The Press., 1908-02-19
WELLINGTON.

exempt themselves from fear.
 Mrs. Hoxie of Willimantic is visit ing at her U. cle, l.. w. Clark's. Miss Gardner started Monday for a visit to friends in New York City. Mrs. Wolfe has taken her place again in the Sunday school as teacher.
 Judging by developments Febru- fary rainbow betokens pleasant wealth CT.
 Annie Tomasco led the Endeavor in the Congregational chapel Sunday evening.
 Apples are keeping we'll this winter. and s. P. Morrison, has the finest Bald wins ever.
 From II below zero to 50 above is quite jump, but it is what we have all lately experienced.
 It is given out as the opinion of those we'll informed that the worst of the financial stress is over.. Pres. Luther and Sec. Hine were entertained at tea by Rev. and Mrs. O. W Wolfe Friday afternoon.
 The postponed w. 0. T. U., will meet at chapel, Holland side, Satur- day, 22d inst, at 2.3O p. m.
 Walt Whitman's ''Oh Captain! My Captain !'' is one of the greatest tributes paid to Abraham Lincoln.
 It is not always the mark of a superior mind to take the opposite. There is grace of acquiescence.
 MT. and Mrs. Houchans spent one day of last week in Hartford, driving to Rockville and taking the electrics.
 A horse in front of pair of oxen as a leader, without a bridle and eoing it's part, is certainly an ex-
 optional sight, even on this road of many teams.
 "The Christian influence exerted by the churches on the life of the nation depends upon spiritual qualities of the mem bers, and these cannot be rep- resented by statistics, ''
 Sunday morning Rev. Charles W. Wolfe took for his topic "The Suffer ings of Christi. ' Rev. Gardner's text was Exodus 4, verses 6 and 2. An appropriate text for the Lincoln Memorial that followed. A highly interesting and hepful discodrse.
 Did you see the beautiful, brilliant rainbow Saturday at sunset? A glori- ous ending for a very boistrous afternoon. If we had sought for the end of this first rainbow of the year we should have looked in the Oongre- gational parsonage, for it evidently sprang from here and went away over to the north. A perfect arch!
 Recently gathered statistics show ttSlt of our population of 80. GOO, 900 more than one third, 1888, 156, are enrolled as communicant members of religious organizations. Statistics and numbers do not fully and ade- quately represent the real strength of the churches. It is not merely the mum ber of mem bers but the kind of mem bers which determine the strength of church, and what is true of the single church is true of churches in the aggregate.
 A few moments too late for last weeks Press came the news to rela- tives here of the suicide of Frank W. Gould of Moline, Ill.,, by shooting him self in the mouth, on account of financial difficulties. MT. Gould was the son of Judge John M. Gould and Hannah Dimock Gould, native of this town, and grandson of the late Origin Dimouk and nephew of the late Moses l.. Dimook and A. D. Dimock. Mr.. Gould had been for many years prominent in business circles and was at the time of his death president and director of com panies and corporations. No sugges- tion of speculation or dishonesty is made against him, but it is thought his mind was affected on account of bad investment of money of an estate intrusted to him.. It has been many times said that the family of Judge Gould was the most prominent in all right directions of any in the three cities of Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island and Moline, Ill, and this sad news will come like shock to very great many people. He leaves a wife, very brilliant woman, who had charge of the Illinois department in the great Chicago exposition. and later went with Mrs. Potter Palmer officially to the Paris exhibition. Their only daughter, Florence, 8 graduate of Vassar, who visited relatives here with her grandparents some years ago, is now married to Joshua Hale of New buryport. Mass, reputed to be 8 millionaire. Judge Gould, who is 87 years of age, is passing the winter at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grace. Hills, in Texas Frank Gould was fifty y-fiee years old.
 Mrs. Annie A. Preston in Springfield Repub-
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