The Press., 1906-12-19
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Mrs. Belle Sleight is expected home for the holidays.
 Frank Chisln with his wife is now in Norwich, working at his trade, car. pentering.
 At the Baptist church the subject of the pastors discourse was Life, l" Mark 8 :35.37.
 Mrs. Baker Studley still remains about the same, while the writer is on his feet again.
 At the Congregational church Sun- day the subject was "Elijah's prayer to die," 1 Kings 19 4.
 "There has been a moral crisis in every progressive community and in every generation since history began. ,"
 The Congregational Ladies' Aid so- ciety has agreed to give no more so- oials until after it's annual meeting next spring.
 Forgiveness to the injured does belong. But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. The offender never pardons. ''
 The towns of Holland and Willing ton are not represented in the jury in the. Bishop Williams murder trial, now in progress.
 There will be held the annual church meeting next Sunday. at the close of the morning service, in the Congregational church.
 We understand that the present oc- cupant of the premises, Charles Hiram Ryder, has at this writing heard nothing of it's recent sale.
 "For boy who knows how to work, and is willing to take what comes to him, there was never a better time to get on in the world than the preB- ent.
 Miss Alice V. Cosgrove, teacher of the Glass Factory school, spends Christmas with her aunt, Mrs. Charles H. Brown, at Saxtons' River, Vt.
 There was a great hullabolo of rice throwing, etc., within the border of our town on the railroad train which took the newly married couple, MT. and Mrs. Allan Houstan, northward, Saturday afternoon, we are told.
 "There must always be in any com munity old men and women without employment, because they have passed the working age. They ought to be made comfortable, but their plight should not be cited as proof of the injustice of society,""
 Miss Edith Scott, who used to live with her uncle, Wilbur Duncan, on the Ryder place, near the Baptist church, was recently married, we hear. It seems only about six months since she was one of the favorite little people about the Hill. Best wishes.
 The proposed Christmas eve festi. vities at the Baptist church bid fair to be quite an event for this commu- nifty. Nellie Carpenter. Mabel E. Clark and Florence M. Pierce, finance committee, went to Hartford Saturday to purchase presents for the Christmas tree, etc. We have heard in rehearsal some of the recitations, and if the whole celebration shall he as good the occasion will be success, intellectual ly, at least. Doubtless if the night is fair there will be a large attend- ance. Everybody is invited.
 We are informed through a reader of The Press in New Jersey that the writer's father, the late Burnham Lillibridge, was one of the 62 grand children of the late "Elder" Lilli- bridge, that this Rev. David, the minister of the first Baptist church in Willintgon, himself built the edifice near the residence of Samuel Bartlett, in the north part of the town. that for and during his service as the minister for the term of fifty years or so, never took a cent of l salary, and supported largely his poor parishioners at that, and that the families of these 62 grandchildren are nearly extinct, and that, although this is so, there is considerable inter est in the proposed memorial oelebra- l tion.