The Press., 1904-06-22

ploC, etc., will be free to neighbOr and others on the Fourth.
 sl Miss Riley of New Haven has beer visiting her sister, the Center schoo , teacher, the past week or so.
 Miss Edna G. Pierce returned tc her home last week from the North. ! field seminary for her summer vaca. tion.
 | It pays tc plant your peas early, in spite of the backwardness of the sea- son. We had our first mess last week.
 In an emergency, especially when the public good is at stake, always bury your likes and dislikes in the bosom of oblivion. .... Rev. MT. Gardner has resumed his five-minute sermonettes to the chill dren in the Congregational church. The last series was on Kindness. :"
 Mrs. Charles A. Robbins, with her daughter, Lucy. started Saturday for her vacation visit to friends in Mid dletown, Norwich, New London, etc.
 The mid-week Baptist prayer meet ings. which have lapsed for time, will be resumed tomorrow Thurs day - evening at half past seven O. clock. -..l
 A new and quite tasty monument has been placed in the Azel Trask and Uriel Hanover lot in the old ceme- tery. The lot is four posted by mar ble blocks.
 Congratulations are hereby extended to Daisy Wilson Ruby and her hus- band. May their residence on the old Asa Smith farm be happy and prosperous.
 Mrs. Sleight returned from New York yesterday. She will probably spend the summer at her fathers unless urgently called back to her duties in New York as graduate nurse.
 The topic at the Congregational church was "The awakening of the Christian church foreshadowed, Ps. 1O2: 1914. Next Sunday Rev. MT. Gardner will exchange with Rev. E. A. Burnham of Stafford Springs, rain or shine.
 An all.day picnic is planned for the Fourth at Cartier's grove. There will be two ball games, one at 10 a. m. and the other at 3.3O p. m., be- tween the West Willingtons and North Windhams. Refreshments will. be served all day, and the Stafford or chestra will furnish music for danc- ing.
 Mrs. Emma Burdick Fuller, widow of the late J. Clayton Fuller, left the old home Saturday morning for a short visit with her son, Fred, in Massachusetts, from whence she will go to New London to assume her per- manent duties as companion to Mrs. Jaynes, a resident of that city and a near neighbor of Mrs. Fuller's sister, Mrs. Neff
 An exceptionally fine June day, a beautifully blossom -bedecked audience room greeted the participants and large congregation "Ohildren's day'' at the Baptist church last Sunday. The exercises were unusually interest tations, readings and song were Mrs. D. l.. Royce, Misses Bartlett, Gross, Oosgrove, Whitford, Pratt. the four Pierce sisters, Myrtle Royce, Ada Wilbur, Ada Ward, two little Gross sisters, Mervin Royce, Roy Wilbur. Charlie Lyon. MT. Wolfe's address on the Bible and the American Bap- tist Publication society's work was interesting. The prayer was offered by Rev. MT. Gardner of the Congre- gational church.
 The Baptist parsonage which, with all it's appurtenances, far and near one might say, had been growing in to "inoxious dissuetude'' for the past three years, since it's abandonment as a home for the minister, has now, since the occupancy by the pastor elect and his wife, taken on new life, and through the energy of MT. and Mrs. Wolfe begins to blossom as the rose. With it's grounds and exten- sive kitchen garden, containing all sorts of fruits in abundance, product i've adjuncts, it makes a pleasant home for the young couple. The abandonment of this minister s home'' was grave mistake, anyway, and in more senses than one it will be hard to ever pick up again. But no one, even in this time of decadence of country churches, can tell what time may do. The new occupants have got so far settled that their friends will be cordially welcomed at any time.
 A very harmonious and expeditions meeting of the Center school district was held in the school house Friday evening. The old committee, A. H. Eldredge, Frank Vanecko and George A. Cosgrove was chosen without a dissenting vote. George A. Cosgrove was re-chosen secretary and treasurer. s. P. Morrison was chosen collector Besides the customary vote to "set up a school'' for the, ensuing year, it was understood that, if the services of Miss Minnie Riley of New Haven, who very acceptably taught the school the past year, and in whose behalf commendatory words were spoken by George A. Cosgrove and Mrs. Preston, cannot be further secured, then the district committee are to hire some normal school graduate. It was a surprise to the district when it was alleged that this efficient teacher was obliged to return to her home in New Haven without a proper certificate as to the number of weeks she had taught through the mistaken idea