The Press., 1922-06-22
WII,I,INGTON

WELLINGTON
 Mrs. Brown is in New York for a few days expecting to return on Sum- day. Mrs. Spencer of Manchester, a niece of MT. Cosgrove's is at BelcrOft during the absence of Mrs. Brown.
 The postponed annual business meeting of the Ladies' Aid society will meet Tuesday at 2.3O o'clock with Mrs. Brown the president, instead of Mon day afternoon, as was given out at church on Sunday. All members and all who are interested are particular ly invited to be present.
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 Mrs. Antonio Arceiro is visiting with friends in Waterbury for one week.
 Pasquale Bizzaro has gone to live in Waterbury. leaving here last We'd nesday.
 Master Edward Tomasko had a rec ord of perfect attendance at the term of school which has just closed
 Mrs. Walter Mather gave birth to a son weighing 71a lbs on last Thursday at the Johnson hospital at Stafford Springs.
 Antonio Crispino, who has recently been employed by R. Tucker as a laborer, is now working in Rochester, New York.
 MT. and Mrs. Franklin Gurley of | SWarthmOre,, Pennsylvania, were the weekend guests at the home of MT. Gurley's parents.
 J. Steele and son, Benton, of New Haven have been spending few days this past week at the home of MT. and Mrs. William H. Bracket.
 George Toberman has given up his position in the winding room of the G. Hall, Jr., Co.,, and has accepted a position in New York, going there last Sunday.
 On Thursday of last week at the parsonage of St. Edwards church, Miss Antonetta Rigida and MT. Pas quale Scrimes were united in marriage by the Rev. F. J. ONeill. MT. and Mrs. Giuseppe Russo were the witnesses.
 Gardiner H. Hall, who is on his honeymoon remembered all his friends by sending them postal cards from the Forest Hills Hotel, Franconia, White mountains, New Hampshire, where MT. and Mrs. Hall are stopping
 Miss Bessie Buker, teacher of the grammar school, here, has resigned her position here as teacher and has returned to her home in Lisbon Falls, Maine, for the summer vacation, after which she will take charge of another school this fall, closer to her home. This week the younger tOys base ball team of the Y. M. c. A., will play | team ill Eagleville this Friday after 1 noon then they expect to go to Rock vile Saturday and play a return game with the same team which the local EAY. boys beat here last week Friday. The older boys team expect to play a postponed game with the Wilmington Tigers on Willington Hill Saturday afternoon.
 Through the kindness and generOsi- ty of Mrs. w. H. Hall, the following named boys, William Potter, Edgar | Scheubler, John McLearn and John Wrana, were enabled to attend the big circus in Hartford last Tuesday afternoon, and they do say they had the time of their lives. No expense was spared to give the boys a good time. They were certainly delighted as this was the first time they had been to a big circus. Mrs. Halls chauffeur, E. Schneider, looked after the boys. They returned home in the early evening
 The 85th anniversary of the Ash ford Baptist Sunday school cOnven- tion will be held at the First Baptist church Spring Hill, Mansfield, next Wednesday. Program: morning ses- service, scripture reading and prayer, Rev. Ralph Kimball, pastor Phillips Memorial church, Eden Park, Rhode Island; address of welcome, Rev. liar old w. Tillinghast, pastor of enter taining church; reading Rules of or der, George A. Bowen, secretary; mu- sic; address, Is the task worth while, Rev. William V. Allen, pastor Feder- ated church, Wilmington; music; ad- l dress, Teachers and their Qualitica l tions, Rev. J. William Carpenter, pas tor Union Baptist church, East Kill lingly; music; address, Rev. Harold w. Tillinghast; music; business ses sion; annual report of the treasurer, George A. Bowen; appointment of the nominating committee; music; annual dinner, 12 o'clock, served by the la dies of the entertaining church; sing ing, led by Rev Ralph l.. Kimball. Afternoon session 13O o'clock, deyO- tional, Rev. F. w. Tholen, pastor, Staf- ford Baptist church; reading of school letters, Secretary George A. Bowen; music; Business session; report of the nominating committee: election of officers; miscellaneous business; offering; music; address, Rev. A. B. Coats, secretary Connecticut Baptist convention; music; address, Stopping the Leaks, Rev. John c. Stoddard, pastor First Baptist church, Putnam, music; address, Rev. Frank D. flag gard, Hartford; music; adjournment and benediction.
 The annual speaking contests and graduating exercises of the Willing ton public grammar schools were held Friday night in the Memorial church. The awards were also made to pupils from the Gardiner Hall Memorial High school fund totaling $7OO. Other prizes were made for winners of the town sewing contests among the pu- pills of the various schools of the town Exercises were in charge of State School Supervisor Levi T. Garrison of Willimantic. In the speaking con- tests sixteen pupils of the various schools took part. The contest. was in two divisions: pupils from the upper three grades and the three lower grades. Prizes of $5 in gold to the winners and $2.5O in gold as second prizes. The winners in the up- per grade contest were Joseph senna, first; second, Mary Blahusiak. The winners of the lower grades contest