The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-03-26
WILMINGTON.
Are we to have March in April

Are we to have March In April
Alfred House continues to improve.
Dandelion greens are relished about
now.
Five flocks of wild geese were flying
over the Hill Tuesday.
F. W. Pratt was suffering from an at
tack of grippe Sunday.
The pupils of the Baptist Sunday school
are preparing for an Easter concert.
A praise service took the place Of the
Y. p. 8. @. E. exercises last Sunday even
ing.
Stella and John Bartlett have been car
ing for their uncle, Alfred House, this
week.
Mrs. s. w. Clarke is visiting her chill
dren In Massachusetts, going thither last
Friday.
Miss Bessie Clark Of st. Adams, VT,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Forth,
at the depot.
Be prepared for some high old fish sto-
ries as the trout season approaches-open-
ing April Let
Gilbert e. 8. Amidon has bought Of F.
F. Patten building lot on Furnace ave-
nue., Stafford Springs.
w. II. Hall has been elected director
of the Conn. agricultural society In place
of w. d. Holman, deceased.
Annie Turner Clark, widow of David
Clark, formerly of this town, died from
cancer In Willimantic last week.
Rev. A. Gardner, with his son, Dwight,
went to Hartford Friday to attend the
Plat reception in the capitol that evening.
The personal property on the Daniel
Eldredge place on Wellington Hill will
be sold at auction next Monday at 10 a.
m. ..=# ..
Mr.. Griswold, who is representing a
correspondence school," Is stopping at
Rev. Mr.. GARDENERS while canvasslng the
vicinity. ........ ......
Widow Edward Morrison receives her
U. s. pension on account of her fret hus-
band, a soldier in the civil war, George
Robinson, Co. F, 25th Conn. Vols.
An adjourned meeting of the incorpo-
rators of the Wilmington cemetery asso-
citation will be held at the town hall next
Monday at 3 p. m.
Mr.. Wooliscroft, just over the West
ford line, is still quite feeble. His son
from Woonsocket, r. l., has been with
him. A nurse took his place Tuesday.
Last year there were raised In the United
States 74S, 200, 600 bushels of wheat, $780,
600, 900 bushels of corn and 200 ,OOO, 900
bushels of oats and other coarse grains.
There will be "necktie and apron
social at the Baptist conference room
Tuesday evening, April 2. Stage coach,
throwing and other games for prizes will
be In evidence.
The emerald green grass grew one inch
or so last Saturday. II will be too bad II
cold weather shall come again this season,
bad for the bulbs, etc. A black frost
would be horrid.
Rev. Charles Fl. Brown, now of New
port, VT, is recovering from a serious
attack of rheumatism. The church there
of which he is pastor went without SER
vices on Sunday.
Bert, son of Everitt Fuller, formerly
Of this town, now of Geneseo, ILL.,, was
recently killed In q saw mill in Portland,
Oregon. Two other sons, Willard and
Eugene, live In Moline, Ill.
The regular meeting of the local w.
G. T. o. Saturday afternoon did not ma
terialize on account Of the heavy mist
that prevailed. 1t was postponed to Sat-
urday, 28th, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Will Davis, his wife, nee Mary Francis,
and her mother, Widow Rufus Robbins,
have moved to the Fisher house, near
Samuel Nichols, where Mr.. Davis, with
another Vermonter, James Lswrence, is
at work.
Rev. Samuel D. Merrick has sent to
Mrs. Preston recent copy of the Addison
On. W Advertiser, containing sermon
by him on the three Jews who were cast
into Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace or
the plain of Dura.
A correspondent of Windham county
paper wonders what "neighboring" town
the late writer on the decentralization oil
Ashford refers to as Zone of the best
towns In the state" ''glimmer of light
In the Egyptian darkness that surrounds
u.s." Why, Wilmington, of course Mr.
Brown.
"Other things being equal, the man who
Is master of the facts In the case-what
ever the case may be-is master OF The
situation. He who knows clearly ant
accurately gains, by his knowledge, un
questioned precedence. If you want tt
get ahead Of him, there Is only one way
you must, In some way, know more thar
he does"
We have received copy of the Greeley
(Col. Tribune, which celebrates its recon
33d anniversary, the second year of III
present proprietorship and the completion
of the papers new building. We suspec
it was sent to US by Morris Hastings, 4
former resident here, but long residen
of that place, and Of whom lengthy men
ton was made In this column some time
ago.
We are informed by what ought to bt
good authority that what we recently sale
In this column about the infeasibility o
building house for religious worship ii
the north part Of the town was incorrec
and misleadir G, that the money has beer
raised to build, that the committee woult
attend to the work right away had the.
the liberty, etc. Now what we said be
fore was founded on the alleged statement
of one Of that same committee. Surely
we did not intend to throw cold water OF
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