The Press., 1908-08-19
WILMINGTON.

WILLINGTON..
 There are guests from Pennsylvania at the Baptist parsonage.
 Prayer meeting Thursday evening at Baptist conference room. as usual.
 It is estimated that the pedestrians of. New York oity wear out twenty eight thousand pairs of shoes daily.
 Miss Cora Agnes Dimock has taken the school at Mansfield Depot at $11 per week. It is safe to say that she will earn her salary-she is that kind of 8 teacher.
 George Rounds and wife attended the Pitkin-Lee wedding in Talcott- ville last week, the bride being a niece of Mrs. Rounds, her brother 6 daughter. The papers speak very pleasingly of the, event and of the young couple. s."% @'a..'f | Miss Palmer led the Endeavof at the Congregational church Sunday evening. The topic for next Sunday evening is Vacation religion. ' and Mrs. Sarah M. Wolfe is the assigned leader The meeting will be held in Baptist conference room. & Were pleased to receive from Mrs. Lawson an invitation to visit the bungalow on old home day in Union. but that and temperance day at Willi- mantic camp ground and the Bible meeting at Ashford, all in one week, are more than we are able to take in. Rev. E. Payson Hammond, who will be remember by some as hay l ing preached here in both churches in the past, when he did good work among, the children particularly, is at, his home in. Hartford and able to send pleasant messages to his friends.
 Mrs.. W. R. Terry writes pleasantly from their pastorate in Southfield, Mass. Her sister, Miss Winkoop, from New York, is summering with her at the pleasant and roomy parson- age. and Mrs. Mabel Terry Bartlett has just returned to her home in New ton. N. H. a.. ..ls The Leonard sisters, Georgiana and Harriett, of old Wilmington stock who have, often visited here, have been in Westminster, Mass. for an outing. They return to their home in Gam bridge, Mass., this week, and may come to Maple Corner for a week, later in the season.
 Rev. o. W. Wolfe and family re. turned from their week spent in Northfield. tired but refreshed by the change and the enjoyment found in the meetings of the conference. MT. Wolfe expects to, resume his work by preaching next Sunday at the usual hour. 8 D. m. Sunday school at , p. ID. sr.e'.t 9tt@. !>
 The once fourishing Sunday school at East Willington@ is given up, but Lila Snow learns the lesson and goes every Sunday to recite to her neigh, bor, Mrs. A. G.. Baldwin. Lila ii Q very nice little singer. and there are so many sweet singers among the chil. dren that it. has been suggested that one hymn at each Sunday service be ! rendered by the children's choir.
 The passing of Ira D. Sankey is oi public interest, but on account of his long illness and long blindness 1t ie blessed release for him. We kneW him we'll all those first years f al Northfeld, and can testify that all the lovely things that are said1ns him are we'll said He always sang SC cheerfully, believing iii the. power oi the gospel when sung from the heart. and a request for certain hymn was seldom disregarded. ",' ' Fa
 .=s Mrs. Frances Johnson Cdshman, widow of Rev. Elisha Oushnlan, a former much beloved pastor of the Baptist church, and for long time the able editor of the Christian Sec retary. is in Thompson for "a short so journ. Her sister, Mrs Wilcox, re- mains at their home in Hartford. Mrs. Oushman is contemplating a short stop,in Wilmington on her re. turn,, running up from Willimantic for a brief visit -s''se.e.
 Those from the Hili who attended the meeting of the W. 0! T. 3U.. at the hall, South" 'Willington. Saturday afternoon were we'll paid: for the effort by the very instructive and in: teresting address of Rev. Charles l.. Snow. who has ever been much in- terested in,nthe work of the local union. Miss Harriet O. Robbins presided at the organ. Next month the meeting will also be held in the hall at South Wilmington as the annual choice of officers will take place. The date is September 18th.
 Most country towns need a common interest that shall create town spir- it. Even the old-fashioned singing schools; ending up with an "ora. torio, :" where everybody went to the rehearsals and were happy, was an effort in right direction. Clannish- ness is a positive evil. We never realize how nice our remote neigh bors, and some times those not re- mote. are until we have something in common with them. Everybody has a duty to the community. To find out v that might be good subject for discussion. ...-.,. ,+
 If the, needs of the age really call for 8 pewzslang expression. tSwank , will probably fill the need. We are told that it comes from swagger and hanks and4that hank means bum bug. TherefOrea4tawank,.s' is pretentious humhng. and. the reason for the i'm creasing use aofs the word is that pre- tentious humbug is the predominant note of the age, and those of us who are not pretentious humbugs feel the a 1F+Pt ' ...i tE-s-