The Press., 1909-01-27
WILMINGTON.
The board of relief mee ts i'll tn town hall Monday, Feb. 1st.

OoWu hat1 mOuCh\, T6U' lsG. . Lucian Holt is having quite all ill turn, necessitatiug the attendance of his physician.
 MT. and Mrs. Darrow went Monday to Waterford to attend funeral of a family relative.
 Mrs. Gardner and NJ iss Gardner took advantage of 8 recent spring like day to make trip to Willimantio.
 Lewis Schmidt, meat man, is plan ming to get his ice from the pond of L.. B Clark at the Glass Factory viI- lage.
 We never prize the telephone until it fails to ring up "CentraI," ard that was the condition on our line on Monday,
 We enjoyed several sleighrides while the snow lasted, but the sleigh ing and the ice making weather was of short duration.
 Sunday morning Rev. Austin Gard ner in the Congregational church preached on ''The reward of over coming.'' Text, Nei 3:21.
 The literary meetings increase in interest. The one last Friday night twas held at Maple Corner. The one this week was on Tuesday evening and was largely attended at the Bap- r.as sstsss {: parsonage. S'
 The Thursday evening prayer meet ing started in very auspiciously. The topic of the pastors very interesting talk was Prayer. and as founded on the first and second chapters of the book of Nehemiah.
 At the Endeavor in Baptist confer enoe room Sunday evening Mrs. Dar- row led ill place of Mrs. Alice Downs, the assigned leader. There was an unusually large attendance, and an excellent meeting.
 At the Baptist church Pastor Dar- rows topic Sunday morning was founded on the 7th chapter of 2d Kings. Topic, "The results of skepticism. There was a large at tendance despite the rain and the mud. In the absence of the super intendent, John Bartlett, who is suffering from a cold, Rev. MT. Dar- row took charge of the Sunday school, to which larger part of the congre- gation remain.
 Clarence Spellman Preston spent last week in New York city selecting and purchasing goods from Lord & Taylor and other large importing houses for his new furnishing depart ment in the Orocker Mantle and Tile Go. in Providence, R. I. His rela- tions with Allen Hall & Co.,, Boston, where he has been since he was lad, continue to be the pleasantest, but they recognized the desirability of his accepting hls present advanced posi- tion.
 The other day we happened to meet Andrew Balazas, an intelligent young family man, who has pur- chased the Juul farm, and said that although he paid his taxes in Willing ton he lived in Westford, and we were glad to have one of the fine old maps of the town and its districts, published in 1869 by Baker and Til den, that we could show him and con- vince him that when he is naturalized and becomes a voter he will be a voter in Wilmington. Why is there not an up-to-dat issue of this map, with it's roads and dwellings located?
 The wind-up of the Christmas com petition resolved itself into a wooden wedding anniversary party of one of the members of the young ladies' class and her husband, Hans M. Han- sen, Jr., our accommodating post. master and proprietor of the general store at Vest Wilmington. A very pleasant evening was passed, and the popular young people were given 8 handsome sea view by the class, a silver tea service from friends on the Hill and vicinity, and nice clfair from friends at West Wilmington, as we'll as many congratulations and the best wishes of all.