The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1900-10-18
WILMINGTON.

WILMINGTON.
J. A. Dimock took trip to Walling-
ford last week.
q A. Holt, his son, Burt, and family, are
at L. W. Hollis.
Mrs. Joel Ero has gone to her STEP
mothers In Middletown.
\ Three persons were baptised into the
Baptist church Sunday afternoon.
/ In polite society snoring is now de-
scribed as indulging In sheet music.
Mrs. Charles HI. Brown OF Newport,
VT, is on visit at her father, g. A Co.'S
groves.
4 Mrs. A.. D. Dimock returned from her
visit to Brunswick. Me-, and Newton
Falls, Mass, last Tuesday.
The hour for the G. E. and mid-week
prayer meeting has been changed to seven
o'clock; first bell at half-past six.
Ice formed on the Hill the first time
this season Tuesday night, but there was
| little indication of frost on verdure.
j Chestnuts are quite plenty in this vi
entity, although rather small in size on
account of the spell of dry weather.
4 Prof. Charles Phelps, wife and babies,
Phoebe Elizabeth and Katharine, of
, Storrs, were at G.. T. Preston's Saturday.
Clayton Morse and wife of New Haven
are at E. A. Morse's. Mrs. Sullivan and
I Miss Alice Morse of Stafford were there
: Sunday.
"The account of the fair in The Press
was as good, If not better, than going to
it," said she. It's no more than fair to
give the devil his due, sometimes, at
least.
This weeks meeting of the local w. G.
!, T. U. has been postponed (until some
j time, due notice of which will be given,
on account of the state meeting at Meri-
8 den this week.
Mrs. L. M. Johnson is the only dele
r gate from the local church to the Baptist
state convention In New Haven this week.
n The pastor has previous engagements
j. which forbid his attendance.
Rev Theron Brown returned from short
D visits to New Haven and New York,
a Tuesday. He visited his brother, John
A. Brown, yesterday, and tomorrow he
# returns to the Youths Companion Office,
4 Boston.
g Mrs. Baldwins mother, Mrs. Lois Grid
h ley, is very Ill at her home in Harwing-
ton. AS she Is in her 9Sth year, there is
g no hope of her recovery. Mrs. Dave,
d who is still with her, expects to return
o this week.
= Think, feel, say and do what you please
If there is one denomination of Christians
in this country which, here and there
Is little by little, is gaining the ascendancy
d at the expense of all the other good nat
~ ured, unobservant religious bodies,
What's the matter with our near by
t. "cities" in the way of increase of popula
l. tion for the last ten years Here are the
figures: Rockville, 1890, 7,T2; 1900
1887. Willimantic, 1890, 9,648; 1900,
le S,337. Stafford, 1890, 1885; 1900, 4 1897.
D. Willington's loss of 81 during the decade
doesn't show up so very bad relatively.
- The friends of Stephen Slingsby and
Is wife responded to an invitation to a re
l. ception at their home Tuesday evening
y on the occasion of the thirtieth anniver
sary of their wedding. The pleasant
't roomy house was decorated with gorgeous
y autumn flowers, there was a fine supper
If many choice presents were made, and al
- present enjoyed the evening immensely.
!, We have been favored with a copy Of
r. the first annual report Of the Tolland Ii
Is brary association. A most commendabl'
T. enterprise, and a very interesting report
1t Five devoted Tolland women set tn,
Or thing going, and their initial lahoIs have
u been crowned with success. 500 ye ant
or do likewise" The project of starting
er town library here, utilizing the profferet
Us state aid, was summarily squelched in tow
as meeting, not along ago, some of US will
T. remember!
~ Not long ago Madison Square theatr
le was the toniest one In New York. w
remember the curtain used to rise at hall
past eight. Here, at the Baptist socials
a. when dramas are on the program, tn
~ curtain rises at nine O'Clock, or there
Y. abouts. Really, friends, there should
m an admittance fee, and the supper shout
he be served after the entertainment. Their
- Ia now and then an "Uncle Amos" VIII
40 says, after a long wait, "Well, If there
cd nothing going on, guess I'll take M
en- candle and go home" But the program
q, at the social Friday evening was flnall
nd very successfully carried out, we hear
On the autoharp playing, and the recitatio
Dir by Mr.. Snow, and the dramatic produc
ts ton, Murder will out"
I'm South Wellington Correspondence.
III Miss Iva Latham lie spending few day
- with friends in Rockville.
' ad Joseph Toherman has moved his famil
II. into the Richardson house.
'ty There are 36 names on the list of ct,
"a, be made'' voters In this town.
oJ Three persons were taken into tn
e. church last Sunday by baptism.
nd Word has been received from Mr.. Hare
as ing that he will not be able to be here thi
oa week.
10, Pastor G. H. Snow is attending tn
ire Baptist state convention in New Havel
20 this week.
Harry Denman has been In town tn
cir last few days, his U. S. N, suit being tn
envy Of all the small boys in the place.
ia Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Charter returne
from their wedding trip last Monday an
,io are making their home at Homer Neir'
John Brownlee has secured good pos
KS ton at the thread mill in Westfield, Mass
and started for there last Wednesda
ers morning.
Much complaint has been made at var
is Gus times on account of there being 1
rs stove in the station, and stove Is no
being put into position. :
49, Thera will ha q hoy sI1nnor and cocio h