The Press., 1897-05-27
WELLINGTON.

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 The regular Y. P. s. o. E., appointed for Sunday evening, was not held because the bell did not ring. People essayed at tendance, nevertheless, but found the con- ference room closed and unlighted. Mrs. Geo. Rounds and Miss Emma Robbins are alternately assisting Mrs. Hattie Pierce during her illness. l An English lad, Cromwell Gardner, at work forlChas. E.i Nichols, speaks four different languages, it is said.
 Isn't it just as easy, Georgie, to say G. A. R. hall or Grange hall, as to say | "Preston hall 2'' Whats the motive, W. s., in using the latter phrase2 Et tw Brute
 | The grange is under obligation to Hon. E. $. Henry for government Report on diseases of cattle and on cattle feeding"
 Mrs. Sleight and Miss Bronson visited friends in Manchester last week, their aunt, Geo. A. Cosgrove's sister, returning with them.
 Affected innocence, or affected purity, always oversteps itself.
 We are the fortunate recipient of an invitation to attend the wedding of Chas. M Glazier, and Cordelia Frances, daughter of Burdett Loomis, at his house in Hartford, on the evening of the second prox Congratulations
 The new Plnney school house in Staf- ford, the many benefactions of Stafford boy, the late w. K. Baker of Springfield, the liberality of a Wilmington boy, the late Charles Holt of Stafford, the various foundations by wealthy men in every l town in this county except Wilmington, are significant and wholesome object les sons these daysl
 It is 8 refreshing pastime, to say the least, to read the Springfield Republican, wherein you get both sides. No more vigorous, intelligent, impartial and honest editorials are found in the columns of any newspaper in the land.
 Apropos the item in the last Press concerning the mistake of man, who took for current news, the matter now being excerpted from the old 'news letter." a recent issue of the N. Y. Fibre and Fabric, says that spool turn ing business has been started at Aldrich's mills, in Willington, Conn.
 What a fuss the silk-stockinged de- scendants,-''Son and daughters of the American revolution"-are making these days over the fact that their ancestors were soldiers in that war We confess the fact that we have relatives, who frantically rushed to join the above men, | rdn n6 father marched to the ''Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775.'' He and his companions in arms were gone just six days on that picnic Let us think of these, and relative things this Memorial day now at hand
 The entertainments given by Dr. Turner and Mrs. Reid, in the G. A. R. hall Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, last week, were amusing and not little instructive. The doctors ventriloquism is certainly first class. The second even- ing, when an admittance fee was taken, the hall was packed, not so many being in attendance the previous free evening. But had not Miss Jenny Church, the popular teacher of the Daleville school, who, with some companions, could not be kept away, been present on the last named evening and got her card, she would not have been the lucky winner of the diamond ring. Take it all in all, twas the best outside show that has struck | Wilmington in recent years.
 Another thing for towns that are honor ed by having G. A. R. posts within their borders, but refuse to make paltry ap- propriation for music, to think of. It costs the people of Connecticut over three hundred thousand dollars yearly to SUD- port these boy carpet soldiers, the national guard," to pay for their sum- mer picnic at the seaside.
 Finally, let us all, especially those who stayed at home during the war, refresh our minds on Memorial day with these deathless words of MT. Lincoln, at the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery "It is for,us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It Is for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
 Grange meeting tomorrow night. Sub. iect for lecturers hour: Cuba.
 Considerable painting is being done on the Hill. The dwellings of $. P. Morrison and l.. Preston, M. L. Dimock's store and the G. A. R. hall are receiving new coats But the town hall !; how it looksl Were it located in some other village, think ii would have remained unpainted as long as this? Guess not.
 South willington Correspondence. Rev. David c. Moore will preach in the Congregational church on the Hill next Sunday at 1.30 p. m.
 The writer saw a game of ball played last Saturday between the Storrs college ? team and the Willimantic high schoo i, team. It was a loosely played game or ' both sides, and the real battle was with r the pitchers. VIII. Hall was the umpire = The score was Storrs 40; w. H. s., 20.
 Wm- F. Essex took quite a long car n riage drive last week, returning Monday ) He drove to the western part of the state where he lived when a boy. Mrs. Orton Southwick was unfortu- nate last Saturday, in losing her mileage } book: There was about six hundred miles left in 1t.
 Barbara Farrar has again made com plaint against her husband on the account of assault and battery. Lawyer Reed, O