The Press., 1897-09-09
ELLINGTON.
Crystal Lake Correspondence.)

NSAJoOoA 1ohO OSoAAOopOAuOnOCsI
 Henry Lewis and wife of Hartford visit ed relatives here Sunday.
 Lawyer Charles Hulburt of Norwich was the guest of relatives few days this week
 MT. and Mrs. FIN Crane and daughter, Ms. Annie Wakley were at their cottage a few days this week.
 School began Monday with M H. Dim ock, teacher. Frank Newell transports the scholars of district No. ', to and from school.
 c. Walton Aborn visited friends in Vernon Centre one day last week Wal ton makes a speciality of mounting his wheel and transferring himself from place to place in very brief time. The bicycle record from Chicago to Crystal Lake Is held by him, time IA days, made the summer of '96. Also the record from Crystal Lake to Rockville, time 23 minutes and 35 seconds. New guide boards have recently been put up in the town of Ellington, some of which are so misleading and erroneous that few remarks seem necessary. Guide boards bearing the words Square Pond have seen placed at the forks of roads in different parts of the town. There is no placed named Square Pond in this part of the country, therefore the traveller Is directed to 8 place not in existance. Should a traveller, however, follow the direction indicated by these guide boards he would soon drive at beautiful lake a charming inland resort named Crystal Lake It is sad and lamentable fact | that the selectmen of Ellington, dwelling | as they do at the very intellectual and | literary center of the town, should be SC | far behind the procession as to apply the | name Square Pond to this garden oi beauty. If the selectmen desire to carry out their policy of unearthing defunct and obsolete names,s then they should erect a guide post he.e at Crystal Lake, with the ancient name of Ellington, Goshen Flats emblazoned upon it, for the enlighten. ment and guidance of persons who might wish to find the abiding place of the seleotmen.
 sOMERs.
 The residence of C. Nj. Needham is being newly painted.
 MT. and Mrs. E. D. Avery visited friends in Sufield last Friday.
 The infant child, Marjorie Aline, ot MT. and Mrs F. c. Moore was baptized Sunday.
 | Miss Nellie M. Killman of Enfield is 2 guest at the home of her uncle, Henry Farnum.
 | c. c. Gilbert, representing Sturtevant and Merrick, wholesale grocers, Spring field, Mass, was in town Monday. | MT. and Mrs. H. R. Kibbe and grand daughter, Miss Mabel Kibbe, returned from Avelon, N. J., last Saturday.
 Ernest s. Fuller returned to Monsor Monday, to resume student life at thu academy. Miss Harriet R. Pease precept ress has also returned
 The service of c. J. Doughty, instruct or at the high school the past year, hav' been secured for the ensuing year. Tn | school will commence next week Wednes day. An entrance examination will bt held Tuesday afternoon at the schoo rooms of the High school. A good sized audience attended tn lecture "The Problem of the age" givel by Rev. J. H. James of Rockville, in tn Congregational church Sunday evening The lecture was entertaining and instruc tive, and temperance wise should hay its designed and desired effect. The fall term of the public schools be gan Monday with the following teachers district No. l, Miss Josie Cloudy of Er field district No. 2, Miss Matte Niles o
 Ellington; district No. 8, Miss Alm
 Kibbe district No. 4, Miss Coomes o
 Longmeadow district No. 5, Hall Hill
 Miss Mabel B. Avery; Somersville, Noe
 primaries, Misses Foster and King
 Somersville, No.6, grammar, Miss Hogan
 district No. 7, Miss Clara Russell dist
 riot No. 9, Miss Clarinda Kibbe; distric
 No. 10, Miss Emily c. Pease. : POLAND.
 w A. Agard was in New York las
 week on business.
 Miss Helen Hawkins of West Roxbury Mass, Is in town.
 Geo. c. Preston, with family and friend | ANOIN HLO udNc AdNC OCCIl DOd1N
 ing at the Kibbe House for several weelll 7 have returned to Norwich.
 Court commenced Tuesday afternoon ) Judge Prentice on the bench } The South Willington base ball nine d
 feated the local team Saturday afternoO
 in the score of 21 to g. l Ezra Chapman and wife of Waterbur, formerly of this place, are visiting frienc
 in town.
 Mrs. H. E. Birdseye, who has bee 5 spending the summer with her mothe Mrs. E. C. Underwood, returned to h, home in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Monday. Geo. W. Lansing Is in Boston fC
 several days.
 , School in district No. will open for tt
 fall term next Monday, with Miss Fl \ Brown of Merrows teacher. School in district No. commenced la Monday, Miss Leila NJ Steel as teacher
 E. M. Yeomans and c. P. Stearns Andover were at Calvin Whiton's ov r Sunday, also A. P. Whiton of Westfiel t Mass.
 3 The comedy of Esmeralda, given ] Martin NJ. Post, in the town hall, Frida l evening, under the auspices of the I. 8 s. C. E., was much enjoyed by all presen g FLORA.
 G. r. Babcock has met with wonderf . success with his new peach orchard in Tc q land. He has 1900 trees, and they a t loaded with the finest fruit seen in mort : eastern Connecticut for many years. t = has refused an offer of $3O00 for the crt a on the trees. He will harvest about 4O' b baskets. The soil in the orchard appea D to be well adapted for the trees, and M yl Babcock intends to set out 5000 more tree