The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-09-22
WILMINGTON.

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will be taken at the Baptist ohurcl
next Sunday.
Miss Alice M. Preston leaves to
morrow for Hanover. N. H, for al
absence of several weeks.
Mrs. Mathews and daughter expeo
to get settled in the Dimock house
now owned by Mr.. Wostrel, this week
Mrs. Adelbert Still. Charles New
comb and wife and Benjamin New
comb were recent guests at L. B
Olarke's.
There were no services in the Con
gregational church on Sunday, tn
pastor and his family being absent il
Hartford.
The topic for the Thursday evening
prayer meeting Matt. %: IA 20. tn
thought being cam 1 proprietor o
am steWard?"
Mr.. Darrow preached an exoellen
sermon Sunday afternoon from IsaiaI
34:2, "The bruised reed He viii
not break, " etc.
The barn of John Adameo wa
burned Saturday night, with guam
tity of hay, two COWS and a horse
We have heard no details.
A pleasant party of young people
celebrated on Thursday evening, thu
18th, the fifth wedding anniversary
of William Davis and Jessie Holt
Davis.
Walter B. Allen of Boston and hi
nephew, Allen Traver, of Worcester
motored to Maple Corner last Wednes
day, Mr.. Allen driving his own ma
chine.
Mrs. Philo Church, not Mrs. Ralph
Church, as we have sometimes written
it, is staying for the present at the
home of her mother, the late Mrs.
Gilbert Ide.
Rev. Theron Brown left Maple
Corner Thursday evening for New
York for few days with publishers,
literary friends and Yale classmates
in New York city.
Another old adage- that we heard
recently was that the useful herb,
thoroughwort, so highly esteemed by
many. PUTS a man on his horse and
a woman in her grave.
Mr.. Darrow's driving horse has
been sick for several days, having got
ten loose in the barn and eaten a
large quantity of meal It is hoped
at this writing that after the days
and nights of care. the horse may re-
cover.
James Albert Werrender, one of
the county home children, who lives
at Albert Watrous', when picking
apples Saturday, killed, with the
help of a dog, a pair of very large
checkered adders, verifying the old
saying that adders always go in pairs.
Mrs. Preston and Miss Mathews
took Mrs Theron Brown across country
to Mount Hope on Saturday for visit
with her sister in law, Mrs. John AL
bert Brown, and her family. Mr..
Brown, on his ret1rn from New York
will meet her there, at the home of
his late brother.
Driving from Mount Hope on Sat-
urday our horse was frightened by
two large and ferocius acting dogs
that rushed out from a farm house
yard, and running for some distance
took a wrong turning, and quieting
down on a disused road we came
to what may have been an
abandoned farm, that is now inhabited
by people of some foreign nationality,
who have the most beautiful flower
garden that we ever saw at a farm
stead, and we might almost say or
anywhere else. Possibly we have
seen as many flowers at Storrs, but
not in a mrss nor growing as luxuri-
antly. We did not return to express
our gratitude to the CANNES, but were
as pleased as if We had discovered
another north pole. However, we
should make a wide detour another
time to avoid being barked and howled
past that house. Twice in one day
was surfeit. 1t is never safe to say
that horse is not efraid of anything.
That is the moral, or the lesson of
the adventure.
At early twilight on Monday even
ing a red, two-seated automobile
two persons came over the
Hill from the west at such a tremen.
dous rate of speed as to attract the at
tention of all who observed it. In
ascending the slope of the hill it
overlook two teams driving slowly.
The first team was driven by Oscar
Himmeler, who was carrying some
Slavish people who had arrived by
train at West Wilmington, to their
destination, and the other was that
of Elmer Squier with load of goods
for his store at East wellington, and
a man, woman and child belonging
to the Slavish family. Oscar, hear
ing the machine, and fearing that the
horse back of him might be frightened,
turned in at the road leading to
Charles H. Ryder's as the oncoming
motor few past, barely clearing Mr..
Squier's team The horse jumped
and became unmanageable, and in
his efforts to gain control Of it Mr..
Squier was thrown out upon the
green" opposite Baptist church.
The horse ran, but the dragging rains
caught around the wheel hub, and