The Press., 1921-02-10
WELLINGTON.

ninety-ninth birthday December 24th. 1 This is to correct error of last week. 1 The church services were we'll at
 tended and MT. Sloat's sermon much l appreciated. He was the guest at dinner of Miss Mersereau. Jack Frost has gone north for his
 vacation and the winds have gone
 southward and are sending back sug- gestions that Winter never rots in the sky" and we shall catch it presently. We are having charming days now however.
 The lateness of the mail on Satur-
 day was due to a derailed freight
 train. Miss Chalker on her way home from school at Eagleville, was one of the delayed passengers. Next Satur- day she is to go to Springfield, for the weekend with relatives there.
 An excellent picture of Rev MT
 Bacheler appeared on the Union church calendar of January 23rd, and again on that of February 8, an ex- planatory note reads that there was such demand for the introduction to the coming pastor that they were obliged to duplicate.
 MT. Bacheler is very busy winding up his work, visiting all the schools in town and presiding at the evangel- ical meetings at, South Wilmington that are opening very auspiciously | Dr. Sloat being very fine speaker, the music being attractive, and the meetings should call out large con- gregatiOns.
 Mr.Cosgrove had a house full of guests from New York, Windsor and from town, and many cards and letters of greetings, cakes with candles, flow CTS and many other appreciated tok- ems. He wrote bright, timely verses for the place cards at dinner, that helped on the merry good cheer. Con gratulations and many happy returns.
 MT. Cosgrove had a very happy birthday. He attended Bible school and in response to the children, who all standing wished him in unison many happy returns,- he gave them one of his pleasant helpful little talks and ended with the hope that they might all reach the 84th milestone and be as we'll and as happy as the birthday found him. Recent happenings suggest that the most far reaching state-wise result of Mrs. Preston's Wilmington locals was the one years ago setting forth the need in Wilmington, community wise, of resident physician. This local, printed in Springfield and read in Northampton resulted in a couple of weeks or so of, an ornate sign on the lawn at Maple corner announced the office of William Lincoln Higgins, M. D., and fleet horse and two wheeler became immediately familiar sight about the surrounding country sides. MT. Preston gave the welcome fact that Wilmington had a well equipped and wide awake doctor prominence in his column in The Press, Stafford Springs, in the Journal, Rockville and in The Willimantic Journal. Dr. Hig- gins remained at Maple Corner until October 8th 1889. He was married and went to housekeeping in the Bap- tist parsonage, where he remained making good in every way and build ing up a large practice until his re- moval to the wider opportunity of South Coventry. Mrs Preston has always remembered the remark of a | friend of the doctors who came after ! while for the weekend: ''I am not | given to reading locals from places in | which l have no interest, but those | from Wilmington are always worded in | such pleasing way that they attract ! The moral as it has been many times | in less degree is that what ever is | worth doing at all is worth doing well. | South Wilmington.
 The Perry ice company completed | their ice harvest last Saturday after | noon. The help were paid off the first of this week
 Mrs. Walter Mather gave birth to | a daughter weighing eight lbs, Tues day morning at the Johnson Memorial | hospital at Stafford Springs. The Get-To-Gether club will hold a smoker in their hall on Friday evenz ing, February IS. All members are earnestly requested to be present.
 Rev. MT. Sloat of Hartford is con- ducting a series of Evangelistic meet ings. every evening this week, atT30, in Memorial church, which are very helpful and inspiring, and are being very well attended. I-tgI
 Frederick J. Snyder, whose death occurred .on last Saturday morning at his late home on Ripley Hill, Coven- try, was we'll known here and ahts many friends extend their sympathy | to the surviving relatives.
 1: Owing to the wreck on the Central Vermont railroad last Saturday morn ing traffic between here and Williman- tic, was held up until evening. The wreck was caused by the spreading | of rail, which derailed fifteen cars \ of frieght train. Two of the cars turned over and several were smash | ed None of 'the train crew were | injured. Passenger trains due north and south had to transfer their pas sengers around the wreck.