The Press., 1905-05-17

last week.
 1 Dentist Wilbur Holt of Newark, N J., came to his fathers home here last week for few days'' fishing.
 Mrs. w. R. Wilbur remains about the same, Her daughter law, Mrs. Bernice Wilbur, still cares for her.
 At the Baptist church Sunday after noon the discourse was upon the words, Come after me and I will make you fishers of men.'
 There was another wedding at the Baptist parsonage Saturday afternoon, the contracting parties being Hans Hansen and Mrs. Mundell.
 At the Congregational church Sum- day morning the theme was "The re- wards of righteousness" "-great, cer- taln' eternal, founded on Luke 6 :22.
 Samuel Gardner of Burnside spent Sunday with his parents at the Con gregational parsonage. His daughter, Miss Linda, returned home with him.
 The R. F. D., Holland side, which went into effect Monday, is, we can see, up to the governments intention ln such cases. No ancient landmarks are removed and the "rural' public IS truly benefited thereby. William Converse has left s. Slings- by's house and gone to live on the Lucius Eldredge place. Clarence FL dredge succeeded him for a while, but soon afterwards moved to the thread mill village.
 The local W. c. T. U. will hold their regular meeting at Mrs. l.. M Johnson's, Saturday, 2Oth inst, at 8 p. m. A full attendance is earnestly requested, as committees are to be ap- pointed to arrange for the county con- vention, to be held in the Baptist church on Thursday, June 1st.
 South W1llingtOn.
 Charles Fox is home from Stoning- ton.
 Mrs. H. A. Wheeler is on a visit with friends in Bristol.
 George W. Morrison has gone to East Hampton to work.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Denman are housekeeping in the village.
 Mrs. Charles Johnson is on a visit to her mother in Leeds, Mass.
 Miss Edith Scott is spending a few days with relatives in Springfield, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Clarence Eldredge have moved into the Richardson house.
 Origin Halls locomobile, after some necessary repairs, is on the road again.
 Mrs. T. A. Denman is spending a few days in East Hampton with her sister, Mrs. Selden Clark.
 w.. E. Battye and son, Robert, are finding it difficult to answer all the calls made on them for team work.
 Both Mrs. s. Gurley and Clarence s. Gergler, who have been seriously ill, are much improved at this writ ing.
 The visit of the members of Uriel lodge to Wolcott lodge, F. 6 A. M. :, which was postponed, will be made this week Saturday.
 The "Fisher" house is being over- hauled and refurnished for the use of MT. and Mrs. Alexis Clark, who will soon occupy the same.
 The administrator of the Sparrow estate advertises an auction sale o1 the personal property on May 27th, in another column of this paper.
 Hans Hansen and Mrs. Mary Nun. dell, who were married last Saturday, are keeping house in the tenement lately vacated by W. H. Bracket.
 The rite of baptism will he admin. istered to candidates for church mem bership at the lake next Sunday al 11.45 o'clock, during the intermis. sion between the preaching service and Sunday school.
 An incident in connection with the presentation of Aunt Jerusha'' by the band members and Y. P. s. c. E.: The receipts were to be divided equally between the two societies. After the entertainment the band voted to accept but $5, as there were more O. E. members than band mem- bers in the cast of characters. At a later meeting of the o. E. society the extra amount was accepted, and a vote of thanks extended to the band members for their generosity.
 Rev. John J. Smallwood, president of the Temperance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute of Claremont, Va, and former schoolmate of W. H. Hall at Wilbraham, Mass. has been a guest of MT. Hall few days, and was prevailed upon to address the people in the hall Sunday, preaching in the forenoon and in the evening giving an extremely interesting &C., count of his work among the negroes in the south, for which his school was founded in 1892. A large and attentive audience greeted him in the evening, as we'll as in the morning, and if there was anyone present that had a prejudice against the negro race they must have had their views changed somewhat by the facts and figures presented. z He touched on the patriotism of the negro, his struggle against determined opposition to hil education, his follies and weaknesses cited number of instances showing the great advancement of the negro since war times, and closed with al appeal to the people of the north tt discourage unreasonable race hatred