The Press., 1907-10-16

attempt to entertain the convention.
But it was entertained by the Willing
ton church once on a time.
We are pleased to acknowledge the
receipt of a handsome volume. with
the compliments of Lodge Wilmington.
No. 1875. O. S. P. s., the title of
which is Guide to the Bohemian Sec
tion and to the Kingdom of Bohemia.
It is printed under the auspices of the
city council of the royal capital,
Prague, and seems to be filled with
interesting information regarding this,
in America at least, too little known
ancient kingdom of Bohemia. We
shall, with the EDITORS permission,
give some interesting extracts later.
A volume has been presented to each
of the schools in town, very happy
thought of the members of the lodge.
One of the mottos is "When throw
ing stone through a window in
Prague you throw with it morsel of
history
The Thursday evening prayer meet
ing was addressed by Rev. Jacob
David, returned missionary from
Persia, of which country he is ma
tive. He was educated here, being
an alumnus of Brown and of Newton
Theological Seminary. He was q
classmate of Rev. Mr.. Snow in the
latter institution, and spoke here
during Mr.. Shows pastorate. He
still thinks Wilmington Hill the most
beautiful place in America, and when
he returns to America with his family
to make home he hopes to settle on
Wellington Hill. .: During his five
years work in Persia he corresponded
with O. T. Preston, who was strong
ly attracted to him and enjoyed his
interesting letters. The meeting was
opened with prayer by Rev. Mr.. Gard
ner and the reading of the second
Psalm by Pastor Wolfe, and closed
with prayer by Rev. Theron Brown
of Newtonville, Mass. There was a
fair-sized and very attentive audience.
A collection was taken.
South wilmington.
Twenty eight hunters licenses have
been issued by the town clerk to date
of Oct. 14th.
It is reported that the company
will probably harvest about 800
bushels of nice DoGatoes
Stated communication of Uriel
lodge, No. "a, F. & A. M, Saturday
evening, the 10Th Work on the M.
M. degree.
Collector D. @. Dimock will soon
cease to be collector, but before leav-
ing the office he must collect all back
taxes, hence his notice in another
column of this paper.
Rev. Leonard Smith of Mansfield
occupied the desk at the afternoon
services last Sunday and preached a
sermon that was highly appreciated,
and was a fitting sequel to the one
preached the Sunday before by Pas
tor Charles W. Wolfe.
We would respectfully call the at
tention of anyone who may know of
any infractions of the game law, or
Sunday hunting law, to the notice, in
another column of this paper, of W.
Fl. Hall, who is deputy game warden
for Tolland county, and will admins
ter the office with due regard to the
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Lumber is arriving for the new
station at this place. We understand
that it is to be built on the east side
of the track and north of the crossing,
and that there will be station agent.
We are not informed as to the size of
the building or of the agent either,
but it would appear that it the
station will be built this fall.
Since the advent of second heir at
the Baptist parsonage on the Hill, the
school children are warmly discussing
the question as to whether they should
be spoken of as the VOLTS or Wolves.
We are of the opinion that was given
by the son of Erin, who, when asked
whether the word Neither" should
be pronounced "Nither" or "Neeth-
er," replied 'Naythur. .-.
At Willimantic, the 11th, Charles
E. Allen of this village and Miss
Martha e. Thompson of Coventry
were married by Rev. L. NJ. Flocken,
pastor of the Methodist church. They
were attended by Miss Edna French
of Coventry and Leon Woodworth of
this village. Following trip to
Hartford and Springfield, the young
couple are housekeeping in this viii
lage.