The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1900-05-03
WILMINGTON.

/ WELLINGTON.
Clinton Slater Is at work In Preston
City.
Mrs. Belle sleight has returned from
Boston.
There was pronounced frost, even on
the Hill, Saturday night.
Jesse Eno's family, who have been laid
up by illness the past winter, are recover
ing.
| A pair of deer were seen last week hon.
eymooning in the meadow back of w. Ell.
Hollis.
Lon Roswell Is building barn on his
premises near the Glassfactory. A new
dancing pavilion Is to be erected there,
we hear.
woods northeast of John F. Whitford's
last week. A force of men and boys ul-
timately subdued it.
Mrs. M. T.. Dimock Is still quite feeble,
but she Is made as comfortable as posi-
BILE by the kind ministrations of relatives,
friends and neighbors.
Two sprightly and ambitious youths,
Dea. Ell D. Hayes and Chas. T. Preston,
have been appointed to report the Baptist
and Congregational sermons to the Y. P.
s. G. E. meetings during the month of
May.
Mrs. Ida Dawkin of Dorchester, Mass,
has been seriously Ill with the grippe.
She was at her father, L. B. Clark's, dur
ing the latter part of her sickness, and
recovered so far as to be able TO return
to her home recently.
w. B. Allen, of Allen, Hall & Co., Bos-
ton, was guest at e. T. Preston's Mon
day. The day was the eleventh anniver-
sary of his marriage with his deceased
wife, Helen Preston Brown. Arbutus
and magnolias were placed on the graves
in the old cemetery.
Rev. Prof. A. B. PEBBLES and Prof.
Chamberlain occupied the Congregational
pulpit Sunday, the latter reading a ser
mon by DR.. Lyman Abbott. Rev. Mr..
Davies Is In attendance on the ecumenical
missionary council in New York. Mr..
Philbrook preached for the Baptists.
! The trailing arbutus slept through the
winter under too light covering of snow
, to come out bright this spring. And II
every one who gathers it pulls it up by
the roots, the places that once knew this
lovely flower will soon know 1t no more
, forever. But thanks for the "May has.
! kets' already hung at our door galore!
The last Chicago Advance says that
the church in Williston, North Dakota
is encouraged by the addition of new
members. In connection with this field
, Sunday school has been organized at
Buford, twenty-five miles away, and the
/ pastor, Rev. D. Y. Moor, will visit that
place and hold services as often as he can.
7 The Baptist church is still without a
pastor. Some time ago there was printed
In this column an excerpt from the N. Y.
Examiner, written by Rev. G. s. Paddock,
Conn. state superintendent, concerning
this church. He has changed his base,
as will be evidenced in The Press next
week by another extract from recent
letter of his to the same paper.
In our notice of the late marriage OF
) Miss Annie A. Dimock. we made no men,
ton of her vocation as a trained nurse,
of one of her cases, that of the tragedian
| Booth, etc., because we made mention OF
: these matters long ago In The Press.
Other papers, we see, exploit them as
: news. After the couples visit here In
/ June, they expect to go to housekeeping
on Staten Island, N. Y.
Rev. A. a. Robinson, former pastor
Of the Baptist church here, recently dice
In Packersville at the age Of SO. He was
4 the oldest Baptist pastor in the United
4 States. He was greatly beloved wherever
he lived and labored. His son, Rev. Jul
ius b. Robinson, now of West Boylston
Mass, was we'll known here. This ven
. cradle PASTORS picture will soon be addet
to the collection In the church parlors.
:. The last day for the legal registration
:, of dogs has passed, but it may be that
few licenses yet remain to be called for
We have seen it stated lately somewher
that this dog license business Is not quit
like going around with hat for volun
tary collections. One dog owner mas
pay as we'll as another. There's a sort o
70 sore feeling in the breasts of those VIII
pay up promptly when they see thei
r neighbors go scot freel
Charles Barrows, the veteran schoo
teacher of Springfield, Mass, we'll know
q in this vicinity, recently caught his foo
q in rug in his study, and falling, frae
tured his hip. His So years are bravel
l. carrying him through, however. Unlik
10 the case of Gilbert G. Brown, he woul
not have his bones put in splints, neces
II stating lying in bed six weeks, preferin
kt to have one leg an inch or 80 shorter tina
the other in the end, and to use a whee
,e chair until able to get about on crutches
ALI interested in the improvement {
both the old and new cemeteries, as we
NJ as In the proposed enlargement, are III
III gently requested to meet In the town ha
Monday evening next, 18th inst, at 7.3(
to hear frank and full explanation {
IN what is proposed to be done in the prem
ises, and to take some action that, it
ID hoped, will be the means of hastenin
- outside contributions. This matter
r. something that interests residents nortl