The Press., 1889-08-29
" WELLINGTON. 

The Congregational society recently sold the Oldershaw place in Mansfield to 8 MT. Stevens, of New Jersey, for $1 100. The society is to paint the meeting house at once, the color to be white. The roof is to be slate color.
 Special communication of Uriel Lodge Saturday evening, 31st
 Owing to intelligence received from her home, Miss Holt will be obliged to shorten her stay here, and so will have to cancl her engagement to teach the center school.
 Will Nichols has gone to Stafford Springs to learn the blacksmith trade at Comins'
 l Mrs. William Bracket is visiting friends in Oxford, Mass.
 Miss Clara Hall is to enter the con- servatory of music at Boston this fall. l Miss Mary O. Miller begins the fall term of teaching at South Wilmington next
 Rev. MT. Breed will preach for MT. Terry at South Wilmington next Sunday afternoon, while the latter breaches fol the former at the grove near Gilbert Ami don's.
 Covenant meeting in the conference room Saturday afternoon. A society meet ing will be held immediately afterwards.
 w. F. Essex is building an addition to his barn.
 -Jewett, the clock repairer, straighten ed out the time pieces at South Wilmington last week.
 -"CoI' Lay visited that locality re gently. ..-
 The Sunday school picnic, in conse quence of the South Wilmington excursion to-day, was adjourned till to-msorrow. Al announced last week, it will be given a ''the oaks," near A. Sharp's, alongside O the pond, at 10 o'clock a. m. The chil dren and their friends bring their eatables with them, while boating, swings, ham mocks, and croquet sets will be provided Andrew Sparks and wife returned tt New York last Saturday.
 Wood and son are at work staging tn. steeple of the Baptist church preparator, to painting that; and probably the body of the edifce and the conference room vii receive one or two coats.
 \ Rev. MT. Terry is attending unio1 camp meeting at NeW London.
 Miss Clara Sharp will probably begil her select school some two weeks since. T Next Monday is legal holiday, sla Dor day." Most of our schools begin o1
 that day. Query: How about register ing possible non attendance of scholars !? I; William Shaffer, wife and daughter o
 Willimantic are visiting friends in town. T Mrs. Mary M. Munyan and husban' of East Thompson visited her brother, B A. Morse, last week.
 The employees of Gardiner Hall, Jr. < O., of South Wilmington, to-day hay their annual excursion to Watch Hill. -Lucien Carpenter, lifelong and wei known resident, died last Monday night a
 his boarding place, MT. Lathrop's, of hear disease. His considerable property, un less otherwise disposed of by will, goes t collateral heirs, which are his cousins : Oliver, Wilson and Selden Curtis, an, Miss Asenath Holt, on his mothers side and one or two cousins, perhaps, on hi fathers side. Children of deceased cousin do not inherit. The new collateral ir heritance tax law, whereby the state get five per centum, applies to this case : Funeral at MT. Lathrop's at o'clock tc ? morrow.
 Miss H. M. Cotter, of New Hayer was a guest of Miss Helen Vinton las
 week.
 COLUMBIA. Rev. Charles F. Clark. ( Colnmbia, who recently graduated frol the Yale divinity school, and who supplie
 the Stafford Springs Congregational pu
 pit occasionally in the summer of 1888 i, was married on the 14th inst. to Mis Sadie Andrews of Willimantic, and has a. cepted call to Machias, Me,