The Press., 1920-07-29

Arthur Hutchins of New York pass ed the weekend with his mother and aunts at Rest cottage.
 The most severe electric storm for years maintained roar of thunder like a bombardment of artillery, be- tween intervals of torrid heat on Sat urday. No damage was done in the immediate vicinity but the black clouds and the lightning to the south and east was spectacular. The golden after-glow at night-fall was most un- usual Sunday was clear and cool the probability of washouts seemingly being no barrier to automobile travel.
 Samuel Gardner, of the State Hu- mane society, and Mrs. Gardner are passing a restful vacation with his mother and sister at Three Gables. Miss Amy Gardner, who passed a re- cent Sabbath with her grandmother, is on a visit to her brother, Rev. Har- old Gardner, and wife near Los An geles, California. She went by the Northern Route through the Dominion and with friends called at places of interest in the Pacific coast on her way south
 Guests last week of MT. and Mrs. c. F. Reed at Konjockety were her cousins, MT. and Mrs. E. F. Swift of New Haven and Miss Andrews. They have travelled extensively by automo- bile abroad and in many parts of this country but this was their first visit to Holland county-that they found to be well worth while after all. They took Mrs. Reed to Springfield and for other enjoyable motor rides and were appreciative of her charming home and it's surroundings.
 A typical gentlewoman of the old school was Miss Frances Morrison, aged S9 years, who passed away at the Church Home 123 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, and was buried in the fam fly plot at Mansfield Center on July g. Miss Morrison was the last of family of nine children all but one of whom lived to be past middle age. She was of Puritan ancestry, decendent of Elder William Brewster, her grand mother having been Hopestill Brew ster, decendent of Love Brewster. There are still readers of this column who will recall her with pleasure as the guest of her brothers here, Charles and Edward Morrison, and later member for several years of the lat ter's family, accompanying them regu- larly to church. She leaves a nephew, Fred Morrison, and Miss Jeannie Nor rison and Mrs. Emma J. M. Holman, nieces. She was known affectionately as Aunt Fannie" by long time family friends who held her in highest es- teem. A few years since a shock of
 paralysis left her comparatively help
 less, but the quiet days were passed
 in patience and without complaint
 until the end came as a blessed re-
 lease.
 It seems fitting that the following
 tribute, to one who for so long took
 an interest in this column, should ap-
 pear here. It is from the weekly pub
 lican of the Trinity Baptist church,
 Minneapolis, Minnesota The pastor
 for many years was Rev. Latham c.
 Crandall, now editor of The Baptist.
 John Merrick was born in Willing
 ton, Conn, April 19, 1926, and died on
 June 10, 1920, at the age of 94 years.
 In 1865 he moved to Holyoke, Mas
 sachusetts where he engaged in build ing mills until 1897, when he came to Minneapolis to make his home with his only daughter, Mrs. F. B. Lathrop, at whose residence he died Thursday morning June 10, 1920, where funeral services were held on Saturday, June 12, the burial taking place at Holyoke. He was a charter member of Trinity Baptist church and for several years was an active deacon. After his re- tirement as an active deacon, owing to failing health, he was elected dea- con emeritus for life. Deacon Merrick was a man who walked with the Lord, and in his daily life the Lord walked with him and through him. He was an ardent student of the bible, a daily searcher of the scriptures, not to dis cover new interpretations to uphold a dogmatic creed but to find the eternal l spiritual truths that make life full and so he lived a full life He was a 1 friend, lover of Trinity Baptist | church which he believed to be an | lIlStI ulleLI Ol OOu lOI CuS auFdhCc- l ment of His kingdom in the world He was a righteous and wise man, and l the world is better because he lived l and served in it."
 South Wilmington. Mrs. Walter Malo visited with her ! sister, Mrs. Julia Burnham, last week at East Hampton.
 Mrs. J. R. Edwards, and her Sunday school class enjoyed a days outing | last Saturday at Crystal Lake. w. H. Bracket spent a few days the past week with MT. and Mrs 1 George H. Phillips of Palmer, Mass. 1 Mrs. Walter Westerfield of New | York is visiting at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Den- man.
 1 James Service and son, Gallop, John | McLearn and Henry Costello of Will limantic are camping at Chaffee's res | ervoir.
 l The Wilmington ball team will play a game with the M. P. ball team oi | Conantville next Saturday afternoon at 3.15.
 MT. and Mrs. Louis Dimock and son returned home last Sunday from In ! dian Head, where they had been | spending their vacation.
 Miss Beatrice Malo returned home l last Monday night from New York l where she had been visiting with her l uncle and aunt, Rev. and Mrs. Walter | UToctorfo1d