The Press., 1897-09-02
WELLINGTON.

| Charlie Am1QOn Is 6n1nglln8 nlS DlaGK- smith shop.
 Covenant meeting at the Second Bap- tlst church next Sunday.
 Addison D. Dimock and wife drove to Jewett City last week. SheFreturned by rail yesterday.
 L. w. Holt incautiously stepped on the tine of pitchfork last week. For day or two he had to use canes and crutches.
 Miss Winnifred Dimock, the late teach CT at the Glassfactory school, is at the seminary in Kingston, R. I. Miss Gertrude Morrison, of Pawtucket, R. l., Is visiting her uncle, Sylvester P. Morrison.
 List of uncalled for letters: Mrs. o. B. Russell, Mrs. Mattie Marshall, Henry Schoolcroft, Miss Annie Mayo, c. H. Hell liker.
 Rev. Charles H. Brown is in attendance at the meeting of the Ashford Baptist Association, in Brooklyn. He has poem on "Boyhood" in last Sundays Republi- can.
 Chas. T. Preston and wife spent por- ton of Tuesday at his brother, Way lands, West Stafford. They were glad to meet there Harry Amos Preston and wife, of Auburndale, Mass.
 Look out for the debate at the next grange meeting The last meeting was studiously stay away are biting off their own noses. gIE
 Mesdames Neff and Fuller have been visiting at their father, M. Burdick's. James Burdick and family, children and grandchildren, are now at the old home stead.
 Dog licenses have been paid by John Fisher, 0. D. Lockwood, o. H. Watrous, Wm. B1eknell, Gilbert Spicer, Wm. Mor- rison, Dwight Bramble, George Wood, Charles Eldridge, Alfred House, c. w. ElTery, L. w. Holt, E. Keys, Lieut.. AL burtus w. Walker, Austin Rowland, An | drew Whitman, Charles H. Davis, James Pierce, Frank Wadsworth, Alfred Potter, Mrs. J. Potter, Janet Shaffer. c. Scho- field, J. Mercy, Fred Gilman, s. H. Mat terson, Lucien B. Clark, A. G. Blair, Charles McFarlane, Geo. Sparrow, Steph- en Slingsby, John Wadsworth, Fred Gray, Marlin Knight 3, Geo. Wilson, Seth Soho- field 4, Wm. Baxter, H. D. Royce, P. Denman, Max Lochie 3, Charles M. Mill ler M. H. Marcy, Frank Woodworth, A. E. Faltham, Charles Threshor, E. H. Burdick, George Lyon, J. L. Enc, Fred Juul, c. Eldridge, L. H Blair, Lee Royce, Mrs. H. L. Keene.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Miss Leila Field, of East Hampton, Is visiting st A. Korper's.
 Messrs. Origen and w. H. Hall attend Beach, last Tuesday.
 George Nichols has been taking 8 weeks vacation. He spent most of the time at Block Island, fishing.
 Next Monday, labor day, the South Willington ball team will go over to Tol- land Street, and play the combined Buff Gap and Holland nine. The game will commence at p. m. The players would like all the friends and "rooters" of the team to go over and yell for them, as they think they will need 1t.
 The w. c. T. U., of Willington, held 8 meeting in the hall last Saturday, at p. m. There was not very large attend ance.
 Mrs. Chas. N. Allen and son, Harry, have returned from their summer home at Fishers Island. Upon their arrival here, they found that during their absence attempts had been made to break into their house. The screen door was cut, as though some one had tried to unlock the door, but that falling they tried the window. They evidently had 8 glass cut ter with them, as piece of glass had been neatly cut out and the window was unfastened. However, before leaving, MT. Allen had taken the precaution to nail the windows, and so the burglars were foiled in their attempts to get into the house.
 Report has it that the hired man on one of our near by farms has been Clicking" his employer As we cannot vouch for the truth of the report, we will give no names.
 The new tariff is beginning to be felt in South Wilmington. Business Is booming, and more help Is needed in tho dyeiDg and bleaching departments.
 For the second time this season the single men have laid low in the dust the married men at playing ball. Last Satur- day we had one of the most exciting (this expression Is hardly strong enough) games of this season. The prize for the one to win was good clam chowder, with watermelon, lemonade and all the fxings. The game was hot one from start to fin ish, and the reason of the single men winning was that they had 8 stronger field than the married men. w. H. Brack- cit reluctantly consented to act as um- pire. Physically he is not 8 very strong man, but the blowing that he received last Saturday would have weakened stronger men than he. The batteries were: Married men, Hall and Denman single men, Shaffer and Brackett Fol lowing is the score:
 Sfagls MafTisa aSR' &5n, siSSssSS s s oEf9 E9 Mrs. wv. Richardson, widow of Rev. w. w. Richardson, died at her home Sunday night, about o'clock. The dis ease was consumption, Mrs. Richardson was 63 years of age. She was born in Holland, and spent the early part of her life there. Her maiden name was Cynthia Pease. When quite young she came to Wilmington, and has lived here ever since in the house which she owned before her death. The deceased leaves five chill William, of Waltham, Everett and George, of this place, Mrs. Emma Hutch