The Press., 1905-07-12
WELLINGTON.
It was hot Saturday and Sunday hOE annn0h for anVhn6v

It was hot Saturday and Sunday hot enough for any ybody. For some reason or other farm Ia bor is hard to get hereabouts.
 Mrs. B. F. Wilbur has so far re covered as to do her own work. \ Ben. Robbins has sold his gray horse to David Brown, Holland. We are under obligations to Dwight Baker Gardner for recent Detroit, Mich,. newspapers.
 ) Marion Chapman, the old mail car rier, and his wife of Westford called on friends on the Hill Saturday.
 Miss Mabel Clark, with Williman- tic friends, went last Thursday to the Adirondacks to spend her vacation.
 Of all the catcoas in existence de- liver us from the fellow who will run and tell all he knows at the first op- portunity.
 Mrs. Wolfe led the Endeavor meet ing at the Congregational chapel Sun- day evening. Topic, "The indwell- ing Christi ''
 Ada Wilbur went yesterday to visit her grandmother in Marlboro. Her brother, Roy Wilbur, is with his un- cle at Buff Gap, Holland side.
 Samuel Bartlett's family horse has been quite sick-so much so as to preclude the family from driving hither to church for some time past.
 At the Congregational church Sum- day the text and theme were Rev. 22: 5-"Day without night''-neith- CT physical nor moral night in heaven.
 Alonzo s. Pierce returned to New York city on the evening of the Fourth, highly pleased and recuper- ated by his visit and the quiet cele- bration of the day.
 John F. Whitford and wife came up from Cromwell to her brother, J. G. HemmeIer's, last Friday, on the way to see her physician. Her con- dition still remains unfavorable.
 Lyman Squier, Westford side, is getting along from the recent acci- dent to his eye as we'll as could be ex- pected. Recovery from an injury to that organ is always slow and liable to complications.
 Over one half of the human race fronts eastward across the Pacific ocean. We here reiterate, not only to Uncle Sam, but to all other gov ernments interested, beware of the "yellow peril!"
 At the Baptist church Sunday the discourse was upon the night betrayal by Judas of Jesus, founded on the narrative in Mark. The services were held in the conference room, where it was thought to be cooler.
 Whenever a would be chronicler of the past says that the Puritans of New England burned the witches, spot him at once as a man who never read the original records, and there fore knows nothing about history at first hand"
 Monday was 8 scorcher, too. And this reminds us of what Sankey, the noted singer, now totally blind in Brooklyn, N. Y., wrote to us on slip of paper one torrid day at Moody meeting in Northfield, Mass. Hot, hotter, Hottentot.'
 Nobody has yet told us the name of the person who invented sitting down. Many recall that SanchO Panza once blessed the memory of the man who invented sleep. We guess both acts were invented the same time, but probably we shall never know the name of either inventor.
 John D. Rockefeller has given away over $50, ,OOO,OOO for edcua- tional purposes. But some say, ' 'taint enough. Yes, indeed, pass along your "tainted'' money! And some folks wonder why the man did not give that $1 ,OOO,O to Brown, a Baptist university, instead of to Yale, Congregational institution. Per haps, if Yale and that general educa tion board rejects the $11, ,OOO, 900, Brown will get the wampum.
 The following lines. as souvenir by Mrs. Preston, were found under the plates of the parents at the 5 o'clock tea mentioned abOve:-
 Charles Wagner Wolfe, Jr.
 July sth, 1905.
 Six months old six lines. A souvenir.
 lullaby for baby dear:
 His sweet life spanning half a year
 precious gift from realms above
 This tiny life filled full with love.
 What hope and promise here to-day,
 May angels guide him all the way.
 Mrs. Preston is writing a series of stories for The Churchman, Episco- palian, New York city, being an old contributor to that journal.
 Charles Nichols and Elizabeth Kinks were married fifty years ago the 12th of next month, August. Be- fore the steam saw mill disaster which befell him their friends talked of celebrating the event by a golden wedding reception. And now, since his remarkable recuperation, their friends are more than ever determined to gladden. the worthy couple by evil dences of their good will. We under stand that there will be no formal in- vitations, and that all friends will ba welcome whether they bring presents or not Some think the occasion will he a good one to present MT. Nichols with 8 new hand, which might com pensate, in degree, for the one lost in the accident. We broach this plan thus early entirely on our own hook, so that we'll -wishers, as we'll -doers, may govern themselves accordingly. We hope to be able to give further no Iii nn lars in tha mar f11trra