The Press., 1910-08-17
WILMINGTON.

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 North6eld and occupy his pulpit next
 Sunday.
 Mr, Oosgrove went with Col Hall
 in bis automobile to New Haven to
 attend the. legislative reunion last
 week and had . most enjoyable time.
 Inc Mlases Emma, Nellie and Elsie Holt. daughters of Warren Holt of
 Prob idenoe. R Il, were guests of their cousin, F W. Pratt, and family Saturday.
 Mfs. Charles H. Brown is expected
 homs soon and will be gladly vel comed. especially in the social life of the eommunity and church and sun- day school.
 @b Sunday morning the text of Rev A. Gardner's helpful sermon was Psalms 121 Il. Subject. The sanitary value of the hills. At the Baptist church in the afternoon Rev. Mir. Cornell of Hartford preached from Exodus 3:5. The sermons was uplifting, aa this preachers sermons slWays are.
 Lawyer and Editor George V. Smith has so arranged his editorial work In New Haven. where his paR6T, the Connections Farmer. Is published so that he can be at his home here for a month or two and get the benefit of the hilltop air. He and Mrs Smith went Tuesday to Thompson to attend the Quinnebaug Pomona field day. Mir Smith deliver. ing m address
 We ara unable to learn who built the house now owned and occupied by the R.v Austin Gardner. We learn shat 1t was at one time hotel, or tavern as they called public houses in the old days. and that 1t was kept by pr. Skinner, tlat Dea. Turner lived there after his house, which was somewhat similar, was burned, while hia new house was being built. and that Dr. Carpenter also lived there while his new house, where Mrs. Emily Carpenter now lives, was in process of construction. At the time of the Turner fire Rev Sylvester Barrows. s. pastor of the Baptist church, was the occupant In 1e45' Emery P Williams. the leading carpenter of the town lived there
 Tho serious illness of Mrs. Theron Brown, mentioned in this column Ia t week. resulted In death on Tuesday, the 9th inst The funeral was at her late homo in Newtonville. Mass. on Friday and the burial in the family lot ln the ola cemetery here Saturday. att6ru61 The funeral party. consist Ing 0l her husband, Rev. Theron Brown, her brother, F. Wayland Pres. ton, her niece. Gladys O. Pre- ston. and her pabtoT, Rtv Mr. Butt ny, was joined at Stafford Springs by Orwell D. PresloA aud wife. Miss Helen Pres ton. Frank spellman. Mrs. o. B. Newton and Mrs. Charles Dean Olarenca Spellman Preston and wife Of Proviaence, R l.. and Mir. Browns nephews, Fred Brown of Bridgeport. Herbert Brown of Mount Hope. Robert Brown of New York city, and their sister, Miss Anna Brown. of Mount Hope met the party at the cemetery. where were also gathered local relatives and friends Mrs. Preston and Miss Alice M. Pres. ton met the party at the station. with Rev. Austin Gardner. and Dea. F. ". Pratt and wife also accompanied the procession to the sacred hilltop. where tho earthly tenement was lain to reat ID the spot dearest to her on earth, where sleep her kindred and her children and grandchildren. Rev. Mr Gardner opened the service by aaying that he was 8 mourner in truth, having known the deceased and hav-' ing besn In the seminary with her husband fifty years ago. and their friendship then begun had lasted mn til the present. and he graoiously gava D aee to Rev. MT. Buttery and took lns place again with the mourn era. 1lle pastor from Newtonyille. who ha been her neighbor and friend, paid hlah tribute to the Christian eharaoaar of the departed sister, and the flower pieces. which were many and elaborate. testified to the high es- timation in which she was held by her negR hbors. The service closed by tho nging of the favorite hymn of ths parted. ''There Is rest for the y.,' by Miss DuhninR, with moht teiIgler sweetness and expression. others joining at will in the refrain, the effeol being impressive and rest fnl L.ater it was told that few hours bsfoTe her departure she sang . stanza of this hymn. 1t being the last sime her voice gave expression to the hynns that it had always been her joy and delight to sing. Helen Mae Preston was born at the old Pres ton homestead in Wilmington Nov 30. 1888. the only daughter of Sylvester Taylor Preston and Fear Glazier Pres ton She was united with the Bap- tiat church in Wilmington at the age of 1 ? years, and married Rev. Theron Brown Nov go, 1859. Of theiF two children. Bennett Tyler Brown and Helen Preston Brown. 'Bennie' was drowned August 25. 1872, promis- ing lad Of 10 years; Helen married Walter B. Allep of Boston. had son and daughter. both of whom died in infancy, she following them August 17th. 1895, at Maple Corner, Willing ton. where she had como from her home In Newtonville. Mass. hoping to regain her health. Mrs. Browns mind. ainOe the death of her son. has been aet On the future. She lived