The Press., 1909-11-10


 the Sunday school it was voted tc hold a Christmas entertainments, with 8 Christmas gift tree, and Mrs. Oar row, Supt. John Bartlett and Mrs. Preston were appointed to select com mittees to carry on the necessary wol k that such a gathering involves. The committee are to meet Thursday even ing after the prayer meeting.
 There will be a union Thanks giving service at the Baptist church on Thanksgiving evening. Unusual interest is felt in this service, as at the close the marriage of Elmer Mathews and Miss Ida Matilda Adams will be consummated The service will be public and the invitation general. no special invitations being sent out There will doubtless be special music. Miss Adams having been for sUme time engaged in church Sunday school. temperance and W. R. O. work, and being we'll known and having many friends, it seems fitting that this important step in her life work should be public and in the church home of both of the inter. esting young people. This is not to be church wedding in the common acceptance of the term, but 8 wedding in church to which you are all in vited. a -<# 4
 Mrs. Darrow and Mrs. Preston drove over the hills to Warrenville in the afternoon to attend the inter- esting ordination service of Rev. MT. Bugbee. It was a delightful occasion, the services uplifting and impressive, the music, especially the anthem, fine, the people of the entertaining church, as. always, pleasant and cordial, and the pastors and people of the associstional family so cheery over the happy occasion that had called them together. that it was easy to be- lieve all the good things said of this association by Rev. Leonard Smith of Spring Hill in his welcome to the new pastor. Dinner and supper was served in Bakers hall, where the bountifully supplied tables confirmed the traditions of the hospitality of these pleasant people that has been brought down year by year by the unique Bible day picnic, that those who have been so fortunate as to at- tend will always hold in pleasant remembrance We are glad to have another memory to cherish of pic- turesque Ashford and it's most pictur- esque village, Warrenville. The best wishes of all attend the new pastor, who has family affiliations in Will lington and Westtord, has lived in Providence, is a graduate of Brown and of Newton Theological seminary, having been a olassmate there of our Pastor Darrow. t#a
 South Wilmington.
 Norman B. Griggs attended the football game in New Haven last Sat- urday. E
 MT. and Mrs. Guilford Knapp of Stamford are guests of Mrs Knapp's father. Ezra A. Molse.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Staples of Willimantic were recent guests of MT and Mrs. Vim. H. Braokett. There will be baptism at Beauty lake at noon next Sunday, when there are four candidates to be received into the church.
 Frank Morrils of Canada, who has been visiting at Wm. Maine's, left to-day for Boston, where he is to make it his home.
 Clarence Essex is home on a fur. tough of ten days, coming here from Portsmouth, N H where his ship is being fitted to new steel masts.
 There are several phrases of the game law that are susceptible to more than one interpretation, and because of that fact is apt to cause confusion and misunderstanding.
 Wm. Pike spent few days of last week with his folks in this village. Later in the season he will be sta- tioned in the south. where the marines will take up target practice.
 Fifteen cans of fingerling trout were delivered here Monday. Of these, twelve cans were liberated in Roaring Brook and the balance in other streams. Iu order to get the fish into she brooks as soon as possible Mr. Hall took them in the sutomo- bile.
 Next Sunday, unless the weather is quite stormy, there will be union service in the hall at II o'clock. The Sunday school will follow at 12 o'clock, with a three-quarter hour session, by which time all will be in readiness for the baptismal services at the lake.
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