The Press., 1908-12-16
WILMINGTON.

George Wilson is improving slowly we hear.
 Miss Gardner went on Tuesday tc Rockville for short visit.
 Mrs. Fred Squire is making poo' progress toward recovery from he late operation in Wi.limantio.
 One of Keefe's teamsters, Mir. Gard ner of Woodstock. has moved into Mr B. W. Eldredge's house at Eldredg' Mills. ..' -.~:'.
 At the Congregational church Sun. day morning Rev. A. Gardner preached from John l7:1. Topic, "Life's great hour. 1 Monday was horse-day at th' blacksmith shops, the Hinmeler shoe ing 25 and turning away many that they had not time for.
 Miss Nellie Towne Burleson goel Saturday to her home in South Wood stock for the two weeks vacation. after a very successful term at the Center school. Another good horse that its owner was too humane to sell after long period of service was J.G Himmeler'e 'e "Old Billy" that WAS quietly disposed of Monday morning.
 We trust we were not alone In the enjoyment of the remarkable cloud display at sunrise Sunday morning for half hour the eastern sky, from horizon tU zenith, was brilliant be- yond description, with Rlimpses of aznre between the flashes and waves of color From amber to crimson and then to. amber again, until all faded to pale serene grey that later oane down to us in feathery snow, covering the ice and making the home going from church a dangerous undertaking, and the going out in the evening an impossibility to the wary.
 West Wilmington.
 J. Labonte recently lost his family horse. .
 Miss Serine Hansen is visiting at MT. and Mrs. G. Patnode's in Wili- mantio.
 Mir. and Mrs. Win Wood of Stafford visited Sunday at MT. and Mrs. A. Devereaux's.
 MT. and Mrs L. Hansen were re- cent guests of MT and Mrs. H. Han sen in Rockville. E.
 Mrs. A. DsWolf returned last week from a visit to her sister. Mrs. E 0 Sparrow, in Essex.
 MT. and Mrs. M, Hansen of Mans field Depot were the. guests of MT. and Mrs. A. Jacobsen, Sunday
 Rev. Thomas lyric will preach a Christmas sermon at the chapel Sun. day afternoon at 3 o o'clock.
 Mrs. Grace Black and MT Robert, who have been visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. E. Frank Kellogg. left Friday for her home at Sullivan. Me.
 South Wilmington.
 Harvey Gergler has bought hand some gray saddle pony.
 The committee have chosen Christ mas eve for the Sunday school enter sainment.
 Mir. and Mrs. ". H. Hall spent Sunday in Springfield, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Paige.
 Andrew Tomakso spent Sunday night with James Smith. He has se- oured employment with the s. N. E. Telephone company.
 The regular monthly meeting of the ". O. T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs. E. J. Holman, Satur. day, at 2.30 p. m.
 Mrs John R. Neil and Mrs. George H. Nichols attended the supper given at the Methodist church at Crystal Lake last Thursday night.
 Deputy Game Warden W. H. Hall from Commissioner George I. Mathweson, 40 Hungariah part. ridges last Friday and released them h the woods.
 The town of Wilmington has been again honored. Among the returns of births last made to the town clerk Is one that bears the name "WiIling on Monde Pogoni.
 It seems liks old times to have five | neat carts running to this village. 4 MT. Knight of Coventry is She atest one to look with hungry eyes athe pocket. books of the villagers.
 Mrs. George. P. Curtis fell on the oe Monday noon, and in trying to ave herself threw her weight on one ,and, causing fracture of the wrist ;he was attended by Dr. F. B. Con. 'erse.
 " H Hall was notified last week l y Superintendent W. E. Costello that le had received orders from President }. 0 Jones to close the local station or the winter. The reason given vas the need of economizipg Inas- much as this station compares very with the others on the line s to receipts, and furthermore the assenger traffic Is larger than in everal others, it would seem likely hat good vigorous protest, such as dr. Hall iS likely to make, will result D the continuance of an agent here.
 Following is list of the Sunday ohool books bought with the $15. onAted by the members of the brass and that was and Is not: Malcolm ,irk, The Lost City. Born to Serve, rue and I, Five Little Pepper tories, A Heroine of the Wilderness, York, Honor Sherburns. Her Associ. te Members, Hurlbut's Story of the ible, The Man Without 8 Country, Ianliness of Christ, Triumphant Life Theodore Roosevelt. The Story Life Lincoln, A Little Girl in Old Bal. more, Seventeenth Century Men of N kiku1o GAoOban M;kohollpa Tov,wuoz I