The Press., 1903-10-15
WILMINGTON.
"a little learning is dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierlan spring. ,

Mrs. Newton B., Arnold of Provi
dence is visiting F. w. Pratt's.
Dwight Baker Gardner is at home
again, at the congregational parson.
age.
Waterbury has nobly rebuked the
tyranny of it's recent strike and boy
colts.
Miss Hattie Narrower recently re-
turned from Boston to George A. Cos
groves. go. IL =. d.
Mrs. F. w. Pratt visited her sick
sister, Mrs. Lawton Graves, at Boston
last week.
| !, There are $500 acres of peach trees
and A, 700 acres of apple orchards in
this state.
#Wililam Colburn of Eastford was in
town last week, the guest of Charles
T.. Preston. .
Reading maketh a full man, con-
ference ready man, and writing an
exact man.
Ada Wilbur is with her maternal
grandmother in Marlborough, and at
tends school there.
''There is in nature a moral an
tiphathy to treachery, even against
| our worst enemies. -
The delivery of Conn. Prog. Record
of the counties of Hartford and Toll
land was begun Monday.
The costliest map in the world lis
the one of the kingdom of Saxony, re-
Gently issued, costing 81, 900, O0O.
A noteworthy and the most interest
ing article in the current Scribner is
Mrs. John Quincy Adams Narrative"
Twenty dollars was contributed last
Sunday by the Baptist church for
home missions, Sc more than last year.
Palmer Smith, over the Ashford
line, is, we hear, in an enfeebled con-
dition, rather poorly in both mind and
body.
Some twenty five post thieves are
now under Indictment in Washington.
The government seems determined to
:tturn the ,rascals OUT
Miss May B. Lord has taken a posi-
tion with the ConnecticutBible society,
and is now holding meetings in the
south part of the state.
Walter Palmer Kleeler, of the senior
class in the college at Middletown,
visited his aunt, Miss Palmer, last
week. He returned Saturday.
Mrs. Rhoda Fuller Wooley of Hart
ford, sister Of Joseph A. Fuller, at
George Lyons, died of old age. in that
city Sunday noon. She was the widow
of George w. Wooley, undertaken.
Miss Palmer left Saturday for New
York city, where she and Miss Dunn
ing have taken a fiat on West End
avenue for the winter. This annual
departure is regretted by all, old and
young. 81. r.. ..s4.s. ..i.
We visited the Center school at it's
opening Tuesday morning, Miss Mamie
Riley teacher, when the Lords prayer
was reverently recited and all arithme-
tic class was heard. The good order
in the school was noticeable. ...:
= znsGermany the railway cars have
attained the speed of 1876 miles an
hour. In time it is expected over there
to reach the speed of $50 miles an
hour. Not long ago in this country
the speed of 1O8 miles was attained.
You can call sheep, but you must
drive. hogs; and, Jonathan Edwards
being in mind good deal nowadays,
although it is quite jump from
Northampton to Galilee, - is quite a
big one, there are good many things
to be considered in the premises.
aid (some $13. 90 was then and there
conttibuted) for "the old ministers
home in New York, " at the recent as
sociational meetings, that the late
Rev. Charles w. Potter, former pas
tor here, had been beneficiary of
that institution.
:. If you can't drive or. coax out of the
cities men, women and children, and
separate them from the squalor, tumult
and transformers of the human ant
hill, and bring them face to face with
things calm, lovely, grand and endur-
ing, then the next best thing to do is
to create near by rural reservations.
TO
Col. that the Goth anniversary of the
marriage of Morris Hastings and Han
nah Heath, daughter of the late John
Heath, was celebrated there Oct: 1st.
Mr.. Hastings and his wife used to live
in the George Snow house in the Hol-
low which he, Hastings, built. He
and Mrs. H., now aged 80 and 80 re-
spectively, left here for the west in
1871.
At the Congregational church Sun
day Rev. A. Gardner preached from
Jer. 5:5 and Luke l :15. Subject,
:" Great men, I'm the introduction
reference was made to iona. Edwards,
Wesley and Whitfield. More extend
ed, reference was made to the great
forerunner, John the Baptist In the
afternoon at the Baptist church Rev,
Mr.. Shows topic was Qualifications
for winning souls, as seen in the call
of Moses,'' founded on Elk. I'll.
The following is the statement of
the towns finances, as per last report
Aims account, 5 $40 55
Tax account, 146 90
Interest account, 80 68
Election expense account, SO so
School account, p 2,141 50
Bridge account, $50 90
Highway account, @' 1889 81
Road improvement account, 1876 OF
Town officer account, $50 83