The Press., 1897-02-04
WELLINGTON.

I | On account of the bad condition of the roads, the crazy sociable was postponed I until next Tuesday evening. | lCorrespondence.)
 Tuesday-Candlemas day! Have you half your corn and half your hay?
 Mrs. Wesley Stout, of Asbury Park, N. J., is at George A. Cosgrove's.
 While one Chauneey says that although there are lots of restored public conf dence, 1t doesn't seem to affect business, the other Chauncey, the New York one, says (at the recent Platt banqueD that the country never was in such good con- dition for better times-and he didn't in- tend it for joke, either!
 J. c. Brown, Jr., and wife, of Boston, visited at the Baptist parsonage last week.
 Those In attendance from this vicinity at the dancing party at Mrs. Lathrop's, near Babcock's bridge, last Wednesday night, were Charles H. Ryder and wife, J. J. Himmeler and wife, H. F. Stark weather, Misses Jennie Church and Daisy Wilson, Ernest Wilson and Harry Morse. Music was furnished by J. F. Whitford {; Bissett, prompter. The occasion was highly enjoyable to those present, al- though the three o'clock return home in the face of the heavy snow storm and the environment of the pitchy darkness was not very pleasant after-clap.
 ''The ass is perfectly comfortable in the lions skin, when his Una keeps close beside him to tell him how ferocious he appears!"
 Arthur Wood recently sold fine two horse team wagon of his own construc- tion to a customer in Stafford Springs.
 We were favored by call from Repre- sentative Henry R. Woodward, Ashford, on Monday.
 For a specimen of we'll sustained par agraphing in a recent editorial, entitled "FeweI Western Colleges" in the Spring field Republican-twenty-th lines, one hundred and sixty-one words, from period to period!
 The Baptist church was represented at the Sunday school convention in Stafford Hollow yesterday. It is expected that the, next quarterly meeting will be in Willington.
 , Referring to that public confidence,,'' let bear in mind that only 16 out of 3.679 national banks have closed their doors as yet.
 It would seem that the institution known as the old fashioned country de. bate Is being revived. Unquestionably !, 1t is good and wholesome thing. The winters monotony is broken, minds are made alert and dignified. and debasing trivialities go unnurtured for the time. But the chief foes of this most beneicent pastime are personal fueds and the un. restrained social partisan.
 T The following from the Courant relates to former resident physician, who re- moved to Rockville some years ago. Doctor Dick" is still we'll remembered by many residents:
 f Dr. F. l.. Dickinson is receiving the congratulations of his friends on reaching his eightieth birthday Friday. in the evening of that day, the officers and di } rectors of the First National Bank and the physicians, with their wives, visited the physician's residence and the evening was much enjoyed. The party left tokens of their esteem. Dr. Dickinson was fol l many years the leading physician of this vicinity, but on account of poor health has not done much active work for sew eral years. He has always been identi fled with the prosperity of the city anc
 town, having been first selectman, sena
 tor from the twenty third district and vice
 president of the First National Bank. Hs has filled many other positions of trust His friends wish him many more years o l a happy and useful life. , South Willington Correspondence. a Mrs. Eliza Kent Fuller, former resi-
 dent, read an interesting original paper , at the recent meeting of the state grange f in New Haven.
 a Congratulations to MT. and Mrs. W. H l Hall. It is girl, born last Friday night A Henry is passing round the cigars.
 The company have procured fine neN . sled for "Old Sam" to do the trucking
 with this kind of weather. The body Ii
 blue, trimmed with red, and Charlie Hills
 the driver, feels quite "stuck up" abou
 it.
 We are glad to learn that the play, "l , Box of Monkeys" is to be given in Soul . Willington. We think that good crow' :, would turn out and hope it will be
 success.
 Miss Rose Hall, who recently had a
 operation performed for appendicitis, 1
 slowly recovering. Dr. Alfred. Taylor
 who has been attending her. left for Ne,
 York Wednesday.
 We recently received letter from Sol
 omon Topliff, former resident of thi place, and in it we found few verses c
 poetry. MT. Topliff has written poetr
 for The Press, and his verses are very ir
 teresting.
 There was no Sunday school or servic
 in the hall last Sunday, owing to tn
 pipes being frozen. The literary meet
 ing, which was to have been held Monda
 evening, was postponed for one week o The Christian Endeavor day program ha been given up entirely. It is expecte
 that the pipe will be mended this week and if so communion services will be hel in the hall next Sunday.
 School here did not keep last Thurs day; owing to the big snow storm. Tn
 snow blow was kept at work nearly a day, but the paths would fill up as 500 " as they were made. The big sled too
 the help home from the mill at night ~ The snow drifts in this section are yer '1 large. The deepest we have encountere s is up in Arthur Eldredge's yard. We go d in drift there and went in clear to GU neck. The storm is thought by some (
 the older residents to be nearly equal t It the blizzard of 'SS. At any rate, Sout n Willington was pretty well showed in. 1T w. R. Perry, the ice man, is luck le fellow. The last storm covered the pon 8. with snow, but now he has it all scrape