The Press., 1906-04-18
WILMINGTON

we'll. we hear.
, ! The Baptist ladies' social was quite
a pleasant. affair, with quite a. large
attendance.
1t is stated that the fire in Albert
Roots house last week originated
from the chimney.
Mrs. Gardner, with her son, Dwight,
went last week to Hartford, Burn
side, etc., to visit friends.
Col. Marvin Knowlton, we'll known
in this vicinity, is at present at the
Knowlton farm in Westford. - -
We note that the governor has re-
quested the observance of Arbor and
Bird day, Friday, May 4th.
The children's Easter exercises at
the Congregational church were post
poned to next Sunday, Easter. tide.
A billion dollars worth of agricul-
tural products will have been exported
during the fiscal year about to close.
After this week Thursday evening
the regular prayer meeting will be
resumed in the Baptist ladies' parlor
Mrs. J. F. Whitford, now of Crom.
we'll, is no better. Her daughter,
Mrs. Lena Moore, is with her at pres
emit.
The regular monthly meeting of
the local w. O. T. U. will be held at
the house of Mrs Louise johnson
Saturday afternoon at O'Clock.
Edwin @. Carpenter drove Harold
Morse's horse as far as Willimantic
to New Canaan last week, and visited
friends in Hartford on his way home.
Austin Rowland is at the sanitari-
um at Rutland, Mass, where it is
hoped his health will soon be i'm
proved by the out of doors treatment
there.
Charles H. Rider was threatened
with pneumonia Saturday night and
Sunday, neoessitatinR call from his
physician. He is on the road to re-
covery at this writing.
A fire was averted in the Baptist
conference room last Friday evening.
One of the Rochester lamps was
knocked down and the escaping burn
ing oil did some damage.
Marcus E. Hunter of Williamstown
and Boston called at g. T. Preston s
yesterday. Mr.. Hunter was fellow
clerk of the late Hubbard G. Preston
in Matthew'S store at Williamstown.
Wallace Morse has returned to his
job in Stafford Springs, while his
uncle, William McVeigh, is now able
to be about the mill of the Connecti-
cut Wooden company in Daleville on
crutches.
The Willingtons and the Eagle
villes broke even in the ball game
Friday, the Eaglevilles winning the
first Z to 4 and the second 10 to 3.
The Willingtons will play at Eagle
Vile Saturday.
Sunday evening at the meeting of
the Y. P. S. @. E.. Miss Mabel Clark
leader, feeling references we're made
by Pastor Gardner and others to the
Vesuvian sufferers, and to the noble
words and deeds of the king and
queen of Italy.
There are parties in this vicinity
who are strenuous in the belief that
the man who has figured quite extern
sively hereabouts as a chicken thief,
who stole G. A. Cosgrove's horse
some time ago, etc., and the man who
robbed the Palmer baker last week
are identical.
We hear that the opening ball
game of the season, near the railway
station, was a sort of vica-versa one,
the Eaglevilles beating the West Will
lingtoLs in the first game and the
West Willingtors vanquishing the
Eaglevilles in the second. There was
a goodly company of spectators in at
tendance.
1t may interest the friends and rel
atives of the late Brig. Gen. Lyon in
this vicinity to know that Wilson g
Greek, where the distinguished gener-
al met his death, is one of the fiercest
battles of the civil war, is soon to be
set off by the government as national
park. General Lyon was born in
Ashford July IA, 1918, and was ap-
pointed to West Point by Gen. Holt of
this town.
A blaze was discovered in the house
of Albert M. Root, formerly known
as the Samuel Walker Ezra A. Morse
place, last week Monday. 1t was ex-
tinguished before much damage was
done through the exertions of neigh
bors, including Leslie Waterman of
Stafford, who has been painting on
the Alfred Cowles buildings, the old
Amanda. Wheeler place. The damage
is covered by insurance through the
agency of G. Dow Ide of Stafford.
There was some excitement among
the neighbors at first, but it soon
subsidized.
A relative of the late Rodolphus
weston, formerly OF this town and
latterly of Illinois and Washington,
writes us that his family has become
extinct by the drowning of his son,
Howard, and his son in Puget Sound,
by breaking through the ice Miss
E. N. Lawson of Union was a niece
of the late Rev. Mr.. Weston's wife,
she being Miss Minerva Holman, a
sister of the wife of the late Rev.
Justice Hatch Vinton, raised here in
town, a minister of the local Baptist
church, and a missionary to Burma,
British India.
There was no service on account of
the rain Sunday at the Congregational
church. In the afternoon at the Ban.