The Press., 1913-10-22
WELLINGTON.

Mrs. Brown is visiting in New Ha ven.
 Mrs. Sleight is at home for a short
 visit.
 There is hunting party from New
 York way at Louis Morse's.
 Miss Fuller passed the week -ent and Columbus day with relatives il Springfield, Mass. Fred W. Holt and wife of New York city are visiting his father, W. H. Holt, and he is taking in the hunting.
 The auction at the Horkey place Friday was largely attended, and the household and farm effects found a ready sale. The place was not sold.
 MT. Hodgson and helper from the borough passed the afternoon Saturday on the Hill, setting up stoves and get ting them ready for the approaching cold weather.
 The MT. Andrews, who owns and occupies the Judge Irons farm, who came here from Springfield, Mass. has had the house and the farm buildings thoroughly repaired.
 The gardens on the Hill above the early frost line are giving a second crop of vegetables that are very ac- ceptable. The white rambler rose at Miss Dunning's is in bloom, not in full bloom, but has a perfect spray of perfect flowers, and here and there apple trees are in blossom.
 There have been recently two very pleasant surprise parties at the home of Frank Walton, East Willington The first was the evening of the Eth, to celebrate Mrs. Walton's 61st birth day, when refreshments were served by Miss Snow and several pretty gifts presented to the pleased and surprised hostess. October 9th was the 18th birthday of Master Frying Barry, the grandson of MT. and Mrs. Walton, when 16 of his young friends came with gifts, among which were books and fountain pen and two elaborate birthday cakes. Fruit, nuts and con- fectionery supplemented the cakes as a repast and games finished out a very pleasant evening, and one much ap- preciated by Master Walton and the family.
 Rev. MT. Darrow's able Sunday dis course was commemorative of the life and work of pr. Adoniram Judson, born at Maiden, Mass. Aug. 9th, 17S9, and died at sea April 18th, 1850. He was a graduate of Williams college, Williamstown, Mass settled in Burma in 1913. He translated the Bible into Burmese in 1885 and wrote a Burmese English dictionary. The work in Burma is always of especial interest to the people here proving the fact that you are interest ed in what you have specific knowl- edge. A follower of Judson was Jus- Jus Hatch Vinton, born in East Will Iington, educated at Hamilton, now Madison university, sailed as mission ary of the American Baptist Mission ary Union for Burma in 1894, and was stationed among the Karens at | Jhummerah, 90 miles from Moulmein visited the U. S. in 1851 and trans ated the Bible into the Karen lang lage at his fathers home, East Will ington, long the home of Lucien W. Holt, now owned and occupied by MT. | Horton of Panama. Returning to Burma, he took charge of the Karen theological seminary at Moulmein; ater removed to Rangoon, continuing lis work among the Karens. The in- crest in the missionary work in Burma was stimulated by the marriage if Rev. Truman Johnson, M. D., lative of the town, to Jennio Bixby who was born in Burma turing the time of the missionary york there of her father, Rev. Moses sixby, later pastor of the Cranston treet Baptist church, Providence, R. During the residence of his daugh- CT here Dr. Bixby spoke several times nost interestingly of his work in the hurch, as pr. Johnson has done when lome on vacations. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson are now on the field among he Karens in Burma.