eli Wood and family have been living in the mill house" at the Hollow this winter. He returns to his farm near c. s. AmidOn's this spring
 Rev. F. w. Weed stopped at J. c. Ryders Tuesday night. He closes his labors at Putnam April 1st 1 Geo. H. Snow is away from his office in Stafford Springs on a business trip. 1 l.. Dimock is in charge meanwhile.
 Moose Meadow correspondence.) . Mrs. A. B. Dave will finish the Daweville school next Friday. Nathan Daniels, from Mendon, Mass, has been visiting at F. H. Ballou's, and other friends, for the past week.
 Ruth Olive Bruce, the infant child of AlonzO Bruce, was buried last Saturday in Moose Meadow cemetery. Mrs. Ida Morse, from Chicopee, Mass, daughter of MT. Bruce, attended the funeral.
 The barn of Mark Emlott, who lives on the Young place, near Tinkerville, was burned last Tuesday morning.
 Ernest Taylor is sick with the grip. 1 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Win. Richardson, of Waltham, Mass. has been visiting relatives in town. His niece, Miss Iva Latham, returned with him.
 Miss Sarah J. Andrews, teacher in this district, is at her home in Summit, RI [.
 It is reported that Leonard Gibson has hired O. D. Lockwood's farm, and will move on it about April 1st.
 The friends of Mrs. H. l.. Lillibridge, who has recently been quite sick, will be glad to hear that she is gaining rapidly.
 Mrs. Wm. Brownlee has been quite sick the past week. She has been obliged to close her school.
 A leap-year party was held at Mrs. Julia Dilworth's last Tuesday evening. Quite number was present, and good time enjoyed.
 The Drama.
 "Horatio," whispered the heroine, "the villain still pursues us.
 "Ha! exclaimed the lover. But fear not Seest thou the ravine that in tervenes between us and him?''
 "Yes, Horatio-but the bridge. He can cross yon bridge at a bound. y
 "Fear not, say. He has got to stop in the middle of the bridge and do a song and dance. Courage !''-Detroit Tribune