The Press., 1920-08-05
WELLINGTON.

On Sunday two airships were seen passing over East Wilmington.
 There was a large congregation to l enjoy Pastor Bachelors excellent ser mon on Sunday.
 Charles A. Robbins of Middletown is visiting his brother, G. B. Robbins, and Mrs. Robbins.
 A card from Mrs. Estelle J. Pratt who is in Hampton with her daughter, Mrs. Richard Burchnall, asks that it may be stated in this column that an item seen in several papers saying that she has sold her farm Pleasant View, West Wilmington, is untrue. Among our vacationists are Dr. and Mrs. Converse and Charles l.. Cobb and Mrs. CObb-nee Minnie Converse i who left Monday morning for an automobile trip through Massachu- sets, Vermont and New Hampshire | to the White Mountains and Connect i icut Lake.
 Mrs. Belle c. Sleight with her long l time friend, Mrs. Jessie Davis, of New l Haven, who have seen much beautiful | country and near the Maine state line | sent the latest received daily postal | marking progress. Nothing in the line of improvement is more brimming | over with suggestion than the pie l turesque views of the artistic postal, l that excel all the fine writing of a | descriptive letter. and take so much less thought
 The common is mown and is indeed the village green.
 After having in old times they had Militia town training day. The | marching and practice was excellent discipline for the youth up and grow ing. After late experiences why is there not a Home Guard in every town? It would be one of the ways of providing wholesome amusement for the countryside and Girl scouts could compete with the boys in
 marching.
 Dea. w. H. Bracket has received an interesting letter from former mem Der of his Sunday school class, Charles M. Topliff, pleasantly remem- cred by all the older residents He united with the Baptist church here under the pastorate of Rev Will son R. Terry. He was the son of Sherman Topliff. After many years residence here the family moved to Springfield, Mass Charles at once found position in an organ factory and having musical talent was rap idly promoted, and was sent all over the United States setting up church organs. Several years ago he started business for himself in Rochester, N Y., as church organ builder and has been very successful. He owns his home where his sister, Miss Ida, who has home in Springfield with her sister, Miss Emma, passed last winter with him and his wife. He sent under separate cover copy of the Monroe County, N. Y., Mail, in which is the following interesting item. The Top liff's are among the early settlers of Wilmington. Clemant Topliff owned section of land on the hill east of Daleville, containing six hundred acres where he and Meulah, his wife, raised | a large family and where Cyrus, who married Mercy Streeter of Monson, 1 raised nine of their fifteen children He gave the land where the school ! house still stands to belong to the ! town as long as the district should be l known as the Topliff district. This
 all in explanation of the item, as it is said that all by the name in the United States reach back to the two | gray tombstones of Clemant and Beu- l lah in the south part of the interest ing old Hill cemetery not far from l the first grave made there, that of Rev. Daniel Fuller, the first settled
 minister in Wilmington. At the res ! idence of Charles M. Topliff the organ
 builder Al Strong street, Rochester, l an unusual event took place on Sun
 day June 27th. It was the meeting
 of five cousins of the Topliff family
 whose homes are widely separated. By ! coincidence this day was the twentieth l anniversary of the marriage of MT
 and Mrs. Charles M. Topliff, and to
 this beautiful home MT. and Mrs. T.
 J. Bowling of Panama, California, had l jOurneyed few days previously. Mrs. Bowling is the daughter of
 George Topliff formerly of Monson,
 Mass. The day before two cousins
 arrived from California, Mrs. Carrie
 Peacock of Long Beach, who is the daughter of Julia Topliff Greenwook, formerly of Walworth, N. Y., and Mrs.
 A. J. Bartlett of Los Angeles, who is the daughter of Mrs. Ann Topliff Lee, formerly of Somers, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. George l.. Lee of Walworth join
 ed the cousins by invitation. Charles
 Topliff is the son of the late Sherman
 Topliff native of Wilmington, and later of Springfield, Mass. The coming to- gether of these five cousins without a previous plan IS nOt i1aDlo to occur often but they made the most of their
 time."
 | South WillingtOn.
 l Mrs. Sarah Mathews returned home this week from her vacation.
 Mrs. Andrew TOmasko and sons visited relatives in Hartford last week. Fred Service spent a few days last Iweek camping at Chaffee's reservoir.
 Edward James of Buffalo is visiting
 at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. William James.
 The ball game that was scheduled for last Saturday was not played as
 the M. F., team of Conantville did not
 show up.
 Misses Estelle and Leona Boileau
 of Springfield are visiting this week
 at the home of MT. and Mrs. J. R.
 Edwards.
 MT. and Mrs. Clark Burnham and
 MT. and Mrs. Gordon Hall and family
 of East Hampton, visited at the home
 of MT. and Mrs. Thomas Denman last Sunday.