The Press., 1907-03-06
WELLINGTON.

Rutherford Hayes Worden and
family were on the Hill this week.
Mrs. Emily Baker Gardner went
Monday to visit her son in New
Haven.
Dea. Noble of Somers, who died
last week, was a cousin of Mrs. A.
Gardner. She visited him last Aug
ust at his home.
A western correspondent writes us
that the phrase, "Six weeks shedding
in March, :" originated in Ashford,
where then lived a man with five
sturdy sons, all employed in shedding
in March.
Sheriff Louis Helm will sell at the
public sign. post next Monday, at IL
a. M, two rolls of cloth and three
pieces of cloth recently taken by vir-
tue of an execution against the Will
lington Wooden company.
We learn that Washington's birth
day was celebrated at the Village Hill
school. The exercises were appro-
pirate and interesting, and at the close
each pupil received a souvenir hatchet
bearing the words, 81 cannot tell a
lie, - from the hands of the teacher.
south wellington.
A daughter, Elisabeth, was born t.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Korper, of Hart
ford last Saturday.
John Moriarty and family Of Wilt
mantle spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Moriarty in this village
The young people gave Elsie Kings
bury surprise party Saturday night,
and made merry until the clock on
the town hall warned them that it
would soon be Sunday.
At the adjourned meeting of the
Endeavor society last Wednesday even
ing two members we're admitted and
the following officers elected: Presi-
dent, Rev. Charles w. Wolfe; vice.
president, Leon o. Woodwork secre-
tary, Walter A. Allen; treasurer, Miss
Julia Denman; organist, Miss Alice
Denman.
There are days when a man can t
lay up cent" and there are weeks
that news is as scarce as 500 bills.
This is one of them. Nobody doing
anything to justify dragging their
name before the public; nothing doing
at all. There are several things that
occur to us that we should like to
chronicle as items of news For in
stance, we should like to be able to
say that W. E. Battye has agreed to
furnish ice to customers at zoo per
hundred pounds; chat several couples
that we know had got married and
gone to keeping house; that Miss
Charlotte Brigham had found the
pocketbook she lost; that the blue
birds had come; we hear that they
have, but haven't seen any yet, al
though we did see a Jail bird the
other day. We should like to be able
to say that the meat man says that
meat has gone down one cent per
pound, but we cannot because he says
it has gone up; or that ground is to
be broken early in the spring for a
church right near where the town
clerk lives; that the attendance at the
Sunday services greatly exceeds that
at the minstrel shows; that the
trolley road from Willimantic to
Stafford was to be built this year /;
that D @. Dimock had collected all
the taxes due the town; that Arthur
Spicer had been elected vice president
of the American Hosiery company F;
that Thomas Moriarty had traded his
dog for COW; that VIM. Maine had
been appointed governor in place of
Swetenham, resigned; that Mr.. Brack-
ett's hens laid eggs enough during the
month of February to make an ONE
lette as large as the Rock of Gibral-
tar; that the town clerk made 193
pounds of butter in five days from his
new mich COW and finally for this
time) that we are to have a new
passenger station and express Office
this summer.
Moose Meadow.
The Bates boys have new Edison
phone.
The little daughter of Mrs. Joseph
Leozer is quite ill.
E. A. Bates spent Sunday with
friends in North Woodstock.
Mrs. John 10th, who has been
quite i'll, is slowly improving.
Joseph Leczer has returned to New
York, after a few days. visit with his
family here.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M.
E. church here will meet next Sun
day after the service to elect officers
and transact any other business that
may come before it. All are request
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