The Press., 1913-05-07
WILLIN0ToN.

: time she has been able to attend fc
 many months.
 Verify the walking club made
 brave showing as it started out o
 May day with baskets and trowels an
 note books, and had delightful time
 Mrs. Jennie Essex Willard has bee
 visiting her brother, Clarence Essex
 and family. Her old friends wer
 pleased to meet her at the conceI
 Friday evening.
 MT. Nolan is back on the Hill wit his well-drilling machine and is noV . making a we'll for MT, Tyler at tn
 bungalow, charming residence in deed. .s....... ta
 Work is being rushed - road work gardening, farm work, carpenter work teaming, numbering, verify not t mention house cleaning and repairs this is busy community.
 Prof. Joel Enc of Yale university
 library, who, on account of impaire' health, is obliged to take frequen summer vacations, is at Miss Jenni Church's for a few weeks.
 The regular business meeting o the Ladies' Aid society, postponed from last week on account of the con cert, will be held Friday afternoon May 9th, at 2. 30, at conference room
 Mrs. Clarence Eldredge, who is stil lame from the injury on Fast day tC her foot, although making good re covery, is at the home of MT. ant Mrs. Edward Eldredge for time un til she is able to walk.
 A new telephone wire has beer placed on "the loop'' to remove tht congestion of the 293 line. The number of the new wire is 5O2 anG nine numbers keep it pretty busy, as the nine remaining do the old wire
 Clinton Eldredge and his wife, nee Dasie Buck, have recently moved to Stafford Street, to the old Marcey place, now owned by MT. Smith ot Boston, and are to have charge of the estate. Their many friends here wish them success.
 The Society for the Protection oi Native Plants, 234 Berkley street, Boston, sends out interesting and in. structive leaflets. We are in receipt of Leaflet No. 24, ''The Mayfower. '' The attention of the walking club is called to this society.
 One of the results of the mid-win- tre grange institute is that MT. Cos grove is planting beets for his fowls next winter. Whether he will gc about with his pockets full as an ob ject lesson, as did the lecturer who gave him the cue, remains to be seen
 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, a most inter esting quarterly, printed in Boston, ir the January number, commences print ing in alphabetical order the inscrip. tions in the old cemetrey copied last year by Prof. Enc and printed in The Press, list that is of much value and prized by many people.
 Regular grange meeting Friday evening. The deputy, Everett Brown, is expected to be present to inspect the grange and to address the meeting. The lecturer, Mrs. Smith, has also prepared a program. W. M. George V. Smith asks us to say that it is hoped every member will be present. One new member will be received.
 The new house erected by Col. W. H. Hall, the present owner, on the Le Grand Johnson farm is an impos- ing structure, we'll suiting in archi- lecture the elevated situation. As a landmark mp and down the valley it will take the place that the hospitable old, dwelling has long occupied. Romaine Tucker, whose mother was Holt of the "old Willington stock" is the resident, as he has been for some years.
 Rev. Dr. Joel s. Ives, secretary and treasurer of the Congregational Home Missionary society of Connecticut, spent Sunday as the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Darrow, and gave an excellent address regarding the work in the state, subject of vital concern for every one, whether they are interested or not. The music was excellent, the piano, Mrs. Darrow, and 'cello,a Miss Cunning, duet, "Let not your heart be troubled,'' being greatly enjoyed. There was good attendance at Sun- day school. ........
 The season is rushing and setting the example. Saturday was an ex- ceptionally hot day for the season. Fruit trees are in bloom and the fields are dotted with wild flowers. A woodland stroller, upon a seldom used roadway, came upon a clump of peach trees pink with blossoms on the site of an old homestead, now quite over- grown with forest trees. It would be interesting to know how many of these relics of a bygone generation there are in town. The walking club will note the suggestion.
 The large, two-story house that for many years stood on the brow of the hill overlooking the valley, Holland side, has been torn down. Rev. Sam uel Merrick lived there at one time, as did Seth Griggs, whose wife was a Johnson, and their daughter, Sarah, Mrs. Harvey Pepper, of Providence, R. l., was born there. A new dwell- ing is to be erected on the site. The old condemned dwelling, uninhabited for many years, at the Glass Factory triangle near the W. O. T. U. drink ing fountain, has also been recently removed, much to general satisfaction. This building was moved hither from