The Press., 1921-09-15
WELLINGTON.

Joseph Dragon will have an auction sale of his stock, farming tools and household furniture at his place on Wilmington Hill next week Thursday. at 10 a. III.
 Selectman w. c. Ruby has new and handsome Ford car as a run-a- bout that in his busy life fits in many places and ways between the Stutz and the trucks.
 Miss Marie Schmidt is accepting her enforced vacation with great cheerfulness and appreciation of the Johnson Memorial with all it's skill, comfort, kindness and courtesy from friends within and without. She now is taken each day to the porch where she enjoys the view and receives her friends.
 Norman Bligh, who was at the Johnson Memorial hospital, Stafford Springs, for operation and treatment of knee injured in football game ricultural college at Amherst, has been recuperating at Hill-side-farm under the care of his brother, Howard and Misses Mersereau and Ricketts, with Dr. Converse in attendance. He is much better and looking with an- ticipatiOn at the wheel-chair awaiting him on the porch that will be step toward complete recovery. For an active youth it has been a trying proposition that he has faced with great courage and patience.
 The founder of the Baptist church in Wilmington, organized in 1928, was Rev. HubbellL LoOmis, who later be- came the first president of Alton col lege, Alton, Illinois, now, Shurtleff cOllge. One of the first buildings erected in 1882 has recently been re- paired and improved and it's name, Science Hall, changed by vote of the trustees to Loomis Hall, and on MT. Loomis' birthday, May 31, 1921, there was fitting celebration on the col lege campus participated in by J. B. Edwards lawyer and Christianwork- CT of St. Louis, Mo-, and Mrs. G. M. Byrie of Alton great grandchildren of MT. LOOmis. Mrs. Annie A. Preston of Wilmington, to whom the friendship Letween the Loomis and Preston fami- lies has descended as the only sur ViVor, has received an interesting ac- count of the event from Mrs Hopkins, a granddaughter of MT. Loomis. MT. Edwards, the great grandson, is graduate of Brown University and vis- tied WillingtOn during his college term with his classmate, James Man ming Kent, of Putnam, now Dr. J. M. Kent of New York city. At the recent jOth commencement of the college it was voted that Loomis Hall should be the permanent name of the re- stored building -'+
 Monday evening the Kubleck club met at Frank Parezek's and was we'll attended. A business meeting was held and MT. and Mrs. Charles Klecak were voted in as honorary members. (See Staffordville news). A very en- jOyable musicale followed. It was voted to hold meeting at the Center school house Friday evening in honor of the president, Joseph Mirtl, who leaves on Monday for MiddletoWn, where he is to enter Wesleyan Uni tversity. There will be a musical program and pleasant social even ing is hoped for. The invitation is general, children admitted for cents, adults 15 cents. Joseph Mirtl has been such an exemplary boy, in gram mar school and in high school at Will limantfc and in Bible school, passed such a satisfactory preparatory year at Mount Hermon and is such gen. eral favorite that all who can go, with their good wishes, will gladly do so.