The Press., 1902-05-01
WILMINGTON.

quite the requisites for good trout fishing.
There was another marriage at the Con-
gregational parsonage last week, it is
said.
Ralph Snow Of Willimantic was In town
this week. He has been In business for
himself for over year.
We were favored one day this week
with call from Judge Parkess and Harry
Abel Of Stafford Springs.
The Masonic funeral here last Sunday
was impressive as well as novel to those
who never witnessed the like.
We notice that the Conn. experiment
station has been moved from Middletown
to the Conn. agricultural college, near
by US.
DR.. D. r. Gardner of Chicago, ILL.,, and
8. A. Gardner of Hartford, sons of Rev.
A. Gardner, visited at the Congregational
parsonage this week.
The trade between DR.. w. L. Higgins
Of Coventry, formerly Of this town, and
the owner of the Wood property In the
former place has not yet been consul
mated.
Please walk up to the captains Office
and get your dogs registered. Only
dozen or fifteen dog owners have thus
far compiled with the law getting the
dogs registered con or before the first day
of May"
In our opinion a Hartford paper the
other day broke a law of propriety, II not
the statute law, In commenting on the
Kennedy will case, now on trial In that
city. There was considerable bias be-
tween the lines at least in that editorial.
There are lots of schemes these days,
In the literary line especially, calculated
to get up against the unsophistieated.
One is the gold pen enterprise. Buy a
gold pen for 90 SO, and afterwards you
will have whole mess of literary work
to do at tempting remuneration.
| "No money in farming around here 2''
Oh yes there Is. We hear of one farmer
In this vicinity who has realized $1,000
from his potato crop; and OF another
farmer here In town who recently pock-
eted 800 for 100 bushels of potatoes ;
still OF another party who got $40 per
barrel for apples. 81
The body of Selden Curtis, formerly OF
this town and Westford, was brought
hither for burial last Saturday. He died
from face cancer in Wakefield, r. l.,
Feb. 10, 1902 and the remains were
placed temporarily in the receiving vault
in South Kent, r. /. He was SO years
old. His two wives, Mary Parsons and
Miss Skinner, daughter of the late Rev
Ezekiel Skinner, M. D., of Westford. died
some time ago. The son, George F. Cur
tbs, accompanied the body hither.
About o'clock p. m. last Thursday
soon after currying off his horse prepare
tory to proposed ride, James Hoyle
went into his house, and In few mo
ments, after complaining of being dizzy
and blind, died on the floor, where he fell
This was the third apoplectic shock h,
had received within space of time. TIL,
following is an obituary from Hartford
paper:
James Hoyle was born In the city o
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, April 8
1880. He was educated in the schools O
|, his native city. He came to the United
States in 1866, when 26 years old, ant
found employment at his trade Of WOO
sorter in Paterson, N. J. He afterward
came to Connecticut and worked a yea
at his trade In Norwich. He subsequent
lily moved to Webster, Mass, where h,
WAS employed by Nelson Slater. HI
moved about Massachusetts considerably
finding employment at his trade. In 1856
t he was appointed foreman of the WOO
sorting department of the Adriatic mill
In Worcester, then run by Jordan, Marsl
& Co. of Boston. In 1873 he returned t,
this state and purchased half interes
: In the Daleville wooden mills, then owne
: by James ]. Reagan. The business wa
carried on for two years under the FIR
name OF Reagan & Hoyle, when Mr.. Hoyl
D bought the business and reorganized
with two partners under the name Q
Hoyle, Smith & Co. Shortly afterward
L he bought out his partners interests an
continued the business alone until hi
!, death. In 1886 Mr.. Hoyle representa-
| luO tOWu u w ll4luStOA AA tu0 S0u0Ial III
sembly.
: Besides his widow he leaves brother
t Thomas, who lives In Illinois, a daughter
Mrs. William James, and a grandson an
8 a granddaughter, their children. His (,
l. neral was largely attended from the Coz
gregational church Sunday, being col
a Quoted almost wholly by his Mason
Z brethren, members of Uriel lodge bein
present In a body.
south Wellington.
: Stephen Slingsby has been obliged |
remain at home on account of i'll healtl
ell Miss Ida Smith of Willimantic spel
n Sunday with MIR. and Mrs. James Smit
in this village.
I'll Topic for the G. E. meeting next weel
o prayer necessity" Endeavorers, q
not fail to attend.
nj Special communication of Uriel Lodg
Is F. and A. M, Saturday evening, May 81
l. Work In the third degree.
Miss Rosa Gross has been obliged |
r give up her home in New York, on accoul
t. of the illness of her mother.
u The church covenant meeting will ]
held at the hall next Saturday evening
3. 7.30. It is hoped that every member wi
try to attend.
The Sunday evening prayer and prai
g services will be ommitted during the sur
70 mer season. They will probably be r
e sumed again In the fall.
George Morrison left here Wednesd.
morning for New Milford, where he hi
secured a position as an assistant in ii
office Of wholesale and retail store.
le Miss Fanny Morrison Is riding q ne
To Crescent wheel, and Peter Watson h,
~ m