The Press., 1907-11-27
WILMINGTON.

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 Better are small fish than an empt
 dish. "a II Mrs. Preston was unable to go
 Springfield for Thanksgiving
 W. O. Ruby will sell at aucEion .
 the Jason Allen farm. Saturday, Dec 7th, at 10 a. ID the stock, farmini tools, etc. f@ @"-.
 There was a pleasant family greet ing given Linneas Nichols and hi
 bride on their return from their wed ding trip in the vest, at the home O
 his father, Charles l., Nichols. |. Mrs
 Margaret Nichols sPease and. family from Ellington was present witlIs' hel family, as we'll as the members living near by. The brides family were represented by her sister from Hol' yoke and MT. and Mrs. Nathan Ward and children, Holland side. s, =,
 Charles Rider Bartlett, grandson. et Mrs. Harriet Rider Lippett a of Nor wich, 8 native of this town, has been Fengaged to sing tenor in the quartet of the Hamline Methodist church, Washington, D. o., where he holds a government position. Iu reference to MT. Bartlett's engagement, 8 Wash ington, D. O., paper asys: |" MT. Bartlett is not only singer of merit, but also composer of ability as. we'll. His song, The Master, is far above the average of sacred songs, :, and he has. composed several marches and considerable music for prefesaiopal singers. '' The old WillingtOndna- tives. wherever situated, many aa'of them Press subscribers, are glad tiiat the soions of the old stock are doing their ancestors credit.
 South wilmington.
 Mrs. Louis J. Korper and SOD, Adolph, of 5 Hartford are guests of MT. and Mrs. Adolph Korper.
 Chicken thieves raided Stephen Slingsby's poultry house last Saturday night, and succeeded in getting away with forty or more fowls. Arthur Stills of Holyoke spent Sat-. urday with relatives in this village. Mir. Stills holds an excellent position with that branch of the American Thread Go. located in Holyoke.
 At business session of the. Sunday school last Sunday it was voted to have the usual observance of. Christ. mas, but it will be held on Christmas eve instead of Christmas night. as has sometimes been the case in past years. The following committeeg were elected: Entertainment com-s mittee, Miss Ida M Hall, Miss Julia Denman, Thomas A. Denman.. Missl Alice Denman, Rev. Charles W. Wolfe; decoration and tree commit tee, Miss Elizabeth D.. Hall and the superintendent, who will choose others to assist them. ...s '. <. ,,.s.s .s
 The social in the hail, last E sIEEttiiaays evening proved to be moro of 7an-aHaiF- than was anticipated, The. AttenH ance was large and the attractions excellent. So far as we know there were no savage. beasts z :. tn heres9 to. be soothed by thecharm of the music. but the orchestra, composed of Walter Oolburn, Raymond Carrier, and Frank Safranek, cornetists: Arthur Moriarty; trombone; Joseph Nedwied, violin, and Miss Alice Dsnmap, pianist, dis pensed music of the soothing variety. as we'll as the kind that made the deacon get the jiggers in his feet at Aunt Jerusha' g quilting party. The. hidding on the 27 live flowers" was spirited, although some of the flowers may have felt "out'' at the-s spriees they bought. But some flowers -aTe so! delicate and require. SO much care and attention and men. so seldom under. stand them. that perhaps they were loath to invest too much in an article that would fade away, far away. .uns less ice cream, hon bons, etc. ; ln sufficient quantities were supplied,- and there is such stringency in the money market just at this time that most beautiful flowers, fit to adorn any ice cream parlor, were sold for the paltry sum of 25c to $1. 25. One little flower of the sensitive plant variety. dressed in lowered crepe with hat to match, was of so retiring 8 nature that few had the opportunity of admiripg and classifying, but it has been learned that she is properly known as Hazel Brackett. It is too bad that there should be any suspicion that there was collision between Nor. man Griggs and the auctioneer. so that the former should know what particular flower he was bidding on, but Norman is somewhat of 8 politic-s s ian. The receipts from all sources were quite satisfactory, as were all other features of the affair.
 West Wilmington.
 Rev Mir. lyric will preach at the chapel Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
 ASHFORD.
 Ora Wilson of Ashford, who gained notoriety as the principal witness in. the Mrs. Julia Wilson murder case, for whose death Mrs. Mary Manson is now serving term of ten years in Wethersield, and for love of whom, it was alleged during the trial, Mrs. Manson killed the mother, committed suicide at the home of Frank Wilson in Chaplin Friday morning Wilson has been working lately in the paper mills at South Chaplin and boarded with Frank Wilson, 8 relative. He is said to have become infatuated with a married woman in Chaplin, and the strain of the murder trial, and his love not being reoiprocated, he became Respondent. This, together with the incarceration in jail for a time, is ho1iova6 t0 hovo hrOu0hk bo,Sk -,r,a1 |