The Press., 1902-02-06
WILMINGTON.

CARD.-Will the kind friends, neighbors
| and Sunday school please accept my sin
cere thanks for the beautiful floral offer
ings and loving services rendered me in tht
hour of my great bereavement, In the I'M
expected and sad death of my husband.
LOUISA M. JOHNSON, West Wellington.
Better be safe to-day than sorry to-
morrow"
The late George Peck and Martha
Waldo Peck :; no children.
The late John B. Whitford and Louisa
Wheaton Of Ashford no children.
Miss Grace Ryder of Brockton, Mass,
came to visit her father, John g. Ryder,
yesterday.
DR.. A. A. Lawrence of West Midway,
Mass, stopped over last Thursday night
at @. T. Preston's.
Thomas Jefferson once said that the
old Connecticut constitution was the
wisest ever devised by the wit Of man.
So That drummer story now ON dit about
Johnny, the little school boy, his teacher
and the small pox scare is pretty good.
Needless alarm is experienced, we are
told, over the old case OF ,tliphtheria in
the Tesar family. on the "Ren." Sparrow
place, Tolland side.
The program for the Washington birth
day celebration at the Congregational
church Saturday evening, Feb. 22d, will
be given next week.
The storm prevented the observance of
communion at the Baptist church Sunday.
1t is postponed to next Sunday. The COW
enant meeting was held Saturday
A sugar festival was recently held In
Coleraine, Mass, for the benefit of the
wife Of Rev. w. r. Terry, formerly OF
this town, who is sick with rheumatism.
Rev. s. w. Clarke, formerly of this
place, pastor of the Congregational church
in Westford for the last two or three
years, Is now settled over the church in
Ashford.
We note with interest what the last
Press says about the epidemic In Stafford
Springs. But Wellington folks, at least.
are not foolish in taking all due precau-
tons against the spread of dread dis
ease among the little ones
A Willimantic subscriber to The Press
said to US the other day 81 turn to the
Wilmington items the first thing, and have
been especially Interested Of late in the
old Wilmington families and remember
how you used to make me laugh at Sun
day school in the old Wellington days.
We have more than once given our
humble opinion that because man is an
old soldier he Is not exempt from paying
his dog license. Last week somebody
from Mansfield wrote to Hartford pa
per on the subject, and q Hartford legal
authority corroborates us-other and con-
trary legal 'oplnlons" heretofore ex-
pressed Notwithstanding.
Friends here received yesterday the sad
news of the death of Daniel w. Dimock,
20, in Moline, ILL.,, Both ult. He had been
sick with the grip, and paralytic shock
was the cause of his decease. He leaves
a widow and one son. .'Dan" was good
fellow, and everybody liked him. He
was brother of M. L. and A. D. Dim
ock. He went from this town to Moline
some 40 years. He was an expert book
keeper.
Children Of Marvin Peck and Eunice
Waldo Peck: Eunice married Ephraim
Coleman, Coventry, both dead; Oliver,
dead; Frances, dead; Martha, married
Ezra Adams, widow, lives In Evansville,
H.; Maria married George W. Steadman,
Mansfield, both dead. It appears that
Widow Henry G. Gurley, daughter OF the
late James Peck, and Martha, daughter
of the late Marvin Peck, Widow Ezra
Adams, are the only surviving children
of the three Peck brothers.
Voters must take heed Of the new law
II they wish to take part In caucusses
hereafter. They must signify to the reg
istrars orally or by writing to what polit-
ical party they belong, and be enrolled
accordingly. Here is good and timely
chance for democrat to declare his fu-
ture adherance to the republican party,
for Instance. The town. registrars will
be In session at the town hall tomorrow
afternoon and on Friday afternoon, 18th
inst, "between the hours Of 10 o'clock.
noon, and 9 O'clock In the afternoon. !"
Now you must attend to this business, or
you can't pile into caucus and exhibit
your inalienable rights. But you can
vote on election days all the same.