The Press., 1914-03-04
WELLINGTON.

Incubators, with highest grade eggs from afar, are running at Hillside Farm.
 Regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid society Friday afternoon at 2.SO. Place of meeting to be decided by members over the indispensable tele- phone.
 MT. CosgroVe says one of the finest things he has ever known is the talk ing of different high-class periodicals by every family, and the lending from house to house around the Common, making a veritable reading circle.
 The hens on the Hill are emulating the record of the hens at Storrs. In the 2S days of February those at Hill side Farm laid 2477 eggs, and the first day of March started of with 11s.
 Miss Lois Corbin, ST, who died Friday at West Hartford, in the old Corbin homestead, was a native of Wilmington, the daughter of Phillip Corbin and Lois Chaffee. She leaves a brother, Albert Corbin of Philadel- phia, and a sister, Miss Anna Corbin.
 Miss Alice W. Pratt has returned to her school duties in Suffield after a week at home recovering from an at- tack of tonsilitis. Marion Frances, little daughter of Robert O. Pratt, who, with her mother, has been pass ing a few days at Pleasant View, is i'll with the same distemper.
 A letter from Mrs. Sarah Glazier Bates of Lincoln, Nebraska, mentions her being, with the Carlos Glazier family from Hartford, present at the wedding of Theron Brown and Helen May Preston, and of the large assem- bly, she thinks that only she and F. Wayland Preston of West Stafford are living.
 John F. Whitford has the care of the Congregational and Baptist churches in Cromwell. His daughter Lena, Mrs. David Y. Moore, and child are staying for a time at St. Peters burg, Florida, with MT. and Mrs Coe of Cromwell, who have a winter home there and have been very kind to Mrs. Moore in this time of great trial
 By the way of Mrs. Eliza Holt. Thorne and of John Merrick we have learned of the death, in January, of Grace, daughter of Norman Holt and Jane Griggs Holt. An invalid for a long time, she was taken to California by her sister, Bertha, in the hope that a change of climate might be beneficial, but she failed to rally. Her brother, Bertram Griggs Holt, and his wife were at the bedside when the change came. Miss Bertha will re- main with her brother and his wife at their home in San Francisco for few weeks, and then will accompany the body to the family home in Missouri for burial
 South Wilmington.
 The storm and bad roads prevented holding any services at the church last Sunday.
 Stated communication of Uriel lodge, F. 6 A. M., Saturday evening. Work on the NJ. M degree.
 Nearly 50 school children from the village school, accompanied by the teachers, Miss Mary O. Miller and Miss Edith L. Morgan, also Mrs. W. H. Hall and Miss Rosa o. Hall, were taken to Stafford Springs last Satur- day in the company's two large sleds, requiring four horses on one load and three on the other. The children | were entertained at the Springs House | and later at a candy and ice cream kitchen. We understand the treat was given by Mir. and Mrs. W. H. Hall, and it certainly was much enjoyed, as would be expected.
 : Sundays flood furnished some dis, experiences for many people, but we do not learn of any serious damage resulting hereabouts. Water in cellars, windows broken by slam ming blinds and nearly impossible roads seem to sum up the situation.