The Press., 1900-11-29
WELLINGTON.

| Miss Grace Champion starts for her
home, Houston, Texas, to- morrow, via.
Bridgeport.
| The malady on Daniel Eldredge's face
does not seem to abate much, although
he is comfortable.
| George Wilson has moved to Charles
8. Downs premises, the old Gen. Orrin
| Holt place, where he is at work most OF
the time.
1t would save good deal of silly, COM
bative talk If we all now say "The Gem
etery," instead of the "old cemetery" or
the new cemetery"
There will be Thanksgiving service
In the Baptist conference room at 8 o'clock
In the afternoon, taking the place of the
mid-week prayer meeting in the evening.
Lawns and fields green as in May is
not familiar sight at this season of the
year, Turning out your COW, too, to feed
this time of the year is somewhat unus-
ual.
Chairmen Christmas committees ap-
pointed Sunday: Finance, Legrand John
son decoration, G. A. Cosgrove; recita-
tions, Mrs. James Carpenter music,
Miss II. q. Robbins.
Communion at Baptist church next
Sunday. The old Saturday afternoon
covenant meeting has been resumed, and
on Saturday, Dec. 1, at p. M, one will
L.ntI ~ Abo
Mrs. Alenda Waldo, who has been at
M. l.. Dimock's since the death of his
wife, went to Hartford last week to spend
Thanksgiving with her daughter, Mrs
Knox. She stopped over in Willimantic
with friends.
There will be social in the conference
room Tuesday evening, Dec. 4. The pro-
ceeds are to go towards furnishing arti-
cles for the Christmas tree for the chill
dren. Should the evening prove stormy,
the following, Wednesday, evening. The
usual supper, etc.
We wish you happy Thanksgiving !!
The serene and elevating joys of the day
inaugurated by Gov. Bradford in 1881,
when che dispatched four towlers in
search of game that he and his people
might, after more special manner, re-
joice together" have come down to us,
with increasing hallowed memories to the
present day. 1t is the New England holt
day, yet festival of the home!
A new magazine, in many respects the
best of all, has appeared. 1t Is "The
Worlds Work. Doubleday, Page & Co.,
New York, publishers So per year.
The ample illustrations and the wide col
umns Of text in the clearest of type are
superb. The bright, up-to-date contents
ing and educating. 1t starts out with
abundant first class advertising patron
age, which assures its success.
The project now before the Baptist
church and society of uniting the two
bodies, a wheel within a wheel, into one
organization, under the provisions of the
statute in such made and prescribed,
looks towards a much needed and pro-
lgressive step. This wheel within a wheel
business is an Inheritance from the world
ly ,ecclesiasticism of past centuries, and
DsGe awake churches of Congrega-
tio1al polity are sloughing off this un-
seemly excrescence.
Now that we have devoted considerable
space and time to the cause of temper.
ance, as advocated by the w. G. T. u,
perhaps word about the promotion OF
good morals in another direction will moi
be amiss. We refer to one of the ter
commandments, Sunday rest and observ.
ance. VIII ever devoted band of WON
en- rise up and form 'unions' for the en-
forcement of this divine and human law
the suppression of real and obtrusive vice
that flows in streams from breaking it
1t Is acknowledged on all sides, among
the majority who uphold and carry or
good government, that Sunday desecra
ton Is crying evil of the age.
Extensive work Is still going on in pre-
pairing the grounds of both the old and new
burying places for the final absorption in
to the new cemetery. We hear that Ir'
Dimock of Hartford has given quite /
sum Of money for Improvement of tn
lot is. A large force of men and team
have been at work on the entire premises
the past week or ten days. The old bari
has been torn down, and the dwellin,
house Is to be moved across the road,
little to the west. The long talked o
, plans of having here in Wilmington one o
the most picturesque country cemeterie
/ in New England are now rapidly matur
ing. Fault finders, grumblers and would
be obstructionists generally will ere lonl
\ fall gracefully into line. Nothing sue
ceeds like success, which Is very marrow
o and selfish view of the matter, after all.
The annual meeting of the Baptist &c
clesiastical society was held Monda,
evening. Dea. Eli D. Hayes was moder
ator, while Rev. G. L. Snow served a
clerk protein, in the absence of Clerl
, L. johnson. Pastor Snow, w. A. Allel
, and Thomas Denman, Jr., made applica
ton for membership and were unanimous
= ly admitted. The clerk and treasurer
report was passed over till future meet
ing, but the society committee were en-
abled to speak encouragingly of the finan
cial conditions; the Hull, Durham an
Taylor requests were in safe custody an
= remunerative. 1t was voted that the pas
Q tor be requested to Investigate as to tn
t advisability of joining the two bodies
: church and society, into one Organization
. report as soon as convenient to the com
mittee, and, If deemed advisable, the lat
: ter to call general meeting of both tn
d church and society to consider and act o
j. the proposition. The old society CON