The Press., 1898-11-24
WILMINGTON.
Thanksgiving service Thursday evening in the Baptist conference room.

Thanksgiving service Thursday evening in the Baptist conference room.
 Mrs. Maude Macfarlane has returned i Some say we are going to have an open winter; some that we are to experience a severe one. We shall see.
 No return of party committee receipts and expenses at the recent election has been made that we know of.
 The Misses Robbins with their brother, Ben, are spending Thanksgiving with their aunt. Mrs. Lippitt, in Norwich.
 Fred M. Preston of Baltic has been spending the past week at his uncle's OH the Hill He returned Tuesday morning.
 Mrs. Agnes Heck is going to see what she can do in the matter of raising flowers in a new greenhouse she is now building.
 Rev. s. w. Clark preached at Westford last Sunday He is to occupy the pulpit of the Congregational church there the next two Sundays.
 The ugly spot in the highway on the western slope of the Hill has been repair ed and a new culvert put in. Eldredge and Latham did the job Monday.
 We were not the author of the baby item in this column two weeks ago. We only just learned it was fake Our own facetiousness seldom runs in that direc- | tion.
 The storm made necessary the post ponement of the Baptist society annual meeting to Saturday evening next. A meeting will then be held, rain or shine, 1t is understood.
 The program for Bible day last SundaG passed off creditably to all concerned The recitations were by Rhoda Lyon, Alice Cosgrove, Edna Pierce, Florence Pierce, Carl Pratt; reading by Miss Mabel Clark.
 In our country towns the event of the week to very many people is the church. going. Appropos is the following
 We could select men and women from the various churches Catholic, Episco- pal, Presbyterian, Congregational, Bap- l fist and Unitarian, who, taken away | from their creeds and churches and put together in social life, would have the same moral qualities, an identical relig- | ious spirit, and similar ways of working for the good of others. Evidently, this common something does not come from | diverse creeds, varieties of church gov | ernment, and differences of ritual. Some | day we shall have congress and a con- mittee to describe and express this con- mon something which is the secret of the good life.''
 (From another correspondent.) There will be 8 pie sociable in the Con- gregational church next Tuesday after noon and evening. Aunt Jemima's art gallery will be shown. All who can en- joy good laugh will do we'll to be pres ent. All are invited
 The Village Hill school closed Nov. 23d for the Thanksgiving vacation. Num- Der of scholars registered, 15; average attendance, 1926. Those neither ab- sent nor tardy, Charles Blair and Thurs ton Royce; absent one day, Mayne M. Royce; not tardy, Albert Gilman, Henry Gilman, George Schofeld, Maranda Pal chaw, Almena Boughton, Alexander Gill man; tardy once, Arthur Gilman.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Miss Rose Hall is visiting at Pawtucket, R. I.
 w. H. Hall was in New Haven Satur- day and witnessed the Yale Harvard foot ball game.
 Mrs. E. F. Witcombe of Pawtucket, R. l., is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Gardi- ner Hall
 Senator-elect Dr. Ravens of Coventry, of the twenty-third district, was in town Monday.
 2. Fountaine has moved from West Wilmington here into one of the company's tenements. He is employed in the spool shop as spool turner.
 The stormy weather of last Friday night did not prevent the young people from attending the play at Hillside hall Mansfield. About fifteen went from here. The stormy weather Is one of the things you must get used to.
 w. O. Eldredge's coon dog, Tramp, caught and killed large coon weighing twenty pounds, while out on nights hunt last week. As MT. Eldredge has sold the dog to parties in Somers, coon hunting about here has been brought to close
 Among the great number of people, who bring in spool birch wood during the fall and winter months, is a woman, who last year brought wood in with one horse team. This year she has a two horse team, coming in nearly every day, and she handles her team, unloading same, equal ly as handy as the men.
 The election expenses of c. c. Essex of this place have been filed through their proper channel, and are as follows, from the Hartford Courant: 'Gave my team and time for the republican cause on cleo tion day, and received no money. Was to the expense of sixty cents for printing ballots, for which several political cusses owe me-"
 The first edition of 100000 copies of the little pamphlet prepared by Chairman Dorner of the league highway improve ment committee is out, and has been sent to all L. A. w. members. No doubt it will be widely circulated by the U. s. de- partment of agriculture, by which it has been adopted as circular of the road in- quiry office. The title is, Must the farmer pay for good roads?" It shows that he should not do so alone, but that, every one using & highway should contri- bute in proper measnre to the cost of it's improvements. It places the league on record as advocating state aid, because it offers solution of the good road prob lem in the farmers interest, and affords l means by which the cities will help to pay for country roads. The book is fully | illustrated. Separate sections treat of | 'The cost of hauling crops, D Roads and | rad rnnnhinnnrr AAR,,ilaiu.e. ..u.-.. [a....a