The Press., 1915-04-14
WELLINGTON.


 Miss Marie Lipps passed the East CT holidays with Miss Dorothy Pierce in Providence.
 Mrs. Cummings and her daughter are at home after pleasant visits with friends in many places.
 Fishing parties have been in evil dence for some days, but we have heard of no remarkable catches.
 The play that the young people of the grange are rehearsing promises to be very good and will be presented in a short time, now that conditions are more favorable for rehearsals, some of the participants living at distance.
 Mrs. Dr. F. B. Converse returned from the Johnson hospital on Satur day to her home where she is glad to be once more after many weary weeks. Her condition is improved ani im- proving, and if kind thoughts and good wishes count, she will soon be out again.
 Miss Florence May Pierce gradu ated April Sth at the training school of the Rhode Island hospital at Prov idence, and is to take up private work in her profession, after a few days of rest, at her home in that city. Her many friends here predict for her and wish her much success.
 West Wilmington.
 Willie Cleveland is working for G. B. Bugbee.
 Miss Lillian Converse of Pratt's h. stitution spent the Easter vacation with her parents.
 Mir. and Mrs. Earl Smith have bought farm in Southington and they ex- pect to move there the first of May.
 Mr. Nahay who recently bought the Lewis Johnson place, has shingled his house and is now repairing the barn.
 One of Frank Joslyns' horses stumbled against raised plank on the Babcock Bridge q week ago last Monday, splitting the knee cap open and also bruising the other leg.
 For the past few weeks the inhabi- tants of West Willington have been going about their various duties with a look of settled gloom upon their faces. When asked the reason for this dejected appearance the answer has been "We want lights. Now through the generosity of Col. ". H. Hall all this is changed, and when you meet one of them you will see their features illuminated with a smile almost equalling the brilliancy of their newly installed electric lights. We doubt if Col. Hall in his many gifts and improvements for and in this town has ever given anything that has brought more pleasure to greater number of people than the electric lights which his generosity made it possible for us to enjoy.
 South Wilmington.
 Mrs. Walter A. Allen and daugh- gters, .Mahel and Lura, spent Saturday 'in Hartford.
 Twenty people from this village were grouped together at the Mutt and Jeff show in willimantic Satur- Y day night. Chas. Pobuda is enjoying his elec- Uric lighting system since the 5th of the month. Others will soon have the current.
 A check fors$50O from the Grand Lodge of c. s. P. S., in New York in-I favor of the widow of Frank Pospisil, late of this town, was received last week by Chas. Pobuda, president of the local society. The said amount being in payment of insurance policy.
 The Misses Elizabeth and Ruth Greene, Cornell Greene, Jr., and George O. Westerfield, members of a party of 50 from Rockville, Staf- ford and surrounding towns, returned last week Thursday from a Washing ton, D. O., tour. As might be exs pected, they report most enjoyable !, The family of Elmer J. Mathews has been much afflicted in the past few weeks; Mrs Mathews returned to her home in this village from the Willimantic hospital March 27th with her two-weeks' old baby; di- rectly afterwards the older child, boy of three years, was taken i'll with pneumonia. MT. Mathews mother, who makes her home with him, has been quite sick with bronchitis, then Mrs. Mathews and the baby were talk en down with pneumonia. pr. Guild | of South Windham was called in con- sultation with Dr. Converse Sunday | on account of the serious condition of | Mrs. Mathews. Mrs. J. A. Houch- ems, hospital nurse, has been care- ing foE,ths sick ones with the help of Mrs. Secor. Sunday afternoon trained nurse was brought from Will limantic. At this writing the con- dition of Mrs. Mathews is still criti- cal. the older child is improved, the baby is not wholly out of danger. The. elder Mrs. Mathews condition is ouika iuurnvad