The Press., 1897-12-09
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WIIzIIN6TONs
 Arthur Wood Is now at work in Ami- don's blacksmith shop.
 The late seriously i'll folks are all now on the road to recovery.
 Yet another season sees Sanford Niles engaged in butchering hogs.
 The sale of household goods at the s. Taylor homestead is closed.
 George A. Cosgrove has been drawn as juror for this term of the superior court.
 G. E. s. Amidon 6 Sons are building a blacksmith shop on their mill premises at the H.euow.
 The sfx sheep stranded on George A. Rounds premises, lately advertised in The Press, have been claimed and taken away by one Taylor, of Manchester.
 Regular meeting of Wilmington Grange, No. ,137, tomorrow evening, 18th inst. A full attendance is desired, as election of new officers must then take place, &C., cording to the bylaws.
 List of letters remaining uncalled for in post office: Conrad Hamenstein, Jr. |, Miss Florence Charter, Miss Lottie His COX, care Andrew Smith, Miss Maud Ames, Edgerton Burnett, Miss Maggie R. McLennan.
 "In 8 society where it makes no differ ence to the best people whether they are vicious or vlrtuous, where their credit, incomes and social positions depend on who they are, not on what they do, virtue remains a mere theory"
 The fellow who rushed through here not long ago selling stove polish, with very glib tongue and action, now lies in jail in Mass., for running off and living with another Conn mans wife, pretty Irish young woman, married only five months.
 Klondike reminds us of the California excitement, and of the fact that the late Carlos Glazier was the only Willington boy, but 8 resident of Hartford for fifty years, who had to do with an expedition to the gold fields of California. He was one of i've men in that city who caused the chartering of the ship Henry Lee, to sail thither via. Cape Horn. Who's go- ing to Klondike from here in the spring :? Christmas is coming on apace. The ob- servance at the Congregational church, we hear, will consist of a children's con- cert on the Sunday before Christmas At the Baptist church, on Friday, Christ mas eve, there will be an entertainment participated in by both young and old. A play, written for the occasion by Mrs. Preston, will be presented by the younger people, while dialogs, pantomimes, reel | tations, etc. interspersed by musical se- lections will fill out the bill. The de- tails, not yet perfected, will be given in | next week.
 South winington Correspondence.
 Miss Alice Denman is quite sick with 8 severe case of the grip. Homer N. Neil recently made a busi. ness trip to Providence.
 Miss, Ida Hall assisted by singing at ar entertainment at the Baptist church al | Willimantic Tuesday night. | Gardiner Hall has made a noticeable Improvement in the former Morrison property by cutting the brush and clear ing the meadow between this village anG the depot.
 | AuotiA ho"AoAN PuAoAocO0 O oAOlt time ago the horse formerly owned by John Starkweathe-. He has lately bought a new two-seated canopy top and sleigt from Wightman's carriage shop at Staf ford.
 Twenty years from now South Willing ton ought to be quite a musical place Two music teachers are now kept bus, nearly every night in the week teaching the younger generation the art of playin, the organ and piano.
 At the annual communication of Uric Lodge, No. 24, F. & A M, held last Sat urday evening, the following officers wer elected: w. M., Frank L. Backus; s w., George H. Baker; J. w., E. Wes Marcy treasurer, Adolph Korper; sec retary, w. H. Bracket; s. D., w. H Buckingham; J. D., Earl c. Walker s. s., John R. Neil; J. s., Homer V Beebe; chaplain, James B. Hay; marsh al, Wm. F. Essex; tyler, A. Devereauz Moose Meadow School at Moose Meadow closed O. Saturday, Dec. 4th, that friendly attach
 ment of teacher and pupils necessary fo success being ever apparent throughou the term. By earnest, efficient work c
 the teacher, Miss Lillia I. Fenton of Stat
 ford, and a deep interest taken by tn , children, the school has been made on of much value. The following scholar were neither absent nor tardy during tn term: Della J. Enc; not absent, Mar
 Enc; absent one-half day, Alberta Enc Robert Enc.