The Press., 1893-11-16
WELLINGTON. dGorresnnndencaA \

{Correspondence.)
 It is expected that the ''tongue twister" social, postponed on account O the G.. A. R. rally, will come off nex week, Friday evening, at the Baptist con ference room.
 -'sIn raising the dignity of agricultur al pursuits, the grange is and will be in strumental.'
 The East Willington post-office has been removed to the residence of the postmaster, L. W. Holt.
 -"There is @ suspicion that farmer is du1ler, less responsive, more conserya tive, less progressive than the man o1 city occupations. Whether it is so ol not, it would be well to remove all grounds foI the suspicion. If it is so, it is doubt. less because of his comparative isolation. He is by himself most of the time. So- ciety is slim and thin. Ideas do not root and spread so well as when the human soil is thicker and deeper He comes in- to personal contact with fewer of the rep resentative and quickening personalities of his generation. As a consequence he is slower to move, less ready to respond to the call of his age." Hence, welcome the grange.
 Everett Richardson is teaching the Mansfield Four Corners school this fall and winter.
 MT. Bruce, of Springfi, Id, leader of the salvation army there, spoke in the Congregational vestry Tuesday evening. The room was crowded.
 -'The people of farms are so situated as to lose much of community life, and there's no use in denying it, the loss is pesi+se, and there should be direct effort made to supply the lack. Whatever brings people together, not in the local store to talk over gossip, &c., but in more formal places to consider large themes, great questions, intellectual and practical, to unite forces for general and public welfare, to stimulate reading and thinking, and to get as much as possible into the great spiritual life currents of the world is meeting cne of the natural advantages of farm life" Let us have a grange!
 Miss Alice Nj. Holt has been obliged to give up her studies in Northfield Mass, on account of growing weakness of her eyes,:
 A New England college president has written of ''Fhe impending organism of New England villages" How to avoid organism in rural regions is problem for granges to solye:"
 Josiah c. Sparks is building an addi- ten to his barn.
 AAttention, Post No. se Important business before the meeting Saturday eve- ning, 18th inst, at 6 p. m.-not half-past six, or seven, but sir 0'cl0ck. The idea that sectarianism enters in. to a c. A. R. post, or into a grange Bah! what alrant nonsense, An informal meeting to consult about forming grange in Willington was held in the town hall Tuesday evening, Steps are now being taken towards founding 8 branch of the order here. Now who are the ones to eye the very wholesome movement askance and to throw ice water upon it?
 -Coon hunters from Rockville have made successful raids in this vicinity o late.
 South Wilmington Correspondence. | An illustrated and illuminated lee ture of a trip across the continent will bt given in the hall Tuesday evening, Nov 21st. Admission 10 and 20 cents,
 Arthur Still, of Holyoke, Mass, ac companied by wife and daughter, ar' spending few days at H. R. Niels. l Miss Stevenson, of New York, is wis iting at G. Halls.
 Miss Bertha Farnham, because o trouble with her eyes, has been obliged to leave her work in the mill, and has gone to Boston to live with her aunt where she can be under the care of ; specialist,
 Miss Nora Parker spent Sunday witt her aunt, Miss Weeden, at Stafford Sp'gs