The Press., 1900-05-31
WELLINGTON.

to bno Ddsis DaK0r place at the HOLLOW.
 Henry Robbins and wife of Norwich visited at Geo. E. Robbins and Miss Hat tie Pierce's last week.
 Master Phil Ryder's face is shining with satisfaction over the possession of new bicycle, present from his mother.
 Dea. anu Mrs. E. D. Hayes are visiting their son at Longmeadow, Mass, where they expect to meet friends from Chicago.
 Charles s. Amidon and two of his chil- | dren have been afflicted with pneumonia | of late. They are reported as improving.
 Clayton Morse and family of New Haven and Robert Morse and wife of | New York were at E. A. Morse's over Sunday.
 We get it pretty straight that party | has bought the mill and it's machinery at Daleville, and that the manufacture of | cloth there will be resumed shortly.
 The backwardness of the season is in- deed phenomenal. Grass is promising well, and it is hoped we have escaped an early spring drought-such as we had last year, for instance.
 The Congregational Sunday school was reorganized last Sunday under favorable auspices. The pastor made a break in the series of discourses on First Corinth- ians, and spoke on the famine in India for 9 asproposed collection next Sunday.
 J. Arnold Houchens left for New York Sunday evening. He utilized some of his time here by taking photographic pie lures, among them that of F. D. Pres toms six-legged calf for the N. Y. World. He has charge of the photographic de- partment of that paper. Mrs. Houchens remains few days longer. MI. Houch- ens' father is Virglnian, veteran of the civil war.
 Miss A. R. Stewart, secretary of the "Y's' W. 0. T. U., gave an interesting address before the local union in the Bap- tist meeting house Monday afternoon. The attractive speaker ought to have had a larger hearing. One new member was gained, Mrs. s. P. Morrison. The cause of temperance, or rather total abstinence, in this town Is bravely championed by this devoted band of women.
 Samuel A. Eddy of Canaan, state su- pervisor, some time since appointed A. H. Eldridge census enumerator for this town. H. A. Abel, member of the re- publican state central committee from the 24th senatorial district, made the recom- mendation to the supervisor, and last week paper recommending the appointee was signed by various residents of the town. He will probably begin his duties tomorrow.
 News was received here Saturday of the sudden death in Stonington of Walter Morrison, son of the late Edward Mor- rison of this town. His wife died some years ago. Two children, a son and a daughter, survive him; also two sisters, Mrs. w. D. Holman of Holland and Mrs. Clara Mccoy, living in Illinois. He was for many years an active business man in Willimantic. His children and sisters have the sincere sympathy of old friends in th's vicinity.
 ''This is an age when only the Gospel of the Agreeable is permitted to be preached. Mention of sin, suffering and punishment is tabooed from the pulpit as it is from polite society. Since the uni verse was made to please us whatever is unpleasant to us is not true. The great ness of man is the theme of our sermons. The old gospel is not adapted to patching and trimming. You might as we'll try to fix over a quartz crystal because you don't like hexagons."
 After the morning service at the Bap- tist meeting house @ committee was chos. en to perfect arrangements for the ordina. tion, on Thursday, June 14th, of Mr. Snow, the pastor-elect. At some subse quent meeting it will be probably formal
 ly voted to ordain him. It was voted te
 invite the sister churches of the associa
 tion to send delegates, also to invite Rev Dr. George M. Stone, Dea. E. V. Preston
 and Rev. c. A. Piddock of the Asylum
 avenue Baptist church, Hartford, ant
 delegates from the church to which MT
 Snow belongs. As an examining counci
 and an ordination following is 8 meeting
 of considerable consequence in commu
 nifty like this, necessarily the entertain
 ment of guests, the hundred and one de
 tails of such an occasion will call for in
 terested, alert and frictionless work 7 Doubtless those who are not of the com mittee will take hold by the smooth har dle and help all they can. The locs
 members of the examining council are W
 H. Bracket and Stephen Slingsby. 7 Bethania Shafer, wife of Moses l.. Din ock, passed away Tuesday afternoon a ter long and, towards the end, dis dressing illness. This death marks tn removal of a useful woman, useful ato he family, her friends and her church. Sh had been member of the Baptist churc
 since her early girlhood, period of ove
 sixty-eight years, an intelligent as we'll g
 jealous adherent, consistent in her wal
 and always active in promoting the m, , terial welfare of that branch of the churc v of Christ to which she belonged. Durln her long life there were united with rt markable administrative capacity dee and conscientious regard for good morals
 and an abiding love for spiritual thing.
 which, together with sensible and dil
 eliminating zeal, made her valuabl D. member of that religious body which wi : sorely miss presence, labors and prayer