The Press., 1911-02-15
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II and optlcian, on page two.
 John Merrick, who remembers u, by sending interesting papers at in teEvals, is very we'll this winter al his Minneapolis home.
 T The Endeavor meeting was interest
 ingly led by Mrs. Esther Brown Dim
 ock, who was the guest for the night
 of Mrs. Sarah Mathews.
 1 D. B. Gardner, who has just re-
 turned from western trip and from a week at the industrial exposition at
 Pittsburg, Pa, as an exhibitor, il I with his parents.
 Miss Elizabeth Knox of Hartford,
 with her cousin, Louis Dimock of South Wilmington, called on their great aunt, Mrs Emily Carpenter, Sunday afternoon.
 The ohildren's party at the con- e ference room Saturday afternoon was we'll attended and much enjoyed.
 Miss Esther Lougee of New London assisted the hostesses, Miss Pratt and
 Miss Bugbee.
 Ia On January 1st Clarence SpeIlman Preston. who has for year been in the Orocker Oo., Providence. R I {, returned to Allen Hall 6 Co., interior Edecorators, Boylston street. Boston, where he has been from boy hood, and EtSlere he. is now 2 member of the akra11e-ssa A41o | Mrs. Waldo is still quite poorly. She remains with her daughter in Hartford. Mrs Carpenter, who made markabla recovery from her seri- GUS illness. and although has passed 'Fanpther birthday milestone in the sos, El6oka to be the age of everybody, and lthat is the incest age to be. and to Hook. after all. -s.'.' '... '~. I The foreign mission apportionment } of $93 75 was reached by the local church. Now come the home mission collection and the domestic mission land the woman's foreign and home, this last to bs sent before the last &week in March. The blanks gre being sent by the director of the Ashford as- sociation, Mrs. Preston. to the ohurch- es, and she is hoping for hearty re. sponse. | There was large attendance at the Baptist church to listen to Pastor Darrow's excellent sermon on the
 'Breastplate of rig ghteousness. Sec. retary Pratt reported 46 at Sunday school New pupils are very gladly welcomed, and it is an inspiring sight as the pretty groups of little people come tlastening up the hill from all directions to take their places in the gTlwing and popular primary depart. : msnt.. s1 '.@ '.:. It seems unnatural to commence EthIsseolumn in any other way than. by giving Rev A. Gardner's text at the Sunday morning service at the Congregational church, and his al- ways fefioitously worded and sugges- tive topic. Mr. Gardner at this writing is holding his own, but Is still Herlously ill, and bis. friends that includes all of us-are anxious and pained that he should be such a sufferer after his many years of al- most unbroksn health
 We note in several papers an &C., count of the death of Mrs Lewis Cur llaay saf Troy, N Y. The Gurleys We're very intimate cousins of Albert Sharp and often guests at the Sharp home, and known to most of the friends of that family. Since the death of her husband Mrs, Gurley and her daughter, Miss Edith Gurley, have been around the world visiting our foreign mission stations, and have become widely known from their in- terestiug accounts of their trip at con- ventions and mission mee tings. The dea tn of this gifted and public spirited woman is a loss, not only to her family, but to the world of Christian workers. e. .5,i-
 We meta in New York paper the notica of the rec 3nt death of Mrs. T. A. T. Hanna, at their home near Philadelphia. This. es teemed lady was the daughter of Dr. Judson and Emily Ohubbock JudsoD, known ss Fanny Forster. versatile writer for the press seventy and more years since. It was the birth of this baby girl in Burma that called fo1t that widely read and much admired poem, "My Bird,'' by the mother Some of us we'll rem em ber MT Hanna when he was our state missionary, holding tue position Dr. Coates now honors, and often preached for cur local church when it was without a pastor and was entertained at Maple Corner We also have most pleasant memory of Mrs. Hauna, who will be greatly missed by 8 large circle of devoted friends. 'sf.9 >. E. K. :s..- :>
 We. are pained to learn of the death [ at her home in Philadelphia of Mrs. Ellen Carpenter Phillips, daughter of Dr. Carpenter former practioing physioianahere, and we think she was a native of the town. She was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, and later teacher there, A floral tribute was sent by the college for her funeral. She married Prof. Elmer Phillips, who has been an instructor in several we'll known institutions, including Hamilton, IN. Y. Our acquaintance twltp Mrs. Phillips was limited to a call on her infrequent visits to the old home town, which she always held in affeotionate remembrance. She was a delightful person to meet. bright, interesting and intelligent. Mrs. Phillips was a cousin of Will. liam Henry Holt, their mothers hay l ing been afstaFa