The Press., 1897-03-04
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 Bicycle opening and reception at E. A. Buck Co.'S, Stafford Springs, March I 18th. Refreshments free from to 10 D. m. Come one, come all.
 Mrs. W. w.. Mitchell and son, Ray mond, of Springfield. Mass, are spending the week with her brother, tW. o. El- dridge, of Eldridge Mills.
 Mrs. Henry Clark, a former resident of Wilmington, died at her home in Hamilton, Mo-, Feb. 18th. The following is from the Hamiltonian:
 1 Miss Laura Aurelia Eldridge was born on May the 20th, 1880, in Willington.l In l April, 1S4S, she was married to Henry l Clark, Of the same town, with whom she lived happily until August 9th, 1898, when l MT. Clark was taken away from her, and she was left to walk aloneeuntil the time of her departure came. There were five children, all boys, born of this union, two of whom ars dead. while the remaining l three, Frank. proprietor of theFHamilton Roller mills and the electric light plant, Elmer, assistant cashier of the Hamilton Savings bank, and Wilber, editor of the l Hamiltonian, are left and tenderly cared for their mother in her long and last sick ness. She was proud of her children and their wives, and not without reason, few | would have done as we'll with their moth CT. and none could have done better Mrs. Clark was woman who impressed her noble qualities upon all who knew her. Quiet, unassuming, faithful to her family, and true to all her friends, which | included a large circle. The strength of mind and power of endurance she mani- fested, especially during her last sickness, which 'shut her in" for many years, was remarkable. The sincerely of her per- soDal attachment was wonderful, and her memory of good things done and said was surprising. She and her family are we'll known in this community, and the num- Der that attended the funeral seemed to indicate her standing. Rev. R. J. Mat thews, her pastor for many years, and the last one she had heard preach, seven years ago, conducted the services He took a very appropriate text, "She has done | what she could"
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 The blue birds have come!
 February has indeed been cold month It closed up with some p1 city frosty morn ings.
 Communion at the Baptist church next Sunday. immediately after morning ser 1 vice.
 "The mills of the gods grind slowly, l But they grind exceeding small; With patience stand ye waiting. With exactness grind they all Prof. Holley will show his very anus ing "Marionettes" in c. A. R. hall to- morrow evening. Doors open at 73O. Fun begins at 8.
 that "ostentatious" in obituary notice of the late John B. Whitford last week should have been typed unostentatious. | Roaring Brooks winter term of school closed Saturday, 18th ult. A large at- tendance of parents and friends were highly pleased with the examination on Friday. Every pupil took part in the rec itations and dialogs. Miss Ward is now enrolled as one of our best teachers Scholars neither absent nor tardy during the term, Estella F. Bartlett, Rosa l.. Mahan, John O. Bartlett Charles J. Ma han.
 | The usual quiet of this community was suddenly and extensively ruffied last Sat urday, and the cause thereof has been the expressing talk of the town ever since As the four o'clock p. m. train from the south stopped at the Willington station J. J. Himmelar, long a resident here, and Henry F. Starkweather, whose legal resi- dence is in Preston, where his wife anC two children are living, but who has beer teaching the Hill school year or more coming hither from school in Hampton alighted, and immediately the former be , gan to rain blows in the face of the latter } who was most severely punished, not
 withstanding the cries of the assailed fol help. Quite a crowd of train people, pas sengers and depot habitues witnessed 7 shadowing Starkweather all day in Willi
 mantle, and had even consulted Capt
 Hillhouse on the feasibility of admins
 tering the chastisement within the pre-
 cincts of the Thread City, and was dis
 suaded therefrom. The alleged excus, of the assailant for this premeditated ant
 unwarrapted Gin law chastisement il
 Starkweather's undue familiarity with hi :, wife, the chief occasion being laid at Staf
 ford Springs, after the performance 0
 "The Old Homestead" :" Tuesday night o
 last week. Himmelar claims that he hat
 previously warned the victim to cease hi
 attentions in the direction indicated, o > some such result as is here perfunctoril, recounted would follow. Starkweather u immediately after the assault, proceede'
 to Stafford Springs in quest of law an' surgery, and where, we hear, he, with hi mother, now remains. Himmelar als
 forthwith reported to his lawyer there U Starkweather is & member of the Y. P.
 c. E. here, is chairman of the committe on Good Citizenship" and his eo-work
 CTS greatly lament the scandalous affair = His mother, who witnessed the assault and who Is in feeble health, has the sym
 pathy of the community. Indication T point to the probability that the law court u will never have the opportunity of airin t the matter. Among the numerous o
 dits in regard to the affair is that Himme
 lar has been 1estive under rumors of cuck f. oldly, and had resolved to make know h in pointed way his true state of mind. b -, South Wilmington Correspondence.
 The play, "A Box of Monkeys whic 5 was to have been given here last Tuesda
 evening, was postponed on account C l. the new floor being laid in the hal There were no services last Sunday, an
 the literary meeting was postponed fo HE , evening, if nothing prevents, and the pro