The Press., 1898-10-27
WILLINGTON.

WELLINGTON. | Martins photographic studio will give away free during Nov. % dog. $5 photo graphs. Send or call for particulars. Grange meeting tomorrow evening. | Mrs. l.. Preston Is somewhat aiIing at present.
 A small man must not undertake to fill too large place.
 Mrs. Myron Upton is slowly recovering from that shooting accident.
 Matthew Burdick and wife are visiting in Plainfield and New London. I There was shooting galore all about in the woods last Sunday-and no arrests.
 Rev. Theron Brown of the Youths Companion is stopping at CT. Preston's.
 Its little singular that some ugly spots in the highway on the Hill were left unrepaired. 4#a.- I
 Rev. c. H. Brown attended the Asso- ciational ministers conference at West Woodstock Monday. A letter in the Willington post office for Chairman of the Democratic Town Committee" awaits the rightful party.
 The wife of Henry Clay Whitford in Willimantic has been seriously i'll. Mise Lena Whitford, his niece, Is now with them.
 I At the we'll attended Congregational social Tuesday evening, w. H. Marsh guessed successfully on the weight of the pumpkin doll.
 The late Gilbert Ide's estate inventoried
 $2, 800 This does not include gifts made . by the deceased to his surviving wife at various times during his long illness. Did any one pick up an overcoat Mon- l day on the road near Westford? If so, : and the finder desires to be honest, the ! owner can be identified at The Press of flee.
 Notice has been given that there will : be republican caucus at the town hall d Saturday, at 9 p. m., to nominate candi
 dates for representatives and justices oi
 the peace.
 Letters uncalled for in post office Oct
 26th: J. Buckley & Co.,, Will Skinner D Miss Lizzie Betts, c. Kuntz. Pres. liar
 mony Hall, Mrs. K. C. Hastings, Mrs. J 8 B. Stebbins, I. Snitcodsky.
 A beautiful and impressive service wal - held at South Wilmington last Sunday
 when the Misses Ida and Lizzie, daugh 0 ters of Gardiner Hall, were baptized b. :. their pastor, Rev. c. H. Brown. 8 It would seem to be a queer proceedur' 1t to go to work in political Convention
 and nominate 8 man for the purpose O !, "snowing him under," as has been con @ fessed by the delegation in attendance.
 There will be social held in the Bap t tist church parlors Tuesday evening }. Nov. 1st. The ladies interested in tn, '- mission society are requested to meet & h p. m. of that day for further organiza h tion.
 The estate of the late William Sumner of Holland, we'll and favorably known il '- this vicinity, inventoried $110,0OO. Man, - persons supposed he was millionaire, . but he was too liberal and public spirited i' for that figure. .. A home wedding occurred at George A Cosgrove's yesterday. The contracting y parties were Benj. E. Benton and Ethe y Bronson. The officiating clergyman wa 1T Rev. c. H. Brown. The couple are t. j. live in the newly repaired and furnishes y Benton house, near the Mansfield cream }. cry .::
 D Pi9t. Peebles of Storrs will preach fo r. the pastor of the Baptist church in tn IT forenoon, and at the hall in South Vii @ lington in the afternoon. MT. Brown will h occupy the pulpit of the Congregations > church at Storrs on that day in exchange 's D., of Rocky Hill, begins his labors tn a Sunday following.
 y At the meeting of the Holland Count
 Congregational conference recently hel
 in Ellington, the following local repor . was handed it:
 Wilmington, on the hill, small, at time ,r almost ready to halt, still moves or
 Her word is, "I cannot speak of anythin
 special in refelence to the spiritual we n, fare of the church, but can say that tn
 attendance hGs increased since the comin ia of the present preacher, MT. Moor" r. (From another correspondent.)
 At the Morse homestead reunion l. the entire Morse family was held Oc ,s 18th, occasioned by the return for a shol
 visit of the oldest son, Wayne E. Mors' ar of Wyoming, after an absence of sixtee a years The family consists of fathe.
 mother and ten children, who, with the !. families, making total of twenty-thre ,s were present as follows: Wayne E. Mors m and family of Wyoming Wallace I 10 Morse: and family, Louis w. Morse ar
 family, Edna l.. Sullivan and family ar
 Alice I. Morse of Stafford; Clayton V
 Morse and family of New Haven; Ge trude I! Leieune and husband of Brool
 lyn; Robert B. Morse of New York cit, o' Harold s. Morse and Grace Morse
 Wilmington. It was one of the pleasan
 est times in the family history. TT
 fattsd sheep was killed and heartily e - ioyed by all. Many were the hair-breadt y escapes stold of the far west, while. .tl . father played the old time music on u
 violin. ;" Photographs were taken of 'tl - group. A pleasant feature of the occ
 sion was on the following day, Sunda 2, when all attended church in a body.
 South Wilmington Correspondence. 1',o W. H. Brackett was fh Sprfngfiel, a Mass, Monday " The large barn of the company.is r , ceiving a new coat of paint.
 Mrs. J. E. Earle, mother of Mrs..J. W i. Harrison, is visiting at Norwich.