The Press., 1906-05-23
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l That BrldgeporG explosion was dis tinctly felt here on the Hill.
 Harold Gardner preached for the ' Vernon church last Sunday.
 We do not father all items that oc- casionally appear in this column.
 MT. and Mrs. James Lawrence uni ted with the Congregational church in Unionville recently.
 Anton Wostrel discharged his hired man last week, he, the farm hand, re- turning to New York city.
 Residents who visited the Center school last week report that Miss 0. F. McHugh, the teacher, is doing good work.
 It was Jack Downing, we believe, who once said that he believed in the prohibitory law, but was "agin" it's enforcement.
 The ice question don't concern the Hill folk very much, when the cool we'll water in the vicinity is taken into consideration.
 When your mercury in the shade says 92 it's hot. We guess that such kind of weather last week made the folks in cities shell out some.
 Rev. o. w. Wolfe's wife is certain ly master gardener. Last week she shared with us the first fruits of her kitchen garden, table radishes.
 At the Congregational church the subject was "Eating honey by the way" The pastors spiritualizing of the text was wholesome and uplift- ing.
 Miss Mabel A. Comins, a former teacher of the Center school, joined the Davenport Congregational church, New Haven, the first Sunday of this month.
 The day after the funeral of her infant Mrs. Dasie Dimock Brown, with her two children, went to her fathers at South Wilmington to board for the present.
 A family named Mentzer from Pittsburg, Penn., are the owners and occupants of the Weeks dwelling house and farm on the west road from Samuel Bartlett's to Stafford Springs.
 A missionary meeting for the pur- pose of organization is appointed for Friday afternoon at the Baptist par sonage. We are requested to say that all interested are cordially invited to attend.
 The ball game at Crystal Lake Saturday between that team and the West Willingtons was won by the latter to o. Hans M. Hansen, Jr., one of the players, was hit by ball and oamss near being seriously in- jured.
 We were happy to receive calls Sat urday last from Judge W. H. Heald and Lawyer O'Connell of Stafford Springs. Mr. O'Connell is the new Stafford correspondent of the Spring field Republican-some time since we held that position.
 A most estimable woman, formerly of this town, a member of the Bap- tist church, Miss Margaret Morrison, died on the 18th inst, at East Hamp- ton, the subsequent interment being in Manchester. Rev. o. l.. Snow of Greenville, her former pastor, was the officiating clergyman at the funeral. A large and spirited anniversary meeting of the local W. O. T. U. was held at the home of it's president, Mrs. Emma J. Holman, last Saturday afternoon. Original papers were read by Mrs. Johnson and by Mrs. Pratt, while the hostess, Mrs. Holman, gave "reminiscences of the organization s beginning, and read an anniversary poem written for the occasion by Mrs. Annie A. Preston. Cake and lemonade was served on this occasion of the one hundredth meeting of the union.
 At the Baptist church Sunday Rev. Leonard Smith of Spring Hill, in ex- change with the pastor, preached a powerful discourse, the subject being "God's kings" Mrs. Florence Bel lows of Brooklyn, N. Y., a grand daughter of the late Abner Church, who is visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. J.. Gardner, of Spring Hill, finely ren- dered solo, entitled My Mother's s Prayer" The unusually large con- gregation had quite a treat. both in music and in preaching. We were not aware that we had so fine a speaker in this association of church. es. Mrs. Bellows bears the stamp of the Church family relationship strong ly in her face.