The Press., 1910-04-27
WILMINGTON.


 The latest news from Rev. Mir. Darrow reports the condition of his father as more favorable.
 We are told that Mrs. Julia Wood :. worth is moving to the Joseph Sparks place, lately vacated by the Watrous family. who have moved to Will Bent Aey's. the Holman place, Holland side.
 Mrs. Albert Watrous, whose obit. nary was printed in this column last week. left two sisters. Evelyn, Mrs. J. B. Taylor, and Sarah, Mrs. Henry Fisher. These ladies contributed a handsome wreath to the floral offer- ings at the funeral. Mrs. Newman Maroey's name was Sarah Ann Lyon MarUey. Had these facts been sent before the obituary was written they would have been appreciated by the correspondent, who makes no claim of infallibility.
 West Wilmington.
 J. c. Goodell has purchased a fine pair of draft horses for his farm work.
 Marlin Knight, who has been con- fined to the house for some time, is at the present writing on the road to rapid recovery.
 Frank Kellogg, who has been quite i'll at the residence of MT. and Mrs Wilbur, is very much improved and is spending a few days with his broth. CT at Holland street.
 Arbor and bird day was observed at the Highland schoolhouse. Under the direction of Miss Klee the children set out few trees, planted flowers, arranged flower beds, and did other grading, SO that when the lawn seed gets started it will look very cheerful.
 The local baseball team met the Athletics from Stafford Springs on the home grounds Saturday afternoon, and although they were defeated by the score of 13 to 8, the showing was very oreditable, considering the strength of their opponents and that the home team have not had much practice, but with Hansen and Potter on the pitching staff and a number of the other boys who will report later, it looks as if the team would be as strong as ever and deserves the loyal support of all.
 South Wilmington.
 Mrs. Jennie Sharp Braman of Troy, N. Y., is the guest of Mrs. E. J. Holman.
 Communion service will follow immediately after the preaching in the hall next Sunday.
 Collector of taxes, R. H. Worden, has notice in another column of this paper that is instructive, though not amusing.
 It looks as though the dog warden would have something to do in town this year, as only 36 of the hundred dogs are registered so far.
 The Y. P. s. 0. E. meeting this evening will be led by Mrs. Jennie s. Braman, who has had an unusual opportunity of becoming familiar with the subject, 1. @. missions.
 In the absence of the pastor, Rev. E. W. Darrow, who was called to Waterford by the illness of his father, the preaching service was conducted by Rev. T. O. Denman, who gave an axca1lonE aaruoon
 The bonfire law has resulted in a great many less garden fires in this section this spring. Personally, 1t would seem as though it would be better to have accumulated rubbish burned, but the nuisance of having to bother with going or sending after permit acts as a stop to the cleaning up process There are quite a few that feel that there should be deputy fire warden in or near the vil- lage, authorized to issue such permits.
 A story is told of an Irishman who, being sentenced to be hanged, was told that he could choose what kind of a tree he should be hanged on. He promptly chose a gooseberry bush. When told that 1t was too small he said philosophically, "L'll wait for it to grow '' We have some young ball players here that are Boomers, but must we wait for them to grow before we have a ball team? What we want is 8 team that can meet the crack team from West Wilmington, and take their pelts three times out of five times up. This means players from out of town, for while there are several old men, a few women and children living around here, the ball players are as scarce as prizes in Ad. Potter's bags of peanuts. Speaking of "Dad," " reminds us that he is the only Indian around here with sand enough to get up ball team, and he will be around after your plugged nickels in a few days. Meet him with a smile and treat him so we'll that he will be ashamed to tackle you again.