The Press., 1910-09-14
WILMINGTON.
D. B. Gardner and wife were at Rev. MT. Gardner 's Saturday.

Rev. Mr. Gardner's Saturday.
 The picnic at South Coventry was lWelI attended and much enjoyed. Gary's bus was pronounced most com : fortable for so long drive
 Leyerett Merrick and wife of Bris- tol and John Edgerton and wife of Holland came by motor to attend the Congregational church service Sunday morning
 The Rickett family left Maple Corner for Boston Saturday morning, Misa Preston and Miss Mercereau ac- 00mpanying them as far as Palmer and returning in the afternoon.
 lively house party of friends and
 slatiyes from New York. Manchester and other places has bsen entertained at Cozycroft for the past two weeks. Mrs. Sleight returns to New York to- morrow.
 Sunday was an ideal day, and 1t was pleasant to greet so many at church who are not habitual attend ants. Ton miss a great deal by not coming every Sunday. It takes effort, but 1t pays
 Our pleasant summer colony is hreaking up. Miss Ransom and Miss Coleman return to New York in few days. The ladies at Rest Cottage go for trip northward Miss Gardner is away for few days.
 Rev A. Gardner's subject Sunday morning was < Jesus at the pool and what came of it. y Sunday afternoon Rev. Mr Darrow commenced series of sermons on fSublime subjects, '' taking his text from Jeremiah 23:6.
 The Endeavor meeting Sunday evening was very ably led by Miss Mathews, and was of unusual interest. The topic. Proud of what?' brought out good many expressions of opin- ion, all conceding that Pride is Q poor thing !"
 It is said now that the English sparrow does destroy the inch worm by deVouring it. If the inch worm, why not other worms? Possibly 1t is the daspised and traduoed sparrow that is to free us from this new pest. Early In the summer our naples were infested by small caterpillare, and soon came large family of cat birds tFat stayed until the naples were ol aned f the pestiferous worms and than went their way Has every de. tevouring il sact particular bird to work it's xterminatior, or has every hi1d an appetit' for 9 particular in sect.
 We wonder if the small green worm about an eighth of an inch long that has destroyed the foliage of .exery white blFch tree i'm the xioinity, making them look as if killed by a heavy frost, is to be an annual visi- tation. We hope not It is notice. able that the infested trees are covered by very fine web and that the worms drop easily, and even in driving they fall upon the back of the horses and into the vehicles A big black dog, that made an excursion into thicket after a woodchuck, came back deoo- rat, with a score or more Some ascrib9 the visitation to the lack of birds, but it would taks large flock to make an impression upon an army of worms like the one now infesting our woodlands
 It has been said that to get the home atmosphere into church is it's guarantee of permanence. One of the ways to do this is by bsing social and by making people feel at home at the church service, and another way is by being hospitable. The church should be missionary and a Good Samaritan in the eommunityj and we believe that it has 8 duty in 8 social way to the young people. The prob lem of ''supper, the work for which falls upon few, makes the matter of church socials a problem diffioult to I've, but there is solution, and it is the evident duty of some one to find it. The community where the social life centers about the church life is certainly the ideal New England com munity Young people do not enjoy themselves in a place where there is nothing to bring them together for an occasional social evening, and if they would help to do the necessary work there might not be so long an interval between socials.
 The following from John Merrick was called out by she mention of Aunt Betsy'' in The Press. She certainly must have had beautiful qualities to have called out such an expression after so many years -
 RRMINIscRNCEs OF AUNT BETSY.
 Aunt Betsy, of course she was aunt to everybody, not only to the elder ones bat the children as we'll. have perfect picture of the dear old lady, not only in her home life with her nephew, Fl. G. Whitford, where she was so tenderly cared for during all of those years of weakness, but see her as she came with the family to the dear old church. where she was a very familiar figure, and where she was assisted from the two. seated buggy in which the invariable number was four, and I can recall how carefully she was attended as she made her way to their seat on the right side of the body pews. as they then were with doors to each pew. How vividly the name of Aunt Betsy calls up the scenes of my boyhood, and the many dear ones that used to gather at the church each Sabbath for the two ser yices of the day and the Sunday