The Press., 1913-01-08
wILLINGTON.

Regular grange meeting Friday
 evening.
 James Burdick, Jr., who has been
 spending some days at the farm, re.
 turned to Eagleville Thursday even.
 ing.
 Another beautiful Sunday, as mild
 and the travelling as good as in mid
 October. Rev. E. w. Darrow gave
 an excellent New Years sermon from
 Romans 10:4. Regular business
 meeting of the Ladies' Aid at the con.
 ference room at 1. 30, sharp. Plenty
 of work for all who attend covering
 cushions the fair to be held before
 Easter and in filling an order for
 aprons.
 When William D. Ruby handsome
 four -years-old dog, "Shep,' goes
 coon hunting he does not take man
 and gun and axe, but goes by him self and brings home his coon and
 lays it down by the door. When the COWS are turned out to pasture "Shep'' goes for them, and if told to go after any particular one he will go and fetch that one and leave the rest of the herd in the pasture.
 The tempestuous wind of Friday night played a variety of pranks all about town. Two trees were blown across the road leading to Orrin Wat rous'. Five telephone poles were blown over and the wire put out of use for several hours. The long car riage shed at the LeGrand Johnson barn was unroofed, chicken houses blown over, branches stripped from trees, but no damage to life or limb that we have heard of.
 The oarn on the Hughes place, just over the Ashford line above the Forest Hills neighborhood, was burned, with large quantity of hay, Monday night, the 3Oth, when the storm of wind and rain was at its worst. The fire was seen for a great distance and was very brilliant spectacle against the blackness of the sky. The dwelling was burned two weeks ago. This farm and house was the early home of Rev. Theron Brown, poet and author, and for many years editor of The Youths Com panion. MT. Brown was fond of the place that was the home of his grand parents, and for many years has made it an objective point during his sum- mer vacations in this vicinity.
 Rev. Harold I. Gardner and Mrs. Gardner have reached New Haven after rough passage and are at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Samuel Gardner. MT. Gardner was graduated from Yale college in 1904 and from the Hartford Theological seminary in 1909. He went to Hajin, Turkey, under the auspices of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions as the representative in the mission field of the Farming ton avenue Congregational church of Hartford, succeeding Rev. Minor Rogers, who lost his life there. He later went to Adana, where there was physician, because of his health. He was very energetic in the upbuild-, :, ing of boys school. It is expected that the young couple will come here to visit his grandmother and aunt in the near future.
 The weather was all that could have been desired for the New Years party, and the attendance large. South Wilmington was we'll represented and thanks are, as always, due Col. Hall, whose roomy automobiles are always filled to the limit, not only with people, but with provisions to help out the excellent supper table. There was not a dull moment, either at the conference room, where there was supper and sociability, at the parson- age, where Miss Cunning had ar- ranged an excellent musical program, and at the town hall, where Mrs. George V. Smith was hostess, and suggested entertaining games for the young people. Good cheer and good wishes prevailed as the party broke up about midnight, and it was gratifying to have new resident say: ''No wonder you old timers have such a regard for the New Years party. It is delightful occasion, made notable by its prevad- ing spirit of harmOny.'' Mrs. Pres ton read story, "A Donation Party in 1900 and ever so few
 Slavic, Slavonic, Slovak and Czech. The puzzle of the Wilmington corre- spondent of The Press, and others, is not insoluble. The first good reason for not calling a Slovak a Bohemian is, that he does not come from Be- hemia, (the northwestern division of the empire of Austria Hungary, but from northwestern Hungary, the con- siderable province of Moravia lying between. The second reason is that what we thoughtlessly call Be- hemian is, in his own language, which is the proper guide in such cases, a Czech (pronounced Chek); and the Czechs are by no means con- fined to Bohemia, more than third of them living in Moravia. The language of the Slovaks is, however, nearly related to that of the Czechs, though it's form and literature belongs to recent times, while with the Czechs the literature covers hun 1reds of years. As for the word Sla- Vonic, to speak critically and up to late, it is applied properly only to the people of the eastern portion of the crown land province, Croatia -Slavonia, the latter name, handed down from the Latinized form of the middle ages. The language of this people is