The Press., 1898-04-14
WILMINGTON.

| WELLINGTON. I After all, our peas, onions, lettuce, etc, stood the storm.
 Della c. Ryder recently joined Christ l (EpiscopaD church in New Haven 1 Daniel Y. Moore has been hired to SUD- l ply the Cong'l pulpit for another year. l A pleasant and well-attended Easter festival was held by the children in the I Cong'l church.
 Rev. s. W. Clark is somewhat lame from his recent strenuous labors about his new premises.
 The frame of Legrand Johnson's new barn is up, and the carpenters are hasten ing its completion.
 Lorenzo D. Ide has sold his place at the Hollow to his son, Gilbert D. Ide. The former intends to leave for Tampa, Florida, soon.
 The local w. c. T. U. will meet at the house of Mics Gibbs, near the Wilmington railroad station, Saturday p. m., 18th inst, at 8 o'clock.
 The Willington burying ground associ- ation has been warned to meet at the house of J. B. Carpenter Saturday even- ing, 18th inst, at o'clock.
 F. w. Pratt, who was drawn as juror for this town, April term superior court, is obliged to be excused on account of the nervous ailment of his father.
 Mrs. Ida M. Bronson returned from Asbury Park, N. J., Saturday. She hopes to recuperate soon from recent try ing work in her profession as trained nurse.
 Harry Morse duly arrived at his broth CTS rancho in Wyoming. He is very happy and enthusiastic in his new en- vironment-especially in lassoing the cat tie there.
 A pleasant birthday surprise party was given to Miss Lena Whitford last Friday night. These rallies are getting to be so frequent we are afraid we shall be unable to report them in detail any further.
 Mrs. Eliza Golf Dexter, who was killed by the cars in Willimantic last week, was a resident of this town for many years. She was a native of Coventry, and an aunt of Mrs. M. L. Dimock and Mrs. J.
 B. Carpenter.
 The friends in this vicinity of Mrs. Helen Preston Brown will be interested to know that she is travelling south with congenial party from Boston, being this week in Washington, D. c.
 Rev. Dr. P. s. Maxon, of Springfield,
 Mass, who preached the sermon at the installation of Rev. c. H. Brown here , some years since, is G. A. R. man, be- ing member of Go. O., 17th Ill. Cav.
 Joel Enc came home from New York to spend Fast day and Sunday with his family. He is still assisting in the rear } engagement of the great library of Colum-
 bia university, of which Seth Low is
 president.
 There was quite scramble in gather } ing up the cast off cross pieces from the
 telephone poles from the Wilmington rail- 7 road station to East Willington, they be- ing given to the first come1 who would re-
 move them.
 A hen in this vicinity, which had made her nest on top of stone wall before the
 late frost and snow came, attended faith
 fully to her breeding through it all. and recently, on sunshiny day. appeared ex-
 ultantly before her owner with her family | S., egg coming short of its duty. } "The wisest course, and the course - most helpful to Cuba, would seem to be
 to accept the form of resolution which can be most promptly passed which does l not deny or retreat from the principle that Spain is to go and Cuba Is to be in.
 dependent, and which will enable the
 American navy to terminate most speed
 fly the uncertainty now affitcting us.'' . A gang of men are cutting of and sink , ing into the earth the poles of the once
 great B. & O. telegraph line of 15 wires. The men are also removing the cross
 pieces, so that only two telephone wires armless poles. The entire line has been = removed between the Hollow and War.
 renville, leaving, for the present, the - eastern terminus at the former locality,
 where, we hear, there may be a telephone
 station. Rumor also has 1t that there may be one on the Hill-at both places :, on the Hill alone. We have no access at headquarters information. Regular meetings of Elisha Johnson ] Post, No. S6, G. A. R., and of the W. R. ? c. Saturday evening, 18th inst. The la- - dies intend to provide supper. Can not
 there be full attendance, so as to make (
 some arrangements to decorate the graves J of those who died in defence of theil country, this same country that is now 6 calling for more "boys in blue," both on t sea and land? Just now it isn't quite SC g seemly to ignore the services of the old t soldiers and sailors who participated ir l. the nations last great struggle-and were @ the protectors of Wall street and the D capitalists and manufacturers of the north ! Mrs. Eliza White, s7, died at the home '' of her son-in-law, Fred Draper, Glass Fac
 tory village, on the morning of the 7tt inst. She had been an invalid for long d time, including her six years residence here, and when the end came, after some T suffering from complaints incident to olC e age, it was both sudden and peaceful :. She was born in Coston, Leicestershire !, England, and had been a widow 29 years }. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Draper, she leaves one son, now living in London }, England. The funeral was held at tho house Saturday p. m., Rev. c. H. Browr
 officiating. The interment was in thu = new cemetery.
 ' South Wilmington Correspondence. L. Miss Stella Shaffer is spending a weel in Derby.
 d Miss Edith Scott spent Easter Sunda, I in Manchester
 a Grandma" Parker, who has been quit, d sick, Is somewhat better. @ Miss Lillian Scott has been visitln, Il friends in Norwich Town
 - Miss Mary Miller from Brattleboro
 Vt., Is home for short vacation
 George Worden and son, Rufus, hav
 been visiting relatives at Dalton, Mass.