The Press., 1919-09-18
WELLINGTON
Colds are prevalent.
 No news is good news.

Colds are prevalent. No news is good news. Potatoes are rOtting badly Mrs. Charles L. Cobb has returned from her trip to Maine, expecting to remain at home during the month at least.
 The fair at Springfield is the at traction of the week, Smith & Tyler with their roomy car being most hos pitable in making up of parties. The asters in church Sunday were the usual memorial for Miss Lillian | Mathews, teacher, who is still loved and regretted by all. They were given later to Mrs. Gardner, Mrs. Eldredge and Mrs. Preston.
 Rev. and Mrs. Darrow spent last week in Vermont, where they were
 called to attend the funeral of Mrs. Brown, the mother of their Deacon | Brown, we'll known here, as having placed many monuments in the ceme- teries.
 That the president of Harvard is to
 $11 100000 campaign for the Harvard
 endowment fund, suggests that the
 president of that university, 1S481S53,
 was Jared Sparks, born May 10, 1789
 in this small and rugged town of Will lington, the year George Washington was inaugurated president of the l United States. The widest flight of fancy could not then have predicted
 that the infant smiled upon by May
 time sunshine and budding flowers
 was to be the biographer of the father of his country. The farm
 house, the site and the cellar still
 pointed out, stood on the upland road
 leading from the Moose Meadow
 school-house common to the Hill and
 was then much used thOrOughfare
 on which stood several attractive farm
 the new school-house, soon to be erected for the accommodation of three isolated districts, forming unit,
 should be placed upon the old school
 site and called the Sparks school. It would be fitting memorial for the
 most distinguished native of the town, | if not of the state. While pupil of
 this school this precocious child made
 an almanac that was remarkable
 achievement and constructed a globe
 that is still preserved. | South Wilmington l Mrs. M Clark is visiting with friends
 n Norwich.
 l Oreste DeMagistre is in New York
 for a few days.
 The w. c. T. U. will hold meeting
 on Saturday afternoon at the home of
 Mrs. B. J. Holman.
 Mrs. R. H. Staples of Willimantic
 has been visiting at the home of MT. and Mrs. w. H. Bracket. Geo. Mathews was confined to the house for several days the past week | threatened with bronchial pneumonia. Miss Mary Bartek has returned to Springfield after spending the past l two weeks at the home of her parents. Amidie Accerio, who was hurt by | being run over by an automobile last week and is at the Johnson hospital 1 i'll Stafford Springs, is reported as resting as comfortably as can be ex pected
 Beautiful asters from the garden of
 Mrs. R. T. Birdsall were placed in church last Sunday in memory of Miss Lillian G. Mathews, who died six years ago the Sd inst. Rev. Mr. Bach eler took the flowers to Wilmington Hill for the services there, after which they were sent to friends of the family. The republicans of the town of Will Iington held caucus at the hall here last Friday afternoon. The town off cers nominated were as follows: Se- lectmen, w. H. Bracket, Bert Ruby; treasurer, R. T. Jones; registrar of voters, w. H. Hall; town clerk, Geo. P. Bugbee; tax collector, J. G. Service, Jr.; agent of town deposit fund, Car los J. Gurley; auditor, A. l.. Spicer; assessor, L. C. Dimock; school com mittee, w. H. Hall Chas. Pobuda; constables, Wm. o. Eldredge, Chas. Woodworth.