The Press., 1913-07-23
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON. @
 Frank Johnson of Providence, R. I. is visiting in town for few days.
 D. B. Gardner and wife have been , spending week at Crescent Beach. MT. Cosgrove gave lecture before the summer school at Storrs Tuesday morning. ''
 Mrs. E. O. Kidder is entertaining her sister, Mrs. l.. Boston, from Woonsocket, R. l. ..-
 MT. Shippee of Ashford is boarding with Miss Church and canvassing fol an educational work. .a.
 Robert P. Pratt and family and Harold Pratt, wife and son passed last week at Dea. F. W. Pratt's.
 William Wallace Bolton of Law renee, Mass. spent the week end with his wife and baby daughter at James Burdick's. .t.
 The Silverman family, who have recently purchased the Horkey farm, are intelligent, enterprising and interesting.
 Miss Alice w. Pratt is looking af- ter the Sunday school at the chapel, Holland side, in the absence of Miss Bugbee, who is on visit. .:.
 Mrs. Celinda Waldo is quite i'll at her sisters, Mrs. Carpenters. Her daughter, Jennie, Mrs. Frank Knox, and her son, William Waldo, were summoned and came from Hartford on Monday evening. .., Vincent Horkey of New York, Rudolph Horkey and family and Charles Horkey of Hartford called on G. H. Smith and Miss Catherine Everett early in the week. Fred Smith is very feeble. Dr. Higgins and friend, MT. Wood, were on the Hill Tuesday calling at Maple Corner, the place of the com mencement of his professional life He and his family have just returned from an eight-day auto trip through Litchfeld county, New York state, across the lake to Vermont, crossing the state to Montpelier down the Con- necticut valley to Northampton and home.
 E. H. Burdick was called to Hol- yoke to attend the funeral of his cousin, Andrew H. Dawley, on Sun day. MT. Dawley was born in Will lington 76 years ago. His mother was a sister of the late Matthew Bur dick. They lived and owned the place where Whitman Wilson lived and died. He was fine, cultured Christian man, and had given much to his home church and to benevo- fence. He will be missed in his home community and by his friends and relatives here in Wilmington. His wife died about ten years ago. He leaves a son, Milton H. Dawley at home and a brother, Frank, of Vest field. !. On Monday, Bertram Griggs Holt, the son of the late Norman Holt and Kate Griggs Holt, of San Francisco and his bride, who are touring New England ip his Stevens Duryea car and looking up relatives and places of family interest, called at Maple Corner, and Mrs. Preston accompanied them to the farm lately sold by MT. Horkey to MT. Silverman, where the young mans grandfather, General i'm md house in the Hollow, which he built in 1841, now owned and occupied by Mrs. Baldwin, who kindly showed him over the place, and later to the family lot in the old Hilltop ceme- tery. This was the first visit of the young man to the home of his ances- tors, and he found much of interest. He has travelled extensively, held al U. s. government position in China his bride was educated in Europe, is a niece of Levi P. Morton, and both are delightful people to meet They have been in Jamestown, R. l., ex- pecting to meet his aunt Eliza, Mrs. Thorne, who had not arrived from her Chicago home, to Pittsfeld, Mass. to call on Maj. Edward V. Preston, who is summering there at the Maplewood with his family. They went on to Norwich to call on his aunt, Mrs. Sophia Griggs Holt, calling on MT. and Mrs. Eugene Dimock of Merrows on the way. ...
 South Willington.
 Louis and Isabel Service have re- turned form a visit at Ocean Beach.
 Miss Maggie Brownlee is the guest of Mrs. Adolph Korper at Ocean Beach.
 There will be an auction of various articles belonging to Wm. F. Carroll at Morrow next Saturday afternoon.
 Wm. B. Pike of U. s. s. Tacoma and Miss Gladys Reineur of Paterson, N. J., are visiting friends in this vil- lage.
 It has been decided not to hold any services in the church next Sunday. The Sunday school will be held as usual
 Mrs. R. H. Staples of Willimantic and Henry Maine of Ashland, N. H. ,. were recent guests of MT. and Mrs. W. H. Bracket. .~.
 Mrs. James H. Knowles and daugh- ters, Dorothy and Margery, of Mill-' vile, N. J., have returned to Nor wich after short visit with MT. and Mrs. Service.