The Press., 1905-10-11
WELLINGTON.

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There were n suicides in the stat
of Maine alone last year.
Miss Gardner visited friends il
Burnside, Hartford and vicinity las
week.
1t was record breaking weather fol
the Stafford Springs fair last weel
for clear and warm skies.
Even the promised and much look
ed for Press did not make it's appear.
ance along this R. F. d. route last
Wednesday morning.
Charles T. Preston and wife are
visiting various points in Massachu.
sets, in and about Springfield, by
trolley and otherwise.
The ladies will begin to serve their
"boiled dish,' etc., Friday night at
& O'Clock, and later at intervals un-
til all who come are served.
The local pastor drove over to the
recent meeting of the Ashford associ-
alton at Danielson, taking with him
Pastor Chappelle of Warrenville.
The letters from the Philippine
Islands, Japan, etc., which have been
running in the Courant of late, from
it's editor, were interesting reading.
It is said that piano owned by q
member of the church is to be set up
in the Baptist conference room for
use during the coming fall and winter,
at least.
Some folks in this vicinity who did
not attend the fair on that bright
second day visited the Pinnacle in
stead. The view was simply grand,
it is said.
1t was a query to both Catholics
and professionals exactly what the
obsequies were at the Toberman in
terment in the new cemetery extension
last week Monday.
A petition to the state highway
commissioner and board of selectmen,
for substantial repairs on the road
from Wilmington Hill to the Hollow,
is being circulated.
1t seems that the reason why little
or no mail was received on this route
last Wednesday was because the Will
lington mail bag was thrown off by
mistake at Eagleville.
The mail last week Wednesday was
somewhat hodge podged on this route.
1t came along very early, with little
or no mail, and returned over the Hill
before II O'Clock that forenoon.
The new tool house on the new
cemetery extension grounds is a neat,
shapely little structure, and affords
another instance of Col. Halls enter
prise and public spirit in that direc-
ton.
Uncle Sam took in for spending
money during the month of September
last past upwards of fifty millions of
dollars. Multiply these figures by
-, and it gives him quite a respect
able income.
There will be a sociable and harvest
supper under the auspices of the
Ladies' Aid, in the Baptist church
parlor Friday evening, the 18th inst
A general and cordial invitation is
hereby extended.
Speaking of the fancy postal card
fad in The Press of last week, Mrs.
Preston has an interesting collection
from away back, from the Chicago
exposition, including specimens from
foreign countries.
We hear that Tax Collector D. G.
Dimmock had his pockets picked of
upwards of $50 at Stafford Springs
during fair week. There were other
victims, too, we learn, who took
their medicine like little men.
Mr. and Mrs Trask of North Wood
stock visited their cousin, Mrs. E. O.
Richardson, last week. They had
taken in the fair at Stafford Springs
He is the head of a cemetery associa-
tion in his town, and took much in
terest in visiting the cemeteries here.
Thinking of the late Elisha Wright
of this town and of his brother, Aus
tin Holt, of Stafford Springs, uncle
of l.. W. Holt, who was the captain
of a company of Indiana men in the
Mexican war, reminds us that that
state alone has now 80 survivors of
that contest, probably the largest
number of any state in the union.
In response to enquiries, the town
clerks office will be removed to it's
new quarters Jan. 1, 1906. The
present town clerk has found some of
the missing old books, and it will now
be in order to have the old records
legibly copied at the public expense,
as the law now provides. No town
needs this to be done more than this.
We are under obligations to some
one for copies of the selectmen's and
school visitors reports for the town
of Stafford for 1906, and the cata-
They afford interesting and suggestive
reading indeed, as furnished by the
talented head, for number of years,
of educational matters in that town.
The new clock in the Baptist audi
ence room cannot be expected to gov
ern the time in this locality until it
has been regulated. By the way,
that you must not turn a watch or
clock backward is way back notion,
we venture to say. AS it is. that
clock keeps pretty good time, having
gained about 20 minutes in six
months.
The pastor elect of the Baptist
church, Willimantic, who recently
graduated from the Theological semi
nary in Rochester, N. Y, is to be
ordained to-day. The local church.