The Press., 1903-01-15
WILMINGTON.

to be out now.
Mrs. Belle Sleight returned to New
York last week.
1t was somewhat frosty here Monday
night and Tuesday morning.
There are lots of folks who do III .ir
thinking with their tongues.
1t is now Demond & Bramble, A. Need
ham having sold out to w. E. Demond.
Charles H. Ryder Immediately bought
horse to replace the one he recently
lost.
Miss Alice V. Cosgrove has been spend
ing week with her cousin, Mrs B. E.
Benton.
r. Fl. Worden's and Mrs. Worden's
household furniture Is stored temporarily
with s. P. Morrison.
The Congregationalists have voted to
retain the SOL vices of Rev. A. Gardner as
their acting pastor for another year.
Widow William Waldo is sick with the
grip, consequently her return to her sis
ter, Widow John B. Carpenter, Is delayed.
If we are incapacitated from making
the honest but elusive dollar, we are glad
to know that other folks are able to do 80.
There's always danger of falling over
backwards If you straighten up too rigid
~, and then you would feel like thirty
cents.
Mrs. Harriet A. Lippitt, Norwich,
whom Miss Fl. q. Robbins is now attend
ing, Is recovering from her recent throat
| trouble.
The icy condition of the roads Monday
morning made horseshoers fly around
during the day, and at night they had a
good time counting up their wampum.
Rev. G. L. Chamberlain of Ashford
preached a very acceptable sermon last
Sunday on "Consecration," the words of
the text being, "Here am I, send me-"
Samuel D. Watrous and his brother,
Henry, have returned from New York
state, and are again boarding at George
Browns. They are working for Dwight
Bramble.
One hundred years ago Uncle Sam
bought the Mississippi valley, the "Louis-
ana purchase" for 100000. This
magnificent domain, fifteen states, with
population of 10000, 900, is now worth
billions on billions.
W. III. Bracket and wife have bought
building lot on Beacon street, Hartford.
In our item last week about assessment
on $12, 500 worth Of property, 1t should
have read Hartford property. AS the
item read, 1t was without significance.
Col. Charles L. Dean was inaugurated
for the fifth time as the Temperance
mayor of temperance city," in Maiden,
Mass, the evening of the fifth inst, the
municipal party repairing from the city
hall to the mayors bed chamber for the
ceremony, he not yet having recovered
from his recent fall.
Without doubt the smartest all-around
man, the best public speaker, this town
ever raised was the late Daniel J. Glazler,
who died early, "Hacked down with his
while the man with most money, who
ever made Wellington his home, Is An
| thony Dimock, who, when a New York
broker, was at one time worth 81, 1000, 900.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold their regular meeting in
the chapel on Saturday afternoon at two
| O'Clock. This meeting will be under the
direction of the purity superintendent, and
those who have attended the mothers
meetings held in the past will not lose the
| opportunity of attending these instructive
meetings and bringing a mother with
them.
The wood and lumber industry in this
vicinity has assumed considerable i'm
portance OF late. 1t employs many men
and teams, to the great pecuniary advan-
tage Of the former, while the new state
road, main thoroughfare to the railway
station, Is somewhat advantageous to the
latter. Much of the wood Is shipped to
Berlin for the use of the brick yards
there. Our roads, improved and other
wise, are free to the wood magnates.
There are some people In this vicinity
who remember man who, some years
ago, came from Springfield, Mass, in
quest of the birthplace of Principal Bar
rows of that city, just over the Mansfield
line, south of the old Joseph Hull place.
He wanted to secure piece of wood from
a tree in the old birthplace yard, which
was to be mounted into gold for pen
holder to present to Mr.. Barrows, whose
fiftieth anniversary of school teaching
was soon to be observed. It was Aella
Green, then of the staff on the Springfield
Republican. He was visiting us, and we
accompanied him to Mansfield. This
genius In verse, and somewhat so in fic-
ton, died at the homeopathic hospital In
that city on the 9Th inst. The local Il.
A. R. had charge of the funeral last Sun
day.
South Wellington.
Freeh fish are so scarce that some have
to fish through the ice Sundays for them
or go without.
Samuel Nichols fell through scuttle
In his barn last Sunday, and has had to
lose few days from his work In conse-
quence.
Special communication of Uriel lodge
F. and A. M Saturday evening. Work
in the second degree.
Homer Neil Is In attendance at the leg
islature In Hartford. T. A. Denman as
secondhand, has charge of the dressing
room during Mr.. Neip absence.
| Chas. johnson received bad blow on
the leg last Friday, from birch that few
from roughing machine, which laid him