The Press., 1919-05-01
O o o WELLINGTON

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 Mildred, are both ill with measles.
 The others in the afflicted family are
 improving.
 l A heavy cold prevented Fred Tyler
 from making his anticipated trip to
 Boston last week. Having been housed for several days he is improv- ing. Miss Mersereau is improving,
 but still critical.
 John Fuller, recently discharged from the service, and his mother, l motored from their home in Marl-
 borough Easter Sunday to visit MT.
 and Mrs. B. G. Robbins and Mrs. Full ler's mother, Mrs. Shippee. Fred Marsh Preston and wife of Or lando, Fla, have greatly enjoyed the sojourn there of the Cosgrove party, from MT. Preston's ancestral town, as we hear by letter and the ehome-comers
 are not slow to express their appreci- ation.
 Rev MT. Bacheler. who is a gradu-
 
 New Haven to attend the tenth annual convocation of the Yale school of re- ligion. Mrs. Bacheler and daughter will visit friends in Vernon. They ex- pect to return on Thursday Miss Pauline Chalker, who is teach ing in Mansfield City, passed the East I lac home and came again for last Sunday. Miss Chalker is much missed in the Bible school and in the neighborhood that is almost depleted of young people.
 The little grandson of Anton Hak, pearl button manufacturer, is danger ously and distressingly ill, and the baby at Hubbard Parker's is ill with pneumonia. These, with many other sick ones, including Mrs Eddy Bur dick, keeps Dr. Converse constantly on duty.
 On account of health conditions among the pupils the Glass Factory school is closed. All at the George L. Lyon and Charles Korner home have been i'll with influenza. The children of E. c. Carpenter, Mrs. Clifford Hem- meier and the Koler children are, or have been i'll with measles. All were sorry to hear on April 23d of the death of Pershing Howes De- Wolf, seven months old, the only child of Edward and Mrs. Flora DeWolf. After an attack of influenza the beau tiful baby was unable to take nourish- | ment and slowly faded away. When a child from home is gone all doubly feel themselves alone.
 Tie Sunday service was given to the | presentation of the plea of the Bap- l tist denomination for six million dol.
 lars. All who heard the lucid anC ! concise statement will be willing tc help according to their ability at this | time when there are so many needed
 and deserving demands for gifts of | money aside from the Victory drive
 that is not a gift, but loan. Frank Converse, only son of Dr. F. B. Converse, who when war was de- clared, enlisted in the navy, serving
 on the U s. s. Mississippi, has his
 honorable discharge from the service, supplemented by certificate for un- exceptional department during his two years of naval duty, and also a personal recommend from his chief officer. He passed the Easter season with the family party at his fathers home, going from there to Boston to attend the great military review. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Cosgrove and Mrs. Ida M. Brown, their daugh- ter, had fine trip from Florida, ar irving at Belcroft about p. m. on Friday. Mrs. Benjaman Benton and neighbors were there to give them a warm and hospitable welcome. They made the journey from Hartford in Mir. Jones's luxurious car and did not notice the cold in the least, for all they had been enjoying the left sum- mer weather in Orlando. They have enjoyed the winter, but are confirmed in the truth of the never worn how oft repeated There is no place like home"