The Press., 1910-08-03
WILMINGTON.

I E. o. Carpenter has gone to New port. Vt. to attend the funeral of his step. father. @ s ,.
 Robert F. Pratt. wife and daughter drove over from Andover Saturday and spent Sunday with his parents at Pleasant View, returning on Monday. Happy those who have open Ire places and . hearthstone fire on damp and chilly mid summer mornings and ayenings. Many an illness may be thereby averted. ge
 Qnite large delegation from the Hill attended the opening meetings of the State Poultry association at storrs Tuesday, and others were dis. mayed by the threatening weather of the morning.
 Our copy of 'Beulah, by Augusta Evans, ia missing from our book casea. It is a we'll worn book, but favorite. and just now we are wanting it. Will the friend who haH ! it please return. and without taking offense at thiB suggestion.
 The regular monthlSibusiness meet ing of the Ladies' Aid society met with the president. Mrs. Preston, I Monday afternoon and resolved itself lineo q porch party. No business of Importance was transacted, although EseveFal interesting matters were dis. Cuased.
 "A rumor shat the R. F. ID. route is
 to be changed back to a star route
 seems to have started from the suR
 gestion by.the department that some- Ithing might be gained financially by
 letting out the routes to the lowest
 bidder. in the way the star routes
 were supplied with drivers, but thia plan is hardly liable to be adopted and
 would not come into effect for year or two at shortest, so we will not
 worry over that every other day de-.
 hvery.''
 John Merriok and his daughter,
 Mrs. Lathrop, are to be- at the Bap-
 ttst assembly grounds at Mound,
 Minn.. during: August. MT. Merrick
 writes that he Is to take his Smith Pramier along and may continue his Willington "reminiscences for The
 Press, and may tell us something of ths history of the house on the hill. Itop now. owned and occupied by Rev. 5 Austin Gardner. as we'll as many
 other items of interest that few now, save he. remem bars. He states in a { rece6t letter that his brother, Rev Samuel Merrick of Addison, N. Y.,
 is qnite feeble.
 7 Edward Everett Fuller, who was , born in Willington January l 1844,
 died at Geneseo. Ill July 8 He re. n malned a resident of his native state
 until septembar, 1877. when he re.
 moved to Illinois, locating near Gen. eaeo. This had been his home. ever since. He was married March 12, I1S65, to Mary M. Burdlok, who died
 July 12, 1894 To this union were
 born twelve children, of whom ten are still living. These are Eugene of Locksburg, Arkansas. Mrs. Harriet ? Davis~and Mias Veda Fuller of OooT Q RapidH, Iowa, willard and Frank oi ! Geneaeo, Mrs Roena Mercer and Mrs
 EiauFa Davis of Hanna, Mrs. May l. Daley of LetcheT, s. D, Arthur ant t Percy av home. Edward E. died iI !. Iinfaney and Herb9rt l.. died at Port e land, Ore. at the age of 32 years # There are also thirteen grandchildrel if living. Resides these, Mir. Fulle
 left to mourn his death sister. Mrs n M Ks Paul.gof Geneseo South Wilmington. s r. Miss Viola Gerglsr ia spending 2, week with relatives in Mystic a Seven hundred more bags of Osmen h have arrived t1 be ussd on the ohuroI y building
 Mrs. George H. Phillips of Spring field, Mass., spent Friday last at tn home of her brother, Wm. H Brack cit. pj W g
 Miss Hannah WoodWorth Potter Q Coventry was the guest of her bEot h
 or, Leon o. Woodworth, Sunday a
 Wm. H. Brackett's. - sars II Miss Harriett McCoy of Wyoming 'a who is here in the east for a feV ,r weeks, ia at present the guest of he
 aunt, Mrs. K. J. Holman.
 w. George U. sterry, with his autUmC D. bile, isin great demand these days W It is a question whether he or the c t V. road carries the most passengers. at In the absence of the pastor, wh TX was called again to the bedside of hi m mother, the desk was supplied D ns Rev.. T. O. Denman, who Ravesan ex < ceFIent sermon from the text found i " Psalms 90: 12. ,aaa
 We understand that Wallace M 1. Lillibridge has taken the position ( . .o care -taker of the premises next mort II of Dr. F. E Johnson at Mansfiel Depot. This property was lately sol N by George H. Baker to a New Tor q, party, who wishes it for a summ' z5 residence.
 Tho reorganized Wilmington ba cl team Is to play the Sodom Stars to n Willimantic next Saturday afternoo
 on the Pinney grounds. Game to av called at 4 o'clock. As the new tea .f. is to be made up of players from We ,r. Willingtcn and thistvillage. and add' A to that is the fact that thare has be- aa scarcity of games here this seaso as 1t Is expected that the attendance VI bv be large. NJ M r M West Wilmington. <; Dss Miss Mary 0. Savage and her frieI to from Holyoke. Mars, are guests ,es the Ward farm.