The Press., 1921-03-31

| OA hSAL OuuuESy IHS IlIuS OA IHS church service changes to-the after. noon as usual, and for the following half-year Bible school will commence at 2 o'clock and preaching service al 1 3 o'clock
 Next Sunday is nation wide every body at church Sunday to hear what the w. c. T. -U.,: has to say regarding a better observance of the Lords day We have an interest in our town, l The dear old place must not go down We want to push good things along, And we can help some if we're strong At church next Sunday"
 This is a particular invitation fol every person old and young, and does not promote traditional, but mythical Blue Sunday" but is a reminder of 1 the cOmmand,s that should not antag- Onize any one, as the w. c. T. U., stands for harmony, not for meaning ! less discOrd.
 Norman Bligh, who has enjoyed his studies at the Massachusetts Agricul- tural college at Amherst, has arrived
 
 l brother, Howard Bligh, until the re- opening of the college in the autumn.
 The pretty neighbOrhood custom of remembering birthdays and sending cards reminds that Mrs. Emily Baker Gardner was born April 4, 1882, and Mrs. Jessie Holt Davis on the same date, 1881. OnMarch 19, Mrs. Alice TJ1vIo A,,SI~ -zR and beautiful cake.
 It is early for hepaticas but they are in bloom for those who know where to look for them. Mine, in it's led of moss, was brought to me from the glen just below the Sharp mill place" and reminds that the dainty girl, later Mrs. Clara Sharp Potter, who seldom failed to bring them, is, we were recently told, grandmother. Her only son, Raymond Potter is liv- ing in New York state. Mrs. Potter is at Watervliet, teaching in the high school there, where she is with her sister, Jennie, Mrs. Braman. So, we have told it with flowers.
 Every body loves Easter and the spirit of loyal service was evident in the helpful Bible school and church services for the day. Every one right minded had a cheerful part. The decorations were from the sunny win dows of the near by dwellings, taste fully arranged, made a lovely floral display suggestive of the Easter spirit ~~R 'Ss- IN school, and despite the fact that there had been few opportunities for re- hearsal. the children and young people took their parts admirably in the con- cert Mrs. Hansen was organist Rev MT. Sloat's sermon, from Phil | ippians 3:10, was understood and en- ! joyed by young and old, and will be retained in memory.
 Saturday morning as the Hill-toI had an eye out for the R D., ''Wilt geese" came the shout. Response wal immediate and all were out, with handi shading their eyes from the blindine sunlight, looking afar into the blue dome to the eastward endeavoring to locate the resounding "Honk! Honk!" that although heard each half year, never loses it's thrill any more than the harrow-shaped swiftly moving etching loses it's fascination. "A hun dred, at least! 40 in the upper line, four leaders, the lower line somewhat huddled and the inevitable stragglers one, following afar off, but belonging all the same" By that time they were mere specks, and lost in the blue dis tance. "A text for an Easter, sermon!
 In the summer heat of Monday aft. ernoon, another shout, "The soldiers monument" On the brow of the Hill I were automobiles and group of peo' pie, men and women, and over the state road from the station four pow erful motor trucks in line with cables all pulling the car upon~Which rested the huge fourteen ton boulder o Barre granite with the bronze memo rial tablet that is being placed fol the town by the Presbry- -Croconil' Co.,, of Hartford. The dedication is to be on Decoration day, but will no compete with the magnificance of thu
 black cloud, no larger than a mani
 hand, that billowed up from the soutl
 west and rapidly oVerspread tn
 whole heavens. Later there was al
 electric display with thunder like un
 to a fusilade of artillery. /
 What you said about teaching tn
 children the value of prohibition in
 dividually, community wise and natiol
 wise, is something that can not be to-
 forcefully emphasized" wrote frien
 And you might have called attentio
 to the outcry made in many papers re
 garding rats carrying the malignan foreign plague that is being brough
 to our shores, and you might hay said truthfully that alcoholism is a much disease, and more to b dreaded and if not carried by rats by cideri" Is not that a proof tha the leaven of the. prohibition seed making an impression in the right d rection.
 At the special town meeting held } South Wilmington, on Monday, tn , meeting was called to order by firs selectman William H. Bracket at 2.1 p. m. The call of the meeting wa read. Arthur l.. Spicer was chose 7 chairman. On motion of William F [ Bracket it was voted to lay tax ( . six mills on the dollar. Voted to al 7 propriate two mills on the dollar, or l of said six mills, for school purposes 7 Voted to appropriate the sum of SIG l per annum, to be paid to the Willing ! ton Cemetery association, for the uI , keep of the cemeteries under tn 3 Jurisdiction of said association. The annual meeting of the Willing ; ton Cemetery assiciation was held i , the hall in South Wilmington, on Mor ) day afternoon. The meeting was cal ed to order by vice president Willial , HI. Bracket. Minutes of the last mee
 ing read and approved. Voted to sui
 pend reading of the bylaws. Repol
 of Treasurer w H. Hail was read an