The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-08-07
WELLINGTON.

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"Where aspiration is wanting the
soul oreeps, it cannot fly"
Mr.. Neff of Providence is visiting
his sister, Mrs. Diantha Neff Essex.
Dwight B. Gardner and wife drove
over from Rockville Monday for the
week.
The setting sun and the setting her
both set about the same time the cocl
crows. Fools Calendar.
Rev. A. Gardner preached Sunday
morning from Luke 10: 20, Name
in the rock of life.
Rev. Charles H. Brown and wife o.
Saxton's River, VT, arrived at Oozy
Croft Monday afternoon.
Encouraging news is received from
Mrs. Ellen Wilbur, who recently sus
tanned an operation in a Hartford
hospital.
There will be an impromptu social
and supper at the Baptist conference
room Friday evening, Aug. 9th.
There will be social and literary en-
tertainment, and large attendance is
hoped for, as it is desired to raise
money for a special object.
Mrs. Jennie Baker Kent, the only
daughter of Mrs. Jane Dimock Baker.
native of the town, with her son,
Addison, and daughter, Mabel, from
Canon City, Colorado, are visiting
their relatives here, with headquart-
ers at the home of her uncle, Addison
d. Dimock.
Our friend and former neighbor,
Mrs. Angelina Cushman Edgerton,
who is now with her daughter, Mrs.
Sibley, in Lynn, Mass, passed her
S1st birthday July 9th. The Lynn
Evening News of that date prints a
very good picture of her and an inter-
view by one of its reporters. We are
pleased to acknowledge the copy sent
us, and shall he happy to show it to
any one interested. We add our con-
gratulations and best wishes to this
long time friend. and subscriber to
The Press.
Grace Jeal. who passed her child
hood with her foster mother, Mrs.
William Henry Holt, and after her
death went to Stafford Springs to
work for the late Mrs. George Dennis
and Mrs. Adelbert Needham, and who
has lately been employed as telephone
operator in Danielson, has entered
Grace hospital training school, New
Haven, for three-years course, ex
pecting to graduate in 1910. Grace
was an Interesting little girl. anG
has best wishes of every one here il
her new vocation.
The irregularity of the mail il
something deplorable. Out of three
daily papers as a general thing one
gets around on the day of date, and
the others that come struggling along
are not enhanced in interest by the
delay. The weeklies generally gel
here, if not on the week sent, the
next. But letters Two weeks from
New York, and worse from nearer
home. There is need of supervision
somewhere. Is it that so many mail
clerks are on vacation? One hest.
tates to report delinquencies, but II
sometimes becomes necessary. We dc
not think the trouble is on the route
or at the distributing office.
Harold Gardner, graduate of Yale
University and of the Hartford Thee.
logical sem nary in June of the present
summer, was ordained the 9th al
Melville, North Dakota. His grand.
father, Rev. Austin Gardner, was
invited to be a member of the
council, but replied that as the dis.
lance was so great and as he was in
his 18th year of borrowed service he
must decline. However, he sent 8
letter to be read on the occasion, and
the prayer that he made at the ordi.
nation of his son. Harry Gardner, who
died on the eve of his departure fol
Africa as a missionary. Rev. Harold
Gardner breaches in two churches
twelve miles apart. In one the edi.
flee is always filed by an intelli-
gent congregation, and there are sc
many children that they have to sit
around on the edge of the pulpit plat.
form. This is home mission. work,
and involves as much, or more, sac.
rifice as does work in foreign field.
We feel that Melville, North Dakota,
is to be congratulated.
south Wellington.
There was one birth and one death
in town during July.
Carl Goodman spent Sunday with
his sister in New Haven.
Miss Maude Steele of New Haver
| is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Hans