The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-05-11
WELLINGTON.

Mrs. Ernest Wilson is i'll, we hear.
The last feather fills the pillow
sack.
| Charles Benton and family have re-
moved to Groton.
| Frank Chism and wife have gone
to, Middletown to live.
The Sunday school enterprise at
the Hollow has been abandoned for
the present. ,e 49,.
w. f. Carroll, who recently fell
from ladder at his home, the old
Jason Bugbee place, is slowly improv
ing.
The Baptist pulpit next Sunday
will be occupied by Rev. Mr.. Max
we'll, the state Sunday school mission
ary> .'.@ -s@>-. -..+ 49,
Spring work, now that spring is
really here, is at a rush. Many find
it difficult to get their gardens plough
ed even.
Clarence Richardson has gone to
Gill, Mass, to attend Mt. Hermon
school there for the fourteen weeks
summer term.
George W. Bracket, with his new
automobile and two passengers, G.
Hall, Jr., and A. Korper, drove over
the Hill Sunday. =
Miss Estella Bartlett and her
brother, John, lately visited Miss AL
berta Hardy, at Rev. G., L. Shows,
Greenville, Norwich,
Mrs. Mary Francis Davis remains
about the same. Her young women
friend callers are very faithful in
their sympathetic visits.
And now, it is asserted, that the
Adamek- Williams case will go over
till the September term-one year in
court already, and not yet determined.
The steadman wood lot, formerly
owned by the late Wilson Curtis, was
also burned over in the recent forest
fire near here. The question of new
and repaired fencing is now agitating
interested minds.
Bramble and Needham recently
bought of Mrs. A. G. Baldwin her
"Knight place. near Daleville.
Price paid, $4,000, cash. Bramble
Intends to place his steam mill on
the timber lots in the fall. -.
Mrs. Wolfe left here Monday, via.
Stafford Springs, buying furniture
there for her new home in the Baptist
parsonage. BY the way, the women
also have fallen in love with the lady,
which fact is quite significant.
At this writing, Monday morning,
Charles FL. Ryder is down with the
German measles His physician,
DIR. @. B. Newton, says the disease is
not contagious -altho' we had. al
ways supposed that any eruptive
disease is catching. -
Amos Bugbee. Carpenter, SO, a
highly esteemed citizen of Waterford,
Vt, an uncle of W. Holt, the last of
his mothers own family, died there
recently. The second wife of the
late William Holt was sister of the
deceased's wife, who died a short
time ago. -~. - 49,
Highway Commissioner Macdonald
was in town last Friday. 1t is said
that he did not accept the piece of
state road from the railway station to
the Hill. What work, if any, is still
to he done is question. It. is said
that he found fault with the hasty
finish of Contractor Brazos.
Adelbert Needham some time ago
bought the old Asa Smith farm, in
recent years owned and occupied by
Palmer Smith and his sister, Lois.
It is said the price paid was $4,000,
and that it was recently sold to W. r.
Ruby for $4,000. Large tracts of
timber and wood are on the farm /;
besides, it raises large quantity of
hay.
The topic at the Congregational
church Sunday was 'The crime Of
being, discourager, founded on
Neh. AS. Mr.. Gardeners discourse
was special and practical, fitting the
present outlook of the local church.
Wet blanket throwers were not especi-
ally commended-th who are al
ways ready with discouraging words
to seek to belittle good things. VI
Mrs. Sarah Wolfe, wife of the
pastor elect, discouls ed from John Il !:
81 on "Christ's parting gift of peace
to His disciples, with her sweet
womanly voice, her clear, not noisy
enunciation, her expressive bright
eyes, her tall, slender form and fine
complexion, and last, though not
least, her evident spiritual nature, she
made good impression on the large
audience gathered to give her greet
ing. This will be her first field as a
pastors wife, and it is hoped that her
work here, SO auspiciously begun, will
be both helpful and appreciated.
If in the last Press Something
in item concerning text, ETC., at the
Congregational church last Sunday,
is read fol" Sympathy," twill sound
better and be the truth. Also, if
Praasek is read for "Parker'' in the
item concerning the sale of the Dan
iel Eldredge place, the nail will be
hit squarer on the head. By the
way, the price for it, including some
stock, etc., was $1,000, as we were
instructed to insert in the deed by the
purchasing party, who came to us to
have the writings made out, but who
was subsequently persuaded by the
selling parties to go elsewhere
Wilmington Center is peculiarly
situated, and has been for a long
series of years, as to trade and bust
ness generally, chiefly on account of