The Press., 1916-06-21
WELLINGTON

MT. and Mrs. Clarence Eldredge are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son.
 Mrs. Samuel Bartlett was at church Sunday the first time for many months and was gladly greeted by her many friends.
 On Sunday evening at z o'clock there will be a meeting at the chapel, Holland side, at which George Wester. field will preside and speak.
 The hours of the party the boys of the Sunday school are to give the lgirls the 27th are from 3 until 6 p. m. If rainy Tuesday it will be postponed until Wednesday.
 Mrs. 0. +. Reed was so unfortunate as to cut her hand very badly with a sickle when clipping grass about her ldressed by pr. Converse and is doing we'll.
 A pleasant incident of the roll call meeting was the presence of Mrs. Lena Whitford Moore and daughter, Pauline, who have been visiting relatives since their return from Florida some weeks since.
 We neglected last week to mention the recent death, near Boston, of Mrs. Gilbert Brown, who is recalled by some as the step-mother of Rev. Charles H. Brown who lived at the parsonage for several years. l We have received a dainty memorial pamphlet of Rev. George H. Shepherd who supplied the Baptist church here for one summer several years ago and died in Salem, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1915, sent by his daughter, Miss Annie, who is living in Springfield. Flag day was prettily observed by There was a parade. followed by flag drill and games on the common. The boys fife and drum corps making ex. cellent music for the marching.
 Thursday afternoon Miss Pratt, Superintendent of the elementary department of the Sunday school will meet the teachers of her department at ? o'clock and MT. Parker will meet all the teachers and others interested at 8 o'clock for the usual meeting at conference room.
 The boys who were defeated in the Sunday school membership contest are to give the girls picnic Tuesday afternoon, the 27th, meeting at the church at 2 o'clock. All the mem bers of the Sunday school are invited. There will be games and a pleasant time is expected.
 South Wilmington.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Colburn, Walter lColburn and Miss Ruth Ellis motored to Ocean Beach Sunday.
 Miss Fannie Tesar left for New York oity Tuesday to attend the wedding of her brother, Michael.
 MT. and Mrs. Wm. H. Braokett spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. Frank Preston in Mansfield Center.
 Excavating for the foundation for the new bleach and dye house is we'll under way and the concrete forms will soon follow.
 The electric lighting wires are to be extended to the new houses being built by Wm. H. Hall on the Fisher place north of the village
 Tl Ds.In 1,nl srfo A~ slip and fall from a team wagon last Friday afternoon, striking the ground in such 8 manner as to break his collar bone.
 Special communication of Uriel Lodge, F. & A. M. Saturday evening. Work on the M. M. degree. This is to be past masters night, and visitors are expected from Fayette. Ionic, Woloott and Eastern Star lodges.
 The iron and cement bridge across the brook by the slate roof barn in this village has been laid and un- doubtedly will be ready for travel soon. It is to be covered with several inches of gravel to take the wear off the concrete.
 Uriel lodge has accepted the in- vitation of Rev. Chas. A. Parker to attend divine services St. Johns day at Memorial church in this village at 1 o'clock a. m. next Sunday. At. tending Masons are requested to meet in the hall over the store at 10. 30.
 Although for three successive Saturdays the attempt of the Get. together baseball team to have a game have been frustrated by untimely rains, they persevere and have arranged to have the Glynville Stars here this week Saturday at o'clock p. m.
 "Heralds of the Cross'' was the title given the Cbildren's day exercises at Memorial church last Sunday. The decorations were simple but tasty, in keeping with the spirit of the exercises which were rendered in a most pleasing manner. The pro- gram: Mrs. Wm. H. Hall, organist; prelude; children marched in and took their places; singing, Pleyel's hymn; responsive reading; greetings, Superintendent Geo. O. Westerfield; i; responsive reading; prayer, Pastor Charles A. Parker; singing, "Come with Gladness:'' recitations, My Mission." Isabel Service, "Just this Minute" Hazel Braokett," A Help ing Hand" Helen ToDerman; singing by school; exercise, Lesson of the Flowers;' - recitations, "The Men