The Press., 1921-05-12
WILLINGTON.

There will be a dance at the BOhe- milan hall in Daleville Saturday even- ing. Music by Klecak's orchestra.
 Congratulations to MT. and Mrs. Louis c. Dimock on the birth on Sun day afternoon of 101a pounds, daugh- ter, Patricia Wood. A Sunday child with long and honorable ancestry.
 We hear that William Reid and Della Enc Reid are the parents of twin daughters, born May 5th. Con gratulatiOns. Miss Alberta Enc is with her sister in Rockingham, N. H..
 There is to be a Sunday school par ty at the Sunday school rooms, to which all the community children, and all interested are invited on Saturday afternoon. The hours are from 2 until 4.3O.
 All women as far as heard from approve the favorable report of the l legislative committee on finance of a bill making women, between certain ages liable to pay the personal tax of two dollars. That all should have the priviledge of paying is the opinion held by many.
 On Tuesday Mrs. Smith, regent, and Mrs. Brown, member, attended the meeting of the Anna Wood Elderkin, D. A. R., meeting of Willimantic, this being the last regular meeting in Mrs. Smiths very efficient term of service. Mrs. Robbins was invited to accom- pany them for the automobile ride.
 On Tuesday MT. and Mrs. George A. COsgrove quietly passed their 64th marriage anniversary in the enjoy ment of comfortable health, a charm ing home. devoted daughters, grand children and hosts of friends, who unite ill hearty congratulations and who wish them many happy returns.
 The Union church reception to pas tor and Mrs. Bacheler in Providence, the 9th, was a very largely attended and successful event, as have been the at home afternoons at the parsonage The church work is growing week by week, particularly the EndeavOr, where whole Sunday school classes are joining at one time, increasing the memberships "by leaps and bounds"
 It was pleasant to receive from Clayton Illinois, the program of the graduation exercises on May 18th in the Presbyterian church, of the Clay ton high school, in which Charles Wagner Wolfe, Jr., ranks first. Some of us recall the birth Jan. 9th, 1906, at the Baptist parsonage of this first child of the young pastor and pas tOress, and are reminded of the rapid flight of time.
 On Saturday Mrs. Smith took the Girl Scouts for a charming woodland walk, that with Mrs. Smith was inev- itably study in plant and bird life. They returned with flowers that were used for church decoration the next day. Mrs. Preston was delighted with the daffOdils that had graced Memo rial church at the morning service, through Mrs. Edwards, flower com mittee and MT. Tyler organist.
 The society for the protection of our native plants are sending out again, from their Boston headquarters cir culars begging automobilists to spare the Towering plants that make our plea for the sand violet and the laurel, Connecticut's state flower, that is in danger of extermination, as is the swamp pink azalea, that is already almost as difficult to find as is the 'May-fower" as we all love to call the arbutus, that was named by the Puritans after the ship that brought them safely to these New England shores. Later will come the rare car dinal flower that every one knows, wilts as soon as gathered, but that so many people can not withstand pull ing up by the roots, any more than they can the charming fringed gen. tian, that arrives later still but all in the glorious summer nrnceSSinn