The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-10-03
WILMINGTON.

IL may 10 al SUPERSTITION, UuC ~ 1niAOu
every Sunday last month.
Miss Nellie Knight is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Lucius Eldridge.
Mrs. Clara Preston visited friends in
Providence, R. l., last week.
Rev. s. W. Clarke and wife of Westford
called on old friends here last Friday.
Communion at Baptist church next
Sunday. Covenant meeting Saturday, 2
p. m.
George Gaylor and wife of Ashford
have moved over and are assistants In
Bert e. Curtiss' store.
The sale of lot of timber from Geo.
g. Robbins to Bramble and Needham
was recently contaminated.
1t Is reported that there is nest of
anarchists, etc., somewhere on the bor-
ders of Union, Stafford and wellington.
A meeting the local W. G. T. U. will
be held at the school house, East WILL
ington, Saturday, Oct. 9Th, at 8 o'clock
p. m.
The old burying ground has been nicely
grubbed over, and is soon to be seeded
down and It's immediate surroundings i'm
proved.
The democrats of Wilmington will meet
at the Town hall, Friday evening, Octo-
Der 4, at 7.3O o'clock, to nominate town
officers.
Morris 81. Marcy has bought the George
Swift farm, Mansfield Hollow, and with
his mother has removed thither from
Glastonbury.
George Knights little girl was recently
taken to the Hartford hospital for an
operation, which, 1t Is hoped, will enable
her to walk better.
That U. S. flag we sometimes display
on public occasions belongs to no town
no G. A. R. post, no school district. II
is absolutely ours!
1t Is amusing to consider that there are
over five hundred generals" and
"colonels" on the stats of the governo rs
of the United States.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Rev. Alvin E. Golf and Mrs. Nettie B
Curtis at East Lyme on the 18th of last
month. Their home is in Chesterfield.
We have seen very life like picture o.
the Wilmington delegation of young PEG.
pie to Mortified, Mass, recently. 1t was
taken by Miss Ida Hall, one of the dele
CATION.
Here on Wilmington Hill one can look
over to Lebanon and see the locality
where the foundation of Dartmouth col
lege was laid-Dr. Wheelock's famous
school removed to Hanover, N. Fl.
The divorce complaint of Hannah W.
Ryder against Charles II. Ryder, which
was to have been heard and determined at
the last April term of the Tolland Supe-
rior court, is continued on the docket.
Returning delegates report an unusually
large attendance at the associational
meeting at Stafford last week; also good
food and plenty of 1t. Pastor Snow was
chosen moderator for the coming year.
A little matter of exigesis: This "for-
giveness" business, about which this COM
munity has heard a good deal Of late, has
to do wholly as to specific desire in func-
lions with those of the household of faith.
Lon Roswell and family occupy the
house owned by the late Joseph Sparks.
The requirements of the new state road
will occasion the removal of the Roswell
house little south of the new highway.
Children of the late Orrin Holt and
Eliza Dunton Holt: Dwight Norman
Winfield Thaddeus, soldier In the Civil
War, dead; George lives with his sister,
Eliza, who married Francis Thorne in
Chicago.
Silos are becoming quite numerous In
wideawake farming neighborhoods all
over the land. In this town there are at
least four, carried on by Charles E. Nichols,
William Batty, w. 81. Marsh and Samuel
Matteson.
Children of the late Isaac Glazier and
Lucia Snow Glazier: Daniel j., dead;
Elizabeth married Ephraim Spaulding,
Eastford; widow lives in Willimantic;
Sarah married Philo Thompson; Mansfield,
dead; Isaac died at his home in Hartford.
In the excellent report of the meeting
held there last week of your Stafford cor.
respondent, we note Mrs. Annie A. Pres.
ton read report on Foreign Missions, "
etc. Mrs. Preston is the association di-
rector for Home Missions. That's her
hobby.
Children of the late James Ruby and
Nancy Daggett Ruby, who still survives
at an advanced age: Emily married ia
Brown and lives in Tolland; Julia married
Mr.. Billings; W. D. lives in Wilmington
with the mother; Thomas lives In Will
mantle.
"What, do you know Col. Dean, oul
mayor" said the Congregational supply
last Sunday, as he looked over to the
eastern hills, where we had pointed ou
Col. Dean was raised: He's fine man
one of the best mayors in the United
States"
The allusion of Rev. Mr.. Williams, ii
the Congregational church Sunday, to thu
couplet Holy Bible, Book Divine
Precious Treasure, Thou Art Mine
that used to be written on the fly leaf Of
their Bibles by our forefathers and ou
foremothers was very touching.
1t Is said that the long letter, which wal
recently published in a Hartford paper
and signed Boston," was written by
President Flint's son. IT the statement Ii
true, 1t is a pity. Let us hope that ou
nearby scholastic institution will survive