The Press., 1908-07-22
WILLTNGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 Mrs. Elvira Green, 6S. died yester
 day. She leaves one son. Fred, an'
 a daughter. Minnie.
 Wednesday, July 18th, was St'
 Swithen's s day. As it did not rail
 we need not. according to popular superstition, expect forty days down pour, but the farmers would welcome rainy day. or succession of them, that would wet to the bottom of the corn and potato hills.
 The frontispiece on the July Gen. tury is the most likable portrait oi President Roosevelt we have seen. II is the first reproduction given to the public of Gari Meloher's late work. The canvas shows the president in riding dress. and, was painted for the Ffeer collection of the National gallery Smithsonian institution) at Washington. where the painting itself Is first to be shown. 'g.
 Sixty per cent. of the population of the United States Is rural, notwith- standing all we hear in the current din about the city. Fifty million people live in little cities, in villages. at the cross. roads and on the farms. And unless we mistake the signs of the times, a current is certainly set ting in, in the reform of return to the country, and it is the rich who are setting the example.
 South WllanetOn. Dance at Cartier's grove Saturday night.
 Miss Flora Fox is spending 8 few days with relatives in Norwich.
 MT. and Mrs. John Brownlee re- turned Monday from a two-weeks' stay-in Vermont.
 Potter's Ponies play the West Will lington Tigers at West Wilmington next Saturday afternoon
 Homer N. Neil was quite sick Sun- day, but is better at this writing. .aI- though not able to be at work.
 Misses Lizzie and Helen Dimock are in Hartford for 8 two-weeks' visit at the home of MT. and Mrs. Frank Knox.
 Wm: E. Battye is recovering from an illness that has kept him 8 bed for several days. the trouble being due to getting over-heated.
 Word has been received by District Committeeman John Brownlee that Miss Margaret Mallory has decided to take the local school for the coming year.
 The Junior ball team put up good argument in the game with the Tol land team last Saturday. They were obliged to leave the game unfinished, however, with 8 score of 6-6..
 Ool. W. H. Hall, as a member of the Connecticut party to the Chicago attended the compliment tary dinner given Charles F. Brooker in Hartford last Friday evening. :.
 The ball game last Saturday was interesting, we'll attended and good clean game all the way through. The visitors didn't play quite up to their usual form, but for all that they started off in a way that made betting against them look unsafe. In the first inning the visitors scored one ont a base on balls. an error and field -4] erts choice that failed. Potteris1 Ponies went out one, two, three eIn the second Hansen scored on a pass, q two strikeouts- and anu error. The Ponies got pass and hit, but failed, to tally. Again the visitors tallied. and the score was 30. It was up GO Moriarty to save the honor of his] team, He mopped the, perspiration1 from his brow, grabbed 8 fence rail, or something similar, and swatted that ball as though Potter hadn't just paid good sound plunk for 1t. Prue hAdn' t been given the tip, but he gave the ball 8 long ride to left field, where Leonard made the cutest catch of the day. He made 8 long run, stuck his hand into the air about three thousand feet or less and caught it by his finger nails. Bradley smack ed it one, Levine caught one on his arm. Lillibridge pasted it for one sack, Doyle and Reynolds came in for two -baggers, and by this time the Ponies had a pretty good path around the diamond. An error and two more hits and the picnic was over. with eight runs to the good. Hansen did the twirling for the visitors, while Doyle furnished the5sla for the home team. The score:-