The Press., 1908-07-29
w1LLINGrON.


 unwell, is recovering.
 There were guests from New York city at Rest Cottage for the week end. F Edgar I4e Roy Tucker of Lebanon
 was guest at Maple Corner over Sun- day.
 E Miss Gardner is visiting her friend.
 Mrs. Reuben JaycOx. near Northamp- ton, Mass.
 Harold W. Pratt and Frank Taylor of Providence are at Pleasant View for vacation.
 ' Miss Nellie Burleson of South Woodstock has been engaged by MT. Cosgrove to teach the Center school.
 Miss Stone. assistant supervisor of music in the New York city schools, is with Miss Coleman at the Studio.
 Every one is always glad to see our former neighbor, Mrs. Mary Macfar- lane of Willimantic, who is a guest at l.. B. Olarke's.
 ''Grover Cleveland fixed in the minds of the American people the fact that public officials are the trustees of the people. ''
 "Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental pro- cess, we must still say that our high est thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us. :"
 The hearts of the people through out the whole town were filled with grief and dismay at the news on Thursday of the death of the former pastor of the Baptist church, Rev. Charles Hovey Brown. He had passed a part of his vacation here,~ coming down to officiate at the Hall. Paige wedding, and remained at the home of his wife's parents, calling here and there, and going in and out in the old pleasant, familiar way at the homes where his presence was ever welcome when his home was here, where he was indeed the beloved pas- tor, having been sent for repeatedly since his removal to officiase at we'd dings and funerals. The funeral was largely attended at the Baptist church on Sunday, just two weeks from the day when he last preached there. at the invitation of Pastor Wolfe.
 Rev. Charles Hovey Brown was 8 son of Gilbert O. and Nancy (Hovey) and was born in Boston, Mass. :, April 24,= 1858. He attended the Boston public schools and the Massa- !&suaetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in the de. partment of civil engineering in 1880. He was employed from June. 1880. to January. 1881, in Columbus, Ohio. on the P. O. & St. l.. R. R., and from January. 1881, to November. 1883, on the Mexican National railroad, and from June, 1884, to May. 1886. on the O.. O. O. & I. R. R. in Cleveland, Ohio. In the fall of*1987 he entered Newton Theological Institution. from which he graduated in 1890, and on October 2d of that year was ordained and settled over the Willington Bap. tist church. where for ten years he preached and labored. He was also prominent in town affairs, being secretary of. the school board and an auditor and assistant treasurer of the town. On June 26, 1898. he married Mrs Ida M. Bronson of Willington. daughter of George A. COsgrOve. He was moderator of the Baptist association in 1897, having very acoeptably served as clerk of the association from 1890 to 1893. His father had the honor of being a of the common council of Boston three years, 1863 to 1866. He was elected as a member of the legis- lature in the autumn of 1898. MT Brown served as chairman of the con- mittee on humane institutions, and several times during the session acted as chaplaine of the house and senate. He gained large circle of friends among the solons at the capitol.
 To write a due appreciation of Charles Hovey Brown would take master pen. and our thoughts turn nstinctively to the former long time sditor of this column, whose close friend he was and who comprehended and admired his marvellous intellectual ability as few did, and try to think what we have heard him say and what lie would say at this crisis, and recall Behold an Israelite indeed in W hom is no guile," and the first three verses of the first Psalm that he often applied to him. MT. Brown had wonderful memory, was ready writer of prose and of poetry. When the inspiration was on he wrote poem after poem without effort. like water bubbling from 8 spring, a score, per- haps, or more, and page after page of his dramas. of which he has several unpublished. his. writings being of a higher order than meet the popular taste. His strongest intellectual point, as he thought himself, was history. and he has for years been at work on a Universal History of the World, that he has lately been revising. Every one who knew MT. Brown will agree that he lived among men simply and faithfully the life of the Master. whom he served. No one ever saw him angry; he never made an unkind or bitter speech; he never flattered nor praised unduly; if hurt or grieved he never retalitated. His sermons were deep and powerful and forcibly delivered. Our hearts go out in to his beloved wife. who had been his congenial companion and help-mate,, to his aged father. 94 years of age, and to the only mother ho had avor knOWn Wh0 1ivad with