The Press., 1912-07-10
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 Mrs Wm. Ruby, who has been quite ill, is showing marked improve lment.
 sMr. Bottomly has sold his farm at East Wilmington, the Joseph Sparks place, and has moved to Samuel Pourtrey's s for the present.
 Allfon this R. F. D. route are glad the town has Col. w. Henry Hall to represent them before the meeting of the public utility commission in Hart ford, and hope for the good of the public generally that the early train may be replaced.
 A beautiful pair of red cardinal birds have taken up their habitat in the ash tree near our door and are en- gagged in building a nest. They used to nest here every year, but for some time now we had not seen them. There are more birds and squirrels this summer than for long time. We trust nothing may disturb them.
 Mr. Merrick and other former resi- dents write that they are much inter ested in the inscriptions on the stones at the old cemetery, as copied by Prof. Emo and published in a recent Press. One to whom they were sent writes: ''After reading them I felt as if had been strolling over the familiar hill-top'
 Relatives here were much interested in the account of the accident to pr. Frost s automobile in Hartford recent ly, Mrs Frost, nee Minnie Wright of Ashford, having been the widow of the late Dr. George Ryder, and Ray mond Ryder, the chauffeur, their son. They were on their way to their sum- mer home, "Idlewild, at West Ash ford
 Samuel Pourtrey, hearing an out cry among a brood of his young chickens the other day and looking for the cause, found an enormous black snake, making off with the struggling chick. Finding his progress retarded by a heavy foot upon his tail, his sWakeship dropped the chick and doubled back upon MT. Pourtrey, who stepped for a stick, when the snake again seized the chicken and started for the swamp near by. A hard blow forced him to again drop his prey but he was successful in making his escape We have seen snake catch a frog, but never before heard of their molesting chickens
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 MT. and Mrs. T. 0. Denman were recent visitors in New York. ;
 Miss Ethel Richardson is home from New Britain on a vacation.
 J.. J. Oldershaw of Willimantic visited friends in town last Friday.
 MT. and Mrs Medose Labonte spent Friday with friends in East Hampton
 Charles Kingsbury of Bristol was a recent guest of Mrs. Joseph Kings bury.
 Several New York visitors are guests of Anton Radla, Lucas Safranek and Charles Pobuda.
 Angels unawares: Two real live Mormons were given lodgings by Wm. H. Bracket last Saturday night.
 Mrs. John Lambert of Shelton and Mrs. James Lawrence of Montpelier, Vt., are guests at the home of George Nichols.
 No, Sylvester, the extremely sultry weather of late is not a punishment for the recent doings in Chicago; we will get that in a different form, later. ,.
 Col. w. H. Hall was in Hartford Tuesday attending the hearing before the public utilities commission in re- lation to the defunct train service on the O. V. railroad.
 E. D. Hastings of Plainville, who is in the life insurance business on large scale, made a trip out to this village last Friday, remaining over Saturday and Sunday with MT. and Mrs Homer N, Neil. He was &C., companied by Homer N. Neil, Jr., who has done some insurance work l under MT. Hastings If we South Willingtonites are in- clined to be jealous because they had a brass band on the Hill July 4th and | we didn't even have a tin whistle | down here in the valley, then lets l take second look and glory in the fact that somewhere in the town there was enterprise enough to celebrate In- dependence Day. Down here in the valley the sun beat unmercifully on both Jew and Gentile, and the peaceful quiet was unbroken, save for the oc- casiOnal sizz of a soft-shelled fire cracker or the pop of a beer bottle not even the howl of boy with the | collie, for apples are only just out of the blossom. Three or four out of the kindergarten spent quite little of the day paddling in Beauty lake and exhibiting nature's charms. Next year we will invite our neighbors l from the Hill to come down here and learn the beauties of a safe and sane Fourth. Valley of rest, where even the babies are not allowed to cry July ! 4th.