The Press., 1906-05-09

OOSSFON0S uIA4OkuoS AoAA A "oAh oAu his interviewer, MT. and Mrs c. T. Preston; song, Rev. Charles W. Wolfe; singing. "America, by all present; song, "Good Night, La dies," led by Mir. and Mrs. Wolfe. all accompanying lights out; master of ceremonies, Rev. c. W. Wolfe. Ad mission free to all.
 South WillingtOn.
 Stephen Slingsby has had his large St. Bernard dog killed, as he doesn't need dog where he lives now.
 Uriel lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M., voted $25 dollars to the relief of the San Francisco sufferers at the meeting last Saturday evening.
 A COW that is said to have belonged to Wm. Bowler, that was seen in the river near the depot Saturday, is sup posed to have been thrown there by 8 freight train Friday night.
 The first straw berries of the season to appear here were put on sale Friday at Is cents per basket, the price dropping to 16 cents on Monday. They are fine berries at that.
 Arbor and bird day was observed in the village school by appropriate ex- ercises in school, the annual planting of one maple tree and a trip by the older scholars and teacher through the fields.
 To avoid complications, cucum Der seeds should be planted at least two feet deep. It is also said that it is safe to plant bean poles any time after the 10th of May, as light frosts don t affect them as it does a mans ambi- tion.
 An advertisement in a western newspaper advises after this fashion "All owners of dogs must have them registered by the first of May or they will be killed.' '' That must be a tough place for delinquent dog owners to live in; but perhaps they meant that the dogs would be killed. Moose Meadow.
 Miss Stewart of Rockville was the guest of her friend, Mrs. Jason Allen, last week.
 Mrs. w. D. Ruby and daughter were the guests of friends in West Wilmington last week.
 MT. Mowry and MT. Gray sawed fifteen cords of hard wood for E. A. Bates last Saturday in six hours.
 MT. Wallner and family, who have lived all winter on the Pearl place, have returned to New York to reside.
 Appropriate exercises for Arbor day were held at the Roaring Brook school last Friday afternoon. The program consisted of readings, recitations, songs and the planting of tree.
 Hunting Birds With GreyhOunds.
 The great bustard Is the rarest bird that comes under the category of game" This bird formerly haunted all the level counties of England and was particularly common on Salisbury Plain. From the reign of Henry VIII. repeated measures were passed in or der to protect 1t; and 1t Is expressly in- cluded under the head of game in the statute of the first year of the reign of William w., which codifled and re formed the laws relating to game.
 The close season for bustard shooting was, and Is, from the 1st of March to the 1st of September.
 But the native bustard is now extinct in England. The last was killed at Swaffham, In Norfolk, in 1888. Any that have been shot since have been merely casual visitors, probably com ing from the plains of Saxony. The causes of the disappearance of the bus tard are, firstly, the sport they afford cd, for they were hunted with grey hounds as well as shot; secondly, the increase in the amount of cultivated land.
 This largest of European birds, weighing as much as thirty pounds, could no longer find any sufficient SUD- port on the closely cropped plains oe WnRlan6 -T nnd0n OumMm