The Press., 1919-02-06
WELLINGTON

farmers who make a point of putting
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 There were callers at Hillside ol Tuesday from Windsor attracted b! Hiss Church's pleasant first page Il frustrated article in a recent Massa chusetts agricultural journal, Tn Homestead.
 The Womans Neighborhood clul will meet with Mrs. Smith at 2.3' Friday afternoon. This is an informa get-to-gether gathering at which some thing aside from current events usuall. develops. Go in this time and flint how welcome the genial hoste IS vii make you to Green Crest.
 Friends at Hillside and Maple Cor ner were much shocked and Srievet at the news of the sudden passing ol 0. Mrs. Randall of New York, wh, was a frequent guest of her niece Miss Terhune, of Holland, seldom failing to make this hill top an ob iective point in an automobile ride Great sympathy is felt for the family and for the large and ever widening circle of the apprcc,ative friends O Chis charming lady. who will, inevit al ly. be grea ly missed.
 Howard Bligh has returned from Storrs where he was in charge of the laying contest in the poultry depart ment to Hillside where he has beer employed for five years. He has leased the farm land to raise supplies fol the poultry which he has purchased of Miss MerSereau. where he and his brother, Norman, who is his assistant will still make their home. This ar engagement relieves the owner of busi- ness details with which, in addition so her domestic cares, she was over
 urdened.
 South Wfllington
 Miss Ruth Cahoon and sister, May are visiting in New York
 Stated communication Uriel Lodge, F x A. M.. Satn'dav night. F.t. d.gree
 Mrs. J. R. Edwards spent Tuesday with friends in Palmer, Mass
 Elmer J. Mathews is confined to the house with a slight attack of the in 1uenza.
 Miss Jane Goady of Somersville has been visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Cahoon the past week.
 Mrs. Agnes Blackt urn of Norwich visited, with MT. and Mrs. Wm. H. 3rackett for few days this week.
 Mrs Sarah Mathews was recent visitor among friends and relatives at Stafford Springs, Mrs. Edith Mathews, Mrs. Joel Reed, Mrs. Willis Reed and Mrs. Wm. Heald and family.
 Rev. Theodore Bacheler, who has cen preaching here as candidate, las accepted the call to te pastor of he Federated churches of this town. Rev. Bacheler preached his first ser non as pastor last Sunday, which was very interesting as well as instruc- i've
 Miss Ruth S. Green, daughter of Cornell Green of South Wilmington has ceen elected senior memt CT of the House committee at West cottage one of the dormitories at the Women 8 college in Brown University. Miss Green is memt CT of the class of 1919 at the college.
 Private Angelo FargnoH, a former employee of the G. Hall, Jr Go. and who enlisted with Go. K of Hartford and has seen seventeen months of ser vice in France, where he was wounded twice and is wearing two wound stripes on his sleeve, spent few days his week here calling on friends and relatives, returning to the state arm ,ry at Hartford last Tuesday night He is the first of the. boys from this own to return to the states.
 A public meeting in the interest of was held in Memorial Thursday evening and was we'll attended. The program was as ,ollows: Songs. Star Spangled Ban ner;" Loyalty is the Word To-day " When Johnny Comes Marching demonstration lessons, lan- 5uage, Miss E. T. Green; song, When he Boys Come Home;" primary grades, history, Miss Maud Lynch; exercise, Miss Bessie Baker; song, The Long, Long Trail" Miss four-minute speaking contest n which pupil from each school first winner was Be- nilda Harold of Roaring Brook school, who will go to the district at Willimantic; second was Helen Fliegel of the Wilmington Hill school, who received honorat le men, ion; song, Autumn Lullaty.' MT. Meader of Hartford spoke on consoli- 1ation of schools. The following points were brought out: Better ,eaching; second, stimulation of in crest; increased attendance and keep children in school longer; Letter tuilding conditions, .uch as light and heat; greater per cent. of pupils continue to high school; furnishes country children graded school without distraction of city; better apparatus for teaching, newer utjects; offers advantages for linking school with country interest. He claimed that now less than one child in four ever complete the grades.
 ASHFORD
 WestfOrd Hill
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