The Press., 1898-11-10
WILMINGTON.

Little Alice Pratt is quite i'll with iaun- dlce
 Warren Hobby has moved on to the Ormsby place.
 Mrs. $. w. Clarke is visiting her daugh- ter in Holyoke, Mass.
 Mrs. Maude MacfarIane is now recu- perating at her father, s. P. Morrison's.
 Communion at Baptist church was postponed to next Sunday on account of the rain.
 Eli D. Hayes and wife are on a months visit to their son, Edward Hayes, at Longmeadow, Mass.
 Mrs. Della A. Rider is visiting her son, Frank, in Waterbury, He is recovering from serious illness.
 The pair of horses long owned by Geo. E. Robbins, having outlived their useful ness, were dispatched last week.
 Comrade James Harvey of Sedgwick Post, Norwich, is expected to inspect the local post SatuI day evening, 17th inst
 Helen, the little daughter of Chas. E. Nichols, recently broke her collar bone, falling while at play. It was adjusted by Dr. Hill in Willlmantic.
 Dewitt Manning came from Westfield, Mass, and is now caring for his father, who remains very low. Mrs. Manning has become entirely blind.
 Where's our election poet of two years ago? Down in - hunting foxes {? No ble syndicate, the poet, the inspirer, the paymaster and the typewriter
 Charity Eliza came October 2Sth to make glad the hearts and home of MT. and Mrs. w. H. Marsh. Weight 124 pounds, and all are doing we'll.
 Grange meeting tomorrow night, and don't forget the subject for lecturers hour: Resolved, that neighborhood gos- sip is more harmful than chicken steal ing"
 Electors meeting Tuesday passed in a quiet and uneventful way The oysters were served by G. A. Robbins, while outside Lon Roswell sold coffee, candy, hot peanuts, frankfurts, etc., from his lunch cart. The vote in detail was Re- publican state ticket 164, democratic 28 |; judge of probate, Wm. F. Essex, r, AS, W. D. Holman, d, IA; representatives, Origin Hall, r, Al, Rev. Chas H. Brown, r, 13O, A. D. Dimock, d, 34, George A. Rounds, d, 30; justices republican, 112, Gustin B. Marble no, Charles T. Preston 108, w. F. Essex 1O2; democrat ic, James Pierce 4, A. D. Dimock 4, Frank Mason 4, Herbert Lillibridge A. The following were the election officers |: Moderator, L. w. Holt; booth tenders, w. H. Buckingham, Phil Denman, Jos eph Tennant, Dwight Lamb, Alfred Lee !; counters,-W w. H. Holt, D. c. Dimock, J. F. Starkweather, A, H. Eldredge, Dwight Lamb, Ernest Wilson,
 ELECTION NOTES.
 There was slight falling off from the vote of 1S96
 My son" was not placed on the jus- tices' ticket this time
 Sheriff Dickinson fell little behind his ticket, and Pinney ran correspondingly ahead.
 Is there another town in this state where the republican vote is i've to one democrat?
 Without doubt Rev. Chas. H. Brown will make useful member of the com mittee on education in the next legjsla- ture.
 The republican vote for the democratic candidate for judge of probate was some thing phenomenal. One hundred and sixteen republicans turned tail on their nominee.
 How about the legality, under the new law, of the election of the four democrat ic justices written over the name of one of the candidates on the republican ticket at late hour
 Pretty small business to scratch the candidate because he is a Baptist minis- ter, or because he advocates 8 town li- brary and wholesome and proper ad- ministration of the schools.
 We understand that both new repre- sentatives elect stand unpledged as to U. s. senator; at least one surely is, not
 
 officers elected by the legislature.
 Did the republican delegates to the re- cent probate convention voice the senti- ments of their party9 And how does it look, now, even once again, to place a man in nomination just to see him moved under ?" as we have said once before.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Charles Buckingham returned Tuesday from four days wheeling trip.
 Miss Stella Shaffer and Miss Maude Potter spent Sunday in Rockville.
 One of the departments in the mill have commenced to run over time for short period.
 Election returns were received at the store Tuesday evening, through the cour. tesy of Senator w. H. Hall
 South Wilmington people cannot want for news with three papers giving South Willington news weekly.
 The company have cast aside the "barr yard welP' at one of their barns and sub stituted running water. If others could or would do the same the town health of ficer would have short report to make
 The Sobth Wilmington base ball team closed th9sseason of 1898 with about $3C in the treasury. The members of the single meg Is ball team do not remember of receiving the clam chowder supper they so valiantly won, and they are ot the opinion that it would not be bac scheme to- "blow in' a little of thai tdosh" in appeasing their hunger, ano also saving the reputation of the married men from very bad stain.
 If any one has lost cat the loser oi same cannot blame Phillip Denman, fol the cat should not have been posing as 8 coon around his premises up juniper trees in the still, hours of the night. Phil