The Press., 1898-02-17
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 Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you"
 * F. w. Preston, with Gladys and Way lie, Of West Stafford, was at c. T. Pres tons Sunday. :.
 Meeting of the, local w. 0. T. U. in the Baptist conference room Saturday D.. m. at 9 o'clock. Q. ~
 Legrand Johnson is building a new barn in place of the burned one. George Barker has the contract.
 The Sunday services at both churches were we'll attended, notwithstanding the sloppiness of the roads and paths.
 Feb. IA. We'll, yes, we had a valen- tine, nothing could have been sweeter l; a pair of robins just at dawn singing a mating metre!
 We saw fat, handsome gray squirrel cavorting on the street near Rawitser's mill in the borough the other day. Was he an escaped petP
 Instead of the regular grange meeting the 24th, special one, in commemora- tion of Washington's birthday, will be held on Tuesday evening next. There will be 8 Washington program for lec- turer's hour.
 F. W. Pratt, administrator, will sell at public auction, at the residence of the Monday; at 10 8. m., the personal proper ty, consisting of stock, farming tools, household goods, etc. ~"
 "I could write better things than you,"-- Pray let me see you write a few. There's all the paper in the land, A cord of pencils at command, And matter waiting at your hand Please give us something new! A. s. Pierce was with his family from Saturday till Monday evening. His New York office is in the Metropolitan build. ing, cor. 23d st. and Madison-ave. His company has the contract for lighting the new wings of the art museum, Centra Park.
 Regular meeting of Elisha Johnson Post, No. S6. Saturday evening, 18th inst The dep't commander, with hls staff, pro poses to visit the post March 11th, ane has requested that special meeting bt called on the evening of that day. | such a meeting is held, comrades will bear in mind that the visiting officers must be duly entertained. South Willington Correspondence. Miss Rose Hall is visiting relatives 1T Pawtucket, R. I.
 | Mrs. Frank Cummings of Lynn, Mass. hoS x,icfffno fri |, town. ! Andrew Macfarlane of Worcester, has been visiting his brother, Charles Mac farlane, in this place.
 Mir. and Mrs. Gardiner Hall, Jr., spen Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. George s. Elliott, in Willinantic. There will be 8 meeting of the w. C. T. U. in the hall Saturday afternoon, ar 8 o'clock. All are invited. :. There was a very pleasant surprise party given to Charles Buckingham a his home last Thursday evening. The oc casion was his seventeenth birthday.
 Stephen Lockwood, who was recent. married to Miss Addie Buck minister o Rockville, will commence housekeepin, soon in one of the company's tenements. 1 The next meeting of the South Willing ton Literary and Debating Society will not be: held untii Friday evening, Feb 25th, owing ,te the public meeting of th grange Tuesday evening next.
 At the semi-annual meeting of the r P: 8. C.~E., held last. Wednesday ever ing,, the following officers were electe for the ensuing six months: President w. H. Bracket; vice president, Georg 0. Richardson; recording secretary, Re, Charles H. Brown; corresponding secre tary, Miss Rose Hall; treasurer, Mis Lillian Scott. t..,.