The Press., 1915-09-29
WILMINGTON.

Carl A. Miller, Dominick DeCicc.
 WELLINGTON.
 A native of Wilmington and former resident, Claudius H. Rider of Hol- yoke, former treasurer of the Merrick department of the American thread company left Monday for Washington, D. O., where he is to spend the week at the annual convention of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 We clip the following from the West Hartford items in the Sunday Courant: Rev. E. W. Darrow of the Baptist church in South Wilmington will conduct the service in the Baptist church this morning. It is expected a regular pastor will be called in the early fall.
 Dea. and Mrs. Pratt took Mrs. Preston, who was also delegate to Danielson Tuesday to the meetings of the Ashford Baptist association. Rev. and Mrs. Darrow went with Miss Hall, she and Dea. Bracket being the delegates from South Wilmington. Verify the automobile solves many problems of cross country travel.
 The Wilmington grange are to hold a fair and field day next Saturday afternoon and evening. There will be games and other sports, including a greased pig, during the afternoon. Prizes will be given to the winners. Ice cream, confectionery and "hot dogs" will be on sale. A genuine Rhode Island boiled dinner will be served from until o'ol ook. Adults, 25 cents; children, 10 cents. Every body is invited.
 Mrs. George Rounds is a lover of flowers, very successful in their oul- ture and generous with her treasures as her friends among the elderly and the shut ins can testify. Her gladioli and cosmos this season have been particularly fine. Miss Palmer has had splendid astors and Mrs. Cosgrove has the banner dahlias, and all agree that half the pleasure of having flowers is sharing with friends. and neighbors, and it would seem fitting to add that the neighborly spirit ob- tains, also, with those who have vegetables as we'll as flowers.
 South Wilmington.
 Our first real frost showed the morning of Sept. 23.
 Miss Dorothy Macfarlane was home from Wethersfield on Sunday.
 Vincent Jones was a recent guest of MT. and Mrs. Robert T. Jones.
 Mrs. Leila Fields of Easthampton is visiting at Mrs. Mary A. Korper's.
 Mrs. Norman B. Griggs is spending two weeks with friends in Hartford and Springfield.
 Alex LaRock of Eagleville, maohi- mist, is moving his family to this village this week.
 Mrs. Hester O. Luce of Newington spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Ethel V. Kingsbury.
 Mir. and Mrs. Chas. B. Fox of Stafford spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. Benjamin Fox.
 Special communication of Uriel lodge, F. 6 A. M. Saturday evening. Work on the F. O. degree.
 Mrs. Cynthia Latham has left her farm for the winter and is now with relatives in East Hampton.
 Geo. Carpenter of Philips, Me-, spent a few days last week with his niece. Mrs. Ethel V. Kingsbury.
 Mrs. O. F. Maofarlane and daugh- ter, Dorothy, Mise Margaret Wiegold and Elmer Maofarlane spent Sunday in Hartford.
 Rev. Walter H. Westerfield occupied the pulpit in Memorial church last Sunday in the absence of Pastor E. ". Darrow. Next Sunday will usher in the winter schediuis. Preaching service at o'clock in the afternoon. Sunday school will observe Rally day at 8 o'clock.
 Hunting licenses have been issued to Louis O. Dimook, Chas. R. Lohse, Alfred A. Johnson and George Scho- field. Coon hunters should bear in mind that under the new law there is close season, therefore a person must have hunting license to kill 'ooon the same as in the case of part ridge.
 We are getting to have quite an opinion of our ball team; they beat the Village Hill team last Saturday 5 to 6. Manager Potter tells us that he is to have a game here next Satur- day, but doesn't know yet who the visitors will be. He is going to try some big team like the Stafford's or Rex. Sox" before the season closes.
 In a recent letter from Rev. O. W. Wolfe (former pastor here) to Leon the writer states that they are living within two miles of the store once kept by "Abe''Lincoln, and that in the building of the pipe organ in use in his church there was used a part of the organ used in the church where our martyred president This is of course in Petersburg, III.