The Press., 1921-08-18

with them last year, to join them
 there, but he and his family being To- cated for a month very pleasantly at Saybrook it seems doubtful if he is able to accept. Mrs. Bachelors broth
 CT is there for week at the beach.
 Miss Mary Schmidt, who has for many summers been repeatedly men toned in this column as a guest of the
 Reed and Tyler families, from Omaha,
 Nebraska, where she is teacher, who
 has been with these friends since | June; returning to Konjockety after making goodbye calls on the eve of
 her departure for Woods Hull for the
 remainder of her vacation, was so un- ! fortunate when crossing the grass land near the house as to turn her
 ankle, fall and break her knee pan. Dr.. Converse was called and respond
 ing immediately took her to the John | son hospital wher she has received all care and attention and where she will be compelled to remain for an ! indefinite period. This estimable and attractive lady has the profound sym pathy of her many friends here, who | find it difficult to imagine so bright and active a person compelled to re- ! main for long in one place, or as shut in.
 The most attractive booklet and
 the most wonderful story, recounting '"The Glory of the Impossible" is the Golden Jubilee report of the New En-
 gland district of the Woman's Ameri-
 can Baptist Foreign Mission society,
 with the pictures of the leaders and the concise, informing and beautifully
 expressed reports, it is the most re-
 markable and fascinating of anything
 of the kind ever issued, we do not esitate to affirm, and that the Willing ton church leads the state in contribu-
 tions, and that two of the twelve cabi- net members that carried the effort
 through, Mrs. Elizabeth Hall Paige, now of Springfield, and Miss Rosa o.
 Hall of South Willington, proves that the spirit of missions that sent the Vinton's to the foreign field in the early days of the church, and that
 has always been in evidence, still lives. The only criticism we have to
 make is that the beautiful picture of
 Mrs. Fannie P. Hall, taken at 80, does not appear in the lovely offeringb ''The Blue Gentian" report, every copy
 of which will be treasured and hand ed down." we sincerely believe.
 The articles pro and con regarding the dormant peat deposits of the state reminds that traditionally, at the | time of the Civil war and previously,
 the swamp just north of the Hill. and 11pfh of 1oofln iCfo hn old mail road to Stafford Street, was
 an object of interest in that direction. The pond known as Black Hole" op- posite the fork of the road where \ ice is cut for storage was formed by Esquire David Glazier, who was the owner and the model farmer of the town, taking the deposit for soil fer tilization, using it in stable, barn yard, | pig-sty and for compost piles. Charles P. Ryder who owned the op- | pOsite swamp, used the so-called ! peat" in the same ways brought his fields up to a high grade of fertility, as was often related after his depar- | ture for the middle west. It was in | that swamp that when the under ! brush was cut and burned to facilitate
 the work, the messy, spongy soil took | fire and burned for weeks, the smoke | curling up in places through cracks | and Assures until eXtinguished by l the late fall rains. The muck was never subjected to artificial heat, it
 was dug out and left in heaps to drain and dry in the sun and air. When
 layer was found that seemed adapt | able for fuel it was cut in squares as
 turf is cut, piled up loosely beneath
 rude shelter and burned in an open | fire place, making a safe, hot, lasting and very pretty fire; the tongues of | flame being of attractive colOrs and the wOOdsy OdOr very pleasant The deposit was believed, by tests that were made to be of great depth; prac- | tically bottomless, the old folks used
 to say. Further back in the woodland is an ancient beaver-dam and the
 swamp, once a large pond or lake, where the boys a century and more
 ago were wont to gather among the rocks of a near by hillside and watch l these interesting creatures at their
 work and at their play. After the war when the dearth of fuel seemed
 no longer alarming this peat was only used as a fertilizer, and as enthusiasm
 for farming waned it was less work
 to buy commercials and the peat
 swamp was forgotten until the time of the coal strike early in the cen tury, it was sometimes remarked that
 if worse came to- worse there was the peat bed to fall back upon, as in | "timoS Of old "