The Press., 1918-06-20

Daniel Blakeley spent Sunday at East Wilmington where ho and his store are very much missed. At present he is employed at Colt t'aArmory in Hartford.
 All here are pleased to congratulate former pastor Rev. Earle Darrow who received the degree of master of arts at Trinity college, Hartford, on Monday. It will be pleasant thing to remember that Col Theodore Roosevelt received the degree of doctor of science at the same time.
 Joseph Sparks was a Revolutionary soldier enlisted from Holland. although the fact. does not appear on the large head stona in the family plot in the old oemeterv 1also- vUri1laatIOn how ever is undispntable as his widow re- ceived a U s pension for years. this in a written statement from his granddaughter the late Miss Marion Sparks. The grave has no marker but should have a flag, and one will 
 There was an enthusiastic game of ball on the Hill Saturday afternoon, the Stafford Springs Boy Scouts com ing down in 8 motor 'bus and beating the Willington's 15 to 1. "The Willington's wild throwing was the cause of the poor showing, said one of the players It was a fine game however with a lot of good natured fun. The numbers of boys on the green after the conquerors had speeded away gave promise of reinforcement of the Scouts already organized as a home guard.
 A question in a recent letter from a reader of this column is answered from a quotation from a letter dictated by John Merrick: Until 184O the Phillips oarding machine and fulling mill was the only business carried on at South Wilmington and the Glass Factory was the principal manufacture ing business in the town. In those early days there was a small business, in what is now, Daleville, by the Kingbury fulling mill and oarding machine, but MT. Dale bought the property about 1885 or 1936 and began in the silk business. am one of the very few now living who recall the happenings of those far away days. "
 "What is maize?'' is a never re- curing query now that maize flour is offered for sale among the sub stitutes and the making of maize bread among the most interesting and satisfactory of the inevitable ex- periments. The dictionaries, Century and Webster and even the new Unisersities. say sTudian corn, and we all have always heard Indian corn that grows on a cob called maize. "Farmeress,' in New England Farms,'' the useful journal her hus. bands edits and who knows more of growing things, and things that grow, OAI0u uAOoU OA NoS OsAJS OI0o AA~A0O A5 cousin of corn," that it belongs to the grains that head like wheat and that it does not grow upon a cob. Dictionaries and encyclopedias to the contrary notwithstanding we believe Mrs. Smith is correct and think it is time that all Yankees of what ever antecedents should know if grain that grows on a cob is not more properly called corn than the grains that head like wheat. One dictionary says "Corn: Any grain that yields grain for bread -stuffs. |" Asa Gray, in his botany, says: Corn, @, the cereal grains, of which wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice and maize, or Indian corn are the principal; also sugar cane, broom. corn and millet Where is the maize, cousin to corn, raised in sufficient quantity to supply the demand for the newly introduced maize flour?