The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
WILMINGTON.


friends In New Jersey.
This is indeed backward spring. But
the grass is taking good root.
Henry Dixon Is failing, although all
is being done that can be to make him
comfortable.
The new library, In case with glass
doors, greeted the Baptist Sunday school
last Sunday.
w. 1. Nichols has been appointed sta
ton agent at North Windham, on the
Consolidated road.
DIR. G. B. Newton was called on last
week to examine III. q. Preston's lungs.
He thinks he can help him.
Albertus H. Walker has moved on to
the old Joseph Hull place, now owned by
A. Blanchard, In the name of Mrs. Mary
Denis.
Dogs, dogs, license your dogs! Own
ers who have complied with the law are
C. T. Preston, Winfield Slater, A. Ell.
Walker.
Still another. George Brackett's grand
mother, Mrs. Harriet Maine, now living
in Worcester, Mass, at the age OF 81, saw
that Indian hung in Holland.
In 1775 the taxpayers of Wellington had
to pay SO on 100 dollars to pay the min
lister, and an additional 90 on 100 for
schooling, ten per cent. in all
A New York lawyer was at the town
clerks office last week looking up the
records of the Downs Weinberg farm, for
merly the Ger. Orrin Holt place.
Irwin E. Gilbert, class of 1898, Storrs,
who Is now keeping the school at Mans
field Four Corners, accompanied Ella
Kirzirlan, the Armenian, hither last Sun
day.
G. D. Ide, now of Stafford, has re-
opened his house at the Hollow, and has
leased it, together with the land, to Chas.
Armitage for one year. He moves into
the house Immediately.
Why don't more of our young men
put for Cuba or the Philippines2- For in
stance, one thousand teachers are imme-
diately wanted in the latter locality at
wages of from 1915 to 800 per month.
Senator Platt has sent a quantity of
garden seeds to former secretary of the
former grange, Mrs. Annie A. Preston.
We presume 1t will be proper to say that,
by calling, former members can help
81 o,o No&o hQr
seeds are largely in evidence.
A few persons were mislead Sunday by
an item in the last Press, an unintention-
al mistake, which said that the Armenian
would speak in the forenoon in the Con-
gregational church. But the body of at
tendants there of course knew that the
service in that church is always in the
| afternoon.
Alfred Lee, we'll known in this vicinity,
died of pneumonia in South Coventry last
week. The funeral was held at the house
of Lee Burdick Sunday afternoon, Rev.
G. L. Snow officiating. The deceased
leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lee Burdick
and Mrs. George Rounds, one son and a
sister, Mrs. Caroline Lee Tyrrell.
Equality, what does it mean? To be
sure, there Is equality" before the law,
justice in the courts and in the markets
for all, but socially the term equality
Is misnomer. In other words, one man
is not as ''good" as another-not by a
long shot. The idea of Equality" even
In this land of the free, has very, very
many exclusions-say and do as you
please.
cat Town meeting Legally warned
and held In wilmington on fanny 18th,
1773, Voted to Raise pence on the Pound
to Pay the Rev. MIR. Mobiles Sallery for
the present year. Voted that the present
Selectmen should be Committee, with
full Power to act Discretionary in Com
hitting an Action against the town of
Ashford Relating to the Charge the town
has been at for Abigail Royce, lying In
said Wilmington"
Has anybody thought of the desirable
ity of locating the proposed State Con-
sumptive Home here on Wilmington Hill
Its elevation is some 900 feet, the air and
water is unexcelled, and it Is twenty min.
utes' drive to railroad, telegraph, tele-
phone, express, etc., accommodations,
'Twould be funny, wouldn't 1t, If little
Connecticut hill town that relatively has
borne the heat and burden of the day fol
generations were to get slice of state
patronage!
AS the building of new school house
in district No. 1 is imminent, made SO
we hear, by the state authorities, it may
be interesting to give here the original
layout of the district and the location Of
its first school house: SAT town meet
ing legally warned and held in Willing
ton, Feb. 18th, 1866, The Reverend Mr.
Noble, Esquire Barker, Deacon Sawin
Ebenezer Croker, Eddy Hatch, BENZ.
Croker, Francis Fenton, Jr., Moses
Holmes, Amos Richardson, William John
son, Caleb Holt, Doct. Barker, Nathan
Jennings, James Richardson and Isiah
Barker shall be one district, and known
byt he Name of District No. 1. The place
appointed for school house is about q
rods south of the Westinghouse; a Wal
nut Saddle, with stones About it," Il
is noticeable that all the families here
named as constituting this school district
have become extinct, with the exception
perhaps, of one.
Some two hundred acres of wood lane
northwest of the Hill were swept over by
fire Monday afternoon and night. A back
fire, set by diligent neighbors, probably
saved the dwelling houses of q. E. Rob
bins and Charles T. Preston. Two me1
were seen leaving the premises of Orrir
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