The Press., 1908-07-22

cd the work for little on the state road on Monday.
 The fine and early garden of Mrs. Florence Ryder has been destroyed by marauding COWS.
 Edward Carpenter is enjoying an outing at the Jacobsen cottage at the lake, South Coventry. The baby girl who took up her habitat at the Danko home last Mon day is named Theresa Leah. On Sunday morning Rev. A. Gard ner preached from Romans 14:7. Theme, 'After death, fame" Whortleberries are so affected by the dry weather that they are long time in maturing and ripening.
 Mrs. Hutchings of New York city has been for few days with her sister. Miss Palmer. at Rest Cottage.
 Rev. A. Gardner is to take two weeks vacation. so for two Sundays the Congregational church will be closed.
 D. B. Gardner is at the Congre- gational parsonage, with 8 plan for g fishing party to Knowlton's pond in the air.
 Miss Helen Graves and her broth or, Clifford, from Medford. Mass, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Y. w. Pratt, at Pleasant View. #
 Rev. Charles Wolfe led the En- deavor at the Congregational chapel Sunday evening. It. was a temper ance topic and talk.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred o. Leining and daughter, Elsie, of HOlyOke, Mass. :, have been for several weeks at Nathan O. Wards, Holland side.
 It is said that there are cases of scarlet fever at the Myrtle farm house. There is considerable uneasiness expressed in regard to the matter.
 Rev. MT. Wolfe founded his sermon Sunday afternoon on the temptation of Christ. Many were kept from the service by the impending showers.
 Many & man thinks that it's virtue that keeps him from turning. when it's only full stomach. One should be grateful and not mistake potatoes for principle. :"
 Mabel Elaine Clark is quite we'll and enjoying herself immensely at South Schroon, in the Adirondaoks. She expects to return to her home here about September 1st. a..
 Miss Nellie Burleson of South Woodstock. and of the Willimantic state normal school, was at Oozycroft and at Maple Corner last week. She is one of tl,e applicants for the Center school.
 Nobody has right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can help to overcome.
 Miss Coleman will be at home to her friends on Thursday afternoons. The pretty home being now complete. she can settle down to regular hours of study and practice, to which our hilltop quiet is we'll adapted.
 Chester Carr Greene of Providence, R. l., Brown 'O5, with his wife, has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. Preston. at Maple Corner. They had been fer two weeks at Northfield, visiting rela. tives and attending conferences.
 Housewives who send their soiled and worn strips of carpet to the Lewis Batting company at Walpole, Mass are always pleased with the handsome and durable rugs into which they are transformed. It is an economy that pays.
 Mrs. Julia Holmes Dillworth and Mrs. Eugene Dimock drove over last week for a call aT Maple Corner. Mrs. Dillworth has quite recovered from her late painful accident that kept her for some months in a Phila- delphia hospital.
 "They don't never say nothing about us in the paper no how. ," Wall, what if they don't, they don't never git nothin' right, an manage to let 'em know it, too !" ''If you have news that you would like to have printed, why do you not give it to the correspondent and not oblige him to catch it on the fly ?"
 WORK AND REST.
 (Mrs. Preston, in Springfield RepublIcan.) That man should work was Gods be-
 hest
 Creating thus the need of rest. One day in seven he set apart For rest of body, mind and heart. A needed change! Observe the day In Gods own time, in his own way, In worship and in sacred song, Showing that you to God belong. Accept the day. it is his gift, Intended as a soul uplift;
 Rest in the Lord. heed his request, Then work shall sweeter be than rest. So work and rest are but the plan By which this world perfecteth man And by obedience we find
 That we with God are of one mind.