The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
WILMINGTON.


The initiated say that the danger of
dry wells has passed for this year.
Orrin Watrous is confined to the
bed at present with his chronic malady.
Miss Leila Church of Rockville is
visiting her sister. Miss Jennie
Church.
Mrs. Knox, Miss Helen and Master
Howard returned to Hartford last
Thursday.
Miss Gardner is visiting in New
Haven at the home of her brother.
Samuel Gardner.
Mrs. Preston carried her sister in
law, Mrs. Brown, to F. W. Preston's,
West Stafford, on Monday.
If you are doing wrong, it does not
help the matter at all to influence
others to follow your example.
Rev. O. W. Wolfe preached Sunday
from Matt 22:21, Render to Caesar
the things that are Caesars and to
God the things that are God's.''
Misses Florence M and Inez W.
Pierce and Miss Alice W. Pratt go to
the seminary at North6eld, Mass,
to-day.
Robert P. Pratt is learning tele-
graphy and railroad business general
ly with George Bugbee at West Will
lington station.
Harold Pratt went last Saturday to
Providence, Mrs. Antony Jacobsen is
visiting her brother, Marten Hansen,
at Hop River.
Schools commenced the Sd. Miss
Cora A. Dimock of Gurleyville is che
teacher in district No. 1 and boards
at Maple Corner.
If your spirits are low, do some
thing; if you have been doing some-
thing, do something different Ed
ward Everett Hale.
Mrs. BARTLETT, John Bartlett and
Miss Mentzer spent Labor day in
Hartford and Windsor, driving to
Rockville and taking the trolley.
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week on western business trip. Mrs.
Gardner still holds her position as
teacher in the Rockville schools.
Repairs have commenced on the old
store building. The unsightly shed
is already out of the way. In future
the place will be known as the studio.
Miss Capron of Jersey City, organist
and musical instructor in DR.. Walter
Damerosch's College of Musical Art.
is visiting the Misses Palmer and
Dunning.
The apron social at George Bub-
gees was very enjoyable. Edward
Carpenter took the prize for excellence
in sewing and Oscar Himmelar took
the BOBBY prize.
The Congregational parsonage, now
owned and occupied by Rev. Austin
Gardner, is being painted colonial
yellow, with cream trimmings and
dark green blinds.
The Endeavor meeting was led Sun
day evening by Mrs. Preston, in place
of Miss Harriet O. Robbins, the as.
signed leader. 1t was held in the
Congregational conference room, was
we'll attended and interesting.
F. W. Preston, wife. sister, Mrs.
Helen M Preston Brown, of Newton
Vile, Mass, and daughters, Misses
Gladys and Helen, visited Mrs. Pres
ton at Maple Corner last Friday in
honor of Miss Helen's 14th birthday.
Mrs. Harriet Ryder Lippett of Nor
wich, her granddaughter, Mrs. Milton
Bartlett, and little daughter, HsRpth
Bartlett, are visiting Mrs. Caroline
Ryder Robbins. Mrs. Lippett is a
native of Wilmington and cousin of
Mrs. Robbins.
Saturday was the 10th anniversary
of the removal of DR.. W. L. Higgins
from this place to South Coventry.
He celebrated the event by coming up
with Mrs. Higgins, Miss Higgins and
Miss Ruby, i'll an automobile to
Maple Corner, his first Connecticut
home.
Mrs. Joslin, Mrs. Lyon and Mrs.
Hansen are the committee who have
the social in hand to be held in the
Baptist conference room Friday even
ing, the goth. The contract for re-
pairing the barn at the Baptist par
sonage has been given to George
Baker.
Make golden milestone" of one
of these bright September days by
visiting "The Pinnacle" and see if
you do not agree with every new
visitor that the half has not been told.
A new path has been made and most
of the difficulties of the ascent have
been surmounted.
In the Hartford Times of Monday,
Sept. I'd, is an interesting "inter-
view," giving Major Edward v. Pres
toms impressions of motoring in Eng
land, as we'll as many interesting in
cidents of his summers trip in Eng
land, Ireland and North Wales. Mr..
Mrs. and Miss Preston arrived home
August 31st. He thinks Americans
have much to learn about motoring.
The whole interview is intensive
and instructive.
Miss Isabelle Merrick, native and
former highly esteemed resident, has
been fer some time with Col. and
Mrs. Charles Dean in Maiden, Mass,
and they out of pure sympathy. hav-
ing had no previous acquaintance with
her, are, with characteristic kindness,
endeavoring to assist her in the
peculiarly helpless condition in which
sickness and unlocked for circum-
stances have placed her. This is
mentioned here because few people
understand that this unfortunate lady
has no legal residence anywhere, and
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