The Press., 1910-10-19
WILMINGTON.
 South Wilmington.
The assessors are at their work of making up the list of 1910. s

A tSH EAAsO8 AAhBeDuEy was uuAu6 form Wilbraham, Mass. over Sunday.
 Arthur L Spicer. deputy registrar, was at the town hall on Monday to receive names for the list to be made.
 The preaching service and Sunday school were omitted Sunday on &C., count of the corner stone laying at the church.
 Mrs. H A. Wheeler returned Sat- urday from an extended visit with friends and relatives in the western part of the state.
 Mrs. Arthur H. Church and Mrs. Wm H Nichols were calIel to Sum- init. RI. last Saturday by the serious illness of their father.
 The residenc, of Mre. Ethel Kingr- bury has been wired for electric lights by Norman B Griggs and will be sup- piled with the current a little later.
 The elsotric lights were seen in this village for the first time on Friday, the 14th. On that evening the SGT : vice was completed for Wm. H Hall, Mrs.. E J: Holman, George Nichols and Thomas O. Denman Connections were not completed for the residence of Gardiner Hall, Jr, until Saturday.
 Sunday, June 5th, 1910, there was a large gathering of people when ground was first broken on the site of the church that has now assumed such proportions as would, at. Ieaet, indi- cate some of the beauty and style of the structure as it is to be. Last Sun day, Got. 16th,, about 25O, people, some of whom were from Hartford. Norwich, New York, Springfield. Will limantic. Stafford and. other distant .poipts, gathered to witness the still moro Impressive ceremony of laying the corner stone of the church edif1ce. The exercises, which were given the closest attention, were as follows Singing of coronation hymn. A brief outline of the object of the gathering, the purposes of the projectors and builders of the church by Rev. Eall w. Darrow, who also stated that the church was to be known as the Clara Hall Elliott Memorial church. The laying of the corner stone followed, Rev. E W. Darrow deftly applying the cement with a shining trowel. and afterwaTd depositing within the stone box containing copy of the Holy Bibles photographs of Gardiner Hall, Srss Gardiner Hall, 7Jr.. Mrs. Gardi- ner Hall, Sr.,s Mrs. Gardiner Hall, Jr George 8: Elliott. Clara Hall Elliott, Clara Alice Hall, photographs of the officiating clergymen, Rev A. B Goats, D D, Rev. Austin Gardner, Rev. Earl O Darrow, photographs of village, copy of The Stafford Press giving account of ground breaking June 9th, copy of Connecticut Baptist containing account of building of the church. copy of hand book of the Will lington Baptist church, with list of mem bers to October 16, 1910, histori. cal K toh of tho Wilmington Baptist church written by Mrs Sophia Cur ley in 1903, on the occasion of it's 75th anniversary article giving de- scription of the granite of which the church is being bui2t, program of the Oonnectiout Baptist anniversaries held Oct 1Y.. Is. 19, 1910, copy of WilIi-
 mantle Chronicle of Oct 14th. On the sfront fac9 If the corner stone was mdnegFam made up of the initials of Clara Hall Elliott, and on the side facing the south. the date 1910 Pray CT ]. was offered by Rev Austin Gard ner. Reading of the Sth chapter of the 1st book of. Kings by Rev E. w.. Darrow. Rev. A. B. Goats, in a highly interesting address. spoke of the great importance of the wol k, the fact that the laying of the corner stone to church attracted and created greater and wider interest than would the same event in connection with any other kind of an enterprise of similar magnitude. He quoted MT Gardiner Hall, Jr: ,in saying that the question of building a churoh. to meet the needs of the people in this vicinity had been agitated for Che past 60 years. the matter culminating in the present work, which will nobly serve the people for a place of wor- ship, and at the same time a fitting tribute is being paid to the memory of one who adlendeared hersef to all by her devotion to the religions in- tarests of the people Mir. Goats em- phasized the statement of MT. Hall. to the>effect that the church was to be a free church in the highest sense a. church for. all people who would profit by it's existence and ministra., stions and expressed most earnest de- sire that all wnnId avail themselVeS of its privileges when completed. The exerCiaes, which occupied an hour, was.t S2noluded at4 o'clock by the of,the Doxology.