The Press., 1902-08-28
WILMINGTON.
The state Of Texas has PAT counties.

This is a spell of regular Roosevelt
weather.
Country literary lights are all right.
Don't you wish You were one
Master Raymond Young of Whitman
tic is visiting at George Lyons'.
Mrs. Lucius Eldridge is no better. It
Is necessary to have watchers now.
Miss Robbins Is visiting her mothers
cousin, Mrs. H. A. Lippitt, In Norwich.
Miss Lord, the evangelist, Is expected
to occupy the Baptist pulpit next Sunday.
s:zMrs. John D. Taylor is now the house.
keeper for George Sparrow, her father.
Miss Myrtle Chapman Of Westford Wis
tied the Misses Florence and Inez Pierce
last week.
? We were shown lately new fad for
men-an Indian medicine stick In the
shape of cane.
The repairs on the Baptist parsonage,
including shingling, by Davis and Royce,
are nearing completion
The Tigers of Wilmington defeated the
Hollands on their home grounds at Car
tiers, last Saturday, IS to 6.
Miss e. Gertrude Young of Boston,
Mass, is visiting Mrs. VIM. J. Bowler,
at the John A. Brown farm, Tolland side.
DR.. Charles Frost and family of Water
bury called at George e. Robbins last
Friday. They are spending the month of
August In Ashford.
Diamonds have sparkled on the Hill
within the past week to greater extent
than ever before within the memory of
man. They ranged in value from $50 to
$3.50.
One nugget OF the presidents little
speech at Willimantic last Saturday was,
"Its a good thing to be smart man, but
mighty bad thing to be only a smart
man."
''The man who never made any mis-
takes never made anything. Many chips,
broken instruments, cuts and bruises be-
long to the history of any beautiful
statue"
Miss Thrall left Mr.. GARDENERS last
Wednesday for her home In West Suf-
field. The day previous her father, an
elderly man, the papers said. suffered a
eight stroke of paralysis.
A pleasant tea party at her home Sat-
urday last marked the fourteenth birth
day Of Miss Rachael Robbins, and also
her departure. Monday, for Bristol to at
tend the high school there.
A delegation of persons from this vicin-
ity joined the South Wilmington excursion
to Watch Hill last Saturday. The train
arrived at Willimantic too early for the
passengers to see the president.
A four-horse barge, bedecked with flags
and resonant with horns, etc., loaded with
the family Of G. Ell. Hobby, from the old
est to the youngest, went to State Line
last week to attend the Holmes ady me-
mortal association. A large attendance
and pleasant time are reported. -
+ We were requested last week Sunday,
by the president of the Congregational
Ladies' Aid society, to say in this column
that there would be a social Wednesday
evening, 9th. We promised to do so,
and sent the notice In last week s batch
OF, items. BY accident the same was
overlooked by the compositor.-Ed.l
The senior partner of the Freeman
Church company, Hartford, and his wife
were guests at G. T. Preston's last week.
They were taking a carriage drive through
Hartford, Wlndham and Tolland counties.
He used to be a pack peddler In these
parts-he refers to the fact with pride
and now he possesses Asylum street and
residential real estate in that city galore
Don't be smart, young man, wherever
you may live, north, east, south or west,
else you may tip over backwards and get
hunt; besides, you may get the papers
that print your screeds into trouble, es.
pecially those papers whose editors don't
edit their correspondents copy much.
Then learn to write without dictation.
Your elders near you In ktnship should
teach you better. /.
1t would appear, In more ways than
one, that our simple little items attract
considerable attention, far and near. Fol
instance, we received by mail last week q
socialist periodical, with an excerpt We
recently wrote In this column about Uncle
Sans prosperity cut from The Press, and
pasted over a scathing article entitled
"The Worker with Capitalistic Mind. ,
We are crushed! But the joke of the az
fair Is, we know who mailed US the peri
odical.
South WillingtOn.
Mrs. John K. Neil is spending the week
with friends In Boston.
Misses Olive and Edith Andrews o.
Summit, r. l., are visiting with their sis
ter, Mrs. VIM. Nichols.
The fall term of school In this district
will commence next Monday. Miss Sadie
Woodwork has been engaged as teacher
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Mrs. Homer Neil and son, Homer Neil
Jr., remained at Watch Hill Saturday
and will visit at Oyster Beach and vicin
ity this week.
The three pieces Of new gravel roal
near the village have done more to dis
courage bicycling around here than bar
rel of tacks would.
VIM. F. Carroll attended the excursion
Saturday, staying over Sunday. Monda.
he went fishing and caught two founders
the larool. oA rzhioh xx,oicrhod ox,ox noxzo.