The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-04-26
WILMINGTON.

WILMINGTON.
We heard lately that Amasa Hol'
his widow and Frank Nelson are al
dead.
Charles L. Harwood and family &
Tolland and Louie D. Dimock @
Hartford were at @. T. Preston's Sat
Inrday.
Worry less, work more; ride less
walk more; drink less, breathe more
cat less, chew more; preach less
practice MORE"
Preparations are being made TO
the reception and entertainment O
the county annual meeting of the w
q. L. U. in the near future.
There will be hearing on allow
ance of administrator account or
the estate of the late David EldredRe
before the probate judge in Tolland
on Monday, May LIST, at 10 o'cloch
q. m.
Editor Press There always has
been mysteries, and there will always
DO mysteries unsolved in all proba.
bility. Perhaps it would be we'll not
to probe mysteries that concern other
people. A Subscriber.
We are going out of the poultry
Business. Our first brood of the sea.
son was deserted by the mother fol-
pastures new, and consequently ten
fne chicks, just Matched, were frozen
to death. 1t wasn't case of count
ing your chickens before they hatch,
esther.
Mrs. Esther B. Dimock spent Sun.
day at "Maple Corner" leading the
E7deavor meeting in the evening.
Mrs. Preston read poem, an elegant
booklet, sent by Miss Mary o. Ola.
zsor Of Hartford, referring to the Civ.
ei as the daughter of former members
of the church.
Ahira Eldredge Pearl and his wife,
nee Mrs. George Adams, have moved
from West Ashford to the Weston Ry
der Williams house in the Hollow,
over the old store and post Office.
Hi" and George both used to "shoe,
make" for the late Origin Weston in
the same building years ago.
Robert Preston Pratt has received
his appointment from the department
i'll Washington as the carrier on the
new r. F. D. route, Tolland side and
Tolland. He goes north to Robert
E. Cartier's on arrival of early morn
ing mail train from the south, thence
over to Buff Cap, through Tolland
street, exempting the legal limits OF
the local post office there, on around
through Tolland side back to the dis
tributing Office at the railway.
Only IL dogs we're registered last
week, and May first is coming on
apace. Unless all the dogs are duly
licensed this year we are told there
will be music. Anyway, it don't
seem quite the thing for some owners
to pay, while others go free. By the
way, how now about that illegal
opinion" that old soldiers are exempt
in the premises? Fudge an old SOL
der, as we'll as every body else, must
pay all licenses dogs, as we'll as
for getting married, for instance.
The subject at the Congregational
church Easter Sunday was "The Or
derliness of the resurrection. In
teEesting exercises appropriate for the
day by the Sunday school children
followed the service. Fine flowers
wAre in evidence. At the Baptist
chNrch the Hour was taken up by ex-
ercises by some of the Sunday school
children, and by music by the choir,
the latter being especially fine. The
flowers, ferns, etc., made a much ad-
mired display. Fine specimens of
lilies, sweet peas and spirea and aspar-
agus fern were donated for the occa-
sion by Rev. Theron Brown, Wal
ter B. Allen and Clarence S. Pres
ton of Boston, which subsequently
on Easter day were carried to the
family lot in the old cemetery.
Eliakim J. Manning, 20, native
of this town, a son of the late Capt.
Lothrop Manning, died in Whitman.
tic of pneumonia, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Williams, Goth inst.
He is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. W. L. Williams of that city an6
Mrs. J. Y. Miller of New London
also three sisters, Mrs. Louise M
johnson of this town, Mrs. Francis
Champion of Houston, Texas, anG
Mrs. Betsy Jaques of Bridgeport; two
brothers, George and Duett, of West
field, Mass. Mrs. Sophia Gurley Of
this town is cousin of the deceased
Like" was good fellow and will
be missed by many friends.
A good while ago, when Norwich
was the biggest city in Connecticut
and the principal market in the state
the late David Glazier was conveying
hoop poles to that place by ox-team
One day while drawing a load from
his home in the north part of thu
town, called ''Moose Meadow il
later years, he had occasion to stop a
the store of the late Gideon N. Mer
rick on the Hill, leaving his ox-tean
in front of the late Judge Hiram Ri
der's house, his nephew by marriage
which was adjacent thereto. Thu
judge had come out of his house ant
was admiring the great fat animal
attached to the load of hoop-poles
The owner, having emerged from TIT
store, was about to proceed down th'
south road on his way to Norwich
when Judge Rider said, "Uncle Da
TTid, they say you are great on {