The Press., 1898-01-20
wuLINGrON.

High grade second hand piano fol sale. A bargain. Prof. Jordan, Stafford Springs.
 Alfred Lee is passing the winter with SIP. Morrison.
 The board of relief hold their final meeting, this year, next Monday, 24th. Miss Emma Robbins is living for the present with her aunt, Mrs. Della A. Ryder, at the Hollow.
 A party came last Saturday to look at Hoyle's mills with reference to purchasing the same. No sale was effected, we hear.
 Chas. T. Preston, after five consecutive years of service, declined the further ad- iutancy of the local G. A. R. post at it's last meeting.
 Charles Miller has bought of his sister, Mrs. Martha J. Marcy, her farm near Daleville, known as the Ariel Eldridge place, lately occupied by Augustus Miller Chas. Amidon's convalesence has again been retarded by attempting the oversight of his blacksmithing business. Arthur Wood is working for him, with Frank Chism of Westford as assistant J. H. Holmes has been under the doc tors care of late, hernia; the eldest child of Charles Amidon is i'll with tonsilitis, Mrs. J. B. Carpenter is suffering from a severe cold, and Widow Nelson Whitford is confined to her bed from debility incl. dent to old age.
 John Bolles and Darwin Reed of Will. limantic, members of the G. A. R., were guests of Chas. T Preston Saturday and | Sunday. The late T. Knowlton Reed, | who was an apprentice in the leather business of the late s. T. Preston, was a | brother of the latter. Comrade Bolles was detailed as installing officer at the meeting of the local G. A. R. post Satur. | day evening.
 Rev. Chas. H. Brown was elected w. M. of the local grange, at it's meeting last Friday, in the place of F. w. Pratt, who had declined the honor. At the same time Geo. w. Bracket was elected to fill the vacant secretaryship. The installa. tion of officers was postponed till the next regular meeting, 18th inst, when one o the past masters will probably act as in \ stalling officer.
 Prof. Rufus U. Stimson, A. M., B. D. of Storrs Agricultural College, English dep't., and the pulpit supply at the c n gregational church there, exchanged witt Rev. C. H. Brown of the Baptist churct last Sunday. MT. Stimson gave a yer, earnest and finished discourse on "Tht Relation of Culture to Christianity, , proving that the relation was both natura l and necessary.
 | South Wilmington Correspondence. Benjamin B. Benton has been visiting friends in New York City.
 Franklin Gurley has been quite sick with the iaundice.
 W. H. Bracket is in Hartford thil week, attending the annual convention of the grand lodge, F. & A. M.
 MT. and Mrs. Gardiner Hall were il Manchester Tuesday, attending the flu neral of Mrs. Norman Hall
 The company has ordered that no nor,
 birches be brought in. They have larg | Ol COEuS Ot- QdLu now.
 The next meeting of the literary societ,
 will be held in the hall next Tuesda
 evening. Thomas Bailey Aldrich vii
 be the literary subject, and selection
 from his works will be read. The de
 bate is on the question. "Resolved-th the beautiful in nature is as important a
 the useful" The debaters in the affirm ative are Miss Rose Hall and Mrs. Mar Curnan; on the negative, Miss Coli Hopkins and Miss Iva Latham. Most everybody in the place has visite
 what is known as "Phil. Denman shanty." The writer made visit ther
 recently, and it is place we'll worth gc
 ing to see. It is situated on a piece ( ground owned by MT. Denman, about
 mile from the village, and is veritabl
 log cabin. The inside has been fixed u
 very tastefully into two neat rooms b
 some of Phil's female friends He ha
 lived there for four months, and enioy this truly bachelor life very much. Phi
 is always ready to receive visitors, an
 all who go are heartily welcomed. Miss Lena Korper entertained abor , twenty of her friends at whist party {
 her home last Saturday evening. Pr, f gressive whist was played and five table I were filled. The scoring was done in peculiar way. Every time you won yo , would paste little red beat on your car' l and every time you lost you would pas
 on green four leafed clover. When tt 8 score cards were reckoned up, J. w. Ha g rison was found to have possession of u d largest score of the gentlemen, and so ;: received 1st prize. Harrison will soc } need trunk to keep his prizes in. Mi ;- Kettle Shaffer took the ladies' first priz
 Miss Jennie Essex and John A. Star
 weather carried off the other two prize r The party broke up at late hour, aft
 having spent very pleasant evening. g Moose Meadow. J. Miss Lillian Fenton has excepted h position in the worsted mill at Staffo
 Springs.
 2 Mrs. Mullen, after two weeks vis It with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Lyms ., Weeks, has returned to her home :; Springfield.
 WALES.
 ;i 1T A. Eaton returned from Frying Ia