The Press., 1907-05-22
WELLINGTON.
2 The Ladies' Aid are fitting up the dining room at the Baptist parsonage.

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 If the pretty colt at the Robbin farm lives and thrives, the ohance are that Ben will have a fine horse in due course of time.
 It is just as important not to en certain devils unawares as it is tc make sure that we do not reject angels who seek our fellowship"
 John Merrick and his daughter, Mrs. Lathrop, started the 10th from Minneapolis for the east. They will make several calls on friends and rela- tives en route. reaching Holyoke not much before July list.
 We hear much about pedigree in these days, when everybody is hunt ing up his ancestors. But what chance have we to make record com pared with the holy duke Yen, who is descendant of Confucius in the seventy sixth generation?''
 The statistics of the American Bap- tist Home Mission society, on the seventy fifth anniversary souvenir postal card sent from Washington by Rev. O. W. Wolfe, are of much inter- est The growth of the work has been such that now one million dol lars year are needed to carry it on.
 Most of the sleepers on the Hill and vicinity were awakened at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning by the ringing of the Baptist church bell. Heads went out of windows and one neighbor call ed to another, "Where's the fire ?" It was not long before the intelligence came, "The old Taylor house is burned to the ground, Mrs. Clarke barely escaping with her life; every thing gone-clothes, money, con- siderable sum-everythinR. ' Furth- CT details are: Mrs. Katharine Clarke, widow of Rev. s. w. Clarke, the owner of the place, came from Springfield, Mass. where she has been spending the winter, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. l.. K. Scott, last Thursday. Mrs. Scott returned Friday, leaving her mother alone to spend the summer at the old home. Mrs. Clark had been out calling on Monday afternoon, and there had been practically neither fire nor lights in the house. She retired in the north bedroom at seasonable hour, was awakened between and 3 in the morning by cracking noise, arose, opened the door into the north entry and was met by flames. Closing that door she opened the door leading to the kitchen, and there the fire was hotter still. She caught a wrapper and shoes and stockings, and escaped by the window. In her natural trep- idation she dropped the money and it was destroyed. Mrs. Wostre1, near neighbor, was probably awakened about the same time by the cracking of the flames, and for some time it was feared that Mrs. Clark had perished in the flames. MT. Wostrel ran for help; Ewdard Carpenter rang the church bell. and everybody went to the scene of the fire, but too late to be of assistance. Providentially the buildings of MT. Wostrel, the late Lucius Preston place, did not suffer. Three of the fine old shade trees are ruined, and the grass is burned for a considerable distance about the house. The quaint old chimney stands alone, a melancholy relic of one of the oldest houses in the town. if not the oldest. Dea. Asa Taylor, father of Solyman Taylor, moved into the house in 1911, when Solyman was an infant, he having been born in the Fenton -Schaffer place below Mrs. William Eldredge's, and the place belonged to the Tay- lors until it was sold to Rev. Samuel W. Clarke, some ten years ago. Mrs. Clarke is at Rev. MT. Gardner's at this writing. Much sympathy is felt for the elderly woman, who is in nearly nervous collapse.
 South willingtOn.
 Wm. F. Carroll is again working at his trade for G. Hall, Jr., 6 Go.
 The improvement previously noted in the case of Joseph Kingsbury con. tinues.
 Garden planting goes on as usual, although there was freeze Tuesday morning.
 Additional dogs registered by Harry G. Pratt, George Henderson. Total to date, Fl.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Denman have gone to Eastern Point. near New Lon- don, for few weeks.
 Stated communication of Uriel lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M., Saturday evening. Work on the M. M. degree.
 Arthur l.. Spicer and wife expect to leave Jacksonville, Fla, the 26th for their return trip. Mrs. Spioer's health has been much benefited by the southern climate.
 Mrs. Legrand Johnson has moved into the New Village, where she will live for the present. Inasmuch as she has for years been interested in the church work, it will be pleasant for her to be nearer to where church services are held.
 Deacon F. W. Pratt and Wm. H. Bracket were delegates from the
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