The Press., 1897-10-28
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Alpsrt Preston of Hartford is visiting his uncle, Lucius Preston. Mrs Wesley Stout of Asbury Park, N. J., Is Visiting her friends here. Nov comes on the season for fervid and pious ejaculations in connection with setting up stoves and stove pipe.
 Lass weeks grange meeting was passed over on account of the woman's temper ance meeting at South Wilmington.
 Our local railroad, the N. l.. N. division of the Vermont Central, is now in the hands of the Grand Trunk (Canada) rail- road.
 An auction sale of horse, wagon, carpetloom and a lot of new and second hand furniture will take place at the Smith Bartlett place on Village Hill, Sat urday, Oct. 3Oth, at 10 8. m.
 "A lawyer may be great public bless ing or very great public nuisance. One may be good deal of man, and not much of lawyer, or a good deal of a lawyer and not much of a man."
 The assessors are now on their rounds. I. on account of the $2O addition to our grand list-also your bicycles. ''These taxes" are as sure to come as the flowers of next spring.
 O. w. Chaffee, 8 Wilmington boy, son of Reuben Chaffee, born Jan. g, 1895, for the last fifty-two years respected and well-known resident of Hartford, died in that city 22d inst He was one of the earliest policemen of Hartford He was also an active fireman and fine church choir singer.
 William o. Eldridge goes to Pittsfleld, Mass, Monday next to work for the Union Tea Co.,, having formerly been in business for it some eight years. His wife, and son who is now attending school in Stafford Springs, follow him later. He has greatly improved and ex- tenstvely repaired the premises and dwell- ing-house he has occupied at Eldridge Mills for the two years last past, and the many friends of the family in town regret the necessity that compels their removal
 Speaking of the granges and of the liq- uor question, the Hartford correspondent of the Springfield Republican has this to say:
 | It is possible that the granges and other social organizations that are now pretty we'll developed among farmers will do as much as any one thing to improve this situation. They furnish intellectual stim- ulus, social life, and some training in | mQnnnT0 'ThQu oIx f,, l duence in the sense above indicated, and an admirable substitute for the illegal drinking place. It does not follow that 1 the young grangers do not drink every thing from cider to whisky, but they have | in the grange and what is connected with 1t, directly or indirectly, a wholesome in- | tellectuaI diversion and something to soften manners and refine the mind. If there are times left in which they must drink in company, it is so much better to do this respectfully and legally than sur reptitiOusly in low company, that it is hard to see how those who look at all sides of the question can stand so stoutly as some of them do for the prohibition law under the local option privilege
 Emma Louise Brown and Loren Dan iels Golding of Livermore, N. H., were married at noon yesterday at the Baptist parsonage, the brides brother, Rev. Charles H. Brown, officiating. The bride wore, as travelling dress, blue broad cloth heavily trimmed with black braid. It was strictly family wedding, the guests arriving on the morning trains from Birmingham and Boston, Mass. l The presents were numerous and costly, especially silver and cut-glass coming from Maine on to Michigan Local friends presented the bride with fine landscape, painted by our resident artist, Ell D. Hayes. The ceremony, Episcopal form, with ring, &c.,, was performed under an arch made of garlands of laurel and red berries, and the rooms were tastefully decorated with ferns and dchrysanthemums. The newly married couple left in Will ltams' coupe for Willimantic, from whence they took train for New York, Philadel- phia and Washington. They go to house. keeping in Livermore, N. H., for the present.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 w. H. Hall has new Warren & Clough piano.
 Henry Gurley lost valuable COW last week by milk fever.
 Miss Edna Worden spent Sunday with relatives in Willimantic.
 Mrs. Anna Walker is quite sick with typhoid fever at her sister, Mrs. Wm. Brownlee's.
 G. B. Marble has been replenishing his house with a coat of white paint. J. c. Jennings did the work.
 Mrs. Fitzgerald of Bridgeport gave a very interesting lecture on temperance in the hall last Friday evening. Say! 1t is about time the married men should hustle around and get up clam chowder supper or something else for the single men in payment of the account which the single men have against them. Next Saturday is Halloween, and - enough said.