The Press., 1918-09-26
WELLINGTON

Mrs. George Wraithe and baby son
 are at home at Cozycroft from Me
 mOrial hospital.
 Howard Bligh is ill with pneumo-
 mia that followed the attack of grippe
 mentioned last week.
 George Rounds and wife have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Frank
 Burr, and family, at Jewett City.
 Clarence Eldredge, wife and little
 son, Claude, spent the weekend with
 Mrs. Eldredges parents, MT. and Mrs.
 Allen, in Hanover, driving back and
 forth.
 Louis Morse has crab apple tree
 so loaded with perfect fruit as to
 make it an exceptionally beautiful sight. Every tWig holds at least three deep red apples. There must
 be three or four barrels upon the tree
 A very fine and neighborly thing to do was the cutting of the promising crop of corn at Hillside, that Howard Bligh was to ill to harvest, by Rev. MT. Parker, his son, Charles Parker, MT. Wrath and his brOther-in-law, MT. Pitcher.
 On Sunday afternoon a temperance worker, MT. BOchman, who will be re- called as having spoken here a year ago, will speak again on prohibition. The address is sure to be interesting and instructive and there should be large attendance.
 Miss Cunning made a hurried trip to New York last week to visit her dentist and accomplished a variety of things between her going on Wednes- day and her return on Friday, but she missed the Rockville fair where she had planned to be with the Wilmington school exhibit. Mrs. G. V. Smith was there however.
 Miss Phyllis Ryder is so fortunate as to have secured position in the Travellers Insurance Co.,, Hartford, and reported there on Monday. She will have her home under the aus pices of the Y. M. c. A., and her busi- ness venture seems full of promise. She is graduate of the Stafford high school and has the best wishes of many friends here.
 Friday evening a regular meeting of the WillingtOn grange will be held. Following a short and important business meeting the grange will be open and everyone interested will be welcome. Mrs. G. V. Smith, the lec- turer of the grange, will report on grange four-minute speakers con ference, held at Berlin fair this week, and the great U. s. war exhibit held there.
 One of the runaway patients from the State Epileptic Colony made a bad forenoon for the ladies at Hill side, where MT. Bligh is i'll of pneu- mOnia, on the late exceptionally rainy | day Dr. Converse was called, and after quieting the poor creature, called Selectman Ruby who took the | patient back to the institution. It is said there are others of these ire spOnsible charges at large.
 Mrs. Darrow will spend much of her time at New London, while MT. DarrOw is engaged in Y. M. c. A. work there, going to West Hartford on Friday and returning Monday. Their | church people are carrying on the work, making it possible for them to this opportunity of reaching so many among the thousands of sailors who go to the Y, M. c. A. rooms for every thing from postage stamp up.
 The w. c. T. U. held their annual with the president, Mrs. Hol- man, Saturday. The following off cers were elected: Mrs. Emma J. Holman, president; Mrs. Ida M. c. Brown, Vice-president; Mrs. Ida M. Mathews, secretary; Mrs. Alice HOl- man Hall, treasurer. Five dollars was voted for the White Ribbon Host ess House at Camp DeVens, Aver, Mass. $1 for White Ribbon Banner fund and $4 towards deficit on same paper Two copies of Union Signal was subscribed for and ten copies of the Young Crusader for the use of the teachers in the town schools. Fifteen dollars was voted to make Mrs. Louise Manning Johnson a memorial mem Ter of the State w. c. T. U. Last year Mrs. Harriett Morrison was made a memorial member Twenty five dollars makes life member of the State w. c. T. U. The union has made 13 women's blouses, 25 comfort l ags and 25 housewives for Rockville Red Cross. The union, with our F. w. O., gave $22,47 to the State w. c. T. U. Among the minor officers Mrs. Preston was made press superintend- ent; she is also county press super intendent,