The Press., 1902-05-29
WILMINGTON.

OooISo L. AODDlnS has his house noWl : shingled.
 Miss Bertha Young of Bridgeport is g 3 George Lyons.
 A musicale was held at F. w. Pratt : last Tuesday evening. Miss Jessie Holt has returned fror
 Westville to her fathers. Mrs. Studley and her son, Willie. ar recovering from severe illness.
 Miss Mabel Clark has returned iron
 her visit to Boston and vicinity. J Mrs. A. s. Price returned Wednesda,
 from her weeks visit to New York city.
 There are 2,269, ,164 Germans in thi
 country. The Irish born number ,619.
 469.
 Miss Grace Morse returned Saturda,
 last from her visit at her sisters in Staf
 ford.
 Mrs. Wm F. Irons of Stafford Spring.
 has been visiting her brother, John F
 Whitford.
 Mrs. Angle Dave returned from liar
 wington to her mother, Mrs. Baldwin's last week.
 Pastor Shows topic next Sunday will
 be founded on "Lovest thou me nor. than these."
 Since writing about the dry time 6 shower Sunday night relieved the situa tion considerably.
 c. E. s. Amidon and wife of Westfor6 attended the memorial union exercises ir the Baptist church last Sunday.
 Covenant meeting in the conference room Saturday, 31st, at 2. 30 D. m. Com. munion the following Sunday morning. | Harold Gardner, who has been visiting his grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. Gardner, returned to his duties in Yale university last Friday.
 We are indebted to Vincent Hoskey. the New York baker, who bought the Gen. Orrin Holt place not long ago, for a fine specimen of German rye bread.
 A game of base ball will take place on R. E. Cartier's grounds Friday afternoon, at 9 o'clock, between the West Willing ton nine and a nine from Stafford Springs. Admission, 10 cents.
 We are in receipt of handsome book of "Ancient Legends" compiled by Miss Elizabeth M. Lum. In it is 8 poem of Mrs. Preston's, printed some time ago in the St. Nicholas magazine.
 If convenient, and if possible, will your Holland correspondent tell the readers of The Press about the present status of the proposed Hicks institution that was to be built and endowed in that town?
 Chas. P. Williams thought right about selling his fam, stock, etc. It was deed- ed Tuesday to Mrs. Aloisie Adamec of New York, who takes immediate posses sion. Williams will live in the late c, D, Rider house he recently bought, at the Hollow.
 As announced in The Press, Rev. A. Gardner last Sunday preached an effective sermon in the Baptist church, at union memorial service. Text, 1 Chronicles, 5:22-"There fell down many slain be- cause the war was of God" Theme, War settles."
 Rev. T. Brown and wife returned last Tuesday to their home in Newtonville, Mass, via. West Stafford, after the obse- quies of the late H. G. Preston here, while the daughter of the deceased, Alice M., returned to New York in the evening to her patient in Newark, N. J.
 Foster E. Harvey, senior partner of the firm of Harvey & Lewis, optical goods. etc., and Augustus Loomis of the fire de- partment, Hartford, were on a trouting trip here last week, guests of c. T. Pres ton. They returned to Hartford Friday evening, very complacent over their we'll filled baskets.
 Some of the nuggets in Rev. MT. Gard ner's memorial sermon last Sunday: War is deaths feast. Alexander and Napoleon loved war. We do not love war; we love our country. One.half of the exer- tion in human industry is in the direction of killing men. The French and Indian war settled the language and the religion of the United States.
 The thunder shower Sunday evening brought to naught the Y. P. s. c. B. meeting, which promised to be unusually on account of the proposed presence and speech of Rev. J. Tetrault Of Putnam, Conn. Baptist home mission ary. He says his people, the French, shrink from the thought of becoming Americanized, converted, etc. Otherwise with the Germans.
 Down at the new great shipyards on the Groton side of the Thames are being built vessels that will carry 21 ,OOO tons or merchandise besides 1,5O0 passengers. One ship is $50 feet long and "A feet wide. More than one person from this vicinity has obtained employment there. Twelve hundred men are at work on the hull of one of these monster ships alone. One of the recent orders of the immense con. cern was 4,0O0 GOO rivets. The present pay roll is $5O,0OO per month. So much for "expansion."
 About our roads at the present time Confessedly the highway leading through | the center of the town to the railway sta | ton Is the most important one, and should | be repaired the first of any. But, we are told, this road has not been touched at | this writing. Instead, Ed. Eldredge, whom the selectmen employ to repair most of our roads, has begun work on the road leading from his house to South and from thence on the road leading to Stafford Springs. Now if this s so, 1t isn't right. If Eldredge hasn't the time to attend to all the roads at the