The Press., 1909-05-12
WILMINGTON.

doing at this busy season,
 Miss Emma F. Robbins went last week to visit relatives in Webster, Mass.
 Q D. Preston and wife of West Stafford spent Sunday at Maple Corner.
 Ben Robbins, with his handsome oxen, is at work on the road for Ed ward Eldrsdge.
 There is gang of men at work on the state road between the Hill and East Willington Do not allow yourself to believe anything merely because you would be glad to do so. -
 The foundations for 8 monument for the late Rev. Charles Hovey Brown are being made. Under the efficient supervision of the secretary. F. W. Pratt. the ceme- l tsry improvements are making rapid progress.
 Mothera' Sunday was observed in the Baptist church. the service and the appropriate solo by MT. Darrow being very beautiful.
 All the friends of Mrs. Harriet iAE=ziaon and Mrs. Emma n Holman as glad soyhave thean 1t hcuso nafe and we'll from their long trip across the continent.
 Miss Helen Cook of Holyoke, Mass. |. granddaughter of Isaac Still,. a na- tive of the town. is visiting her cousin, Miss Mabel E. Clarke, at the old Still homestead.
 "No we'll balanced mind believes fairy stories; and no mind would be- lieve what really goes on in the world around us-if it could be told with out first seeing it..
 Rustic pavilions are quite the thing now, and when covered with vines will certainly be very ornamental. We notice that Mail Carrier Devorak has one in his yard.
 Tax Collector Worden was at the town hall Saturday afternoon. His wife, Mrs. Nellie Morrison Worden, came up with him and called on old neighbors and friends.
 Although returns have been re- ceived from the post office department by those who took the civil service examination, no appointments have been so far as we have heard, and there may still be surprises in store.
 Some one has said that when you do any one a favor it is a half promise to do another. It is certainly true that many people make a COIL venience of an obliging friend or neighbor. and do not hesitate to inn pose upon their good nature. ,
 An aged man by the name of Sam uel Taylor, who had been at Orrin Watrous' for some months, died quite unexpectedly last Wednesday morn- ing Dr. F. E. Johnson, medical ex- aminer. was called. The body was taken to Stafford for burial.
 Of the measles victims, Miss Dasie Buck is so as to be out; Wayne Morse is quite ill, as is also the little Be- mena boy School is still closed on account of the prevalence of this distemper. the teacher, Miss Lillian Mathews, being at her home in West. ford.
 The service berry. or shad bush, is now making the wayside attractive. and our bed of saxifrage is in fall bloom and as pretty as sweet alyssum, which it somewhat resembles. Our grandmothers used to call it whit. low grass, and attribute to it a medicinal virtue, if pounded and used as a oom- press or poultice.
 Every bit of interest taken in the AR-butus is help toward saving it from extermination. We might all settle down and call it by the pretty and suggestive May flower. We sup posed that this year it all went by in April, but on mothers Sunday saw the finest specimens that we ever have seen in Connecticut, where there is seldom snow enough to bring it to it's full perfection.
 Impure blood runs you down-makes you an easy victim for organic diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood cures the cause builds you up.