The Press., 1909-11-03
WELLINGTON.

Rev. A. Gardner eecEed sunai y morning from Numbers s:6 Harold W. Pratt of Providence. R came Friday night to SD, nd Satnr- day and Sunday with his parents hers
 Mrs Ida M. Brown. widow of Rev. Charles H Brown. who las been for some W, eks with friends in Asbury Park N !. returned on Saturday to her home h re with her parents at Coz, croft and every one is glad 10 welcome her.
 Miss Palmer has been seriously ill for some days. but is improving Mrs. Oarpeuter is not as we'll as usual. Mrs. Robbins, who has had something of . pull. back is quite confortabii. :. Mr. Oosgrove and Mrs Oosgrove are both bt tier, but not quite in their usual health
 The Lougee family, who moved to West Wilmington from w stferd a few years ago. moved last week 10 New London The young people will be missed by their companions, but the two bright lads, Leon and Kenneth, will doubtless make rapid progress in the city schools.
 Rev. MT Darrow took his text Sun day morning from Judges 7, and a part of the 7tIl verse, the excellent practical discourse going to show that he Lord does his work by spiritual power more than by numbers. The gospel song by MT. and Mrs. Darrow was greatly appreciated. The beauti : full morning brought out a large at- tendance, many coming from quite Q distance.
 Mrs. Darrow led the Endeavor most interestingly Sunday evening The meeting next Sunday evening will be held in the Congregational chapel, Rev. MT. Gardner leader. The people who find Sunday evening so dull would best make the Endeavor meet ing an objective point for a walk or a drive. The meetings are always in- teresting and instructive, and a larger number of residents should overcome their apathy enough to come out and receive the pleasure and profit within their reach.
 "Reminiscences of WilIington, Conn, by Native
 of the Town.
 oR R,o %0u are of the East Hollow, where our family then lived with my grand mother, in the gambrel -roofed house, with the we'll and an old Dutch pop lar tree at the front, afterwards owned for many years by the late Sanford Niles.
 As recall it, there was at that time at what has been known as Dale vile only small water power. with fulling machine and a machine card ing rolls for the farmers, whose wives and daughters did all of the spin- ming and weaving for the families, getting the cloth dressed at the full ing mill at Daleville. There was an other small water power at the Amos Preston bark mill, some distance below the Ashford road Next was the Dea John Weston saw and grist mill, where, in the winter. they had quite fine water power, but in the summer the dam had to be lowered some six feet to drain the meadows on the river above the mill.
 The saw mill of those days consisted of one muley, or up and down saw attached to pitman attached to 8 crank on the futter, or horizontal wheel, at the bottom of the Hume, making from 50 to 60 revolutions per minute. One thouasnd feet of boards was considered a very good days work for one of those saws That was small affair in comparison with the modern portable saw mills that have gone slashing through the timber lots of New England till there is but very little timber left.
 Farther up the valley Origen Dim- ook had custom grist mill that was run by a MT. Whiting, the grand father of William Whiting. the paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass. Then farther north on small stream was a small woolen mill, known at one time as Tinkerville and at one time as Forrestdale. It was one of the first woolen mills in Connections, and employed quite number of girls, of which MT. Writings mother was one, my sister Lovina another, also girl. sister of Porter Edwards, Sally and Catherine Stiles and Wealthy and Eliza Weston were employed for 8 longer or a shorter time.
 It was said of the Weston mill at the Hollow that it was built by Dea. John Weston, the father of the large family of Westons that were for so many years, and are still so we'll re- membered in Willington. Dea. Wes- ton was said to have been killed by falling in his mill, and that Mrs. Weston, with the help of her growing boys, operated the mill for many years.
 The part of the town of which the above is written was divided into three school districts, the Topliff dis triot at Daleville, the City or Hollow district at the Hollow, and the Rider district In the northeast corner of the town.
 Some of the principal families in the Topliff district, as recall them. were the George Leonard family, the Dawleys, the Topliffs, Joseph and Leander Hull. Horace Bicknell. Will liam Brett and Ariel Eldredge. In the Hollow district were, on the Hill DN DTE0EH N