The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-21
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
There are $50, 900 teachers in the
Uzafted States.
Mrs. Bertha Jaycox and daughter
from Northampton, Mass. are visiting
atfRev. Austin Gardner's.
One of the good points in Rev. Mr..
Darrow's 8 sermon Sunday was the ad-
vising people against holding grudges.
Miss Gardner returned home Satur-
day from her visits in Hartford, New
Haven. Manchester, Rockville and
other places.
The croquet season was opened at
Pleasant View by the young people
among the wedding guests Saturday
afternoon. T #.-.-.H.
There are cases of measles at Anton
Hak's and at George L. Lyons, the
baby son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Korner being very ill. ~ -.'
Is there not something morally or
mentally wrong in person who re-
joiees in punishment? George Eliot
says The best of us are poor wretches
just saved from shipwreck.
The reading club has adjourned for
the summer The last meeting,
which was held at Rev Mr.. Gard
ner s, was pleasant and profitable. al
though not largely attended.
Now, "they say" that the latest
survey for the trolley form Storrs to
Stafford Springs runs through the
Glass Factory village. Why not over
the Hill, the grades are now easy?
AT the Baptist church Sunday there
we're fourteen of the Pratt family
present. Merriok j. Pratt and wife
and Harold w Pratt returned to
Providence Monday morning. the
Misses Mabel and Helen Graves to
Rostou and Miss Alice W. Pratt to
normal school. Willimantio.
li8 social at conference room last
week was largely attended, and was a
success in every way. Some of the
young people from a distance are
asking if we cannot have a social
once in two weeks, instead of once q
month, and the young ladies of the
Y. L. s. are thinking the matter
over
Old friends and neighbors sympa-
tliize with Jesse Emo and family in
the loss, by fire, of their house at
Mansfield Center. They are bearing
the calamity with characteristic
philosophy and are planning to build
another dwelling. Most of the cloth
ing and personal belongings we're
burned. but some of the furniture was
saved.
B. G. Robbins is doing his team
work with a yoke of fine looking
oxen. It is notable that oxen are
being used on the farms much more
than for some years. Many of the
new residents who have come in on
the abandoned farms are driving OK
teams, some of them having the ami
mails hRrnessed in a fashion unfamil-
lar to this region.
Monday at sunset we were 80
favored as to spy a fox trotting com
placently along on the bluff opposite
and overlooking the Pourtrey cottage
with. we fancy, the air of a fox who
has located a mother hen with a
promising brood. We warned him
that there was bounty set upon his
dainty head, thanked him for giving
us sight at him and let him go in
peace, hoping that he may never be-
come victim of hound, gun or trap.
Rev. Mr.. Gardner preached Sunday
morning from John ALA. Topic,
"The inward springs - Rev. Mr..
Darrow took for his text Isaiah 2:5,
and preached one of his excellent,
practical sermons. The music was
fine, including a duet by Rev. Mr..
Darrow and his wife. The superin-
tendent of the Sunday school, John
Bartlett, was detained at home by ILL
ness, but all were glad to hear that
his cough is much better. Mr.. Bart.
lett was the sole representative of
this faithful family
I The 29th instant is the oath birth
day of Rev. Samuel Merrick. Many
friends are writing him oongratulatory
letters. His address is Addison. N
Y. Mr.. Merrick was born in Willing
ton and passed his youth and early
manhood here. He remembers when
the Baptist church was organized,
when the house Of worship was built.
was present at the raising and at
the dedication, Thursday, October %.
1929, and united with the church the
following January. He preached the
semi centennial sermon December
28th, 1878, as many will remember
His brother, John, who was SO Mon
day, has asked us to write birthday
poem for Rev. Samuel Merriok, and
4 l. A..ss.