The Press., 1903-01-22
WILMINGTON.

his wooded land to Demond & Bramble.
Miss Mabel Clark is talking of entering
the training school at Mortified, Mass,
we hear.
Trial Hanover and wife are to pull up
stakes and go to Eastern Point In the
early spring.
Rev. G. L. Chamberlain is assisting
Rev. q. L. Snow In religious meetings
this week.
Nobody in this part of the town is using
coal this season. There were dozen or
so households who formerly used the al
ticle.
We were led astray by Hartford
newspaper. Eddy Fl. Burdick is post
master at Moose Meadow, not his aged
father, M. Burdick.
"Gentlemen, this must be done. It Is
my duty to see that you do It," President
Roosevelt is saying nowadays to the sen-
ators and representatives who call on him.
A girl in a certain high school, who
stood 100 In grammar, writes In a letter
thus "There has been two boats ashore
Papa took sister and I so we could see
the boats ~
Judson l.. Carpenter, brother of the
late John B. Carpenter and father of
Frank Carpenter, formerly of this town,
died at Holliston, Mass, where he was
Of ho foun for
We are in receipt of a copy of the 10th
annual report Of the Conn. Children's Aid
society, the president of which was our
old schoolmate, the late Mrs. Virginia T.
Smith, of fragrant memory.
We have a tract of land in which are
deposits of peat-tons on tons. Some
party can make money these days in get
ting it out, drying it, pressing it into
squares or rectangulars for the city mar,
kets. Correspondence solicited.
Fred M. Preston, son of the late Her,
bert G. Preston, has been given recently
responsible position In Lord & Taylor's
extensive dry goods establishment, corner
Broadway and goth street, New York
Alice, the daughter, is now in Baltimore
Md.
Much sympathy Is felt here for the fam.
lily in the recent death of little Sarah
Louise, daughter of Henry Woodward and
wife. She was healthy, sweet, pretty
child, and her early death must be keenly
felt by the parents and friends of the
family.
Probably, during our writing days, we
have received and written some 10000
letters, few money letters among them,
and not one was ever lost through or ap.
propriated by the post Office department.
We never took much stock in the phrase,
81 never got your letter."
The local W. G. T. U. held an interest
ing and we'll attended meeting at the
chapel, Tolland side, Saturday afternoon
last-a mothers meeting In the interest
of the purity department. Mrs. Holman
the president, read a poem on the New
Year, also the 1908 purity pledge. Pa.
pers on "Confidential relations between
mothers and daughters" "To cram, not
to think" "a matter Of opinion, ""Social
purity" and "Good literature for the
young" A solo by Miss Ethel Burdick
was pleasing feature of the program.
Its been amusing, to say the least, to
watch the passing Of the Baptist organ
the old and much beloved "Christian Sec.
retary," and the attempts to establish
something in lieu thereof. 1t had seen
three-quarters of century of fairly pros.
porous life, long owned, edited and pub.
lished by Norman Burr, brother of AL.
fred E. Burr, editor of The Times, and
printed on the press of that paper. II
was just what was needed by Connecticut
Baptists for leading general intelligence.
In course of time 1t came into the hands
of Rev. G. A. Paddock, late state mis-.
sionary, who, thinking there was not
enough money in it, sold out to the N. Y.
Examiner. The terms of the bargain are
of course, unknown, but it is known that
one of the "perquisites" was that the
seller should have weekly "Connecticut
letter" In its columns. That substitute
for Connecticut weekly Baptist organ
worked for a time. Soon this weekly
batch of news, containing the more i'm.
portant city Baptist churches, ceased
Then, for time, the "lette1" appeared
fortnightly, and now it appears, just as II
happens, occasionally. We speak of this
matter here because there used to be 9
big bundle Of "Secretarys" taken in this
vicinity, and it has been missed greatly
For time after the passing Of the ole
"Christian Secretary there was little
sheet, "The Secretary" published In
Rockville, but soon that puny monthly
makeshift ceased to be. The old Con
gregational state organ, "The Religious
Herald" was long published in connection
with "The Christian Secretary; same Of
flee, same type, same compositors and
much of the same matter, a most harmo
NOUS and profitable arrangement, for 9
long term of years. Not long after the
death of the former paper the latter died
also, and now neither the Baptists nor the
Congregationalists have state organ. Il
was somewhat Of a hard row always, one
would think, for the Herald to compete
with such neighboring papers as The In
dependent, The Old Christian Union, The
Observer, The Evangelist, The Outlook
The Congregatlonalist, Christian Work
etc., all Congregational or Presbyterian
papers, but the Christian Secretary hac
no such rivalships, and its passing was
simply uncalled for and cruel.
South Wilmington.
There was daughter born last Mon
day evening to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Peli
can.
Chas. johnson was hurt more seriously
than at first thought in the accident ir
the spool shop two weeks ago, but Ia i'm