The Press., 1912-12-04
WELLINGTON.

Regular business meeting of the Ladies Aid Friday afternoon at 3. 80 in conference room.
 Orrin Watrous is at home from the Hartford hospital and is somewhat improved in health.
 Congratulations to Clifford Him. meier and Mrs. Carrie McCleud Him. meier on the birth of a son.
 It was voted at Sunday school to hold Christmas concert as usual, the teachers of the schools having the matter of recitations in charge. Other committees will be appointed next Sunday.
 Sunday was a wonderfully fine day for the first of December, and brought out large attendance at church, com munion and Sunday school. The pastors helpful and beautiful sermon was from Mark 1O:51 MT. and Mrs. Chauncey Reed were given the right hand of fellowship and are now mem bers of the Federated church, where they have for some time been among the regular attendants.
 Despite the disagreeable weather of Thanksgiving day there was con siderable coming and going. MT. and Mrs. Cosgrove, Mrs. Sleight and MT. and Mrs. Downs and daughter were at Benjamin Benton's; Rev. and Mrs. FEW. Darrow at Gardiner Hall, Jr's. Mrs. E. c. Carpenter and son at George l.. Lyons'; Miss May Hill, Miss Mason of Boston and D. B. Gard ner and wife of Rockville at Mrs. Emily Baker Gardner's; Chauncy Reed and family at Geo. V. Smiths; friends from town and from West Stafford at Louis Morse's; Rev. and Mrs. Yukal and children at Rest Got. tage, with the Misses Palmer and Dunning; Mrs. and Miss Mathews at Elmer J. Mathews; Mildred Clark and her aunt, Mrs. Clapp of Hartford, at Mrs. l.. B. Clark's. A good mum Der accepted the cordial invitation tC the concert in the evening at the Clara Hall Elliott Memorial churcl in honor of the golden wedding of MT. and Mrs. Gardiner Hall, Jr. Benjamin Benton taking three loads from the Hill in his automobile. Others were deterred from going out by the dampness. That the concert was very fine and the evening most enjoyable one was the decision of all who attended.
 Work on our highways is being pushed as rapidly as possible, the town force, under the superintendence of Selectman E. Eldredge, while the county inspector has the state road repairs under way. It is never easy to get help for road work, although it is good and sure pay, and there are others advantages-if talking of ways and means and methods was doing, the roads would all be in prime con- dition. People who go about in auto mobiles say that it is impossible to go far ln any direction without running amuck'' in repairs, and that the roads in this town compare favorably with those in other parts of the state, and those in Holland county with the roads in other counties, and that the Connecticut state roads are far and away better than the roads in other New England states. A letter yester. day from an eastern Massachusetts friend, who called recently while oll an automobile tour, mentioned these conditions particularly, and it seems that they are a point in our Road Commissioner McDonald's favor. TC deal with generalities is easy, but if is the personal touch that tells, and this is from an owner of a machine who uses the roads constantly. Talk is cheap, but not always conclusive, and good work and good service still holds promise of winning out in the