Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 23, 1916, Page 13

Tolland County CENTRAL VILLAGE Funeral of Mrs. Jeremiah Shepard— Christmas Tree Exercises This Ev- ening—Birthday Party—Mrs. Charles *_ North Dies Suddenly. Mrs. Waldo Tillinghast returiied to her home in Plainfleld Saturday, hav- ing spent a few days with hed sons, Frank and Fred Tillinghast. At Atlantic Yo Miss Odna Seguin, stenograprer at Danielson for the E. H. Jacobs Manu- facturing company, left Friday for a two weeks’ stay at Atlantic City as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Bullard of Danielson. s. Frank Edgerton was in Nor- wich Thursday. Funeral of Miss Shepard. Mrs. Philip Mathewson has been in Boston to attend the funeral of. her niece, Miss Sarah Shepard, daughter of Jeremiah Shepard, formerly a res- ident here. Miss Mary Byles, teacher at Ster- ling Hill, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Charles Byles. Miss Helen Waldo Tillinghast left Wednesday for a three weeks’ vaca- tion at Corey, Pennsylvania, with a schoolmate of Laselle semin- ss Odna Seguin was in Norwich Saturday. Barl Bragg who is employed in Olneyville, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bragg. Rev. Frank D. Sargent of Putnam, exchanged pulpits Sunday with Rev. Charles Downs. Charles Bragg was a recent visitor in_Philadelphia. Miss Lillibridge has returned from Waterford, whére she has been vis- iting Fredrica Olney. trice Seguin was in Nor- Saturday. Louise Tillinghast and Mrs. L. Howard Cross spent Monday in Nor- wich, purchasing gifts for the Sun- day School Christmas tree at the church parler this (Saturday) even- ing at 7 o'clock. John Stone of Providence spent Sunday at the home of his father-in- law, thaniel P. Thompson, who re- mains very weak, having had pneu- monia. Mrs. Celinda McStay has returned h where she has been vis- iting at the home of her cousin, Elmer Pierson. Miss Mar: Thursday visi formerly a res J. Lee was in Danielson ing Mrs. John Phillips, dent here. Entertained on Birthday. Miss Fmma Bradley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bradley enter- tained sixteen young ladies at her home Wednesday evening, in honor of her eighteenth birthday. Games were enjoyed and refreshments serv- ed. Miss. Bradley received gifts from her gues Attended Funeral. Mr. and Mrg Willis_Turner, Ray- mond Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Carpenter were in Putnam Tuesday to attend the burial of Mr. Turners brother who died suddenly in Rock- ville, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. U. Lafrance, Jerome Lafrance and Miss Beatrice Lafrance were at Taftville Tuesday morning to tend the funeral of Mrs. Lafrance’s her, Mr. Fregeau. Constable derick Mitchell has been seriously ill this week with ner- vous breakdown. Miss Ethel Collins, who has been teaching school in New Hampshire, is spending her vacation with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Collins. Sudden Death of Mrs. No Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Nof#h were called to Providence Tuesday by the sudden death of Mr. North’s moth- er, Mrs. Charles North, at her home in_that city. nd Mrs. John L. Chapman and firiam Chapman - will spend at the home of Mrs. Chap- Everett Williams, in George viey of Canterbury is clerk at T. H. and F. W, Tillinghast’s store. . Fell Twenty-Five Feet. Harry Dean, who is employed as a painter by William Rood of Moosup, is confined to his home here by in- juries received Monday when" he fell twenty-five feet from a staging at Cranska’'s new addition to the thread mill where he was painting. He struck on a pile of bricks and was badly bruised and one knee was injured. WESTMINSTER Local Visitors’ Impressions of Billy Sunday—Church School—Death of Rev. William Harrison Raymond. Several from Westminster have re- cently attended some of the meetings by Billy Sunday in Boston. ernacle y designed for these seat eighteen to twenty 1d has many exits. At oon service attended by the building was nd each exit held its own rowd. four or five deep, unable to enter the buflding. A study of his audience: of its many types of faces and moods, noticing the earnestness with which they listened; together with a study of the famous evangel- fst: less dramatic than featured, alert, dead in earnest, to make you ge the message, and absolutely regard ess how he achieves this purpose; these * almost repay for a trip to Boston; If you want a clear complexion use Resinol Soap \ Use it at least once a day. Worka fwan-n, creamy.lather well into the pores {to give the gentle Rsmol medication chance to work. ‘Then rinse the face th plenty of cold water. It usually cs not take many days of such regular arc with Resinol Seap to show a grate ymg improvement. , with or '. . For free. v “ LETTERS FROM TWO STATES ) with a country ride, or walk, of seven miles each way. And, besides all this, is the singing; in which under Rhod- ey's magnetic leadership, with. vcice, action and trombone, of which he also is a master, one is impelled to share. Church School Inaugurated. The morning service was heid as usual last Sunday, in spite of the snow, which quite a number braved, coming through drifts in the intense cold, though it was fair overhead. At a business meeting held after the morning service, the West ter Sunday sghool was voted out of xis- tence. In its place, a church-school will be inaugurated, for which plans will be matured as occasion demancs. M_l!. Columbus Smith, Mrs. Willlam Davis and Mrs. Charles Barstow and the pastor, comprise the committes on religious education for the ensuing vear, and have this matter in charge. Home Prayer Meeting. The Wednesday home-prayer ciry cles considered the subject suggested by the twelfth chapter of First Cor- inthians: Supporting the Church— Why and how is this mine and your ‘work.” ‘Westminster will greatly miss the Misses Doerflinger, who have recently left town for the winter. Personal Mention. F. C. Koch, who is attending high school at New Rochelle, will spend the holidays at home. Pete Blain, formerly employel by Charles Phillips, of Plainfield, is now working in the Danielson mill. A. T. McLeod returned from Bos- ton, Tuesday, with his son, Douglas. Death of Former Pastor. Rev. William Harrison Raymond, former pastor of the Westmiuster Congregational church, died at his home in East Hampton. He was bur- ied in New Rochelle, Sunday- Miss M. Daly, schoolteacher at Westminster, spent Sunday with her parents, in Hartford. Miss Ethel Newton will spend the holidays at her home. School Entertainment. The Westminster public school will have a Christmas entertainment, on Christmas day. The program w:il be as_follows: Song by school, Santa Claus is Coming; recitation, Santa Claus, Fs- tella Bennett; Fairy Play, Edgar and Elene Kock and Earl McLeod; reci- tation, Overheard at Christmas, Julia Green; music by A. Carlson; re-ita- tion, Christmas Carol, Evelyn Koch; recitation, Snow Flakes, wse:ond grade; music, song, by two of West- minster school; recitation, Fair Wan ing for Santa Claus, Regxnald G'en‘x recitation, Santa Claus and Mouse, Martha Bennett; recitation, The Christmas Stocking, Ed ~d Green; tableau, music; recitations, Isabelle Green, Barl McLeod; Santa in a Flat, Gertrude Rosenzeweig: song, Jolly Old St. Nickolas; recita tion, Christmas in Many Lands, I Hubbard; sonb by school. Santa Claus Has Come to Town; recitations, Hang Up the Baby’s Stocking, Archie and Laura . song by Green and Rosenzweig. EKONR Christmas Tree and Concert This Evening—Pastor Walks Six Miles Through Drifts. Schools d Friday for the Christmas 3 The Chr ree and t coacert will be this ( urday) evening. Pastor Hikes Through Rev. Emmon miles from P snow drifts last S reach Ekonk and mon Sunday. Charles Tanner for Savannah, G: him go. Mrs. Ada Brown and Miss Margaret Tanner went to Danielson last K, to purchase gifts for the Chri tree. They were caught in the snow- storm and did not return home until Saturday. Edwin Gallup and family were visi- tors in Danielson, Wednesday. Alvin Corey has been in Plainficid three days this week, sawing wood with his gasoline engine. ELMVILLE B. C. kafln is spending th k in_Willimantic. il Miss Florence Hopkins spent . Snow. s White walx the 01 ta a fine = started Thur a., all sorry to Thursday with Miss Louise Miller in East Killingly. Miss Florence Brayton of East Kill- lngly spent Sunday with Mrs. A. H. Battey. Mrs. Clayton Wright and Mrs. Addie E. Call visited Mrs. Betsy Spicer in Foster Center, Thursday. Mrs. B. C. Conklin was a Worces- ter visitor last week. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan spent Tues- day in Norwich. Arthur Kerouack of Wauregan spent Sunday with George W. Kent. A. H. Battey and family .ealled at ;Jelvln ‘Wood's in Danielson’ on Sun- 2. Miss Vachon of Dayville visited Miss Olive L. Kent Sunday. d.aR L. Kenyon was in Putnam Tues- Miss Mildred Davis entertained Miss Annette Lambert and a friend from Danielson Sunday. Toltand County ELLINGTON Church Members for 63 Years—dd Fellows Receive Degree at Rock- ville. Miss Jennie Hyde of Bristol, who has been the guest of Mrs. L. K. Ed- wards, has returned home. Oldest Church Members. An interesting fact brougnt out at the recent annual church meeting was that Mrs. D. N. Kimball and Mrs. Orpha Talcott had been members of the Ellington church for sixty-three years. Mrs, Kimball is 92 years of age, and Mrs. Talcott will be 91 next February ninth. H. T. Noble i§ improving. after his serious {llness. Mrs. Courtney Westcott and daug'l- ter, Esther, of Newport, I, are guests of Mrs, George Bancrof. Miss Maude P. Kimball is visiting friends in Boston. Degre for Local Candidate. A number of members of the or- ‘der of Odd Fellows of the Rockville lodge.in this town, attended the d\‘- gree work Monday evening, Dr. E. Brace belng o’Beof the candidates. 2 Mrs. er and Miss Hattis B mmed this week, after two ::ydsn with relatives in Spring- le] Miss Ruth® Aborn spent t.he week- end wxu: friends in Springfiel BOLTON NOTCH Mrs. Mary Crawford has returned to her home in Boston. Mrs. E. M. Howard and little son are ill with grip. B. Rice was a Hartford visitor was in Hartford on | Uriel Lodge Holds Annual Communi- i sters, Miss Eva uacher in Hartford, and Mi: Jones from Wellesley G STAFFORD Miscellaneous Shower Given Mr. and “Mrs. Fred Depeau—Evening of Whist —Minister’s Wife Preaches in H Chaplin School Supervi mas Exercises This Evening—H. Lay 300 Eggs Daily. Herbert P. Collins_and Clayton ‘E. Hunt motored to Chaplin Thursday evening of last week toC ;ue’?d a :’et‘ Absence. 5 ing ‘of the voters of Chaplin ve e i Miss Edna Ensminger has returned G A it e el from a few days' visit in New Brit- town school committee in Columbia. | ain. Both Mr. Collins and Mr. Hunt spoke | Mrs. Sarah Black has gone to WM"; in favor of supervision. THere is a gz:;erfi;‘;;? she will be the guest of strong opposition to having a super- Tisee e Chuolis it probabiy o Tows | e 028 My, Goores Lord s gpad meotiag Wil bo held o Gecioh the ] evenit ihio week and I Wcestar: Mrs. Marietta Rice of Pittsfield, hraim Thompson, who died sud- Mass., is spending several ks with | denly at his home in Eagleville, Dec. the family of her son, Ho A. Rice | 9, leaves a son, Frank E. Thompson, on Columbia Green. of Stafford, also tw. randchildren. Pastor's Salary Increased. Suffering from Heart Trouble. At 8 Joint meoting of the Chureh | o' 5o’y Soverg Sitaek Of Reart tron- e e ooty a5id 2L 5 | ble last week. She is being cared for 1apel ay ernoon of last we - it was voted to incr the salary of by B anenter gn. Teank Thomp e pastor, Rev. : ens, $100. . ® Meyer Bitten has received news of Miscellaneous Shower. the death of his mother which occur- The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Fred red in New York. Mr. Bitten left ear- | Depeau gave them a miscellaneous ly Sunday morning for that city. shower last Saturday evening. The L. Bugene Winter has received a|time was spent In singing, with games letter from his sister in California, in- |and various amusements. All report forming him that their mother, Mrs.|a pleasant evening. Alpheus Winter, is ill with pneumo- Six-table Whi e inter fpent lagt summer] iy and Mes. H. C. Fisk entertained In this Place with hS,family of her|, six-table whist party last week Fri- fall. She is the widow of Rev. Al.|day evening. ~Mrs. Gilbert Wagner heus Winter. : and H. F. Cady won first prizes, and e Christmas Eicebolses. the consolation awards went to Miss Lucy Nickerson and F. A. Lasbury. Public Christmas exercises will be Second Team Wins. held at the church Monday evening.| . second team of the R. here will be rec! ons and singing ; by the children. Those having the|basketball team defeated the P. A. s ; 3 five in a close, exciting game by the s oo i nprmittes 90 | score of 24 to 22 last Saturday. There & were many fouls on both sides. The A e eomse of M I'Riversias &/C. will play the Oreutts gram, Miss Gertrude Gates and Miss | the followinggweek. Jones. Minister Absent, Wife Preaches. Getting 300 Eggs a Day. Rev. F. Manderson is in Boston at- Winthrop Davoll, who resides a|tending the Billy Sunday meetings. short distauce over the town line in|In his absence Mrs. Manderson spoke Lebanon, is getting excellent results | morning and evening at the Baptist from his pens of several hundred |church. She also had charge of the White Leghorn hens the present sea- | Wednesday night prayer meeting, son. He is said to have been getting { which _was heid at the homgyof Mrs. about 300 eggs daily for some time— | Ellen Webber. and eggs 60c per dozen! Those hens — STORRS evidently mean to pay for their board Vesper Service With Christmas Mu- and lodging. Attended Suffrage Meeting. sic—Book Club’s Yuletide Social— Santa Claus Visits Sunday School. Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch, chairman of the Tolland County Woman Suf- frage organization, motored over the = i o North at a suffrage meeting and supper ar- | was held in the church at which music ranged by the Union-Ashford Equal(Of the Christmas season was siven. Franchise League. Mrs. Welch reports | The pulpit and cholr were lighted by an interesting meeting. Miss Mullen o of New Haven was the principal Social and Book Club. speaker. Both Tolland and Windham | The Book club save a social at counties were interested in the mcet- | Grove cottage Tuesday evening. A ing. Union in Tolland and Ashford |scene from The Birds' Christmas Ca- in Windham county. Miss Welch spoke | rol was given. the members depicting in behalf of Tolland county and Miss | the Ruggles family preparing for the Danielson *spoke in regard to propa- | Christmas dinner. Mr. Torrey told an ganda work. Rev. C. J. Hzrriman of [original Christmas story. Coffee, St. Philip’s church, Putnam, offered |sandwiches and plum pudding were praver and spoke during the meeting. | served. The parlor was decorated with Harry Lanson, president of the |ropes of tinsel and lighted by rows of ion League, presided at the meet- | candles placed in the windows, giv- 3 ing a very beautiful lighting effect. Welch is a member of the state | The decorations were in charge of executive board and Wednesday last | Miss Anna M. Wallace. attended a meeting of the board and| The Sunday school had its Christ- luncheon at Hartford. The new slo- |mas tree and entertainment in the gan_ in the suffrage movement is “Bal- | church parish room, Wednesday ev- lots for Both” instcad of “Votes for [ening. Songs and recitations were which was generally misun- | given, followed by the entry of Santa 0od as excluding men. Claus with his pack who distributed Mary Welch, who is taking a|candy and presents to the-children. at_Wykehorn Rise school for Notes. it washington, Conn., returned| 5., g P, HoMister and Miss Bii- ‘olumbla, Wednesday, ; e 3 spend the holiday season e e oy mother at Noxid, their home by the|®zpg 7 A Manter is visiting in Wa- i terbu The college Christmas recess wiil SOUTH WILLINGTON commence today (Saturday), Dec. 23, and will continue to Jan. 2. COVENTRY Funeral of Mrs. Charles W. Lee Held Wednesday and That of Miss Mavy Ellen sLee, Friday—Clarence Ketch- um Visiting Friends. cation—Mrs. Walter W. Colburn Pre- sented Chest of Silver. Mrs. Fannie Hall has a severe at- tack of neuritis and is under the care of a graduate nurse. Officers elected and appointed at the annual co ication of Uriel lodge, P Edwin R. Dimock, ter, S. W.; George ., William H. Hul] treasurer; Walter A. Allen, secretary; William F. Kirkpatrick, S. D.; E. V Latimer, J. D.; H. F. Judkins, S. S.; Mrs. Nersa L. Lee, 72, ‘wife of Charles W. Lee, died at her home in the East district, early Monday morn- ing, from grip and mplisa‘io1s: Mrs. Lee was born in this town and spent all her life here. She is s\:). vive y husband, a son, D1 Winfrid' Blake, J. S.; C. H. Copeland, | Yived by her , a , ] chaplain; Leonard Smith, marshal; B, | Charles W. Lee, Jr, of New Britais C. Hallock, tyler. ghter, 3 B i . 1 Vi vate Real Estate Sale. Coventry. The funeral was ori at 1 o'clock, Wednesday morning The Samuel Mattesen place on the Burial was in the North Cesuetery road to Stafford has been bought by Miss Mary Ellen Lee, 74, dled Wed- Ida May Gleason. nesday morning at the home of her William H. Brackett has been con- | brother, after a_brief illness with grip. fined to the house for several days by Miss Lee was born in this fown, aia grip. Mrs. Walter Colburn is back infor many years.was engagel as a the office after a siege of the same |teacher in Buffalo, N. Y. She is sur- trouble and there have been severa!|vived by one brother, Charles W. lee, cases that could hardly be called mild | with whom she lived, a nephew, Dr. though of short duration: Charles W. Lee, Jr, of New B:itain, Christmas-Wedding Gift. and @ niece, Mrs. Newell Hill, of Mrs. Walter W. Colburn has received | Coventry. The funeral was Friday 2 enest of silverware which may pass | MOrning at 11 o'ceck. Burial was in for a Christmas present, thoush really | the Center cemetery is a wedding present from the various Brevities. employes of G. Hall Jr. Co., who have| Mrs. Barnes of East Orange, ¥ appreclated her courteous, kindly and | js spending the holidays wiia her happy disposition and welcomed the | gister, Mrs, C. H, Schell. op'portlllntiity to give expression to their Ernest Luther is employed as flor- appreciation. it N. Pi 2il. Gardiner H. Hall s home from the | St.Vith A- J. Plerson °"v§"’$§1 e Choate school, Wallingford, for the ! cently discharged from the navy, a holidays. er four years' service, is visiting In New Home. | friends here. Mr. and Mrs. John Fiala moved last W. Fi rzsc‘r “You can't always tell the size of a man’s head ebcause he wm-‘dxud How- |2 quzmeru;t." h: vaul: Bann: ot unless you Ve & gOC ‘ter two 5, anyway.—Ma- Monday into their mew house on the river road north of this ‘magg It BOLTON is a pretty building, after the bun- —— galow style. There are to be special Christmas It is impossible to say just when the | exercises at the morning service in Christmas exercises at the church will | the Congregational church tomorrow. be held because of illness among the Mrs, Willlam Pinney of Andover |s children. .| with pneumonia at the home of hor ‘Willlam Ladr has moved his famiyl | son, Charles Pinney. into the north end of the boarding| Mrs. James F. Milburn has been house. suffering with bronchial pneumonia. Automobile traffic is pretty light Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Braitawaits this week. . _Converse plows |of Groton are spending a few days through the snow with his car regu- | with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wood. larly, but that is business, not pleas- | Mrs. John H. Massey and two chil- ure. dren have returned hom yeeka epent viaiting. relatives in Pond Eddy, HEBRON Prof. amh(} Mrs, Samuel M. Al\mg.l ST id son, Mo n Alyord, are spend- Vacation Begins—Churches to Have |fns the holidays with ~ relaiives n Cantata and Nativity Play—Holiday | Ocean Grove, N. J. Guests. Miss Lina M. Bidwell is visiting ner sister, r&!x‘. Lawrence Pratt of East Schools in town closed Friday for | Hartfo . the holiday vacation, Christmas exer- w%‘?flfd&’sflklagfl;m‘g‘“ ki Crom ises being hel 2. 1 e | wel = roamc - S, & 41 Bedely, el T t.eqz,:l Mrs. Wiél!am E.hitsemol;. S5 Mrs. C. A. Lord s ill, requiring the larence ~Stetson Posuraed to aietoote T reaulring the | cromwell, after a visit at Charles . N. Mrs. M. G. Horton and son Daniel | Loomis’s. are holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs.| Edmund Horton. / UNION Christmas Cantata. ez ra e At the Congregational church Mon- Buj e Walker of Southbridge was day evening, Dec. 25, twenty-five chil- u.lu.ns;n on local friends mduu dren of the Sunday school will give | John Gage, Jr. of Westville called the cantata, Playing Santa Claus, the on friends in town Tuesday. exercises to commence at 7.30. rs. Hannah Horton is visiting her Nativity Play. dnushm Mrs. James Barrett in Stur- The members of the Bpiscopal church are to give a nativity play in the town hall Wednesday evening, Dec. 27. ‘There will be no service in the Con- gregational chapel Sunday evening as all have been invited to attend the Christmas eve service at the Bpisco- pal_church. Mrs. Clarence Porter and ard returned home Monday . TODAY The Last Shopping Ba_j_r Before Chrisimas flavhaltdn 121-125 Main Street. Sample Shoe Store - Ofters Big Reductions in Men’s Shoes Right Now Before Xmas fl!lflselatatntylumthkmdDarh Brown, Cordivan Brown. Retail prices Wfimfl&h‘&@mfl‘l(’.@a $7.50 a pair. You can save from $1.00 t0-$3.00 a pair on these Shoes. g . -BOYS’ SHOES We carry a full line of Ladies’ and Boys’ Shoes, also Men’s and Children’s Rubbers. Buy now befere prices. advance and