The Press., 1903-05-14
WILMINGTON.

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 Widow George B. Snow, who was so seriously i'll at Willimantic, Is said to be more comfortable just now.
 Dr. Wilbur E. Holt of Newark, N. J., visited his parents, L. W. Holt and wife, last week, returning Friday last.
 Mrs. Clarke, wife of Rev. S.W. Clarke, Is still about on her visit. Mir. Clarke does not seem to regain his strength as yet.
 Daniel Blakely has bought two tracts of land joining the late John H. Holmes farm, now owned by Blakeley, of Charles P. Williams.
 Charles P. Williams has bought of the heirs of the late George B. Snow, includ- ing the widow, the place at the Hollow, with ali the land which belonged to said estate.
 Amidon & Armitage have bought the pine tract on the farm of Mrs. Janet Shaffer, the old Henry o. Holt place, and located their steam saw mill on the tract last week.
 We are in receipt of pretty program of Sunday school convention meeting recently held in Los Angeles, Cal. where in a part is allotted to Emma Lee, of old Wilmington stock.
 The executive committee of the Conn. Bible society, at Its recent annual meet ing, says: "W. H. Snow (late of this town, brother of Rev. 0. l.. Snow) has proved most acceptable addition to the force."
 At this writing the bright little girl, Eleanor, is seriously i'll at the home of her parents, A. M. DeWolfe and wife, West Willington, while Miss Esther is down with the measles, which has devel- ! oped into pneumonia.
 In list of life insurance money paid out to persons in the different towns in this state in 1909, published recently by the New York Insurance Press, the fol : flowing sums appear: West Willington i, $6,OOO; Willington, $3,OO7. One of our New England colleges has two new courses, viz: con the applica- ton of tetrahedral co-ordinates to quad ric surfaces" and "On the calculus of finite differences !' Look out now for the rising generation of students.
 The text at the Congregational church Sunday was Matt. 25:1O. Theme, "Ir- revocable opportunity" While at the Baptist church the discourse was on the topic, "The loving service of Christians towards others" founded on John 17:21.
 One gets an idea of the carrying ca- pacity of the new steamship Minnesota, launched in New London the other day, by considering that the vessel will carry al cargo that would fill railroad train seven miles long, or 125 trains of 90 cars each. ALropo of the coming Emerson cen- tennial celebration, 25th inst.,- "He who has thousand friends Has not friend to spare. And he who has one enemy
 Will meet him everywhere" We have received by the kind hand of Mrs. Julia Topliff Greenwood a copy of the Pomona Gal Weekly Times, also come specimens of native roses and sweet peas that came all the way from Califor- mia in a fine state of preservation. The Times, of it's last issue, Apr. 29, Vol. 22,,i No. 10, is sprightly, neatly appearing newspaper.
 First mortgage bonds of the White Mountain Paper Co.,, Springfield, Mass. to the amount of $5,OOO, ,OOO, are held in Eastern Conn. Gardiner Hall, Jr., of this town held some $25O,OOO worth. The concern has been in the hands of a receiver, 1t Is true, but the story that any party has slost" all his holdings Is prob- ably untrue.
 "Papa had gone to his work after hav- ing been obliged to correct his little six year old daughter, Bessie. Mama said she soon afterwards, was papa the very best man you could have married p 'Oh, yes, my child.' 'Well,' said Bessie, if women don't marry at all, are they called old maids p II suppose they are,' but, with an amused smile, why do you ask p 'Oh, don't know, but I think this is a tough world for women.'"
 Mrs. H. G. Preston, now of Washing. ton, D. O., writes of It's suburb, Brook land, the seat of the new Catholic univer- sity, as follows, which may interest some readers: "Here Is a very fine life-sized statue of the Pope. The chapel Is very beautiful, with the finest wire doors Il ever saw. The service was just over, and we went about and looked at the many large paintings. thought that was all, but Mrs. M. said, 'Oh, no, you have not yet seen what brought you here for. Come this way So we walked on over a dusty, stony, uphill road, while she told me that in Jerusalem there Is the church of the Holy Sepulcher, built over the exact spot where Christ was buried. A company of Franciscan monks came here to Brookland and built this church, the precise reproduction of that one in I Jerusalem, inside and outside. By this time we had come to the yellowish brick structure, very pretty, and went in. Here also service was just finished. There were several altars, three monks standing before one in the gallery, near the fine | organ. We paused to listen to the sing ing, and, to my surprise, I heard rendered one of our oldest hymns, and although the words were in Latin, 1t was good to | listen to 1t. We hurried on to join the l crowd which was waiting to go down a l narrow stairway. Only few could go at | one time, and Mrs. M. and became sep- arated. But went on and entered The Catacombs,' long, narrow passages, with |