The Press., 1903-11-12
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 At last reports Matthew Burdick I was aboutatl1e same.
 Miss Alice W. Pratt visited at Dr.
 Johnson's, Mansfield, last week. Fred Holt of Putnam came home 1 to visit his father and sister last week.
 The section of the new state road near and on the Hill is not yet com l plotted.
 Lester L. Potter has sold w. H. Brackett's house on Beacon street, Hartford, to W. A. Wolcott 2" Mrs. Diantha Essex is stop1ping with her daughter, Mrs. John c. Ry- der. at the Baptist parsonage.
 The pastor of the Baptist church attended the ministers conference at Putnam, Monday and Tuesday. '"Bible Sunday exercises will take the place of the regular service at the Baptist church next Sunday. The children will speak pieces, etc.. Where were services as usual in the Congregational church last Sunday. | Communion was administered and one person. joined the church-Arthur Hobby. sy.> ,.. VI.
 | We have received wedding an nouncement of Rev. M. J. Twomey, Danielson, and Miss Ella c. Stanton, of Sterling. Congratulations from friends this way. They were mar ! ried on the 4th instant .- | . Medos Labonte's auction, which wAs postponed last Thursday on ac- count of the rain, will be held at his place, one mile north of West Will lington station, on the Holland side, next Saturday, at 10 a. m.
 The old friends in this vicinity of Prof. Charles s. Phelps, formerly of the Conn. Agricultural college, Storrs, | and his wife, will be interested in the following which Mrs. Phelps | writes, from Salisbury: "Mr. Phelps is in charge of the Scoville estate here, about 1000 acres in all. We have a large house, heated by furnace and lighted by electricity. The house is furnished from attic to cellar, many ! things so nice that put them on the highest shelves out of the way of the little people. The place is stocked with Guernseys, mostly registered. There are about 50 cows va Our barn l is a model, lighted by electricity, cement floors, running water, white washed walls, etc. About 200 tons of hay were cut and stored the past sum- mer. The work is all done by horses, of which there are five pair, also 8 pair of coach horses and a driving the coach barn, near the mansion, ' etc.
 Mrs. Paul, the eldest daughter of the late Willard Fuller, cousin of Mrs. O. B. Newton of Stafford Springs, recently sent copy of the Geneseo (Ill. Republic, Oct. 30, to her old schoolmate and friend, Mrs. George B. Robbins, containing an account of an accident which befell Mrs. Paul. as follows: "Mrs. M. K. Paul, who, with her .daughterj; Mrs. Nellie Wall ters, has been visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. w. F. Jaques, at Sterling, on last Wednesday evening received some very painful injuries. There was a fire near her daughters s hossine and the two ladies started out to go to it. The mother was walking behind and in the darkness unfortu- nately stepped into an open cellar way, failing a depth of about seven feet. Fortunately there were no bones broken, though Mrs. Paul is still suf- fering from the severe bruises and is unable to walk without some assist ance. MT. Paul, who immediately went to Sterling on learning of the accident, returned to Geneseo Tuesday with Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Walters, making the trip overland '':
 Some time ago letter from form CT resident, Rev. s. D. ,Merrick, now of Addison, N. Y. appeared in The Press. Here is another which will interest some of the older readers of The Press. far and near:-
 Addison, N. Y., Oct,, 23, 1903.
 The reading of the report of the re- cent Ashford association in the Exam finer and the picture of the old church revivesthe memory of the long age" " I was present. and "lent hand'' at the raising of that church. 1.-the cdt- looks as good as new, after sur yiYing it's three score and ten years. We'll, the building remains intact, but where are the people who built it? am not certain one of the origi- nal members survive. But the church survives, for which I am thankful. was present when the church organ ized, with it's Prestons, Johnsons, Brighams, Riders, Glaziers, Vintons, Merricks and others, about forty in all. It seldom falls to the lot of country church to carry membership of such substantial, we'll to do people at the outset. About 1845 terrible sickness prevailed, carrying off sev- eral substantial members in a few weeks, among whom were such names as Judge Rider and wife, Dea. Asa Taylor, Roderick Futon and several others It fell to my lot to act as nurse for Dea. Taylor the last week of. ahiE life.2s As saw him nearing the end~I said to him, Deacon, the outward man is perishing.'' Yes, " he replied, "but the inward man is renewed day by day. and in day or. two he passed away. And now do you wonder that, at eighty-three years of age, all that pertains to the Bap- tist church in Wilmington is of special interest to. the writer? It seldom falls to tha lOt Of a. country churoh at its