The Press., 1905-07-19
WILMINGTON.

the throes OF hay, harvesting, etc.
The Misses Palmer and Dunning
returned to their home here on Satur-
day.
Mrs. Gardner is recovering from a
recent severe alta * of illness, caused
partially from the excessive heat.
He who with equable mind does
his duty without hope of reward or
fear of loss catches and enjoys the
sunshine as he passes, and finds this
good world to live in.''
The main crops throughout the
world are in prosperous and prom
Using condition. If nothing happens
to the corn crop the years yield will
be a record breaker. Oats and wheat
promise we'll.
Frederick S. Morrison, son of the
late Frederick Morrison of this town,
twin brother of Miss Fanny Morrison
OF Windsor, and who used to visit at
his uncle, the late Edward Morrison's,
here, is, with his family, summering
this year at Northwood Narrows, N.
H.
We are sorry to lose Town Consta-
BILE James Lawrence. It is said that
he and his family have removed to
Unionville. where, we are told, he
has secured good job as a machin-
list. Mr.. Lawrence proved himself to
be an Intelligent, alert and conscien-
tious official.
AS the time for the summer and
fall religious gatherings comes on
apace, we are led to wonder why the
participants, delegates, etc., the mo-
ment they strike the church in the
locality are so wild to get back home,
enquiring about return trains, con-
veyances, etc.
George Barrows, wife and child of
Salt Lake City, while making a gen.
eral trip through the east, it being
his first trip with her, are visiting
his aunt, Mrs. Gilbert Ide. Mr.. Bar
rows is a son of the late Oldest broth
er of Mrs. Ide, who, years ago, went
to Utah and amassed a considerable
fortune in Salt Lake City through the
rise in real estate, etc.
1t seems that the friends of Charles
Nichols don't want him to have an
hand. thinking that the am
putatiOn was such, so near the elbow,
that he would not be able to manipu-
late it, preferring to have him go IN
as it we're, the remainder
of his life. We recall the fact that
the late Trial Hanover, for some rea-
son, was not able to use the false
hands supplied him by the govern
ment.
Great Scott men, if our judges
are not "public officers what are
they, private officers, for instance
Even every lawyer is called an loft
GER" of the court. Personally, we
don't like the present governor, al
though we voted for him, and we be-
lieve in always giving the devil his
due. Then, too, how gregarious men
are at certain times, following a
leader" like sheep. We wonder
did the recent majority know what it
was about when it rode over the gov
ernor's late veto?
The severest shower of the season
visited the Hill and vicinity Friday
evening, between 9 and 10 O'Clock.
The lightning was incessant and very
vivid, while the thunder roared loud
enough to awake the seven sleepers.
Some electricity must have fallen in
nearby places, we think, although
as yet we hear of no damage being
done. The rainfall, however, was
not as heavy as might have been ex-
pected. The next day the papers told
of barns being struck and burned in
Easlford, Coventry and Pomfret.
Two greatly needed things here on
the Hill-a local physician and a tel
ephone. Perhaps they will material
ize sometime, perhaps not. Some
body can have the latter soon enough,
provided he or she hees our inven-
tion for both pronouns, masculine and
feminine nominative) will pay for it.
By the way, the N. Y. Herald and
The Press are the only newspapers, as
far as we know as yet, who have
made use of our new pronoun words,
hees" and "mer," nominative and
objective, covering both genders, time
and ink saving devices, if we do say
it.
We copy the following of local in
terest from neighboring newspaper
In these days of abandoned farms it
is very gratifying to note an occa-
sional reclamation of old homesteads
by sons of New England, who left
their native soil to seek q fortune
and then return to i'm
prove the old farm, while others,
with no home-feeling interest, have
sought out just such WORKOUT farms,
which could be purchased for nomi-
nal sum, and applied their wealth to
developing their beauty and produc-
tiveness, thereby causing a return, in
some measure, at least, of New Eng
lands former agricultural prosperity.
A notable case of the latter is found
in Mansfield, the place being known
as the Marlboro Fruit Farm, owned
and operated by J. R. Houston &
Sons. Five years ago, when Mr..
Houston came here from New York
state and purchased the old Hope
Newcomb place. a hilly and stony
farm, SO run down as hardly to sup
port COW, he was ridiculed by the
neighbors, who termed him
a fool for making such a purchase.
However, coming from a noted fruit
state and knowing the kind of soil