The Press., 1905-07-26
WILMINGTON.

this country.
Lucius Eldredge, whose health still
continues rather precarious, is yet
living with his sister, Miss Lucy.
There are 500 Congregational
churches in the United States, an in
crease of 10 the year last past.
The two sisters, Mrs Hannah W.
Ryder and Mrs. G. L. Dennis of Stat
ford Springs drove around the Hill
last Thursday afternoon about siesta
time.
There are in Boston 1913 Sullivans
holding Office and drawing an aggre-
gate salary of $13S, 900, while 1O7
Murphys draw 500, 900 from their
offices.
Mrs Belle Sleight returned home
last Friday for her summer vacation.
in the month of August on case in
New York.
Samuel, the prophet, Samson, his
coadjutor, and Eli, the high priest
and also judge, were the subjects of
contemplation at the mid week prayer
meeting last week.
The pinnacle of a hill little
north of the Center is getting to be
quite an objective point for pilgrim
ages hereabouts. A sunset party went
thither last Saturday.
Samuel Gardner drove over from
Burnside last Thursday and left his
daughter, Linda, with her grandpa
rents at the Congregational parsonage,
where she will resume her music
studies with her aunt, Miss Genevieve
| Gardner.
Charles J. Walker and wife of Paw
tucket, r. l., parents of Arthur
Walker, who many will remember as
summer visitor here last year, came
to Miss Lucy Eldredge's last Monday.
He has left for his home, while Mrs
Walker will remain for time.
Mrs. William Schroeder of Staten
Island, N. Y, daughter of a late
veteran of the civil war, is summering
at Thomas Mattesen's. The day of
her arrival there was an eventful one
to him, for he had a good horse die on
his hands. J. J. Himmeler has also
recently lost valuable horse.
Charles T. Preston did not accept
an invitation to be present at the
10th reunion of his regiment at Saw
in Rock, New Haven, last Thursday.
He had to forego the shore dinner,
but the annual badge used on the oc-
casion was sent him by mail. These
reunions are generally held there and
in Hartford, but there was one of
late years in Willimantic. There
we're few enlistments in that regiment
nearer here than that point.
If you will memorize these old
lines, filled out up to date, you will
have a complete list of English sover-
eigns from the time of the Norman
conquest =
First william the Norman, then William, his
Henry, Stephen, and Henry, then Richard and
Next Henry the third Edwards, one, two, and
three:
And again after Richard, three Henrys we see.
Two Edwards, third Richard, If rightly guess,
TWO Henrys sixth Edward, Queens Mary and
Bess;
Then jamie the scott; then Charles whom they
slew;
Then followed Cromwell. another Charles, too.
Next James called the second, assembled the
throne;
Then William and Mary together came on,
Till Annie, Georges four, and fourth William
at rest,
Then God sent Victoria, the youngest and best
Now Edward, the seventh, whose wife is a Dane,
The best pair Of any, and long may they reign
Apropos to the last old-time story
in this column of The Press relating
to what the Westford old chap said
regarding the impracticability of an
engine drawing cars on iron rails,
here is another: A then old resident,
who thought it was time for his turn
to come to go to the legislature, was
duly nominated and elected. Away
back in those days even a nomination
by the present dominant party's eau
Gus was equivalent to an election.
Mr.. Jones, as we will call him, was
returning one day from the session of
that general assembly, the legislator
and law maker had returned to the
railway station here C'legislative
mileage tickets were in use as now
from New Haven, where in those
days the session met alternately with
Hartford. Ensconsing himself into
the capacious vehicle preparatory to
vending his way homeward, he cas-
ually glanced up at the telegraph
wires over his head and remarked TO
the companion beside him, "Wall, I
never knew, and I'm blamed if
know now, how great big packages
can be carried over them are wires. -
And this reminds us of what another
law maker and legislator, whom the
town once hOnored in that direction,
said about those same wires. Squirt
ing stream of tobacco juice through
his teeth upon the roadside where he
was standing, talking with neigh
Dor, he emphatically remarked, as he
shot glance upward at the telegraph
lines overhead, 81 declare fort,
don't for the life of me know how
messages can git over them wires
when they are all kivered with ice. "
And we are further reminded just now
of query made by still another ex-
legislator of this town. Some time
after his service in the legislative
halls, while acting as juror in GER
tain case from this town, he button
holed a fellow juror, guing up the
court room stairs of the county build
ing in our shire town, saying, 'Say,
A1o q do.