The Press., 1903-10-01
WILMINGTON.

! WILMINGTON
Samuel Gillas was in town Sunday.
| Mrs. Sleight returns to New York
to-day.
Mrs. Charles FL. Hobby has returned
from two-weeks' visit at her sister s
in Pennington.
The gross earnings of the ''Consoli-
dated" railroad the last year were
nearly ISL, 200, 600.
i Levi Bond is working for Arnold
Upton, Ashford, living with his wife
in house near by.
Mrs. Preston was appointed last
Sunday delegate to the Baptist con-
vention to be held in New Haven this
month.
The democratic caucus for nomina-
ting town officers will be held at the
town hall Saturday evening, at 8
O'Clock.
lin the church's field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
You will find the average Christian
Represented by his wife. -
Alonzo S. Pierce was with his fam
lily day or two last week. He went
from New York city to Watertown, N.
Y, to wire public building there.
The Misses Brown and Harry Dun
ham of Mansfield and w. w. Wilcox
of Meriden were guests of Mrs. c. E.
Robbins, their cousin, last Thursday.
By recent decision in the state
highway commissioner office, 1901
roads that are not completed before
April 1 will not receive the state
money.
Rev. A. Gardner in an Introductory
to his sermon last Sunday, told of his
vacation, where he had been, how he
had enjoyed himself, etc., a very meet
and expected thing for him to do.
| During 48 hours last week over 1000
immigrants landed in New York. One
hundred and thirty-five Thousand have
landed during the months of July,
August and September. This breaks
the record.
The largest common school house in
the world is in East Houston street,
New York city. 1t has two princi-
pals and one hundred teachers. 1t
will accommodate 5000 pupils and has
ninety class rooms.
1t should have been Jacob Goosen
last week, not Jacob Sorshen." He
bought the John A. Brown place,
having formerly been located in
Greenspoint, Queens county, N. Y,
and $50 Boston road, 3, 256 Third ave.
New York city.
The beginning of the eighth line
from the top in an article on the
wholesaling of meat, in a neighboring
city paper, which is a great Stickler
for grammar, occurs the pronOun' he. -
We should like to know what it's sub
ject" is. By all the rules he must
refer to ''plan.'
The associational meeting, whose
program was given at length last
week, passed off pleasantly, with
superb weather and large attend
ance. Details and "notes" next week.
The meeting adjourned yesterday, the
ministers and delegates saying that
the gathering was one of the most up
lifting in the history of the associa-
tiOn.
Rev. A. Gardner at the Congrega-
tional church Sunday preached from
Luke 8 :48. Topic, "The family and
the home,' drawn from the incident
of the healing by Christ of Jarius'
daughter. At the Baptist church Rev.
@. l.. Shows discourse was founded on
Gen. 45 Is, 7, and 8, the theme being
"Overruling providences in the lives
of men as seen in the life of Joseph,
the manly ideal"
In relation to those "chestnuts' last
week: What kind Of animals grow on
vines? Gray apes. Why does the
driver of a hanson cab always sit on
the outside and behind? So that the
superior in the interior shall not see
the exterior of the inferior. Why did
General Washington die standing? Be-
cause he could not lie. Why is pond
lily like a whale? Because they both
come to the surface to blow. When
has the English alphabet % letters
| When you and I are one.
The republicans have nominated the
following for town officers: Assessors,
Charles w. Eldredge, Eddy H. Bur-
dick; board of relief, F. w. Pratt,
Ezra A. Morse; selectmen, Adolph
Korper, William D. Ruby; agent town
deposit fund, George A. Cosgrove !;
town clerk, S. P Morrison; treasurer
town deposit fund, S. P. Morrison Z;
collector, Dewitt Q. Dimock; town
treasurer, M. L. Dimock; school Wis
itors, Charles HI. Hobby, William H.
Hall; auditor, William F. Essex; reg
istrar of electors, William HI. Hall !;
constable, James F. Lawrence; grand
jurors, Origin Hall, W. o. Eldredge,
William D. Ruby.
Comrade Daniel M White of Pom
fret was a guest of @. T. Preston last
week. On his drive hither and on
his return he called on old friends. He
is veteran of the old Twelfth Conn.
Vols. He is son of the late Peter
White of Ashford, worked for the late
David Glazier, Willard Fuller, Origin
Weston, Lucien Holt, etc. He went
to the war, and now, at 70 years of
age, he still performs various athletic
feats, outrivalling, he says, those that
| the late David Glaziar his great nrn=