The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-09-17
WILMINGTON.

There were serenaders around on the
Hill Monday evening.
Miss Grace Morse is home from he1
weeks visit in Stafford.
Rev. 9. L. Snow and Miss Leonard
drove to Mansfield Monday.
Mrs. S. w. Clarke is out of towr
visiting relatives and friends.
Dwight Gardner arrived at the Con.
gregational parsonage Monday
The Misses Leonard of Cambridge
returned to their homes to-day.
Some tourists visited the falls on
Mrs. Baldwin's land, near Daleville,
Saturday.
Mrs. Gurley and Mrs. Eunice John.
son of Willimantic are at Mrs. l..
Johnson's.
The Misses Dunning and Palmer
went to Mashapaug Tuesday, the guests
of Alvarado Howard.
The Congregationalist people, as
well as Pastor Gardner, will have an
other vacation Sunday, next week.
Alleged chicken thieves were traced
over the Hill, through an adjacent
pasture to Mount Dunning, one day
last week.
Samuel Gardner of Burnside and his
son, Harold, of Yale's senior class,
came to the Congregational parsonage
Tuesday evening.
There were 1866 justices of the
peace elected in this state last year,
but 8O7 did not qualify. The sun
still rises and sets.
Uncle Sans income this year from
all sources was $50, 600, O00-about
enough to pay his pension bill, and a
little more to spare, we guess.
Deacon ). Osborne and wife left for
their new home in Rockville Wednes-
day last. This removal will necessi-
tate the election of a new Congrega-
tional deacon.
There will be pictures of the Bap-
fist pastor, the meeting house and the
parsonage accompanied with local
letter in the New York Examiner in
a near future ISSUE
Miss Georgiana F. Leonard adj
dressed the Baptist Sunday school last
Sunday, and her sister, Miss Harriet,
very edifyingly led the Y. P. S. 9. E..
meeting in the evening.
Some miscreant has dug up and car
ried away a Towering pink geranium
from the Charles D. Ryder lot in the
old cemetery. There's heavy pen
atty for this sort of business.
Leslie Korper of this town is vice.
president of the senior class of the
Willimantic high school, while a
Wilmington, or an Ashford girl, Miss
Abby Chism, is president Of the sem
ior class in the normal school there.
Crops in this locality may be sum-
married. as follows: Potatoes, fair to
good hay, abundant and heavy; corn
very poor; fruit, apples, etc., rather
scarce Small fruits, such as buckle
berries, have been quite plenty and
good.
Mrs. Preston gave a musicale in
honor of the Misses Leonard Tuesday
evening. An incident of the occasion
was the rehearsing of an anthem to
be rendered at the coming association
al meetinsg: Nineteen were present,
and refreshments were served.
Arrangements are being perfected for
the meeting of the Ashford Baptist
with the local church, goth
and 3Oth inst, Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The local delegates are Dea. F.
w. Pratt, Mrs. l.. johnson, Thomas
Denman, Walter Allen; reception COM
mittee, Robert P. Pratt at the rail-
road station, George A. Cosgrove car
ing for horses, Mrs. Annie A. Preston,
Charles T. Preston; committee for
decorations, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Nellie
Carpenter; committee for the tables,
Mrs. L. johnson, who selects her as
sistants; entertainment, F. w. Pratt
and wife, Mrs. J. A. 'Dimock. We
are not favored with a program of the
exercises at this writing. AS we have
said, if the weather is
fair there will be a large attendance
doubtless, which will tax the good
will and energies of all locally con-
cerned.
This is a clipping from recent is
sue of the Springfield Republican
To the Editor of the Republican
In your issue of the 18th ult. was
letter from your St. Petersburg cor
respondent, describing the malignant
nature and atrocious works of Con-
Pobledonostzeff, who, the let
ter alleged, comes considerably nearer
to being czar of Russia than Nicholas
Ii himself, the power behind the
throne for 30 years, the implacable
enemy of the United States, a ruth
less Greek church fanatic, and prima-
rily responsible for the Kishineff mas
sacre of the Jews. We had the Curl
man, the chancellor of the Russian
empire, would himself say as to this
estimate of himself that had gone
abroad. So we excepted the letter
and mailed it to him with all due
courtesy. We received this reply
from St. Petersburg:
st. Petersburg July %, 1903.
All was Cthat) is written In the paper Is
nothing as (but) an impudent lie. Mr..
has and had nothing to
10 with the laws about Jews and the adj
of Jews. Shame for the
American press.
CHARLES T. PRESTON.
wilmington, Ct, August %, 1908.
South Wellington.
Herbert Battye and wife of New
Britain are visiting at W E. Battye's.
Mrs. Sanger of Springfield was the