The Press., 1909-12-08

the flax ready for the wheel. After laying ont in the sun and rain until the woody part had become routed till 1t would break. 1t was put through the breaker, and then with the swingle blade the shiyes were whipped out and the bark or linen 6ber was drawn through the hatchell, which was of some two dozen or more sharp iron pins set upright in hard wood board. This process cleaned what remained of the woody part and the tow. as it was called. was used in the making of the farmers frocks.
 Only short time before his death the late Charles T. Preston sent me as a sou venir little bunch of flax that was grown on the Taylor farm. short distance south of the Hill in Wilmington, and a piece of linen crash carded, spun and woven by his ma ternal great-grandmother Taylor prob ably 100 years or more ago, and the crash is a fine specimen of what could then be done. also recall that my grandmother bad several pairs of linen sheets that she carded. spun and wove from flax raised on the Merrick farm in West Wilmington.
 Before closing this article l will refer to the strong religious sentiment that pervaded the whole town, and especially the east part, and SD ak of some of the young men that went out from some of the families to take up Christian work as pastors or mission aries.
 can recall a few families that were not strictly religious. but they were the exception not she rule, and daily family worship was very com- monly maintained, and in many in- stances all of the family were mem. bers of the church. ....
 The Baptist church, organized in 1929 with 8 membership of some 30 mem bers, had grown under the pastor. ate of the Rev. s. s. Mallory and had become strong church of some 24O members, and the weekly district prayer meeting was held every satur- day night in no less than four of the sUhoolhouses in town. It is no won- der that the pastor could give good service on Sunday, when so many If his church were pray ing for him on Saturday night. About the time of which am writ. ing there went out from the Topliff district Loomis c. Leonard, son of George Leonard, as pioneer pastor to what was then the far west in southern Ohio, where he was we'll known for many years and honored with the title of D. D. Justice H. Vinton, son of Hosea Vinton, sailed in 1884 for far away Burma. where he devoted his life to the early mis. sion in that dark country. ......
 I had very pleasant call from a grandson of J H. Vinton last sum- mer, Sumner Vinton. who was on his way to the meetings at Portland. He seemed pleased, as he said that gave him some incidents of his grand fathers family that he had never known.
 A pioneer Baptist home missionary that went out from the Hollow was Rodolphus Weston. son of Timothy Weston, a nephew of Uncle Hosea Vinton, who, though poor, worked through the schools and went out as a home missionary and at times sup ported himself in the field by working at his trade as 8 blackmith, and l have heard of his having his forge under the trees in far away Oregon, where he died some years ago, having reached 90 years. .s
 In another article may give later memories of the other parts of the to1Uu ThiS io onIv of kha ooef nork