The Press., 1912-10-23
WELLINGTON.

Mrs. Gardner and MT. Marsh were chosen as delegates to the ordination services of MT. Thomas at the Union church, Rockville, this week.
 John Bartlett is at work in mar ket in Palmer, Mass. He is one of the young men who can lilly be spared from the home environment. .s.+
 Politics were entirely lost sight of in the general feeling of horror at the news of the dastardly shooting of exsPresident Roosevelt by crazy crank
 Clayton Morse and his friend, MT. Bell of Stamford, are making their annual visit to take for the shooting. They came in MT. Bells motor car and were entertained at Louis Morse's.
 The furnace at the church is not taking kindly to it's duty of making the audience room warm and smoked little on Sunday. The trustees promise that during the week the pipes will be cleaned and that next Sunday the room will be comfortable
 Charles Amidon and wife and Mr. Armitage and wife of Westford mo- tored few days ago to Clark's Corn res, where MT. Armitage owns a large tract of timber, for a days shooting. They bagged B squirrels, beside other game; and passed an en- joyable day.
 The celebration of the completion of Gilbert Amidon's fine large barn across the road from his dwelling was the occasion on Friday of a social event, to which Charles Amidon and family, Rev. and Mrs. Yukal, at din- ner, and others participated. It was too cold for the husking party, how ever. Games were played in the evening and all had good time. The building of barn for the housing of the abundant crops and stock of the fertile farm is an indication of gen. eral prosperity.
 At the Sunday morning service Rev. B. w. Darrow gave a most con- prehensive report of the proceedings at the Baptist state convention held in New Haven the preceding week, that was the most interesting and the most largely attended that has ever been held, and where the work of evangelism among our foreign speak ing peoples received large share of attention. The advisability of the federation of the churches of different denominations in the smaller fields
 was also discussed, and from Hartford friends who were present we hear that Rev. MT. Darrow was called out in this discussion, and spoke with much force and conviction from his own experimental knowledge The vote which followed was almost unan- imously in favor of such federation.
 Nothing in these strenuous days of many problems is of more interest or importance than the churches scattered here and there about the country side, the centre of the social and reli gious life of the surrounding families. One of these is in the pretty village of North Coventry. where on Tuesday last the county conference of Congre- gational churches was very ahospitably entertained, and where those privileged to attend passed pleasant and profit able. day. There were many teams and several automobiles in evidence when the Benton machine, with the Wilmington party, arrived, and the pretty, newly renovated church was well filled. The exercises, were < all of much interest. The dinner always an important feature to those who come from afar across country in the bracing air, was exeelIGnt and abund- ant, and served in tbe rooniy and con- venient conference house little dis tance from the church. The Tooth meeting of the Holland county foreign mission society, the long time presi dent Mir, Tolcott, ill the chair, met at the close of the conference, as is