Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 2, 1910, Page 9

LETTERS FRON TOWNS _IN TWO STATES The Business and Social Life of Every Town and Settlement Reflect?d in These Columns, motHer, Mrs. Christina Glassbrenner of Gardner Lake. Miss Katie Murphy of Norwich has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. .‘thn ttie F’Innagnn is spending several days at the home of Miss Theresa Mc- Rev., Wilnger -bb1a. ann good scholarship was | of Astoria, L. I second in his class. Lightning struck two trees near the F. K. Noyes last week electric storm that assed over Lebanon. Farmers Win. The milk strike on the part of those supplying the Providence market has at length ended the farmers winning t}:ie race by getling the price demand- ed. NEW LONDON COUNTY. UNCASVILLE American Council Elects Officers—Pu- pils Successful in Academy Exami- nations—Specialty Company Asks for Lower Taxes. Miss Ethel Maples of Hartford has been the guest of her brothers, Orrin and George M residence of pham was a recent visitor in Hartford. Cougyflin hkas re- i New Haven turned after a visit and Hartford. Timothy Fields has returned after stay with his brother, several days’ Jeremiah Fields of Boston. Master Joseph Marra of his uncle, William Glassbrenner at Gardner Lake. NORTH STONINGTON Sunday Schools Observe Day—Goodwin-Rithards Marriage. Both the village churches held chil- dren’s day servic Harold Bartlett, who is employed in mer months. Providence, arrived at the home of his parents Saturday night to spend his is the guest NIANTIC Local People Attend Boat Race—Busy Season 'Opens at Pine Grove. 0. U. A. M. Officers. rived Wednesday American council, its. regular meeting, held in Pal Memorial hall Thursday evening, e ed the following officers for the ensu- i George Pratt; vice councilor, Harold Smith; v, Harry A/\\ood Robert C. financial secretary, Dan D. Home; Luther Teft: i Eari Carlton: chaplain, John Carlton; inside protector. outside protector, 2 Bacon hipped seven barrels Saturday of lobsters to Fulton market Monday. Morgan has returned to lence in Penn avenue. is entertaining E. J. W. G. Phyall Barnard o J. A. Lynch and H. A. Jordan of New ing secretary, ant recording Jast Sunday. Laur:l Glen chapel Sunday afternoon. Miss Marie Hollister w in the Wheeler library during the va- cation of the librarian, 8 Beckwith was a Norwich tor Monday. Mrs. James Gibson has been enter- taining Mrs. Julia Mitchell of Wester- instructor , William C.. By Danie] A. Rogers; spend a_few Locust Point terrace. and Mrs. Isaac Jones of Nor- wich. with their sons Emerson and nton, have opened their cottage Rest-a-Whiie,” for-the summer. Mrs. Elmer Kidder and Dorothy and Eleanor of Spencerport, Y., arrived Tuesday evening to visit and Mrs. was in Jewett afternoon to attend =a meating of the missionary committee of the Stonington Union association. Miss Lula Rochelle, N. Y. Lucian Drury rs. J. E. Clark have re- turned to Point Judith. R J. W. Knappenherger in New Lon- witnessing the Lynch, Roger Gardner. Mrs. C. M. Holmes, who has been a suest of her daughter, i v, has returned to Grassy Edwin Phillips has resigned in New London and is working at Whitehall, 4 of Lincoln streat don ‘Thursday Harvard boat Miss Mabel Hough of New who is the guest of relatives in New London who is spending two weeks’ vacation with relatives in town is now the guest of Miss Delia Whael- Goodwin-Richards. Clare Sheppard Richards, teacher in the Wheeler school for the vear just closed was united 27th with Martin Furber Goodwin, a2t her home in Newtonvi They will reside in Cleveland, H. ;\_Xel(‘er is wisiting friends im village was day to attend the A number of the been decorated with circus signs. ngham is worl irs. Winfield Hanney and son Wes- and daughter Katherine of Salem spent the past week as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Church. Work on the new building to be Uhed as postoffice ig completed. . Adams$, who was taken ill_while at_his work in Palm- er m\ll Friday, is slightly improved. Keeps Right on Working. The Keyes Process company, drying rooms were destroved by has decided to continue work manufacturing the building ma- terial and to build up the part dam- The work has been con- since the fire. as it was found that the machinery in the main bu ing ‘was uninjured, process has had to be done by natural 1d buildings hava riagz June George W. H commenced his duties for the associa- 1 The Jamps located on streats of the Grove are lighted each large number people in the Grove to remain for the The restaurant the summer under the managemant of Teachers Appointed. Appointment of teachers for some of tha schools in town has already been i Lewis and Hat- lage school Miss Grace Sheffield will teach in the Shunoc dis- trict, Mise Mary Chapman numbper six, Mrs. Carolinz M. Wheeler at Clark’s Falls and Miss Fern Rich-, ardson at West Ashwillet. Mrs. D. F. Chapman has been visit- ing in Waterford. Arthur E. was in town Thursday. VOLUNTOWN Well Attended Strawberry Supper for Benefit of M. E. Church—Fred Daw- ley’s Brother Missing. is n for e tie Miner will teach the v be graded. as the Rev. was expected here by be unable to accept the g to the illness of his wife. Albert Voorhees have guests this week Mr. Voorhees' parents and Mr. Bennett of Gravesend, 1 last week. s pavilion has reopened ‘William Dorman of Waterbury. Clark has commenced his dutie: i He also carries the postoffica 2 pavilion at the Grove where there is a postoffice for the con- venience of the campers. Mr. and Mrs. in_district aged by fire, Mr. and . Mrs. to and from ‘but the dr: ntic to the Shedd of Preston R. O. Libby entertain ed at their cottage ovar Sunday, and Mrs. Charl A. Card of Groton was in town Friday. Mr. and Mrs. have been enear of New York. fperintendent of a big visiting fr] ends York and Philadelphia have returned nter street was a_ New Jondon and Norwich visitor Edward Childs of New London visitor at the home Mrs. Clark Hummell. Gone to Glasgo. Theodore Marehand, machinist the O. M. Robertson company, resighed to work in Glasgo, where he will soon move his family. Mrs John Lynch was taken to the Backus hospital Thursday for surzi- cal trestment. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Tucker and Miss Bitlen Newton of Flast Lyme were week end vinwn a.c the home of Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Fo: H. S. Taylor, S aiD tai een occupy- Ing the Baker cotfage. has moved to Gales Ferry. an over-Sunday of her aunt, - Hairland of Brooklyn, has openzd her bungalow for the | The strawberry supper hald at the home of Stephen Sweet on Saturday evening for the benefit of the M. E. C. A. Bell was in Putnam Mon- day attending the funeral of a rela- proved a most enjoyable and success- daughters, New York. cottage for of Chester Mrs, F. A. Lillian Adams. and Gerald W?lch visited relatives in 1., on Sunday last. of Wiilimantic spent Sunday at his home in-this village. Bitgood returned Thurs- | Moosnme, Conn., had spent the past gusst of Mr. Dorothy and Arnold Adams have arrived at the Llovd Marjorie of Hope Valler, Michael Duffy A pariy Miss Carrie Van Woert is the guest of her mister, _ Miss Tacy where she | Adam Post of New }ork is the suest of Mr. and Mr: B. L Howard M spending several weeks at his cottage returned to his t rtford and leased his cottage for the summer. y Harrison of the Eim City her cottage Charles Ben- was absent from his duties at the Dearniey & Clark store on Monday as he was the search for his brother, been missing since Sunday morning. The local baseball team play2d their .old rivals from Glasgo, winning out, " LIBERTY HILL High street Fred Dawley Team Wins. A baseball game between the Teams from Norwich and Montville was won by the Montville team, 19 to 5. The game between the Uncasville Jwxmiors and the New London Central 4 Junfors was won ] team, 13 to 12. Passed Academy Examinations. members of clase at Palmer Memorial and Tenth who took the &Nor- wich Free Academy entrance exami- nations, were successful, tember of the Tenth district, who was condftioned. Those from Palmer Me- moria] school taking the examination were Harold Rosenlund, Herbert R ers, Harry Watt, Abram Greenburz, Marion Henry, C i ‘Tenth.district class were Clara Heni- gan. May Horenstein, stein, John J. Dodd, Barber Place Sold. Mrs. George Barber has sold her house and land, situated near Pecuot. to Willlam Spicer of New Afrs.. Barber has moved out of Mrs.” Beckwith and family i move to Jerome Island, just over the Waterford line. Wants Tax Relief. < At the meeting of the board of s lectmen Saturday a representa the Thames Specialty company, own- ars of the new paper mill in process was present. and @d what the company wished in regay company has s oceupying the Glasgo's Tondon has and Mrs. Franklin been oecupying her Clifford Graves of New Haven has arrived for the summer. Homer Dorman has begun work as London and motorman on East Lyme Street railway. F. K. Partric graduating Officers—Personals. district school, s launch Cres- cent to take a party from that city to New London to witness the boat race. s. Anniz Bronson of Niantic has purchased the Loomis cottage. Jobn D. Griswold has returned to Boston after spending two weeks i C v held a social at the church Wednesday night. . Joel Ives of Hartford preached here Sunday. Harold Harvey, medical college at Burhngton s home for summer vacation. The semi-annual except one business meeting E. society was held Sunday Everett Payson was elected president and Raymond Moffitt, president; O. W. Grisley, secrearv and About $28 are in the treas- F. Griswold were Norwich visitors \io"lda\' MOHEGAN Deacon George R. Saunders to Reside in Norwich—Vacation Notes. Jacob Horen- Frank Mitchell. . Babeock was Norwich Thursday and Friday. for the pasi month is able to be out. George R. Saunders has gone to live with his niece, ard of Nor- missed by Saunders has bean Many Attend Recent Barn Dance. be greatly The barn dance given by Hoelck and Edward Eckert Saturday evening was a success. large crowd from Jewett City, Greeneville, Greenman’'s nished music Jewett City many friends. il the past week. Adams of Denver, There was a| Mr., and Mrs, of construction. to tax relief. yeir ‘been taxed ment being the largest Tie company will pay- this and does Mot state the amount of reductina ¢x- pecied from the town. that the selectmen would inspect at an ear the matter over preliminary to town _meeting to eon The company Miss Gladvs Quidseon OF New-Lon- was visiting rdia Fielding on Sunday. m_ Burdick of Waterford. is spending her The. refresh- ments were in charge of Marthd Spiel- Maggie and Annie Hoelck, grandmeothar, in the town. A Master Harri It was Je~ided Charlies Budeit, Ed- ward Eckert and Louls Baicom Miss Olive Wright Ernest Blake. Miss Amel vacation with August Hoelc visiting Mrs. aster Raymond of Mystic is visiting his zrd.ndyllentl, Miss Jennie Hogg and Helena Hunt ere guests of Miss Ethel K sider the question ask for any reduction property held west of the C. Toad tracks, but does ask on the new mill which has been built on ground made into the river. ‘Truman Keyes of spent Sunday at his cottage in s of Mystic was 3 in the placz Thurs- Bernard FMeelck was in Central Vil- lage Saturday Miss Alice E. Kennedy Canaan Frida on friends s. Sheesuck and London Thursday OAKDALE. Strawberry Supper was in New and Saturday. "PENDLETON HiLL Guests Entertained on Third Anniver- sary of Wedding, Adams was Norwich Falls George L. mh birthday remembered Wednesday. Ww. G 3 Success—Per- her with post- i imer Brothers closed down their Thursday for the bhoat race. Walden addressed the audi- the Massapeag chapel Sunday loon in place of Rev. o was called to conduct the neral services of Mrs. James Church LEBANON Fioral Night at the Grange—Rev. R. E. Turner Recove: Milk War. . H. T. Arnold of !d in the chapel Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Palmer enter- tained friands and relatives at their home June 26th, that date being the third anniversary of their marriage. fine collation was served. Miss Hattie E. White and a friend < from Pachaug were Sunday guests of | Personal Telatives’ hare. Mrs. Jennie Thompson recently en- tertained her mother, Mrs. 1. F. Bab- cock and brother, George Babcock of Norwich preach- E. meeting in thz ng was led by Miss Estelle Home, Comstock, organist. decorating of the interior of the church is nearly completed. The strawberry supper given by the Repair committee of the Congrega- tional church on Wednesday obertson’s hall at Palmertown was patronized and was Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Bradford visi friends in Colchester on Weadnesday of last week. Mrs. Mary A. Beard of Flushing, N. Y., who has been visiting her brother, vent to Willimantic on S. F. Maine | Miss Evelyn Mrs. Mary Tiffany g—Farmers Win Miss Maud Thompson is the guest of relatives in Niantic. Miss Addiz Palmer of Stonington is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Palmer. 3 Daigneau of Volun- town passed Friday, June 26th in town. Malcom Thompson has a large force of carpenters at work on his new barn. SOUTH LYME William Sampson, of Lyme but now of Pennsylvania, has { been here calling on old friends. and a party of friends cottage. The meeting of Lebanon grange, No. 21, last week, on Thursday evening, was well attended and of mdare than ordinary interest. It was Flora’s nights was beautifully decorated Miss Marguerite York John Wood spent Sunday at Riverside and *Mrs. George Havens und Mr. apd Mrs, Frank Gage of Norwich spent Friduy. with relatives here. Miss Tessie Harding is spending her vacution at her Bome in Sterling City g their she ¥. F. Parker, with tiowers. was Flora, and had cha: gramme ‘during lecturer al papers were presented and remar ks FITCHVILLE Visitors—Loeal Who Arc on Summer Trips. ula Avery of Led‘flld was “present and made brief remarks along the line of native orchids. session cake and fce créam were seryv- At the close of E Smith is visiting the Ilumn of Miss Mary Geer of Nor R. E. Turuer and wire started nd other pla«-os visited Der daughter, Mrs. Pierce this weelk. T. and Mrs. on-a trip to Boston Charles \‘\'he er.and Miss Edllh london were the Imme of B. P. Stanhope are vigitors in New York this week. hristopher Ra the place Wedensda Mr. and Mrs. F. C. lewmm y retent serious ill- - Marra, is the guest.of h»r was a caller in GGlassbrennar. ef Bos- _She is accompanied - by brother. Martin #. N‘z‘rc'k)ch ugdemr GALES FERRY A 7 r guests of' Mr. and Mrs. John - Donald Sunday. - % Mrs. . James . Kennedy of Black Hall Wwas the guest of her motier, Mrs. David Chamfipion, Sunday. Mrs. David Champion, Jr., ing friends in Black Point for a month. Mr. Sheperd held services at the: Union ‘chapel Sunday afternoon. The King's Daughters met with Mrs. B. P. Stanhope Wednesday afternoon. is visit- Ladies’ Aid Society Netted $15—Miss Gibbs Gave Outing to Class—Arriv- al of Summer cnn'on. " The Ladies’ Ald sodiety of the Gales Ferry church gave a supper at the church vestry on Thursday evening of last week as the first of the series of entertainments arrznged for the sum- The funds of the church were increased by $15 as a result. Mr. and Mrs. George Frost of Mont N.. J,, with their children, ar Kidder's parents, Mr. Charles H. Comstock. and’ Mrs. Milton Bartlett and little daughter of Norwich were re- cent arrivals on The Bluff. Mr. and Mrs. Newland Will ther Race Day Sale. The Ladies’ Aid society of the M. ehurch held a sale of cake, sandwiches and lemonade on race day at the Naval Station. ‘Mre. Joab Rogers and Mr. and Mrs. Milo Benn and children of New Lon- don opened their summer home in the village for the season last week. Miss Flora Noves of Néorwich was a recent guest of Mrs. Eugene La Fon- taine at_Allyn's Point. the season. to spend Mr. Frost's vacation at their summer home here. Miss Harriet Bishop Brown arrived from Bristol to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Perkins. Mr. and_ Mrs. Harlan Pierce left on Monday for the Willimantic ground where they will occupy Thomas Latham’s cottage for a while before the onening of camp meeting. The Misses Edna Brown, Gibson and Flora Parker, with Mr. and Mrs. Thompson of New Haven as chaperon, arrived here on Monday to days over the races, at Touise daughters Palmer of New York opened the Hurlbutt house in the vill- age last week fo Rev. Mr. . J. H. Newland of Norwich, will conduct the service at Episcopal churcn on Sunday 'Mr. Wright of Lynn, Mass., the Methodist morning. Jul b charge and Mrs. Mrs. Harriet Frost ith Mrs. Rich- Ames and daughter Miss Bessie, and son Richard, of Yonkers, N. Y. arrived at their summer home on Sat- urday last. Norwich Boys Have Outing. Miss Marion, 6f New if it takes all summer that passed along the 1 the: farmers won Mrs. i visiting friends_here. A number from, thi the annual famil the home of Tavius A. Robinson Prospeect Hill, Franklin, on Thursda; mas and Mrs. Thomas, Mr. | and Mrs. W. T. Curry attended state prohibition convention at Meri- den on Tuesday: A number of - farmers have haying. Ed has s fartiers are shoa this- week. L. Reygolds bas been Iuldlnp( a vessel ai the) dock this week! Mrs. Georg Brown with he wlin, and a friend. per home in Old at the Manse. Lee Harding was in Hartford onm Reynold - ursda. Homer Beebe and brorher torrs Sunday morn- on Saturday Brown Entert: society Davis cottage Hebron HAMBURG Interest' — Sheep Shearing Engaging Farmers—Visitors in Lo- cat Homes." of Norwich bovs. members of the brase-work class of the Falls club, taught by Miss Natalie K. | joyed an_outing here the guests of Miss Gibbs. Thé family of George E. Pitcher of Norwich were visitors at their summer | cottage on The Bluff over race day. Coroner and Mrs. The Progressive Missionary of the Central Baptist church enjoyved their annual outing to this village on Wednesday as the guests of Coroner H. Brown, at Red- Gibbs, en- as Fitch Maynard of New London was a caller in the village and at | Point on Saturday. Major Charles Bucklee and family of Hartford arrived last week to spend the - geason - at’ the tnig village. Bdmund Satterlee of Dunlap. la., making his annual v er, Jonathan Satterlee in the village. Thomas Latham returned on Tues- dav from a, visit at his cottage on the Willimantic camp ground. Mrs. Henry Noyes and Wileox of Mystic, were guests for a few days this week of their aunt. Mrs. Sarah Perkins. Mr and ‘Mrs. Earnshaw and daugh- York, rived 'at the J. P. Satterlee cottage for the season Wednesdey. daughter, Attended Robinson Family Reunion— How the Farmers Felt About Milk Question. Edwin K. Jones and dlu‘hfl.er Miss Mary Jones of Buffal), , are guests of friends in this on’ Tuesday afternoon the L. A. S met with Mrs. C. S. Holbrook. The war is ove were * along the Farmers had decided were- not getting their share of sumer’s dollar for the prin- cipal staple farm product. the terms of peace | es of arbitration. long ago We will get'a living price for our milk or ship no. more, and we will fight along this was the e, and place attended ; ‘Robinson reunion at returned from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. J. R, Ward, in Ches! a former resident | New London’s Sane and Safe Fourth camp e { ascertain at whose | it was perhaps these committeemen |ready to act. But he does Allyn's in is it with bis fath- ar- that at the bhegun moth- ave at! Hamburs. | Bure of Springfeld s | PAGES NINE TO SIXTEEN Mayor Mahan Orders Licenses for Fireworks ' Sale Withheld. STATE POLICE WORK they Surpris: New London Authorities by the Quietness With Which They Secure Evidence—The Crowd on Race Cay as Big as Usual—Where Jealousy Operates for Enforcement of Sunday Law. Semo hm. | Slopped by the local police long ago. These places are fully injurious to no hc-nul lor the sale of fireworks, | the young men as the regular “poker 80 when the regular dealers called at | joints” and ought to be squelehed. the cantain’s office for license, to say that tney were surprised would be In connection with the big crowd of putting it very mild, as they gave ex- | race day it was noticable that the pression to their feelings in the most | railroad traffic was not as large as in natural way as they hal invested good | former years, Not that there were money in replenishing the stock in ) not so many visitors but ..H did net anticipation of a good Fourth of July | come to New London by rail. A greal trade. The mayor was appealed to|many of them came b) !u‘uun\v Not and he declared that the orders to | by horseback or stage coach as in {he £aptain Haven were simply to delay | days of old, but in fast traveling the issue of licenses so that what was | automobiles, of almost every known considered restrictions mnecessary for | make and in nearly every state in the the publ safety could be properiy | union was represented by the regis- framed. The mavor says he was too | try numbers, as among the visitors much of a boy himself to prevent the | were many from watering places and boys of today from celebrating a little | summer resorts feom near and far out of the ordinary on Independence | who brought their autos from their Day, and that licenses to sell certain | homes and retained the state registr fleworks will be issued to proper ap- | plates. As most of 1 i plicants. it is his intention ‘to pre- | New L don In auto vent the sale of death dealing im- | parlor r passengers on the raliroad plements that are classed as firework: tralns in former years, the profiis to but not to deprive the Young Ameri- | the railroad companies from the race can of today from celebrating the | day trafic must have materially de- Fourth in a noisy way as did his for- | creased. bears. There were of course, the usual ex- As men grow old they apparéntly | cursion trains from New Haven aad join the ranks of the Safe and Sanel Boston to omodate students and and are liable to go to extremes, even | alumni and others who have not as more so, perhaps, than do the boys | yvet become the owners of touring cars whose pleasure and patriotism they | and all regular trains carried many seek to curtail bx prohibiting the use | additional passengers, the whole ag- of any kind of fireworks or mnoisy (gregating a very large crowd of peo- demonstration. As the Fourth draws | ple, but these high grade travellers nearer and expression is more free it | were certainly missed Aw early as is very plain that some of the ex- | Tuesday night space in all the garages tremists would not even permit the | was engaged and in order te stable boys and giris to have even a pack | the machines many other buildings of fire-crackers because of the nolse | near the garages were used tempora- that was in them, not the danger. | rily as anne: , 50 none of the herse- These are the kind of people that ob- | jess wagons were obliged t ject to children hesitating in front | the open in the night season of their residences while on the way | were more automobiles in New or coming from school. To a certain | don than ever and they attracted al- extent, Counciiman Flynn gave the [ most as much attention as did the hig pike a fair blow when he said: |college aquatic event of the year, “When a man gets too old to light a match, or too mean to buy one, he at once becomes a leader in the extreme safe and sane Fourth of July move- Recently a cigar and tobscce store was opened in this city, and is one of a large chain of stores throughout the ment.” B AT e country. The management observing The local that a store on the opposiie corner, a shoe blacking establishment kept open n ,“ New Tondom securing evidence of | that fruit stores, drug stores and at the illegal sale of liquor in alleged | least one cigar store did the same, re- places of ili-repute, the proprietors of | solved to do likewise. The doors were some of these places haying been | Opened as on any other day of the haled into court and fines imposed. | week and on went the busin with- So secretly did the state policemen do | out regard to the duywen? the week their detective work that the first the | This action was not pleasing other police knew of their visitation, which | cigar dealers who have observed Sun- wage nearly two months ago, was when | day for many years, so far as Dusiness the warrants for the arrest of of- | went so complaint was flled with fenders was placed with them for | Prosecuting Attorney Cronin, whe at service. Other arrests are tc follow | this writing has not determined as to in the near future from this same class [ what action he will take of offenders and some are puzzled to | AS cigars ave sold in many piaces request the aid of | on Sunday, the argument is made that the state police was sought to enforce [ discrimination should not. he made the law in well-policed New London. |against a legitimate cigar store, even The discovery of plac f ill-repute | iIf some of the other dealers do make demonsirates that the work of the | specific objection. If public sentiment Committee of Fifteen while effective |favored closing all places doing busi- "at the time was not lasting in regard | ness on Sunday, including the cigar to this special class of offenders, and | sale at the hotels, the prosecutor is not com- who diseerned that there was work here | sider that such action is wanted by for the state police. It is said that the | the great majority of people, who de- | state policemen have also gathered |sire the privilege of purchasing ine evidence against. certain _drinking | cream, candy, soda Wwater. newspapes clubs in the city and that the arrest | or even cigars on the Lord's di and prosecution of the proprietors will | The enforcement of the Sunday law | soon follow. ami that en the side the | in regard to the sale of cigars:and the state detectives have a half-hitch on | lke been tried in New London some of the gambling places, which | sev times in the long ago, and includes fruit stores. where shajking | was so obnoxious to the people amd of dice and other forms of gambiing |so detrimental to the good amd wel constitutes the main part of the bus- | fare of the city, especially when there iness, 1t is common, even on Sunday | are excursions and so many Sunday evenings, to see gambling going on in | visitors, that the prosecuting officars the open in these fruit stores and the | simply winked the other eye and bow .- wonder is that this had not been |ed to the popular will of the peopla. evening with Mrs, Beebe and the |in Anquilla on Saturday afterneon children, who have been spending the | Mrs. Bromiey Is a daughter of Mre, week with Mr. Beebe's parents | 8locum, 5 M James Miller has returned from Miss Ruth Chapman of Westerly visiting her daughter, Mre. Lind, in | has been spending the past two weeks Chester. with her cousin, Miss Anna Chapman Halock Marten has closed his la- Bugene Chapman and family were bors in Waterford and returned to his | Sunday visitors at J. Edwin Themp- home. | son’s. Mr. and Morris Jewett are Mr, and Mrs. David Mason of Wast- sending the week at Robert Jewett's. | erly and Mrs. Henry Pagkins wers Ve 5 i1, “Beebe and children of | callers at J. D. Miner's Sunday afte | Hadlyme are at J. W, Martin's for a | noon. Mise Marcia Bentley of White Rock spent Saturday with Miss Jennie Sted- LEONARD BRIDGE man. Funeral of John Wright, Who Was | Drowned in Ex.t'r Pond. few days. LEDYARD Moving from Narwneh Onto Yeomans The funeral services of John Wright, Farm—Fourth of July Picnie—Tres accidentally drowned in Exeter pond Hit by Lightning. Sunday morning, were held Monday .- — afternoon at the Exeter cometery. As ' Selden er of Hartford has heem no relatives are known in this part | visiting = al davs with Mr. and of the country, the companions at the Mrs, Isaac Geer at the Geer home- swamill bore the expense of the bur- | stead. lial. = generous act on their part. | Dwight Gallup and Miss Lillian Gul- Georsie Rhuland of Philadelphia is |lup have heen the guests of Mr. and visiting his aunt, Mrs. L. H. Schroed- | Mrs. Adam Larrabee of Windham. ter. Lightning Struck Tulip Tres. Mrs, E. !X% Rob"lll!("n»“‘:‘*:' }:’:r‘ ““;“‘ Lightning struck a large tulip tres ‘Zf"“(}f ;-:'.;"u::'n: Fali <pauldp1:\‘ near the residence of 8 E. Holdridees ents, on Thursday; afternoon. The top was returned Thursday to his home xln Y‘A:l completely taken off and parts of the Norwalk. She was accompanied by | oo™ were thrown a long distance, her smother, who will remain mome | EC N N af the fime. time. - Miss Daisy Lewis of Allyn's Poin¢ Mr. and Mrs. Everett E. Loomis hav_o has heen the guest for several days of gone to their home in Schenectady, N. | (he Misses Jenmie and Florence Ben Xl s nett J. Nelson Geer and family attended | 'y |, 4 jones, clerk of Importers and | the” Robinson reunion in Franklin on | roaders bank of New York, nas been Thursday, the 30th. a visitor of Mr. and Mrs.” Christepher = ESTON | Baldwin of the Drawbridge for the past week. Pn | John: Plopa and family of Nerwich Soc in Personal | Are moving onto the Yeonrans farm, Sie and e which he purchased last year. .- Invitations have been given Jout for o a large picnic to be held at the spa- rnet ’_},hf,';‘.':h';"_;'t;;‘;“n“" Ernest | cious-residence of Mr. and-Mre. Joseph “The Ladies’ Sewing soclety met in | ¥ Holdridge on the Fourth of July, ~, - - r, an rs, K. . n r. :fil‘&\ Congregational church ~Wednes- and Mrs. Wilbur B-Mwlrrl‘ zlfmsz:h M v and Mr. and Mrs, Edwa er, son ZMsezBums A Terag Gfl'%h" and-davghter of Groton woere Sunday “’i‘l‘g:;‘“"“;:“:;’,‘ “:"‘dh“:, e er, | Bit0stn o M. ‘and Mrs. Whliam 4 Priscilla, of Washingion, D, (.. were recent visitors at Mres. Rroest Kenne- Allyn, 5 The Misses Lillian and Marien Gale lup, [the Alisses IGHa and Ruth New. i, - MIew Bertha Lamb and Mins Toiwe. White 1eft fur Nurthfield on Mins Marguerite Holden is at her in Preston City b ¥ AL M. nind Mrs, Khos Gray call- YAWBUX VALLEY. crr 1 tirecncy ille | Wed b miter oon. Guests at Twenty fifth Wedding An- niversary—Personal News. Up the Rhine. | Mrw Robinson - And were you up the Mrs. Almeda Slocum attended the | Rhine? 25th marriage anniversary of Mr. and | Mrs. De Jones (just returned from o Mrs. William Rathbun was a recent | continental trip) [ should’ think se, guest of her daughter at Westerly. right to the very top, What 8 splens Mre. Almeda Slacum. attended the | did vmw there iz from the summites Mrs. Willam Bromiey at thetr heme | Tit-Bite.