The Press., 1914-07-29
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 MT. Carroll of Ohio is visiting
 at o. F. Reeds.
 Miss Alice W. Pratt spent the week. end with Misss Gertrude Holt at the borough. f Mrs. Bishop and Raymond went
 last week to New Haven for vaca-
 tion visit. ...
 Mrs. Brand visited her aged mother
 in New York city last week and re- turned much benefited by the trip
 and the change.
 The grange meeting of Friday
 evening was a pleasant social event
 and the ice cream and cake much
 enjoyed. There will be no meetings
 in August.
 Beautiful cards from Miss Doris. Elizabeth Hall, from Rome give the pleasant tidings that she is well, greatly enjoying her trip and es- pecially her stay in "The Eternal City" .. .
 Tom Barron of England, the world renowned poultry man, came Monday to Mr. Cosgrove's, and will go from there to the poultry convention at Storrs. He has visited Missouri and other places since his arrival in this country.
 MT. and Mrs. Charter, son and daughter, motored from Ellington Sunday afternoon, called at Maple corner, and Mrs. Charter was gladly welcomed by her friends of the w. 0. T. U., of which she is an enthusi- astic and useful member, being press correspondent of her local union.
 Further notice with particulars will be given of the field day the grange is planning for the last of August. Several have spoken of MT. Schofeld's suggestion as practical that the hour of meeting be set for 10 o'clock and dinner be at noon, giving the whole afternoon for sports and entertainment planned and getting home before chOre time.
 Miss Madic Schmidt came last week for vacation to her home here, from St. Louis, Mo-, where she has been for several months and where she will return after short rest to her position in a business house that she enjoys very much. She went with the firm when they removed from Hartford to St. Louis last winter.
 Roy Wilbur, we fancy, holds the record of being the greatest Willing ton boy traveller. His mother has just received letter from him telling of his voyages that have had objective points at most of the principal ports of the Americas and the Canal zone and many of the Pacific islands. The letter was mailed in Peru. |
 AS Mrs. Jennie Enc Brooks was bringing her brother, Prof. Enc from her home in Mansfield to Miss Church s home they saw, just below the Hill a hawk in persuit of young owl. j On her return in a short time sAet found the hawk still persistent, and alighting from her buggy, with her natural love for all little wild crea- lures and aptitude in dealing with them, succeeded in catching the little embodiment of wisdom and later pre- sented it to the Hyde Park at the borough. s.".... t>- 'a1
 We are pleased to notice that An dover is the first church in the Ash ford association to pay their entire apportionment for W. A. Baptist Home Missions for the year. The first alphabetically and the first to pay. There were 98 reported by Secretary F. W. Pratt at Sunday school. The music was excel ent, and always there is some one to say that the sermon of the pastor was the best yet. The text was from Matthew 5: 15-17, and was an earnest, needed and notable discourse.
 The Sunday school and preaching service in the morning were both we'll attended, as was the evening service at East Wilmington. MT. Vachon gave notice of a meeting to be held in the conference room on Friday evening at 7 o'clock at which all the boys are invited, as it is planned to organize company of Boy Scouts. It is hoped that there may be a general response to this invitation. We should welcome any movement that teaches our youth | that their right hearts have a great work to do for God, and that their lives by right teaching will give light as they shine unconsciously by kindly deeds.
 The good roads about town are a matter of general comment, especially | by those coming afar with their: ma chine. One of these was Hans Dege from Norwich, who, when his father 1 owned the old Darling place. was often a guest at Maple corner. He was on his way to Massachusetts in his Buick car and pleasantly impressed | with the improvements here gener- ally, and particularly in the roads. County Inspector Pratt gets his due made of praise for the state roads, and at the grange we were pleased to hear much commendation of Select man Wilbert Ruby for the town roads, and for the fact that they were repaired early in the season and have been satisfactory for the whole spring and summer.
 An automobile trip with Mrs. Charles Amidon to the Potter district school house was notable event of the week. The contract for building was taken by MT. Amidon and the rrottu and tostofnl strnctnra xuant 1