The Press., 1897-05-27
WELLINGTON.

Quite frost in the valleys in this vi- cinity Saturday night
 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.
 An English lad, Cromwell Gardner, at work forjChas. 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 ?" Whats the motive, w. s., in using the latter phrasep Et tw Brute
 The grange is under obligation to Hon. B. $. 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. Cosgroves sister, returning with them.
 l AA0CL6u lLuOC0uC0, Ol dn0CGOu pul1l ! 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 Pinney school house in Staf- ford, the many benefactions of Stafford boy, the late w. K. Baker of Springfield, the liberality of Wilmington boy, the late Charles Holt of Stafford, the various foundations by wealthy men in every I town in this county except Wilmington, are significant and wholesome object les sons these days!
 It is 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 a man, who took for current news, the matter now being excerpted from the old "news letter." 8 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 fuss the silk-stockinged de- scendants, ,-"Sons 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, toned orders, because our great-grand- 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 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 ot 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 c. A. R. posts within theil borders, but refuse to make paltry ap. propriation for music, to think of. Ii costs the people of Connecticut over three hundred thousand dollars yearly to sup. 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 tho dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery "It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which the, who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us to be dedicated tc the great task remaining before us-tha from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which the, gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that thes dead shall not have died in vain, that thi nation under God, shall have new birtl of freedom, and that government of tn people, by the people, for the people, shal not perish from the earth"
 Grange meeting tomorrow night. Sub ject for lecturers hour: Cuba.
 Considerable painting is being done ol the Hill. The dwellings of s. P. Morrison and l.. Preston, M. L. Dimock's store anC the G. A. R. hall are receiving new coats But the town hall how it looks! Wer it located in some other village, think i would have remained unpainted as lon as this? Guess not.
 South Wilmington Correspondence. Rev. David c. Moore will preach in tn Congregational church on the Hill nex Sunday at 1.30 p. m.
 The writer saw game of ball playe last Saturday between the Storrs colleg ? team and the Willimantic high schoo 1, team. It was loosely played game O 7 both sides, and the real battle was wit r the pitchers. VIII. Hall was the umpire The score was Storrs 40; w. H. s., 20. Wm. F. Essex took quite long cal n rlage drive last week, returning Monday } He drove to the western part of the state where he lived when boy.