The Press., 1920-06-10
WELLINGTON.

Miss Pauline Chalker entertained l over the weekend and holiday Misses | May Sword and Carrie Riley of Springfield, Mass.
 Miss Ida Korner brought home with her from Springfield, Mass, for the weekend, her friend, Miss Elizabeth Fowler of Sprinkfield
 MT. and Mrs Robert White of Plain Korner family Mrs, White having been Rhoda Lyon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lyon. Charles Lyon was at home from Attleboro, Mass, for Memorial day.
 The peach crop in Georgia is enor- nous it is said and help so impossible to find to market it that $25 per day is offered for man and motor truck and Fred M. Preston of Florida has accepted favorable contract for him
 self and his Mash" and is already at work having greatly enjoyed the drive.
 Miss Ricketts is enjoying her visit
 at New Port News, Va. Her health is
 somewhat improved, the weather con-
 tinuing favorable for motor rides
 about the interesting locality, and at
 various points to the teautiful old
 country places where the roadsides
 are tordered by the luxuriant beauti-
 full and fragrant flowers of the local
 ity.
 At special town meeting held in
 the Town Hall Saturday evening
 Arthur L. Spicer was chosen chair
 of
 soldiers and sailors memorial was
 given by it's chairman, Theodore Bach eler, and the following recommenda- tions was made by said committee: That the memorial be erected on the Town Green on Wilmington Hill. That this monument be a boulder of the best Barre granite. That there be placed on the boulder bronze tablet and a suitable inscription. That the town be asked to appropriate 5000, of the total cost of $2000, the remaining funds to be raised by popular sub scriptiOn. That the town close the road running from the northeast cor ner of the Green in a sOuthwesterly di- rection so that the boulder may be placed in the center of the level top of the Green. On motion of Selectman w. c. Ruby it was voted that the town appropriate the sum of 5000, towards the cost of said memorial and that an effort be made to raise the remaining funds by popular subscription. On motion of w. c. Ruby it was voted to discontinue the section of road run ming from the northeasterly corner of the Green in a southwesterly direction to intersection with the state highway. At the Sunday service from the pull pit an invitation was read for friends and towns people to attend the Hall McBee wedding to take place at 5 o'clock Thursday June 17th, at the Clara Hall Elliot Memorial church. Naturally all are interested in the wedding of this favored and favorite young lady of the towns most prom inent family. The attendants at the wedding of Miss Doris Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Colonel William Henry Hall and Mrs. Hall of South Willing l ton, and William Rhodes LeRoy Me- Bee, son of MT. and Mrs. w. B. Melee of Providence, R. l., will be Miss Clara Hall, sister of the bride, as l maid of honor The bridesmaids will te Miss Maud Hind of San Francisco, Cal., Miss Doris Cobb of Boston, Mass, Miss Marguerite McBee of Providence,
 R. I. and Miss Veronica Havat of North Adams, Mass. F. Russell Smith l of Norwich will be the best man and
 the ushers will be William D. Holman | of Manchester, Harold D. Scott of l Granville, N. Y., Frederick A. Ballou,
 Jr., of Providence, R. l., and Gardiner | H. Hall of South Wilmington. Miss | Elizabeth Jones and Faith Morrison l will be the flower girls, and Frances
 Hall, sister of the bride, will be the | ring bearer. Rev. Theodore Bacheler
 will officiate at the ceremony. The | bride, maid of honor and bridesmaids | lesley, Mass, and the bridegroom is
 graduate of Brown University
 The annual business meeting and
 roll call of the Federated churches | held June first, afternoon and evening,
 was largely attended, enjoyable and
 harmonious. Pastor Rev. Theodore 1 Bachelors report, covering a full year
 of service, acknowledged Divine lead ership in all details Twenty seven persons have joined the fellowship of ! the church, fourteen of these on con- fesslon of faith, ten by letter, and l three by experience. The past year | has been one of marked financial achievement. In the Interchurch
 campaign, extending from April 9 to | May End, the combined askings of the | agencies represented in this town was | about $16,400. Over $34,OO0 was sub scribed, an over subscription of more | that 100 per cent. While we have | not found this remarkable record | equalled anywhere in this state, yet | the financial success of the campaign l have received spiritual impetus from | the campaign which will make itself l felt throughout the year, and will | make for permanent results in our | church life. The Sunday school or ganization on the Hill is growing l slowly. The one at Memorial church
 IS doing it's work steadily and faith
 fully. The ladies' organizations have
 passed year of active service. The
 Christian Endeavor is held regularly
 and is we'll sustained. The pastor
 has made 324 pastoral calls, officiated
 at seven weddings and 12 funerals
 and has administered the holy sacra-
 ment of baptism to IF persons. The
 various committees have been faith full and efficient in their activities.
 Thepastor has been county chairman
 of the Interchurch World Movement,
 and is at present treasurer of the
 Holland County Sunday School asso-
 citation and president of the Williman-
 tic Christian Endeavor Union. He
 has accepted these offices that he
 might relate the work of this church
 to these of the neighborhood" The
 report of the treasurer, Miss Rosa o.
 Hall, is given in brief: Receipts for
 year ending June 1st 1920, $165O,99