The Press., 1921-12-22
WELLINGTON

The G. Hall, Jr., Company are issu- ing handsome calendars for the holi- day.
 The Sunday church services were largely attended, weather conditions notwithstanding, and were worth mak- ing special effort to hear.
 This is fine weather for gathering Christmas decorations and a walk in the woodland is delight. Most of the schools have appropriate season. able exercises that will be in the past before this notice is read, but from what we hear of Mrs. Gahan's pro- gram the pupils of the Hill school are sure of good time.
 Mrs. Dianthe Essex enjoys short calls from her friends and reads the Press regularly with interest and en- joyment May she have cheerful, happy Christmas with greetings from many friends. Her daughter, Mrs. Hr Tillitson, is with her, and her grand son, pr. Harris Price, of Boston, spent the weekend with the family l. Norman Bligh left on Monday morn-I ing for his home in Boston where hei expects to pass the holidays. All Mishl I TOT nm pleasant vacation after his
 bravely borne operations and conse- quent illness of the last four months
 that has given him much experience of kindness and sympathy for which he is duly grateful. On Friday afternoon and evening all interested are invited to join in bring 1 ing evergreens and in decorating the
 church for Sunday and for the exer- | cises that include the Christmas tree l on Monday evening. The more who take part in this pleasant task the 1 greater the success and enjoyment of | working together for worthy cause.
 AS a matter of news it might be
 mentioned in this column that it is
 common talk that there are at least four distilleries of rotton booze in this i fine, old town. It is not mentioned as
 matter of the town pride that we l hold undiminished and are still cuIti- 1 vating and we are not giving the names of the deluded, as, in town they l are common property, passed from | lip to lip, in contempt, and will only l quote these words of our respected l Governor Everett J. Lake. :'Any one i who refuses to obey the 18th amend
 ment or any other part of the. consti- 1 tuition is a traitor!' What is the lot l of the traitor?
 l Colonel Hall has surveyors and 1 landscape experts at the Cemetery
 planning the extension of the grounds, and the artistic uniting of the three, the historic. Hill, the New, and the | Western section Colonel Hall has had the Parker monument removed 1 from the Cemetery at North Coventry ] and the remains of his maternal 1 grandparents and others of the family
 to the family plot near the Hall ma
 sauleum. News has been received of l the death at his home in Brooklyn; N. ] r., of Willard Hubbard Preston, re- 1 tired New York banker, son of the late Darius Preston, brother of AniOs, who was very much interested in the keeping up of the old Hill section of 1 the cemetery, that his brother visited i in October, and is planning to see again in the, spring. The Merricks l and Holts are promising substantial 1 contributions to the permanent fund
 This is such a busy time-o-year
 that friends may be glad to be remind
 ed that. on Saturday, the 24th, Aunt Lucy Eldredge will pass her S9th
 birthday at the home farm where she
 was born and where she has passed her busy useful life, the last of a very large family well known and much 1 respected in their day and generation
 A sister, Abigail, a popular teacher in town and in the far west, was one of the pioneers who made Greeley, Colo
 rado. She was the mother of the late Sylvester Durham, president of the
 Travellers Insurance Company, Hart ford Aunt Lucy, whose bodily health is good and mind unimpaired, is near ly blind and lame from fractured hip, troublesome for some years, but is bright, cheerful, entertaining and most interesting, as Pastor Allen, l among other callers, is happy to testi- ! fy. Aunt Lucy" shares the day be- fore Christmas with friend not yet
 counting birthdays as an asset, but to a number of people one birthday al- ways suggests a card to both.
 South Wilmington
 Holman Hall of Choate school of Wallingford, is home for over the holi- days.
 Master Frederick Miller of Troy, N. Y, is visiting at the home of MT. and Mrs. Albert Richardson
 Master George Mathews celebrated his 10th birthday on Friday with a. party 10 of his little friends being present.