The Press., 1898-09-08
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 John F. Whitford is serving as juror at Holland this term.
 Miss Mary Francis returned from her work at West Stafford on Tuesday.
 The burning of the large barn in Scot land last Thursday evening was very wis., ible on the Hill.
 Much sanctihed patience Is needed in milking cows during this exceptionally pestering fly time.
 Don't make an ado because people are always coming to you about everything. Nobody shakes crab apple tree"
 Mrs. H. E. Hartley, 70, mother of Mrs. H. L. Keens of Village Hill, died in Brad ford, Yorkshire, England, August 11th.
 Mrs. Harry A. Preston and Master Waylie Preston visited friends here Tues day, driving thither from West Stafford.
 Mrs. Carrie Arnold of Providence, R. l., and Miss Carrie Gee of Fall River, Mass., cousins of Mrs. F. W. Pratt, spent last week at Pheasant View"
 A fine piece of bunting In the shape of navy flag, 5xS, from Lord & Taylor, New York, floats from the G. A. R. hall adjoining Charles T. Preston's.
 Rev. Truman Johnson, M. D., admin istered communion in the Baptist church last Sunday, the pastor being absent at a funeral. His wife and son have returned to Providence.
 Rufus Robbins strayed away from home Monday afternoon, and was not found till the next day, in Mansfield, near Edward Pearls. His mind has been weakening of late.
 A. s. Pierce, after spending two or three days with his family, returned to New York Monday. His mother, Mrs. Scranton, and his niece, Miss Blanche Pierce, returned to their home in Ashton, R. l., the same day.
 Not one native Wilmington young man enlisted in this war. Coming the near. est to 1t Is Clarence Preston. who was reared here by his grandmother from early infancy. Willie Shaffer, who en. listed in the U. $. regular army, Is al. most ss good as 8 Willington boy, while the father of Private Stanley K. Dimock of Hartford, Ira Dimock, was born in Willington. Young Dimock, who got as far as Camp AIger, Washington, was re. gently brought home sick.
 We are sorry to learn that The Press is to lose the services of Bro. Bracket as collector and purveyor of the news at the Threadfactory and vicinity. "Geor. gle" had both an easy and a hard time, somewhat. Easy, in that he always found punches of items ready at the store and post office, and hard, in that he had to keep out a good deal of matter that wss offered him. May success attend his ef. forts at Springfield. It wouldn't be the strangest thing in the world if he would be found ere long on the staff of the Re- publican or some other paper in Spring. field.
 Another highly respected citizen, one of the old stock, passed away last Thurs. day evening. Elam Eldridge, lifelong resident of this town. covering a period of more than eighty-three years, was the oldest son of the late Elijah and Sally Hunt EIdrIdge, and died where they died on the old ancestral farm, a mile or more southeast of the Hill. The surviving brothers and sisters are David, Daniel Lucius, Lucy, of this town, Joseph oi Rockville, Abigail (Dunham) of Denver Col. There was 8 large attendance al the funeral, at the house, Saturday fore noon. The burial was in the old ceme tery. A good, honest man has joined the majority.
 The following letter was received from Clarence s. Preston last week:
 Utuado, Porto Rico, Aug. I9, 1898. My Dear Uncle and Aunt We are in the Slough of Despond," or of mud rather. The rainy season has set in, and our camp grounds are something awful have fixed up my tent by digging trenches around 1t, scraping 1t out and laying down a thick floor of sugar cane. am keeping up my health so far first rate, and hope shall till get back. have one trouble once in a while which can be helped only by the U. s. mail. To- day received letters from - that made me happy as clam have not got over 1t. Since left the Yale know l have lost lots of letters. I hope my friends will write often, for 1t is the only thing we have to help us along. We are encamped in the little town of Utuado, 35 miles from Ponce. Day before yesterday we marched 15 miles with the mud above our ankles, the rain coming down in tor rents most of the way. I was so tired could scarcely move when we got in. We had to ''go to bed" without anything to eat, lying all night in the mud and water. It Is wonderful how much a fellow can stand when he has to 1 had to be vacci- mated to-day. presume I shall have a good sore arm for a while. Probably you have read about our losing our captain and some of our higher officers. I don't think 1t was right in the case of the neu- tenant colonel, but of the others have nothing to say. You speak of our battle at Guanica. We'll, can't explain my feelings at that time very we'll. Our com. pany was the one that was in the worst of it, as you can see that nearly all of the wounded are of Go. K. It makes me tired over the way they are talking about 'young Draper" His company was not in it at all. They were mile back in the reserves. It is simply the case of au influential father pulling his son along. l was made coporal two days ago, which Is a grain better than being a private, you know. A word in regard to our ratfons They are simply vile. There Is no excuse for 1t. Uncle Sam is all right, but his commissaries are scoundrels. They are coining money on us right along. think there will be @ time of reckoning when