Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 5, 1909, Page 2

T Hundred and Fifty Years Old! Wo.wich has reached its quarter-mil- Leiium and the celebration of this ripe oid age was duly opened Sunday morn- ing, bLeing favored with delightful weather, a city decked from onc end 1o the other with a grand display of electric iHuminations of guests already here e on t way. All d to Norwich. Satur- every tralgand boats o the crowds. There was a warm welcome for all and @ general visitation during the day. 3 A small put important’ feature of the morning decoration of the graves of the foinders who are buried near the monument of Major John Mason at Norwich Town. These, @s well as the monument to Mason, were decorated for the occasiom, the latter having been cleaned and fixed up by the Mason Monument associa- tion, while the grounds about it were looked after. Services at Burying Ground. For the first of the public services in the celebration of the 250th anni- versary of the founding of the town and the 125th of the incorporation of the city, Norwich invited her sons and daughters to a service Sunday aft- ernoon that fittingly recalled the 35 founders. It was held at 4 o'clock in the 0ld Norwich Town burying ground, where a throng of more than 500 were assembled among the moss grown stones that marked the last resting lace of so many of the forefathers, tie 'he place for the service was chosen | in the home lot of Rev. James Fitch, where a tall weeping willow overlook- ed the attentive audience, bearing 1n- on its trunk the names of the four founders buried in the plot—Thomas Adgate, Simon Huntington, John Post, Thomas Waterman, as well as that of istopher Huntington, Jr., the first of the males born in the new settle- ment. The following vere the ushers, who arranged the audience in front of the gentle elops where the speakers stood: George F. Hyde, John E. Lu- ther, Jeremiah Murphy,. Thomas Ca- sey, Willlam 'Wells Lyman and R. Huntingfon Gulliver. Dr. Frederick P. Gulliver, a descend- ant, was in charge of ‘the service, which opened with the hymn, Our God, Our Help In Ages Past, sung with full- toned melody by a chojr directed by Frederic W. Lester. 'The following comprised the choir: Mrs, Charles Tyler Bard, Mrs. Frank Herbert Mer- xill, Miss Louise Fuller, Miss Elsie Brand, Mrs. Frederic 8.’ Young, Mrs. A. T. Sullivan, Mrs. George T. Lord, Mrs. Willlam G. Haselden, Miss Belle T. Service and Lpuls A. Wheeler, James Henderson, ' Louls _ Brown, George A. Turner, F. S. Birchard, James L. Case, Walter F. Lester, Wil- liam Oddy and C. D. Gallup. Welcome in Name of Founders. The welcome in the name of the Pounders was given by Dr. F. P. Gul- liver, who sad: In ‘the name of the founders of Nor- wich, the 35 original proprietors, to whom was granted by Uncas the hine miles square tract, I bid 'you one and all weicome to our 150th anniversary celebration. 1 have been asked to do thds, first, s a resident of Norwich. for the past 25 years; secomd, as a descendant of one-third of the original proprietors who 250 years ago laid the foundation | of Norwich; and, third, as one who has | confidence that before our 300th anni- versary celebration, Norwich will have outgrovn the conditlon of rival vil- Jages, and will have becorie the un- doubted leader of eastern Conmecticut in business, commerce, transportation, We stand this afternoon in a por- #lon of the home lot of the Reverend the Founders are Buried—Addresses by Rev. Dr. Leweliyn Pratt and Rev. C. A.|strans ' Northrop—Major Mason’s Monument ecorated. Jumes Fitch, which 1n 1639 was apen- ©ed as a burial place for 3 { 1 ask you to join in the invecation offered hy the suocessor of Mr, Fitch, the Reverend George H. Bwing, pastor of ths First Congregational church. Following ¢he invocation the hymn | “Gone Are the Great and Good” was sung. | "'Dr. Gulliver in presenting Mr. Pratt, said: Many of our ancestors came from { Saybrook, atracted hy the water pow- | or"and level land 1h this region. Dr. Pratt, a descendant of our Saybrook ancestors, will address us on “The Outggoing from Saybrook.” | THE OUTGOING FROM SAYBROOK | Why Members of That Colony Came Here to Settle, Told by Rev. Dr. Lewellyn Pratt. | Rev. Dr. Tewellyn Pratt in his bright and interesting manrer made the first address, which was heard with mark- i attention by the large assembly. He sald: I presame that T have been selected to epeak this opening word in the public: services of this 250th anniver- sarf, as an and representotiva of KEV. DR. LEWELLYN PRATT. the 0ld town of Saybrook. I am to re- mind you of “the rock whenoe ye were hewn and the hole of the pit ‘whence y2 were digged.” Norwich Pilgrims Came from Saybrook As we all know, the band of pil- grims who came hére in _1659-60 came for the most part from Saybrook An independent colony had been establish- ed there under the leadership of Gov. John Winthrop the younger. It was a coloney animated expecta: tions, The impontanse of the location at the mouth of the great pros low made it an attractive spot to enter- prising souls. That settlement was begun in 1685—the same year that Hooker brought his colony through the wildeinées to Hartford. Lion Gard ner, an engineer who had seen service under the Prince ¢f Orange In the Netherlands, was induced by Go Winthrop to come to fortify the place, o Jay out the ground for a city, to “make preparation for the recep- tion of men of quality” who were soon to follow from England. He re- mained four years, and was suoceed by Col. George Fenwick, and he in turn by Major John Mason. Durlng the frst years, troublesome years of de- fence against the frequent assauits of the Indians, the settlement had for its center and principal feature the fort which Gardiner had built at the first. About this were clustered the houses, and in this, in the Great Hall, was the gathering place for defense, for transaction of business, and for - MURRAY'S Boston Store WILLIMANTIC, CONN. s A Special Offering of Enameled Ware At 10 Cents Double Coated Ware in many shapes and sizes, every plece perfect and a big bargain at the price. Sizes and kinds are— 1% quart Lipped Sauce Pan, 2 quart Lipped Sauce Pan. 1% quart Lipped Preserve Kettle, 2 quart Lipped Preserve Kettle, 2 quart Deep Pudding Pan. 2% quart Deep Pudding Pu 2 quart Deep Pudding Pan. 2 quart Milk Pan. 4 quart Milk Pan. 2 quart Deep German Bowl 8 quart Deep German Bowl 1 quart Long Handle, Seamless Dip- per. 10-inch Deep Ple Plate. Medjum size Hand Basin. 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HIRAM N, FENN, UNDERTAKER and DMBALMER 62 Church St. Willimantle, Ct. Telephone. Lady Amsistant. and |that the men Who had planned to set- & thrown ‘well as their E: i g first, for it was fibmb a military post; and the chaplain of the post, Rev. John Higginson, was the spirit ual guide, of the colony. Col. George Tenwick, after the failure of “the men of quality” who were to join him in the enterprise, transferred his colony in 1644 to Connecticut, and, soon after, saddened by the death of his wife, Lady Alice, returned with his children to England, and Mayor John Mason was persuaded to receive the investment and to make Saybrook his home. There he remained as lead- er for twelve years. A Church Formed. ! Under his administration the colony thrived, and a more extended settle- ment, was made north, east and west. In 1646 a church was formed and the | Rev. James Fitch, who had studied | with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and who was recommended by him, became | pastor: and Thomas Adeate deacon. | Mr. Fitch’s ministry, whom Trumbull speaks of a “famous young gentleman” (he was in his 24th year when he was settled), proved o be,a very happy and_suécessful one. Notwithstanding the hostility of the Dutch and the I dians, the plantation grew by the mov- ing in of choice familles, some of them from Windsor and Hartford, attract- ed in part by the popularity of the young preacher. We have meager rec |ords of that period, but it seems to: have been one ti promised well for | the settlemen h was now assum- ing the consequence of a real planta tion and becoming something more | than a military post. “After a lapse of fourteen or fifteen years, however, we ind that this progr is clearl check Is to be given to the Intimation of which ' marked by this order of th zeneral court of Connecticut, dated May 1659: “This court- having considered the i tition prescnted by the inhabitants of Seabrook, doc declare yt they ap- prove and consent to what is desired by ye petitioners respecting Mohegin, prvided yt within ye space of three vears they doe effect a Plantation in ye_place prpounded.” We would like to know more of this ! petition and of the list of names sign- | ed to it, but no copy has been pre. served. The order speaks of the “in habitants of Seabrook.” which seems {to imply that a majority proposed to jremove; and the fact that Mr. Fitch, their pastor, decided to come with them also lends color to that view. It is doubtful, however, if the majority actually came. Mr. Fitch may have recognized the greater need of those who_were to go into new conditions and who would require his experience and counsel 'in the organizations they must effect. ~Apparéntly, it was not regarded in the removal of the church although its pastor and deacon came. Saybrook has always dated the or- ganization of its church in 1646, and Norwich 1660. But in all probability the younger and more enterprising of the colony came, and the loss to Say- brook was most seriously felt. For several years, till 1665, the colony and church that were left' behind were.in a disheartened state, Many reasons have been surmised for the removal, some of them too friv- olous to be accepted, as that which has been so often repeated; that _these Norwich. pioneers with Major Mason and James Fitch at their head, were “driven out by the crows and black- birds that destroyed their corn” We may imagine many reasons, among them, perhaps, was the disappointment tle at Saybrook and who would have given peculiar character and standing to that colony had failed to come: and even their representative, Colonel Fenwick, had 1ost heart in the enter- prise and abandoned it. Then, there were the inducements * which the friendly Indians here held out and the offer of a large tract of land for set- tlement. 5 The pecullar beauty of this section, with its wooded hills, its fertile plains. and running brooks, attracted them. ‘The pioneer spirit appealed to them, was in their blood, as in all the colon- ies at that time. They must go some- where. So Hooker had come to Hart- ford, Pynchon to Springfield, Roger Williams to Rhode Island, Jonathan Brewster to Windsor and Brewster's Neck. Probably this Norwich colony had as reasons for the remdval some like those given by Hooker's company in their petition for permission for remotal to Hartford, which were: 1. “Want of toom where we are.” » “The fruitfulness and commodi- ousness of Connecticut and the danger of having it possessed by others.” 3. “The strong bent of our spirit to_remove thither.”” Probably the “bent of their spirit” was the motive, more potent than either of the others or tham both of them together. That”dct of the general court of May, 1659, which I have quoted, made as its condition that the settlement must be made within the three years thereafter. Apparently no time was lost; and the advance guard came in tHe summer of 1659, followed by the remainder of the company the next year. It was a vallant and goodly band of well to do folk of good ances- try, that had been trained by strong leaders, such as Winthrop, Fenwick, Gardiner, Mason, Higginson and Fitch, had been inured to service in a new country, had alteady attained to a well ordered life under a constitutional gov- ernment, and were united under the restraining and refining power of the Christian -faith, This colony did not begin in a random way, like so many of the early gettlements or like so many of the later frontler ventures, by receiving accessions of restless ad- If We in any bank of the for you? H. C.‘MURRAY, Prest. make every saver in this vicinity realize that in THIS savings institution he is assured of as good security as is possible would more than double in a month. Why let your money work partly for others when it might as well work solely Ghe Willimantic Savings Institute Could land, our business N. D. Webster, Treas. ers, age, gain and then a civilized and they could establish homes, and which o 1 fia‘ = = they coukl bequeath to their chiidren Forn s as a priceless inheritance. They were Jooking forward to permanence and a future and they knew that steady hal its, manly toil and fine fraternity of feeling must enter into that to make o' stable. All the enactments and pro. ceedings of those early days reveal community in which good order, de- corum of manners, self-respect an high ideals prevafled. The Christian church was the unifying bond and the guide of their lives. They were cheer- ed and strengthened by the vonstant charm of its promises, and the rigor of the wilderness and the privations of frontler life were softened by its hopes. 1 do not know how much they thought of the names they were to transmit. 1 think some of them would have smil- ed at the coats of arms and the kind of heraldie glory with which they have been crowned ,and would have been incredulous of the “genuine” heirlooms that have been handed down; but they did aim to lead honest and honorable lives and to make a community in which it would be safé and wholesome for their children to grow. It was a sifted seed that was brought \ REV. C. A. NORTHROP. by Winthrop to his first settlement; and it was sifted again when Fitch and Mason brought it here. 'Who they were; how they fared; what hos- tages they have given to history in the lines of noble descent, we are-to hear in the days that are to follow. It is a goodly story—the orderly life of those early days; then, the patriotic spirit of the time when the nation was ‘born; then, the enterprise of this later time. Norwich, proud of her ances- try, of the achievements of her so: and daughters, of her “well name, ‘and of her lines running out to the ends of the earth comes to her quarter millenium with devout grati- tude to Him who brought us here and who has sustained us. And it surely is not amiss, while, standing by their graves, we honor th memories of those heroic men and wo- men and congratulate ourselves on our heritage, to remind ourselves that “They, that on glorious ancestors en- a rge Produce their debt instead of their discharge,” x and, that though these have witnesses borne to them through their faith, “God has provided some better thing for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. BUILDING A CHURCH-STATE. Address by Rev. C. A. Northrop on The Original Settiers of Norwich. After the spirited singing of the hymn, Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds, Chairman Gulliver said: In the fall of 1659, or spring of 1660, the first settlers constructed a log meeting- house some 500 feet west of the point where we are standing; and then pre- sented Rev. C. A. Northrop to give the address on Bullding a Church-State, and he said: The Founders. How many there were of them has never been officially determined till recently, when, according to the sign- ed, sealed and delivered statement of the Society of the Founders, there were thirty-five. This is probably about as near to the truth as we shall ever be able to get. They were men in the prime of life, most of them with families—of the re- spectaoie middle class of Englishmen, with a dash or two of aristocracy. The Hydes and Huntingtons and -Leffing- wells and Tracys were of good stock. They were young, vigorous adventurers of the best type. Samuel Hyde was 23 years old when he set foot in Nor- wich, Simon Huntington was 31, John Burchard 32, Post and Olmstead 34, Fitch and Leffingwell 38, Adgate 40, Tracy @), Mason and Caulkins 60. They were in comfortable circum- stances. They came to work. They were wheelwrights, and millers and merchants and surveyors, and shoe- makers, and brewers, and tanners, and cutlers, and stone cutters and car penters and farmers. They were un- educated, some of them, as to_books, but they knew many things. If “Old Goodman Hide” and Caulkins made their mark on legal documents instead of their name, it did not prevent them from making a name. The Saybrook influences that cra- dled them survived here for many a day. Fitch and Woodward and Lord, the first three ministers, were of Say- brook extraction and served the church for nearly 125 years. The third pastor of the Second society of the Nine-mile Square (Franklin) was a Saybrook boy, and lingered on till the second half of the nineteenth century. 1, myself, might have shaken hands With him had he come to my father's house before he died. And that does not end the Saybrook Influence, for when Dr. Nott of Franklin passed away, there came into the Norwich at- mosphere the overshadowing _delight of Dr.*Pratt, another Saybrook prod- uct, who is with us today and may his shadow never grow less. Their Incoming. They came as purchasers, not as conquerors. They came by families, and went to work. So busy were they that in a few years they did not know where their own possessions lay. They kept few records, and if they could only have known how much was to be made of them by & grateful posterity, they would certainly have told us more about themselves. How much would we not give today for Pastor Fitch's notes on his varied and usefm wori for whites and Indlans, and for an even hurried glance over the lost pages of the church records for the first 40 years! They were an orderly people. They builded well. They organized at once “a Religious Society and Church- State.” It mattered not whether they said church or state. Both were one to them. We have here the three fun- damental types of soclety, Family, Church, State. For sixty years town and church af- fairs were recorded the: After the church reco: were called They were alive to trade. riotism encouraged home tures. Just about the close of the revolutionary war there were 20 or more trades and business emterprises aroynd the green. Their patriotiem brought to the front many illustrious leaders in war and in counsel. A sketeh of the doings around the old Town Green from the days of |the Stamp Aact to the Declaration of Peace would disclose what Norwich men and women thought on the matter or_freedom and liberty. . In marriage and offspring their on- goings were notable. They were not polygamists, but they had generally two wives, sometimes three, rarely four. Widows married then as now without exciting much remark. ‘The intertwisting of family fines made ev- erybody related to everybody, and no- body could gossip without danger of slandering his relatives. They lived to a -good old age and saw their chil- dren’s children and peace upom Israel. At _death, Thomas Lefingwell was 92, Calkins 90, Adgate 87, Bingham 88, Simon Huntington 77, Fitch 90, Bush- nell snd Tracy 75, Burchard 72, Mason 72. Most of the first generation were buried in the old Post and Gager ground, where now stands the Mason monument. Four of them whose graves are marked were buried in the Old Town burying ground, where these ex- erclses are being held. Deacons Si- mon Huntington and Thomas ite, Sergt. Thomas Waterman and John | Post were_ surely burled here, and probably Bowers and 0lds an Caulkins and Lieuts. gwell and le researches Backu The increasingly valuabl of the late S. Porter have un- covered for posterity many of the an- clent events and he is fittingly rermem- bered in durable bronze at the gateway | of the ground where he spent so many ,days in the service of love for the old Founders. Educationally, the founders were pretty slow. They had some schools. but they were not up to the average even of that early day. In 1700 the town was Indicted by the courts “for ‘want of a school to instruct children.” Their descendants have more than made up for their deficiencies in this respect. As churchmen, they were decidedly “broad.” Fitch's parish covered the Nine-miles-square, and parts of Wind- ham and Canterbury. It was nearly fifty years before a Second soclety it Franklh lity they were independent with a They would have no such squinting at oversight as I from the Saybrook platf /They were so independent that they were open to a new idea now and th They declension of the years 1660-17 the “Great Awakening” of the latter date, religion was formal and exter- nal. There was more head than heart in it. The Half Way Covenant was worse than the Saybrook The founders would have nothing of the second and too much of the first. The religion of genuine conver- slon was preached by Dr. Lord before Edwards and Whitefield came on v the stage, and while the “New Lights’ were the logical result of Dr. Lord's preaching, they were not easily recog- nized by him, and their unusual inde- pendence troubled his righteous soul not a little. The awakening togk deep root in New London county, where the Separatist movement was pronounced, and the knell of dis-establishment be: gan to be sounded. As Dr. Lord goes out, the new religious ideas come in, and the established Congregational church of Connecticut undergoes dis- solution and gives place to the rights of free worship. And with the freer and wider thinking begins a better thought of the outside world. Some of the most fruitful beginnings of the great modern missionary movement had their origin right here on this soil, and so it has come to pass that New London county has the distinction of having given more for the evangeliza- tion of the world than any other coun- ty in the United States. Their Outgoing. Mason'’s descendants are found most- Iy outside the Nine-mile-square—all the way from Stonington to Lebanon. His grandson, Daniel’s, widow, became, by way of Hddam influences, mother of David Brainerd. Fitch, dying in Lebanon, sent out lateral branches like a cedar of Leb- anon, from Montville to Pomfret. The Backuses had Isaac, the Sepa- ratist, and founder of the Baptists’ Charles, the wisest man whom Pres. ident Dwight knew; Azel, first presi- dent of Hamilton college; James, the surveyor of Marietta,; Elfjah, the can- non maker of Yantic, and Willlam W., the hospital man of Norwich. The Huntingtons went everywhere. Their line went out into all the earth and thelr words to the ends of the world. Deacon Christopher, the first boy born in Norwich, became grandfather to_Wheelock, whose Indian_school in Lebanon developed into Dartmouth college. A niece of Christopher's be- came ancestress of U. S. Grant. Baby Elizabeth Hyde, the first girl in Norwich, became ancestress of two and one-third octavo pages of distinguished men and women, accord- ing to the testimony of one of the fam- ily given at the 200th anniversary of the town. The Lefingwells settled down near by, and gave their name to-a well- known district of the township. With the coming of peace after the Revolutionary war and the opening of “The Landing” to business, and the advent of roads and postoffices and new families, the grip of the original proprietors on things and thoughts be- gan to relax, and some of the rest of us got our chance. Their Legacy. They left five towns and parts of two others—Bozrah, Franklin, Lisbon, Sprague, Norwich, ‘Griswold, Preston, while Lebanon, Mansfield, Canterbury, Plainfleld and 'Windham were peopled largely from the old plot. Along the Yantic and Shetucket and Quinebaug they built their homes and influenced widely the social and civil and re- liglous life of their neighbors. They left thrift, and neighborly kindness and order and patriotism. They left churches in every place where they settled and left good men to advertise and support them. They set the pace and gave the tome for the life, not only of the town as it continued, but for the city as it be- gan to grow. Norwich today has nb reason to forget and no cause to min- imize the debt it still owes to Nor- wich Town. The exercises closed with the sing- ing of America, Speaker Cannon is now serving hi glru-flnh year as a member of the use ¥ In response to the request sent out to ministers to preach historical ser- mons Sunday morning,. thers was & general effort made along that line by The cluding many have moved from town and many vis- jtors. In a number of churches the regular communion sermons were preached, a number of the ministers feeling that historical sermons were hardly appropriate to them owing to their comparatively short residence here. However, In’ practically all the churches some reference was made to the anniversary. GREENEVILLE CONGREGATIONAL IN THE LIFE OF NORWICH. History of the Organization During Its 76 Years. Sunday morning, Rev. C. H. Rick- etts preached a church historical ser- mon, which was heard with much in- terest. He said: This section of “the Rose of New England.” still retaining the old name of Greeneville, came Into existence about the year 1828. It was in this year that the Water Power company was incorporated with a capital of $43,000 for the purpose, .as the old records say, “of building a dam and canal in order to bring the waters of the Shetucket river into manufacfur- ing use” William P. Greene, m whom the village evidently derived Hs name, was the largest stockholder and the moving spirit. He had previously purchased the land extending from in those days ‘was known as _Sachem’s plain, th Junction of the Shetucket and Quine baug rivers, on both sides, for the dis- tance of three miles. Immediately the old Shetucket dam was built of solid masonry, and a canal dug forty-five feet wide, nine feet deep, and seven-eighths of a mile in length. The old Shetucket cotton mill was the first of our manufactur- ing enterprises, to be followed by the Chelsea Paper Manufacturing com- pany, at one time sald to have been the largest paper-making establish- ment in the world. Our fathers did not allow great bus- iness enterprises to crowd out their religious duties Religious ces were held from the very beginning of our community life, but definite organ- ization dates back to January 18, 1833, when twenty men banded themselves together as the Greeneville Ecclesias- tical society, and among number are not a few that have had much to do In the material development of Norwich. Among the number who signed that first call are Samuel Mo- rey, Willlam H. Colt, Benjamin Dur- fey, Oliver Woodworth, Nathan and Nathan P. Avery. There is every reason to believe that at the same time steps were regularly taken to form a Congregational church in this newly settled community, for the names of the original or charter members are preserved. TheE are as follows: Na- than P. Avery, Eunice A. Avery, after- ward the wife of Harland Hyde; Mary Avery, Willlam H. Coit, Mrs. Cornelia BE. Coit, Noah Davis, Jonathan R. Da. vis, Mrs. Mary (Cornin) Davis, Ben- jamin Durfey, Ardelia E. Durfey, Har- vey Lathrop, Mary M. Lathrop, Octa- via Lathrop, Samuel Morey, Wilson Potter, Mrs. Cynthia Potter, Asa Peck, Mrs. Lydia Peck, Walter O. Pear] and Mrs. Esther Pearl. It naturally followed that provision should be made for a sanctiary and parsonage. _Accordingly, between the years of 1833 and 1835 both a meet- ing house and parsonage were built. The church was first known as the Fourth Congregational church of Nor- wich, but after the abandonment of the Third church in 1842, it received the latter name In the order of organs ization, although locality has forced upon it the name of the Greemeville Congregational church. According to the records of Janu- ary 18, 1833, Samuel Morey, William H. Coft, and Benjamin Durfey were constituted the first committee of the Ecclesiastical soclety to engage a pul- pit supply, and Rev. Dennis Platt was secured for the ensuing three months, but probably remained to the close of the year 1833. At a regular meeting of the soclety held in January, 1834, a call was given to the Rev. John Storrs of Williman- tic, who accepted and labored one year. During 1835 and 1836 the pul- pit was supplied for the most part by the Rev. Spencer Beard, but in 1837 a call was extended to the Rev. Ste. phen Crosby, but owing to a period of financial depression the installa- tion was deferred and his death oc- curred_before it was effected. Next came Rev. A. L. Whitman, who re- mained until 1846, For ten years the spiritual affairs of the village were in the able and faithful hands of the Rev. C. P. Bush, whose daughter is en- deared to us through our missionary 2id to her work in India. At the close of his labors in 1856, Rev. Robert P. Stanton was called, and his pastorate of 23 years is the longest in the history of the church. It was a period mark- ed by great materfal and spiritual prosperity, the church building being enlarged in 1867, and the present pipe organ provided in 1876. Mr. Stanton closed his labors in the year 1880, and the same year marked the installation of the Rev. Andrew J. Sullivan. In 1888, the Rev. Thomas Simms entered on his work as pastor, which_he (faithfully carried on till 1892, the year in.which the Rev. Lew- is . Barney accepted the pastorate. During Mr. Barney's term of service extensive repairs were made upon the church property at a considerable cost. The present pastorate began in 1897 and is the second longest in the his- tory of the church. Duuring this time between four and five thousand dollars have been raised toward the liquida- tion of our church debt, the parsonage has been Improved, and the churcl and_ecclesiastical society have been legally consolidated. The early records contain such names as Samuel Morey, Oliver Woodworth, Benjamin Durfe: William H. Coit, Willlam P. Green Nathan P. Avery, Rufus Sibley, Da- vid Torrance, and others who have shown that the ministry of this church has not been in vain in the production of_men of character. e INDIAN, ENGLISH AND BIBLE NAMES. of Interesting Sefmon by Rev. Donald B, MacLane. At the Taftville Congregational church Sunday morning Rev. Donald B gave an address Then there is the Wauregan house, and : and Oocum, ua'z(ynl; and and Narragansett —an Copnecticut. In Taftville we have the ‘Wequonnoc school and the Ponemah Mr. MacLane went on to show how not only around Norwich but all over the country the land is full of Indlan names. Lakes and rivers and cities and statec—almost half the states memory. And every Indlan name re- minds us that our land was first the home ot the Indians. 1l. English Names. One finds many English names, too. And every Eng- lish name reminds us that the firs white settlers of our land came from England. So we have Norwich, named after Norwich in England; the Thames and New London, named after 1pw old Thames and the old London in Eng- land. In the state of Comnecticut, east of the Connecticut river, all the following (Continued on Page Three.) Where to Trade in Jewett Cify DR. J. M. KING Dentist Al work guaranteed. Finn Block, Jewett City, Conn. Office hours 9.30 & m. to § p. m. Painless extraction. ‘Telephone 40 e SUMMER MILLINERY at greatly reduced prices during July and August. -Take advantage of the ofter. L. E, Roy, Jewett City. ICE CREAM at wholesale and retall. Part! charches, etc., supplied. Agent for the MoKinley music, 10c a copy. Willlam Johnstone, Jewett City. WHEN READY TO BUILD, ect your material from our cholice stock of Lumber, Paints, Ceme Nails, ot com of masons’ and builders' supplies. R. R. Church, Jewett City. IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY a good wholesome meal, try one of those 36c dinners at Brickley's restau- rant and quick lunch. Special atten- tion to commercial men. W. J. Brick- ley, Jewett City. THIS SPACE RESERVED. WATCH IT! HAVE YOU TRIED ' Teft's ice cream? The kind that is made from sweet cream. It excels all others. Churches, weddings and parties supplied. Jewett City Candy Kitchen. JAWETT CITY HOTEL, New and Up-to-dnte Hotel In every particular. IKA ¥. LEWIS, Proprietor. M. HOURIGAN, Jewett City. FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Furniture = Crawford Cooking Ranges. 'Phones—Store 61-2: houso 35-5 MOOSUP HOU . J. King, Prop. H 8 K Sample Reom commected. Special attention pald to Commercia Moesup. Coman Tel. 08-18 Halcyon House, WATCH HILL, R. L, June 15th for the season. rates for June and July. T. J. O'BRIEN, JR. will o) Specl; Jun128MW OCEAN VIEW HOTEL BLOCK ISLAND, R. I. NOW OPEN. Boating, Bathing, Fishing, Golf, Ten- nis and other amusements. Booklets. CUNDALL & BALL, Proprietors. Sel1TuTR8 THE UNDER PRICESALE now at The Boston Dry Goods Store Dantelson, means big bargain prices to the customer on seasonable goods. Every departuient In the store bears the cut price marks. THE BOSTON DRY GOODS STOKE Main St. Danetson, Jaraes I Keech, Mgr Jun278 ~ YOR DRY AND FANOT COODS “Trase with US and Save Money. 1SAAC CHAMPEAU, Manager. ®ytnam. Conn. Have you tried our Special Chocolate Cream Drops at 10z During these seventy-six years of history, our community has been sig- nally blessed of God, and still this pe- riod has been marked by many serious events, which, to our imperfect un- a pound? THE 3 KEYSTONE STORES, Dantelson Putnam Moosup derstanding, is regarded as calamity. may3d The most serlous blow that ever came to our Sunday school, by way of the loss of life, was on April 13, 1844, when four young lads met a ter- .rible death by the explosion of a pow- der magazine near the corner of Bos- well avenue and the present Hickory street. If one were to enumerate those who have lost their lives or were se- riously Injured in these factories, the list would be a lon gone, containing the names of some of our leading fam- ilies. Notwithstanding all this, as & church and as & community, we have LEWANDO'S French Dyers and Cleansers FINEST WORK In the United States. We use none but the ¥rench method. All work Guaranteed. More than 900 customers here in Norwich. abundant reason for thanking God for his “loving kindness and tender mer- cy." If we are grateful for the past, the reasons are strong why we should ter heartily into the two hundred and fiftieth anniversarv celebration of our towa. Marshall's Agency, 164 Main St, with Ner, Cir, Library. Jun24ThSTu ~ Chelsea Line Fare $1.00 ht and nger el B Sk oo O pod For folder, . © . Frelght received until § p. m. €. A. WHITAKER, Agent may4d 10 NEW YORK. NORWICH LINE Via STONINGTON The water way — the comfortable way of traveline. Steamers City of hard Peck—safe, Lowell and aunch b every comfort and convess lence for the traveler. A delighttul voyage on Long Isisné Sound and a superb view of the wome derful_sky line and water front ef New York. \ Steamer leaves Stonington at 1118 p. m. week days only: due Pler 40 North River, 7.4 the next morning. Fare Norwich to New York $1.75 Write or telephone W. J. PHILLIPS, Agent, New London. Conn. octid sieamer BLOCK ISLAND June 20th to Sept. , 1909, Inclusive. WEEKDAYS: Leave Norwich 8.30 a. m, New London 9.50 u. m., Wateh Hill 10.55 a. m., due Block Island 12. ICI. B‘ RETURNING: Le o nd 2.1 B Wateh Tl 330 p. m., due New mdon E‘y m., Norwich 6.15 ? m. SUNDAYS: Leave Norwich 9.15 .15 &, m. New London 10.40 a. m. Watch Hill 1140 a- m.. due Block Islind 1 g RETURNING: Leave Block I m., Wateh HIll 4 p. m, Eondon 8.3 b. m.. Norwioh 7 p. m. Shore Dinner "Houses and Bathini Beach near landings at Watch Hill an Block Isiand. FARES Excursion. From Norwich to Wateh Hill 5 Watch Hjill, Sundays, limited » 0 100 limited to an Beach), weokdays and Sundays, ticket include troiloy from New don to Beach ...... 38 For further information, y r apply, at office of company near steam- boat landing, Norwich. L. M. Gllchrist, Agent. The New England Navigation Ce., F. C. COLEY, AsG. P. A. New York. JeZ4d PEOPLE'S STEAMBOAT CO. STEAMER SIGHT SEER. 1009———SEASON 0 On and after Saturdm will run as foll Two daily between Ocean, Pleasu a C observing the following s Morning Trl Leave Norwich 5.05 a. don 9.30, Ocean Beach 9.i5, Beach 10.10, arrive Crescent 1030, Crescent Beach , Oce: . arrive sure Beac return;. on noon trip through to Crescent Beach return. PEOPLE’S STEAMBOAT CO., Norwich, C: AVERY C. SMITH, Managing Owner. e16 MONTAUK STEAMBOAT CO'S LINE between New London, Conn., and Gree port, Shelter 1 onig Island. W New London, weekdays, p. m. Leaves Sag Harbor p. m. Grand Union Hotel| Opp. Grand Central Station, New York Clty Rooms, $1.00 a Day A%D CPWARD 1o and trom Bration fres. Send 2o stamp for N.Y. Oty Guide Book and Map The New Hotel Alberi Eleventh St. and University Pl NEW YORK CITY, One Block West of Broadway, modern fire proof transient hotel below 224 Street, Location central, yet qulet 400 rooms, 200 with bath, from $1.06 per day upwards, Excellent restaurant and cafe attached. Moderate prices. Send 2¢ stamp for lllustrated Guide and Map of New York City. The only absolutely AMERICAN HOUSE, Farrell & Sanderson, Props. SPRCIAL RATES to Theatre Troupes Traveling Men, eto. Livery connested SHETUCKET STREET. Come and See the FIREWORKS! A few desirable left for private parties to rent on Cliff Terrace. locations Apply for position and rates at POWERS BROS.” Je30d Franklin S+uare. THE OFFICE OF WM. F. HILL, Real Estate X and Fire Insurance, is located In Somers' Elock, over C. M. Williams, Room §, third ficor, feb13d Teleplone