The Press., 1909-11-10
WILMINGTON.

Albert Watrous has been for some time quite i'll. -f.s fftt tsf
 We are told that Levi Bond and his wife are living at Orrin Watrous'.
 The handsome dwelling of Louis Morse looks very nice in it's fresh coat of white paint and it's green blinds.
 Many of the wells on the Hill and vicinity are dry. and all of them are low, we fancy. An abundant rain is much needed. s--. Hszs
 Joseph B. Dimock is building cot taRe on the corner near Edgar Kibbie'F, Ashford side, that he and his wife expect to occupy soon
 The many things that John Merriok now s3, remembers when he was g small boy in Wilmington, are inter. esting many Press readers, far and near. .s..r.-r
 Within the week we have had a letssr addressed Wilmington Hill,. Stafford, and one addressed Willing ton street, Willimantie, but they reached us in good time
 Gypsy Smiths idea that every one should sweep clean his own doorstep, instead of looking out to see the con- dition of that of his neiRhbor, is sug gestive, to say the least. s.....
 Nearly every one enjoys the open wood fire on the hearth, and we are inclined to think that our Norway spruce that we deplored in the early summer, when they were felled, are still fulfilling a cheerful mission as fuel for the hearth stone fire. aE
 Dwight B. Gardner, who ran ovre for the day Tuesday, starts soon for his longest trip of the year that takes him SO far south and west that he is not able to eat his Thanksgiving dinner with home friends He ex- ,pscts to return before the holidays however.
 Lewis Ingalls,, who has lately pur- chased wood lot of Mrs. Baldwin, has set up . dainty little portable house near Mrs. Baldwin's residence Mrs. Ingalls, drives the handsome white automobile with pleasing ease and confidence that makes us wonder why more ladies do not indulge in the pastime.
 At 8 meeting of the board of deaeOns and deaconesses of the Baptist church, held at the parsonage Sunday evening after the Endeavor prayer meeting, four candidates were ac. oepted to be recommended to the church to become members after bap- tism-Miss Ida NJ. Adams, Elmer Mathews, Masters Willie Cleveland and Charlie Lyon.
 The unsigned article, "Our Daily Bread" in Youths Companion of Nov. 11th was written by Mrs Annie A. Preston. Many people here recall Rev. MT. Bromley, whose summer home was at Spring Hill for many years. He told the writer the moi dent one summer Sunday. when he preached at Baptist church, and he and his wife dined at Maple Corner.
 Maj. Edward v. Preston of Hart ford has sens us 8 type-written copy of the first Manual of the Willington Baptist Church and its list of 291 members June 10th. 1884 The little book from which this is copied, now in Maj. Preston's possession, was the property of his mother, Mrs. Caroline Eldredge Preston, whose name Is in the list. as we'll as shat of her husbands Joshua Preston.
 "A Sunshine Lady, from Hartford at Maple Corner" last summer, tax. ing note of Nellie Carpenters good deeds in looking after the sick and She needy, has had her made a mem- Der of the Hartford Sunshine society. Why do we not have a Sunshine so- ofety in Wilmington? Is it because that committee of the W. 0. T. U. does the work 60 satiafactorily3
 ' At the Baptist church Sunday morning Pastor Darrow took for his tszt Acts 16:2I. Subject, "The night 0f prisons. '' one of the best of