The Press., 1906-09-26
There are eight million families

There we're one million deaths il
them the past year, and two hundred
and twenty eight million dollars wer,
distributed among them by the various
life insurance companies in tn,
country. So much for this page O
the ledger. as against alleged frauds
etc., on another, perhaps
The will of the late Moses L. Dim
ock, drawn by @. T. Preston some
time ago, has been filed for probate
His son, D. O. Dimock, and his grand.
daughter, Daise H. Dimock, are
named as his sole heirs, share and
share alike. The will carried with
it all his property, present and con
tingent. He nominated his afore
named son as his executor. The will
was proved last week.
Mrs. E. A. Radford, sister of Fred
Draper, whom many will remember
as acceptably singing in the Baptist
church not long ago, was recently
married to Joseph Stretton of Phila-
delphia. lace manufacturer. They
have rented house near Washington,
D. O., in which they were to reside
some two months, when they will
join relatives in Normandy, France.
Their permanent home will be in
Philadelphia. Congratulations.
When Jesse Emo went for his WE'LL
filed pocket book to pay over some
money to his mother law, Mrs
Wright, on his return from business
trip by the Fenton river road, he was
surprised to find it missing, having
lost it on the way somewhere. I'm
mediately retracing his route, when
near the old HARRISON place, now
owned and occupied by J. Langham-
mer, he discovered Lewis Morse, who
had just picked it up from the road,
counting over the contents. 1t was
Immediately restored to it's much re-
lieved owner. The finder was after
wards rewarded for his honesty by the
gift of six fine pullets.
Many persons in this, his native
county. were saddened to learn
through a recent cablegram of the
comparatively sudden death of Hon.
Ratcliffe Hicks in Interlaken, Switz-
reland, of pleuro- pneumonia. He
was a philanthropic millionaire, but
was obliged to give up his scheme of
founding a school near Lake Snipsic
on account of varied opposition. We
had the honor of being a personal
friend, knowing him as we did from
the time he practiced law in Meriden
until he left these shores to recuperate
his health. We shall now prize more
highly than ever couple of books of
travel. of which he was the author,
which he sent us at the time of their
publication, not long ago.
At the Congregational church the
pastor spoke on "The rent veil,"
Matt. 81: 81. Among other nuggets
in the discourse was the expression or
assertion that by the rending of that
veil Jewish ritualism received it's
death blow. In the principal prayer
Pastor Gardner petitioned fervently
for the welafre of Cuba. In the
afternoon at the Baptist church Pas
tor Wolfe preached from Psalm
119: "a. Topic, "The true knowledge
of God.'' The board of deacons and
deaconesses accepted five more candi-
dates for baptism, which will be ad-
at South Wilmington next
Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
Eugene F. Weston, son of the Ori-
gen Weston and Susan Puddlefoot
is a well-known Odd Fellow
throughout the country, and banquet
in his honor is to be given him at the
Allyn house, Hartford, Monday night
by appreciative members of the body.
Apropo to the above allusion to a
boy, now a famous Odd
Fellow, we clip the following from
last Saturdays Courant: "Odd Eel
lows will give banquet at the Allyn
House on Monday night, October 1,
Ia nOAOE u EuS0A9 L. W0SbOh, SLduu
patriarch of the grand encampment in
Mr.. Weston will COM
plete his term of Office in the order at
the annual session, which will be held
In Stamford October 16. He is a
popular member of Odd Fellow organ
izations in Hartford. He belongs to
Connecticut lodge and indian encamp-
ment, and also to Canton Chapter in
Springfield, Mass. Mr.. Wesson has
lived in Hartford fifteen years and is
a painter by trade. He learned the
business in Northampton and followed
it there eleven years. He then spent
seven years in California, coming back
to Connecticut after that period. He
is a native of Wilmington. His inter
sst in Odd Fellowship has made him
widely known in the order, and the
that is to be given in his
honor will be an expression of the good
feeling that exists here towards him. |
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