The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07
WELLINGTON.

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we are told.
Mrs. B. O. Sleight is at Oozycroft
for an Easter visit
E. O. Carpenter is driving team for
Hans M. Hansen, Jr.
William Downs has been suffering
from an attack of grip.
Miss Gardner is visiting in Man
chester, Hartford and vicinity.
Charles H. Ryder is out and is MAX
ing good recovery from his recent
serious illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Houchans and Mrs.
Una Rounds Woods spent a day in
Hartford recently.
D. B. Gardner and wife came over
from Rockville to the Congregational
parsonage for few days last week.
There will be special music at the
Baptist church next Sunday, and
flowers and friends from afar are ex-
pected, as usual.
Rev. Mr.. Gardner's very excellent
sermon Sunday morning was from
Judges 16: 20. Topic, "The uncon-
scious loss of power y
Mrs Maria Atwood. sister of L. B.
Clarke. died in New London last
Thursday morning. The funeral was
held here Saturday afternoon.
Mabel Elaine CLARK. who has been
visiting friends in Worcester, Mass :.
and other places since
Christmas, returned home Wednesday.
Prof Palmer and daughter. Miss
Marion Palmer from New York city,
visited at Rest Cottage over Sunday,
with his sister, Miss Dante Palmer,
and Miss Dunning.
Tony Jacobsen has gone into the
drug store at Stafford Springs with
his brother. Anders Jacobsen. All
the patrons of the store will be sorry
to miss this popular clerk.
Miss Lillian Mathews of Westford
is teaching the Center school and
boarding at Maple Corner. She is a
normal school pupil and a teacher of
experience who has an excellent
record.
The mission study class last week,
owing to the showery evening and
various other individual reasons, was
not largely attended, and began all
over again the life of William Carey
at Baptist parsonage Tuesday evening
of this week.
Lewis Schmidt, the meat man,
who has been seriously i'll, is some
what better, we hear, as is also
George Bugbee, the station agent at
West Wilmington. Samuel Pourtrey
was also for a day or two numbered
with the sick ones
The article in the Sunday Republi-
can as to the pronunciation of arbutus
is we'll timed, but still there are
plenty of people who will 60 on plac-
ing the accent on the "but' to the
end of the chapter 1t is adding in
suit to injury to hunt out the shy
little child of the woodland, pull
every particle to be found up by the
roots, and then to call it ar-BU-tus.
AR-butus is the proper way. We
once heard q woman say 'They are
rightly named All Beautie. The
society for the protection of native
plants calls attention to all this, year
by year, sending out posters begging
people to have care not to pick too
closely and not to tear up the roots,
but the devastation goes on, and soon,
like the Boston fern and other rare
plants, it will be exterminated.
The first Sunday afternoon service
at the Baptist church brought out a
large number, both at Sunday school
and preaching service. Mr.. DarroW's
text was 1st Corinthians :6. The
sermon was touching and suggestive.
service followed, after
which the church received Rev. O.
W. Darrow and Mrs. Florence OAR
row by letter from the church in
Stirling. In this instance the order
Of giving the right hand of fellowship
was reversed, the new mem bers stand
ing in front of the pulpit, and the
members passing around with cordial
hand clasp and affectionate expressions
Of regard and welcome. AT the close
L.
Darrow sang an original hymn, the
words of which were by the pastor
and the music by the PASTORS wife,
which was very beautiful and effect
i've. The Sunday suhool voted to ap-
five dollars for the orphanage
1t Wood Island, Alaska.