The Press., 1903-06-04
WILLINATON.

-Tne most popular of living American poets, Will Carleton, will be at the M. E. church, Stafford Springs, Wednesday evening, June 10. Just what you have been waiting for. See ad.
 ''June boxes" are now the rage. Thanks for ours. ...... ..-... a... r..
 Miss Bertha Jaycox returned to her home in Sharon last Thursday. Setting wagon tires at the blacksmith shops has been quite pastime in this locality of late. Hans M. Hansen has had his store and grain house at the railroad station hand somely painted.
 Covenant meeting at the m1d-week prayer meeting tonight, and communion the following, next, Sunday afternoon.
 Deacon Pratt will lead the mid-week prayer meeting tonight in place of Rev. c. l.. Snow, who Is absent in New York city.
 William Posik and his wife, Barbara Posik, of New York, have bought of Mrs. Jeanette Shaffer her farm, the old Henry o. Holt place.
 Rev. MT. MathewsoD of Springfield, Mass. Is supplying at the M. E. chapel, Holland side. He took part in the Bap- tist Sunday school exercises last Sunday afternoon.
 We were in receipt the other day of letter from vicinity school teacher that was faultless in construction, grammar and chirography. Such exhibitions do an old school visitors heart good. -ffrst Selectman Korper rode over the highways this week, while Second &c., lectman Ruby took in the condition of the roads on his ride hither with his fam fly to attend Memorial day exercises.
 The crops hereabouts, especially corn, would hop right along these days were 1t not for the cold nights and mornings. That short, copious rain last week does not prove so very beneficial, after all.
 A Bohemian from New York has bought of Mrs. Emma J. Holman the Reuben Edgerton place, now occupied by J. G. Ryder, taking possession about Sept. 1st, next. Really, Wilmington has become quite habitat for Bohemian.
 The annual roll call will be observed in the Baptist church next Tuesday, 9th, afternoon and evening. There will be a supper. Mrs. Preston for the Hill and Mrs. Johnson for West Wilmington are members of the committee on entertain. ment.
 A fire, Tuesday, ragged in Demond & Bramble's Aseneth Holt lot. The timber had been removed luckily, but some 200 cords of wood were damaged or destroyed Cause of the fire unknown, but 1t is thought that lighted match dropped by some smoker did the mischief.
 The Methodist part of the community Is much gladdened over the frequent wis. it's of the presiding elder of late. The Italian people, too, in the north part oi the town, are to be congratulated on the recent presence of an Italian priest ir their parish in Stafford Springs.
 This query has always been stickel to us: Why do some folks, especially protesting Christians, so dread the grow ing years of this life2 The yearly leat grows old and passes away, to be sure but
 "When we've been there ten thousand years,
 We've no less days to sing Gods praise Than when we first begun"
 Members of the Burdick family attend. ed the funeral of Henry Starkweather al Plainfield last week. The deceased's wid. ow, Sarah Burdick, is daughter of Mat. thew Burdick. MT. Starkweather was not well when he attended the funeral here of the late Mrs. M. Burdick. He was a good and useful man in his day and generation.
 An extensive article in a recent Hart ford paper on Gen. Nathaniel Lyon does not mention the facts that nephew of that distinguished general, a veteran of the civil war, lives in this town, and that the late Gen. Orrin Holt, then a repre- sentative in congress, nominated Lyon to West Point, the biggest thing ever yet done by Connecticut M. c.
 There was pleasant party of eighteen little people at the home of MT. and Mrs William Bowler, Holland side, Monday afternoon, in honor of their daughter Ruby's fifth birthday. Miss Ruby enter tained her guests with games on the lawn after which refreshments, consisting o cake, fruit and ice cream, were served She was the recipient of several pretty gifts from her little friends.
 There was goodly attendance from all parts of the town on Memorial day ex ercises. A procession of some 100 per sons, headed by old soldiers, but consist ing chiefly of children and young people left the church in the forenoon and deco rated the soldiers graves that had beel marked with flags the previous day b. Charles T. Preston and wife and th Pierce children. Returning to the church all paltook of a lunch that had been SC by the ladies on the tables in the churcl parlor. At 2 o'clock these exercises be gan in the audience room, which was dec orated with flags and bunting: "Battl hymn of the Republic" by the choir an congregation prayer by Rev. A. Gard ner of the Congregational church; "Th Nations Song," by Comrade Weeks, Mis- Bartlett and Miss Lohse, accompanied b Miss Hazel Ruby; recitation by Florenc Pierce; recitation by Johnny Wostrell recitation by Annie Wostrell solo, "Sta Spangled Banner" by Miss Cosgrove recitation by Johnny Solomene recita tlon by Nettie Solomene; recitation b Lizzie Whitford song, Faded Flowers, by Comrade Weeks, Misses Bartlett an Lohse, by request, the piece having bee sung previously at the cemetery addres by Rev. A. Gardner; recitation, " Bivoua of the Dead," by Mics Cosgrove; ad