The Press., 1907-11-27
WILLINGTON.

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 If all else faileth God takes tex and preaoheth patience. ''
 Thanksgiving comes again. suggest ing many and tender memories, bott cheerful and sad.
 Mrs. Gardner, Miss Gardner and Annie Tomasco made a trip to Willi. mantle on Friday.
 Mrs. s. P. Morrison and her daugh. ter, Mrs. Worden, of South Wilmington, were in Willimantic last Tuesday.
 The Center school is having g va. cation of a week. Miss Dimock, teacher, is at her home in Gurley. -ville
 Mrs. Pierce and daughter, Dorothy, went to their new home, Potter avenue, Providence, R. l., on Satur. day.
 Mrs. Waldo returned to Hartford Hast Thursday. She has been with her sister, Mrs. Carpenter, for five months. ;.
 Mrs. Preston goes to-day to Spring field, Mass, to pass the national feast day at 779 Main street with MT. and Mrs. Clark Lillibridge.
 Cards received by friends of Mrs. Hans M. Hansen, Jr., show the pie turesque scenery of Lake Weir, the place where she is now settled for the winter.
 The wind of Sunday night played many pranks. blowing in windows, opening barn doors, blowing over lawn swings and scattering the sum- mer settees about, etc.
 Mrs. Cosgrove and her daughter, Mrs. Sleight, while visiting relatives in Manchester recently, went with 8 trolley party to Glastonbury, where they attended game supper at the Congregational church, notable event.
 Communion will be observed at the Baptist church next Sunday. The covenant meeting will be held in con- nection with the Thursday evening prayer meeting in the conference room, beginning at z o'clock. Let there be good attendance.
 The social at the Baptist conference room drew together most of the inclined, old and young, and passed off pleasantly The supper was abundant and good, and the Christmas gift fund was swelled to the amour" of seven dollars.
 The Christmas committees are an as follows: Music, Rev. O. ". Wolfe; finance. Nellie Carpenter, Martha Korner, Clara Joslin, Mrs, Preston; entertainment, Mrs. Preston, Miss Clark, Robert P. Pratt; dec@- rations. trees, etc., MT. Oosgrove, Will Clark, Willie Cleveland, and all the boys in the Sunday school as helpers.
 Penny Preston, Monday morning, brought in fur neck collar, lost by some lady the evening previous. He evidently considered himself mighty hunter, by the airs he took on. The collarette found an owner during the day. The wonder was that it was not blown so far as to be undiscover- able even by an contemplating little dog.
 The improvements on the southeast corner of the village green are sugges- ti ve to some of the others in the neigh borhood circle. The railing on the Morse veranda, the new and roomy porch at the Cunning Palmer south the many improvements at the Studio, the grading of Charles H. Ryder's grounds, the new coat of paint at Rev. Gardner's dwelling are all very pleasingly noticeable.
 Walter Smith. the nephew of MT. Cosgrove, caught in trap, set upon one of the Cozycroft stone walls. re- gently, a fat young coon, the result of which was delectable coon SUD- per, cooked as Mrs. Cosgrove knows how, to which the near neigbhors, George Rounds and family, were guests Walter has also caught a large black skunk, with beautiful fur, and dead hen loaded with strychnine for foxes, just outside chicken coop, brought down an immense owl, that was found dead on the spot in the morning. When Walter gets a gun the wild little neighbors of the wood. land had best keep themselves shy.
 Lowell says that our ancestors, from who our Thanksgiving festival has come down to us, "were of the wheat of three kingdoms Princes may flourish, or princes may
 fade, ..... For breath can make as a breath
 hath made;
 But bold peasantry, country E
 pride,
 When once destroyed can never be
 supplied.
 Mrs. Oorrinne Ide Lillibridge of Litllbrldge. Florida, has sent Miss Jennie Church, recently, beautiful growing plants and wings of lovely tropical birds. She always writes with enthusiasm of the beauties of her southern home.
 Sunday morning Rev. Austin Gard. ner of the Congregational church preached from Psalm 147:12. Topic. Reasons for Thanksgiving" At tie Baptist church Rev. O. w. Wolfe took for his text Exodus 3:12, Certainly will be with thee.'' Topic. "The sacredness of Gods promises. The pastor read Gov. Woedruff's Thanks giving proclamation, and in his sermon dwelt both upon our reasons for thankfulnesss in the way the nation had progressed in the way of right 1Oy0rnmank and right living and i'm