The Press., 1909-02-03
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 Mrs. Samuel Bartlett is suffering from cold and chronic difficulties.
 Communion will be observed at the Baptist church next Sunday morning.
 The ice men are making the most of their time during the zero weather.
 The Ladies' Aid preceded the Bun- yan club at Rest Cottage Tuesday evening.
 The Thursday evening prayer meet ing will take the form of a covenant meeting this week.
 Wilmington was represented at the fellowship meeting at the Congrega- tional church at Stafford Springs on Tuesday. .. .... .-...........
 MT. Cosgrove was reohosen presi- dent of the State Poultry association at their meeting in Hartford last week. The sessions of the convention were all of profit and interest
 When there is good coasting it does not take long to get company of merry young people together to enjoy 1t, aud the side hill moving back of Maple Corner is favorite resort.
 Rev. MT. Darrow and Mrs. Darrow attended worship at the chapel, Tol- land side, Sunday afternoon, after re- lcelving the phone message that the hall at South Wilmington could not be warmed.
 The Endeavor in the Congregational .ehapel was led by Miss Burleson. MI. Darrow sang a solo, Mrs. Dar- ravG accompanying, the subject being sIgetign missions Nearly every one pre@ent had something to add to the Interest of the meeting.
 The trained nurse from Newark, N. J.. summoned by pr. Holt to care for his father, did not arrive until after MT. Holt's death. She remained, However, to care for Mrs Holt, who is very delicate and was much ex- hausted, until after the funeral.
 Miss Mabel Elaine Clark, after her i've weeks in Worcester, Mass, with her sister, went from that place to Willimantio last Saturday, and is staying for a time with her cousin, Mrs. Hoxie, we'll known here, who has recently had an operation for ap- pendicitis. .....
 The text upon which Rev. MT. Gardner founded his discourse Sunday morning was Proverbs 27:1. Topic, ''The present only is ours. " A short and harmonious business meeting fol- lowed the preaching service. Rev. Mr. Darrow's topic was "The Lords challenge to his people,' the text being Malachi B.: 10.
 We are sure there are many read CTS of this column who will enjoy sharing Mrs. Emily Shaffer Carpen- ter's birthday letter from her old schoolmate, John Merriok, so, with her permission, we make this extract: My first remem brance of the old schoolhouse and school at the Glass Factory is from the fall of 1886, after our family moved from the Hollow to our own farm, where Marian Knight now lives. The first teacher was Luther O. Anderson, who lived Holland side, just across the river from David Clark s, one tenn. Those following him were, as remem Der, s. D. Griggs two or three terms, Al bert Morrison one term, young man named Loveland, nephew of Mrs Timothy Holt, one term, and John B Carpenter three terms. The fami- lies from which the school was made up very largely in those years were the Eben Studley family, who lived in the Tom Merrick house, the James Westons, Captain Sharp, James Holt, Jr, the Joseph Merricks, David Burlington, the Whitfords, the Phelps near the river, Mrs. Nye, the Fisks on the River road, the Charles Han. over family; then right in your neighborhood were your father, Will AA0" 0A0AOAS UAO NACA 0AA0AO6s ehO William Still and Daniel Shaffer and some others. A pretty good group of families and their children went out to bless the world It would be hard to find hamlet of it's size any where that has sent out better class of citizens, really fsel just little Droud of fhe old rcd schuOlhouse and the Glass Factory district. Another part of my life in Wilmington that recall with pleasure is the time when we were associated together in the choir of the Baptist church. From the time that B. F. Taylor first taught singing school in the old tavern in the hall over Mrs Preston's sitting room at Maple Corner, Wilmington was noted for years for the fine choir