The Press., 1915-03-03

' au" kinn sun; Bobollnks; IT f Eagle; Earth's Glaadest Da, | After the literary program tea vt served by Mrs. Lorenzo R. Sparro, : and Mrs. J. N. Geisler.
 !. WELLINGTON. :; Adolph Parasek has a new auto
 mobile. He ran his other car 2, ,OO miles.
 John Merrick and his daughter Mrs. F. Lathrop. left Holyoke O Saturday for their Minneapolis hom having been east since last summe on account of many operations fo |; cataract on MT. Merrick s eyes. Mrs
 Joseph Merrick gave dinner part,
 to friends and relatives to speed then
 cheerfully on their way.
 | The annual state meeting of the
 Woman's Baptist Home Mission
 society will be held at the Firs
 Baptist church, New Haven, on Fri
 day, April 9, proceeded by a board
 meeting the evening previous. The
 director, Mrs. Preston, hopes there
 may be delegates, from all the churches
 in Ashford association.
 | This correspondent is requested to
 say in this column that those mem
 bers of the grange who have not
 arranged to bring beans or oysters
 for the supper on the 12th are hereby
 solicited to bring cake, pie or money
 for rolls, coffee, sugar, etc. The
 inspector is expected to be present as welltas the officials who are to install
 the officers. >:t ! It has been decided that tile old
 folks concert, to be given at South
 Willington, Friday evening, the .5th,
 will be repeated at Baptist church on
 the Hill the following Monday even.
 ing, the sth. Should it be very stormy
 on Monday evening it will be given
 on the following Thursday evening,
 the 11th. The indications by the general interest expressed, promise an
 exceptionally large attendance Many readers will be interested to
 hear that Rev. George W. Shepherd a former pastor of First Baptist church, Sufield, and of the Baptist | church in Stafford, who commenced his Connecticut service while pastor
 in Bennington, Vt, by a summer | vacation passed in the Baptist parson- age, Wilmington Hill, acting as pulpit
 supply, the church being without a
 pastor, is in a serious condition at his
 home in Salem, N. Y., with loco
 motor ataxia. He was obliged to give ! up his pastorate in Widale, N. Y, ! some time since on account of his
 failing health and moved his family
 to Salem to be near his son, who is in | business there.
 South Wilmington. Il extend my sincere thanks to all
 those who in any way assisted me during the sickness and death of my beloved husband, Chas. Latham.
 MRS. CYNTHIA LATHAM. Wm. H. Braokett advertises in another column for his lost Airedale dog.
 Poles are being set for the con- tinuation of the electric light line to West Wilmington.
 Anton Radla, who has been ill for several weeks, is in New York city for hospital treatment. MT. and Mrs. Walter E. Malo and daughter, Beatrice, have returned from visit of several days in Hart ford.
 Mrs Cynthia Latham is on the sick list, and her sister, Mrs. Henry Hutchins of East Hampton, is caring l for her.
 This week Friday evening at the
 social hall, Memorial church, the
 play, 'The Old Folks Concert is to
 be given; much time has been given to rehearsals and good program may be expected. Admission will be 20
 cents and 10 cents, the proceeds to go for church missions.
 The supper to the ladies in Memo. rial church last week Thursday even-
 ing was all that had been expected.
 About 80 ladies accepted the invitation
 to be present and enjoyed the supper, the music and the entertainment
 furnished by that excellent imper- | senator, MT. Naples of Norwich. ..s West Wilmington. Edward Murphy has recently pur- chased COW from William Bowler
 Mrs. F. B. Converse was operated
 on at the Johnson hospital on Sunday. Miss Gertrude Holt of Stafford
 Springs spent Saturday with Miss Alice Pratt. Miss Esther Longer of New London srent the week end with Miss Bugbee,
 returning with Miss Bugbee to Berlin Sunday ..