The Press., 1905-05-17
WELLINGTON.
This is dry moon. itssis said.

Miss Harriet 0. Robbins is visiting at Mrs. Lippett's, Norwich, this week.
 Charles H. Ryder has plouged up the field alongside the road leading to the school house.
 In some of the gardens of the Bo- hemians of this vicinity peas are thriftily growing.
 Mrs. Mary Slingsby Sloan of Yer mont visited her sister, Mrs. Ellen Morrison, last week.
 Stephen Slingsby and wife, with Miss Martha Chipman of Hartford called on friends on the Hill last week.
 A daughter to William Davis and Jessie Holt Davis was born May 9th. The child is granddaughter of w.. H. Holt.
 This week let's up our F. R. D. mail carrier from delivering free cop ies of an contemplating neighboring city daily newspaper.
 A. s. Pierce left for his duties in New York last week Monday evening, going thence by trolley from Rock vile, via. Hartford.
 Dentist Charles A. Ryder, with a friend of Bridgeport, paid a flying visit to old friends and localities last Thursday, driving hither from Rock vile.
 There is another "Dr. Dick," in the person of grandson, son of Sher- if A. P. Dickinson of Rockville, who graduates from the New York Medi- cal College in June.
 The board in New Haven not long ago prohibited the high school girls from playing basketball as being too violent an exercise. leading too much to scrimmage and straining.
 Mrs. B. J. Pratt, secretary, attend ed the W. 0. T. U. "School of Meth ods'' in Wethersfeld last week, and was the guest there of Mrs. Frank Carpenter, formerly of this town.
 We learn that Attorney General W. A. King of Willimantic stands good chance of securing the third congress sional district nomination. The elec- tors of that district could go further and fare worse.
 The show at the Center school-house last Friday night deserved a larger attendance. But the expenses must have been small, and as it was on its way to Storrs, the show will net suf- fer bankruptcy in the premisse.
 Jacob Goosen has bought of the bank at Stafford Springs the old Ab- bey place, 80 acres, near F.W. Pratt's. This recent purchase includes the site of the Roswell house, burned some time ago, and the little house oppo- site, near the premises of the late Ru- fus Robbins.
 The late Hon. E. A. Buck of Willi- mantle had many friends and ac- quaintances in this vicinity who sim cerely mourn the loss of such pub lic-spirited, whole-souled man. He left considerable landed property in tPe neighboring town of Ashford, Where he was born and reared.
 At the mid-week prayer meeting last week, being one of the series con- sisting chiefly of studies devoted to the consideration of the famous men of the Old Testament, Rev. 0. W. Wolfe incidentally said that the farmers calling was the noblest and most independent one on earth, refer iMg particularly to the life of the Shepherd.
 The clock and the tablet furnished by the Stephen Maslen Corporation, Hartford, given by the descendants of the late Deacon Joseph Merrick and his wife, Lodicea Dunton Merrick, have been affixed to the east wall of the Baptist church, over his old pew. A worthy tribute to very worthy and useful couple of the noteworthy past in this old town and church.
 We are called upon to chronicle the formation of and exploit another club or organization for the time be- ing. Saturday afternoon an initial meeting of the Wilmington Teachers association" was held at the Baptist parsonage. Another meeting to per feet the new organization will be held in two weeks at the same time and place. When we were chairman of the board of school visitors we tried the same thing. We hope this one, for the wholesome benefit of the several teachers in town, will prove success. Six of the teachers were present.
 A Hartford paper enormously states that the late Eugene D. Fisk of Hart ford, who lately died at Sachem's Head, was native of Ellington. An error of the types, perhaps. He was a native of this town, and we knew him we'll in our boyhood. He was son of the late Lucius Fisk and Eliza Eldredge Fisk. His first wife was daughter of the late Lorenzo Daniels of Hartford, which accounts for a con- siderable amount of wampum in the family. A son of the deceased is a leading automobilist of that city. Judge Fisk of Stafford Springs is a surviving cousin.
 Some years ago a thrifty, money loving person would do almost any thing for a dollar. One day his fel- low workmen told him they would give him one dollar if he would "dress up'' in his Sunday clothes and sit in his pig pen all day. In those times one dollar was considered good pay for the hardest days labor. The thrifty, though ease-loving man,