The Press., 1906-04-04
WELLINGTON

Charles W. Wolfe, Jr., was at
church Sunday.
Loving the beautiful world in
which we live is not worldliness. -
There we're few April fool victims
in this vicinity early Sunday morning.
Miss Alice W. Pratt and her school
mate, Miss Du Bots, returned to
Northfield, Monday.
A goa was fred at a woozle in an
adjacent wood the other day. The
beast ran off as if nothing had hap
pened.
No further news has been received
here at this writing of the serious
condition of Mrs J. F. Whitford at
Cromwell.
Mrs. Preston received a special per-
sonal invitation to attend the dedica-
tion of the new Stone church in Put
nam to-day.
Everybody would gladly see the
hours of labor reduced If the day
could be itself shortened and still the
days work be accomplished.
AS we enter the two meeting houses
on the HILL nowadays we are led to
exclaim with more and more emphasis,
1.-The fathers, where are they!"
George Brown, with his horses, is
talking of going to South Manchester
to work. He has finished his job on
the line between Rockville and Stat
ford Springs.
The late David Burlington and his
first wife, who used to own and occu.
Ply the premises belonging to the late
Samuel Nichols, left four children,
David, William, Sarah and Esther.
A U. S. mail inspector was in town
recently looking after an alleged un-
authorized opening Of a Christmas
love letter. It's query how the mat
ter should be made public property.
The subjects at the Congregational
and Baptist churches were respective
ly 1.-The pillar of cloud by day and
the pillar of fire by night" and "The
persistent beggar," Blind Bartemius.
Marlen Knight bought his house of
the Merricks in 1866. The house
was built in 1890. The present &C.
cupant, Mr.. Knight, has repaired and
painted the house and added pi
azza, etc.
An English weaver named Babcock
used to live in the house now owned
and occupied by Charles Nichols. We
we'll remember our mother buying
of him bed spreads and table-cloths
that he wove.
Mexico's trade with us is increas-
ing. 1t imports from us largely and
we import from it quite extensively.
OF Mexico's total exports we take II
per cent. and we supply 53 per cent.
of her imports.
The new owner of the Marble prop
erty at the railway station is to build
an annex on the dwelling house, we
are told, so that by the first of next
month everything will be ready for
the new occupancy.
Lucian W. Holt, who has for some
time been confined to his bed by sick
ness, was at last accounts somewhat
better. His son, DR.. Wilbur Holt,
came up from his home, Newark, N.
j., to see him Saturday.
Another historical place is the one
now known as the Alderman place,
a little south of the Hill cemetery.
1t used to be owned and occupied by
one Steele, and we guess that is the
reason why Mr.. Steele, now of Wales,
Mass. married Miss Matilda Holt,
daughter of the late Deacon James
Holt. who used to live in the house
now known as the Sparrow place.
We hear from New York that Mr..
Damon, formerly of Stafford, now in
Lord & Taylor's great dry goods
house, learned through The Press not
long ago that his co-worker in that
establishment, Fred M. Preston, was
the son of the late Herbert G. Pres
ton, formerly in business at the
Springs. Mr.. Damon said that he
bought his wedding suit of clothes at
his store.
We learn that the late Robert
Sharp, founder of sharp's mills,
bought the property of the late Abel
Johnson, settling there the year he
was married. Mr.. Sharp was noted
mechanic, and his services were often
called into requisition as land sur
veyor hereabouts. Not long before
his death an extensive business in
grain, shingles and coffins was carried
on by him.
George Pearl Rugbee, the new pros
pective station agent, who has bought
the Nichols farm, is to take possession
about the middle of the month. His
family consists of his wife and four
children, the eldest a daughter II
and three sons. The family will be
much missed socially in Saybrook,
their home for many years, the pa
rents being working members in the
Baptist church in that locality.
We are told that the house on
" Meadow brook Farm" was built by
the late Edmund Freeman, the first
owner and occupant, and that the late
Eleazer Root used to live in a more
southerly part of the town. For the
benefit of outside subscribers to The
Press who have written to ask US just
where this property is situated, we
will say that it is about one-eighth
of mile directly south of the Baptist
church, down the hill on the Mans
field road.
We learn through various newspa-
pers that our popular representative