The Press., 1906-11-21
WILLINGTnN
Social and supper Friday evening in the Baptist ladies' parlor.


 in the Baptist ladies' parlor.
 Mrs. Gardner returned from her trip to Somers last Thursday even ing.
 A wealthy New Yorker named Crane owns the Norwich Bulletin plant, it is said.
 The present wealth of our country is estimated at about one hundred and seven billion dollars.
 Miss Genevieve Gardner went Sat- urday to visit her brother, Samuel Gardner, New Haven.
 Our "young winter" has disap- peared. We may expect our old, reg ular winter December 22d.
 Joseph B. Dimock and his wife are living with his father, Addison D.. Dimook, for the winter, at least.
 Underneath all the creeds1 there is one religion; and they who have experienced it know each other when they meet.'
 We have resigned our connection with the Norwich Bulletin. Here- after Wilmington news will be fur nished from some other source.
 A new stove has been placed in the Baptist ladies' parlor. Probably the Sunday services of the church will be held in this room during the winter.
 It may be interesting to some per sons in this vicinity to know that one of the chief agents in the recent Storey cotton swindle in Philadelphia has been caught. ,..
 Rev. Dr. Ohipman preached in the M. E. chapel. Holland side, Sunday evening. He was the guest of George P Bubgee and wife, members of his former church in Essex.
 MT. Wilmarth, the agent for the new Boston milk route, was in town last week. He reports progress all along the line, and says that the scheme has come to stay year at least.
 "The majority of people would never discover for themselves that they and their fellows were so badly off, as we are all said to be, unless they read the statement in a book or newspaper.
 A bad time for funerals last Thurs day afternoon in this region. The one here and the two at Stafford Springs were sadly interfered with by the powerful elements of wind, snow and rain:
 As soon as Mrs. Frances Manning Champion recov CTS from her late se- rious accident sufficiently to travel her sister. Mrs. Louise Manning John son, is arranging to accompany her tC her home in California.
 'In the midst of real winter. '' John Merrick writes us from his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that he is in comfortable health and enjoying himself with his dauhgter. Mrs. La throp. They are planning for a trip east for next summer.
 At the Congregational church the subject was Jotham,'' founded on 2d Chron. 22:2. At the Baptist church Rev. Dr. Chipman, formerly pastor of the church in Essex, now on his farm at Talcottville, preached from Roman 9:29. Subject, "The purposes of God. {" An excellent dis course.
 The late Comrade A. N. Nichols, with Samuel s. Nichols, his brother, enlisted from this town in the same company and regiment, I, 16th Conn. Vols. were in the same engagements and were captured together by the enemy and were in the rebel prisons together; they were paroled and mus- tered out the same time. They used to live in the house now occupied by F. W. Pratt, near the railway sta tion, and also in the north part of the town, where the Bates family now live, we think.
 The will of the late Rev. s. W. Clarke provides that the widow shall be maintained during her natural life from fund, consisting of all his estate, given solely to his daughter, Mrs. l.. K. Scott, No. 313 Union street, Springfield. After the wid- ow's decease, if any of the estate is left, it goes to his grandsons. The realty, here in town, was owned by Mrs. Scott. His personal estate con- sisted of telephone and telegraph stock and a fund in the Stafford Savings bank. Mrs Scott is named in the will as executrix.