The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-08-31
WELLINGTON.


Miss Grace Knox and her little sister,
Alice, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. J. B.
Carpenter.
The fall term of the center school dis
trict, Miss Fenton teacher, will begin
Tuesday, Sept. 9Th.
A goodly number from the local grange,
with friends, attended the Pomona grange
meeting at Storrs yesterday.
"The New Highlander takes cake Of
soap in one hand, spelling book in the
other, and civilization follows his wake"
Joel Emo has been engaged to keep the
Daleville school, while Miss Mabel Clark
has been hired to teach the Satisfactory
school.
The Wilmington cemetery association,
at its meeting last Saturday, chose Sam
uel Nichols president and A. H. Eldridge
secretary.
During the civil war, and for some time
thereafter, every other man you met was
'colonel' nowadays It's "iudge." But
Judge not lest ye be judged.
Communion will be observed in the
Congregational church next Sunday, Rev.
Mr.. Davies Of Storrs officiating. Services
will begin at half past one p. m.
Charles E. Amidon has newly shingled
his house, the old Preston place at the
Hollow, and has added a spacious and
handsome veranda on it's east front.
Mrs. Baldwin, with her youngest grand
child, Grindley Daw, lie visiting her moth
er in Terryville. She has recently nicely
graded and seeded down the lawn in front
of her house.
G. 81. Hobby and wife, Eva and Walter,
Charles Thresher and wife, Mrs. Mary
Hobby and Mrs. Ora Maddoms attended
the reunion of the Holmes descendants at
Tray Hollow last Wednesday.
The president of the Baptist ladies' be-
nevolent society says that cracker sup
per will be the gustatory feature of the
next social, thus relieving the women
from bean, pie and cake cooking-iust for
once.
Rev. Prof. PEBBLES of Storrs will occu-
py the Baptist pulpit next Sunday. After
the morning service the church clerk, L.
johnson, will read the annual associa-
tional letter, as by appointment at a
church meeting last Sunday.
Mr.. Gibson, who now lives on the old
Leonard Holt place, near the Hollow,
saw a pair of deer in moving little
west of the house, early Tuesday morn
ing. They did not linger very long to be
looked at, but escaped to the adjoining
woodland.
The Duchess of Worcester remar ked
that after having sojourned in various
middle states and New England country
places, she has never met SO pleasant, in
telligent and cultivated a community as
In picturesque Willington-on-the-hill
How's that ?
Dea. E. B. Tyler, who for some years
owned the little farm south Of the Bap.
fist meeting house, died recently in West
field, whittier he moved few weeks since
from Meriden, Of chronic stomach trouble
He was man highly esteemed wherever
he was known.
Rev. Mr.. Davies Of Storrs occupied the
Congregational pulpit last Sunday, his
theme being "The Voices of God" HI
incidentally referred to the lamentablt
decrease of his denomination the las
year, attributing it largely to the ma
terialistic tendency of the church.
The annual reunion of the Holmes fam
lily was held at Tray Hollow last Wednes
day. A good time was enjoyed by all
Friends were present from Brooklyn, N
Y, Springfield, Mass, Thompsonville
Rockville, Somers, Stafford, Wilmington
and Hampden, Mass. A poem was rea
by Miss Clara Chaffee.
Rev. Byron U. Hatfield, who occupies
the Baptist pulpit last Sunday, took 70
his text Heb. 1913, his theme bein
"ChristiaDity as a Crusade" Anon
other forcible remarks was, that Chris
tian must not only love righteousness bu
hate iLiquity. His discourse at the morr
: Ing service, as we'll as his remarks at th
Y. P. s. G. E. meeting In the evening
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Of his cousins, Miss Grace Hatfield, {
New York, accompanied him thither.
South Wellington Correspondence.
M. P. Yeomans, county health office
l was In town last Saturday.
Miss Nettie Shaffer is spending tt
y week In Derby with relatives.
= The boarding house Is receiving ne
i coat of paint of yellow nature.
Howard Fields Of East Hampton is vi
iting with Adolph Korper and family.
= Miss Pearl Clark Is visiting with h
: sister, Mrs. George Palmerton, in Ce
8 trail Village.
Clarence Essex will resume his studi
+ In the junior grade at the Willimant
high school next week.
Harry Shaffer will attend the Connect
cut agricultural school at Storrs, COZ
l. mencing with the coming term.
q The woodwork and plastering on G..
Spicer's new house is completed and
now In the hands of Ell. Thompson
Eagleville, who is doing the painting.
t G. 9. Essex, town health officer, b.
warned all school committees of the SO
l. eral districts in the town to see that Il
sanitary condition in and about the soho
j. house are in good order.
The committee have, during the SUI
mer vacation, put the interior of Il
school house in this district in first-cla
shape. The new blackboards which ha
1t been put in, which are the best, will
& appreciated by teacher and scholar. III
fall term commences next week with Mi
II Anna Britton of Willimantic as teacher
}. Moose Meadow.
The rain last week washed the roa
l. very bad In this vicinity.