Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 5

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— We advertise exactly } as it ia Having the goods you want io buy. There ar Suits here (o e many new styles in choose from; waistline model young| ten’s sacks; more conserva- tive stylds for older men, in all| sizes. We bought the \satisfaction. o give you| don't, let make it right. If they us know; we'll SUITS $22.50 to $45 STRAW HATS ARE HERE. Murphy & McGarry 207 MAIN STREET fo- méht Hear play the violin in your own home tonight or any Hear all the world's greatest artists from Caruso to Harry Lauder from Paderewski to Sousa, right in your own home! Let us cend youa Victro Our easy terms will give you immediate possession. THE TALKING MACHINE SHOP 46 Franklin St. Victor Headquarters 3 i him P—— DELCO-LIGHT The complete Electric Light and || Power Plant Ances You WANT 16 put-vour ous ! Thames river highwas® Lol b Norwich, Saturday, May 24, 1918 Light vehicle lamps at 3.37 o'cl this evening. < -, 5 The forty heurs’ dewflan Sunday at St. Joseph's c!u.lrch, Oceum In some of, the suhurba.n towns deer are complained of as nibbling™ mlhn and flowers in gardens. Psychic messages . by - Booth Hon.n Spiritual Academy, Sundly?—ndv The week's heavy rain-has ‘sp many of the blooms on 'the' Hhorse chestnut trees, which aré: unu-un:lw full and- beautiful. Notification has reached = Episcopal rectors lhmr tiB\e tnnunloc‘ommencemem exercises of Berkeley Divinity, sehool, \1 iddletows, ate to b€ Reld Juze S nd " Whether the public With a trolley ‘eéf de pend on whether t] jdecides to construct - Taxes will be collectéd today at the Pcople’s Store, Taftville, hxn 12 m. 10 2.30 p. m—adv. = £t < The board of govern olic Total Abstinenge met at New Haven voted to hold the naf in Hartford during Augus At Montville Wednesday ' evening Rev. George H. Stréuse -of » Norwich spoke at tite Union Baptist!church. He is a candidate for the ‘pulpit recently vacated by Rev. F. 8, Clark, An exchange meftions”that Lce A. Coles of Saskatchawan, Canada, son- in-law of Mr, and Mrs. Perry Eld: of Old Mystic, has 100 acres of his acre farm in wheat and 50 acres In Groton grange Friday - evenmg‘ ab< served its tenth anniversary by neigh- bors' night. Ledyard, Stonington, North Stonington, Mystic, Quonochon- aug and Waterford granges sent dele- ions. Christ Church Jr.-;uxilhry sale to- day. 10 to 5. Red Cross rooms, Thayer building. Garden baskets, novelties, cake, candy.—adv. Connecticut trapshooters will be.in Norwalk to take part in the second state shoot this season under the au- spices of the-Norwalk Gun club_ today (Saturday). The program consists of six events of 25 targets each. A new church may soon be built en the estate of Wdward Prest, located at the comper of Garfield and Connecticut avenues. New London. The site was acquired Thursday by the Life and Ad- vent church of New London. Corporal Dunster of the New London army recruiting station reports that Horace W. Collins of Danielson and Harry L. Shaffer of Mystic have been! accepted for enlistment and have been forwarded to Fort Slocum, N, Y. A test for highway inspectors is: to be held by the state civil service com- mission at the capitol Friday after- noon, June 6. anpointments for whlch1 are pending at entrance wage of $3.50 a day, with prospects of early advarice- ment. In filling out application blanks for service badges the attention of Red Cross workers is called to the fact that only knitted articles sent in to Red| Cross rooms subsequent to Aug., 1917, can be counted.—adv. The marriage of Miss Gretta Keete, dau"hle' of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur fe, and Dr. Frank M.sDunn will lal‘e place Tuesday morning, June..S, {at St. Mary's Star of-the Sea churgh, New London. Dr. Dunn i§°a native -of; Norwich. Much of the fine amount of dolhh\. ete., collected by the Norwich, branch of the Needleworl: guild, Mrs.eJames A. Bidwell president, has. been siven hy the members, nated moaey toward the fund for 8t Quentin, France. convention committee Supday uoon to complete the arrangement: the state convention to be held in" Ds bury in September. At the Yale Forast-schol gardens Friday afternoon at faculty tea those ked to preside at tie tea.tables and ist in serving = included Mrs. nell Gage (Ifelen Howe of Nof-| ich) and Mrs. Hiram' Bingham, @ Salem summer resident.” - ® Today's arrival at Powers Conn. River shad; mackerel. soft crab. porgi shrimp, and Jlieavy lobsters. Remember. when yeu buy heavy 10b- ters you pay for weight, not wind.— adv. Missing from the Norwich state hos- to which he had been committed Dennis J. Dowd, 34, formerly of Washington avenue,® New Haven, picked up by Detective James P. in that city” Thursday and re- turned to the Norwich institution. Two large electric locamotives, one and one-half times as powerful -~ as those commnnl} in use and capable of| drawing a 12-car steel train at s speed of more than miles per hour, -have I eived by the New Haven road between New Haven and “New One of the b surgeons at Fort \oHenry, Baltimore, s Dr. Norman Brown Cole son of ~Mr.. and Mrs. { Charlex 1. Cole of Newport, R. I, for- nerly of Norwich, who his been sta- ticned “there two years. He is the of Mrs.. George W. Hamilton Norwich. M Rebekah G. Bacon, for 15 years : member of the state board of chari-| who died Thursday at thé home “her sister, Mrs. f New Have: ry. Conn, Mz . She visited Nerwich public in frequently titutions. FUNERAL Jonathan Trumbull. l\E‘\dl services were held on Friday n 3 o'clock for Jonathan ]"nmuh]) from his late Tome ' at 23 avenue. There was- a very ttendanee, which included rela- and friends and members-of the izations of which the de: i mémber, here were florz]l tributes. . The ices were «onducted by . Howe, D. D.. pastor of Congregational church. The bearers were . Gen. “-llllam Franeis J. Leavens, John Aiken. ntington, Olive L. Johnson .. Tirrell. Burial took place : cemetery: where . Rey. Dr. & commitial service: ns were In charge of the on in Nerwich. Jahn; who i n-mmnud ng o monih's vagution, ich, ‘his former-home, und old ‘friend; oved himsel?, he 1 noon for St A Spart. B Said the near eymie: “}\'\'h.-,n « man is atinded to as a poor nxh he may be Bitre t Tt is Qifficuit for what they Y| Encampment N while Others haye do-| | versailles occurred in this city on Fri- The state officers of the Ancient Oz-! er of Hibernians-and of the Ladies’| uxiliary will ‘meef with the Danbury an;r- or George Harrison | ' and Hen-| o, *Mian. ° PERSONALS Harriet Beckett of Stomngton hu een a Norwich visitor. <George Hill of Norwich was at his in Laurel Glen early in the week. ® Alexander Sharp of Norwich has been in New York on a business trip A this week. Nelson B. LaPlace, Mrs. LaPlace and |Thelma and Arthur Kellum were re- :-:ht guests of Earl Lewis of Colches- T, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Linicus and ‘son, Jacob ‘M., have returned to their farm in Union, Tolland county, after spend- ing a few days at their cottage in Nep- tune Park. ODD FELLOWS HEAR REPORTS FROM' GRAND LODGE The reg,lar *meeting - of Uncas Lodge, No. 1i, I. 0. O. F., was held on Monday evening in 0dd Fellows' hall 'on Franklin street with a large at- tendance. The lodge ~worked the Brotherly Love degrec of a class of candidates. Routine ‘business was transacted. At the regular meeting of Palmyra 3 with A, E. Fowler worked. anee. “The delegates to the Grand Lodge ‘meeting made .complete reports at the 'meetings of the subordinate lodges of the: proceedings at which the follow- ing officers were clected: Grand mas er, I, Méyer, Bridgeport deputy grand master, Frank ‘'W. Whi ton, Hartford; grand warden, Herbert There was a good attend- J. Phillips, Waterbury: grand treas- urer, Sidnev . Challenger, Bridge- port; grand representative for two ¥ Philip Pond, New Haven; grand Yepresentative for two years, Harry Hirsch, New London: grand secro- 'l:lry, William T. Hutchinson, New Haven. The appointive officers are C. R. Hathaway, South Manchester, grand marshal, C. J. Fowle Thompson- ville: grand conductor, Rev. C. H. Smith, anby, Mas and chap- lain, Joseph Cooper, Mystic, grand guardian, Leo Davis, Norwalk, grand herald. METHODIST DRIVE IS MEETING WITH SUCCESS, The Methodist centenary drive is meeting with much success in the Nor-! wich" district and_repol continue to] come in daily. The Norwich district has now subscribed 60 per cent. of its quota. Throughout the nation 70 per cent. of the total of $140,000.000 has beeni raised. The northern churches have raised $61,660.515. Reports to date in- clude the following: New York Area. $5,868,000; Buffalo area, $8,025,00 C ncinnsm area, $4,600.983: Detroit, $3.- 4.240,000; Boston area $2.200,860% | 983; Pittsburgh area, ington area, $3.2 New Orleans (colored) d,l”d, $300,000. Barton, Ore., has | raised per cent. of its quota}> and Kindall. b., 200 per cent. 3,993,000; Wash- TRINITY M. E. CHURCH PASTOR MEMORIAL DAY SPEAKER The annuzal Meiorial Day address at the. soldiers’ monument at Chelsea parade this year will be delivered by Rev. E. A. Legg. pastor of the Trinity Methodist church Rev. Mr. Legg is an eloquent speaker and his address will be well worth hearing. Further arrangements had not yet been completed for the day and owing to the death of Col. Charles W. Gale. a marshal for be the largest in vears selected. The s ibe materially enlarged ap- pearance of the Veterans of the World War' who will act as escort to the veterans, of ’ | OBITUARY ' Phocbe Mathewson. The.death of Phoehbe Mathewson ofi the parade which will has not been day .evening following Mrs, Mathewson i Mathewson, who died about three| months ago. She leaves a son and| daughter and four grandchildren. i a long illne: the widow of Jo n't 4 Alpha Class Banguet. The .seventh annual mecting and bang of the Alpha class of the }Church of the Good Shepherd was held | on Thursday evening with forty {ent at the home of Mrs. Then o Wilson of Union sircet. At the busi- | ness meeting which proceeded the| banquet the officers were relected xox th ensuing year. There were by the officers and 5 the class. The meuu for crab salad y wafers, ice cream| | Getting and Giving. What makes the Dead sea dead? Beecause it is all the time receiving, never ing out anything.—D. L, ['Moedy. | e | As is natural in rr‘nu' ican con- gress, the men of Engiund are coming into own again in control of legislation. On important commit- tees they hwve important places. in-| cluding_some of the hest chairman- ps. We sincer - will be e as the section mostiy confidence reposed well: the power —Waterbury rom nd justify the in them and use Placed in their hands. Americ this i To Be League’s First | Secretary I who is named the first Secretary to the Leaguc of N Sir Bric will Ppreside at the first session that is presiding the Patriarchal degree was!® sand- | ROBERT 0. FLETGHER POST ORGANIZED One hundred and twenty-eight vet- erans of the 'World War, men from the army and navy, some from overseas and some who did duty in this country, metrat the state armory on Friday ev- ening and formed the Robert O. Fletcher Post of the American Legion. The post is named in honor of Sergt. Major Robert . Fletched who was killed in action on August 15 in France, being the first member of the 356th regiment to give his life for his coun- try. The tribute paid to Sergeant Pletcher when his name was unani- mously chosen was jmpressive, each man present eager .o honor the name of one so dear to them. The meeting was called to order by Earle C. Herrick, who acted in the ca- pacity of tempora chairman until officers could be chosen. Webster D. Copp was chosen clerk of the meeting. The meeting proceeded to elect officers and the follownig were chosen: Commander—Earle C. Herrick. Vice Commander—W. G. Tarbox Adjjutant—Harold T. Robinson. Quartermaster—Samuel Cramer. An: executive committee members was then unanimously elect- ed and they are as follows: Edward G, McKay, G. J. Malcolm, Robert Goldsq in, James Kirker, Edwin Street. William H. Weeks, Lewis Oat and William R. Dennison. The membership and finance com- mittee chosen unanimously was as fol- lows: Walter P. Moran. John A. Cufningham, H, Bruckner, J. R. Bowman Jr,, and Fred J. Plante. of seven | The officers and the two committees completed the organization of the post which will be represented at the convention in Minneapolis next fall and a charter will be applied for im- mediately. 1 Webster D. Copp who was one of the delegates to the caucus at St.)Lou recently told of the plans of the Amer- ican Legion and its aims. He also spoke on the object of the post and why it had been organized. During the meeting a motion was made to endorse the Salvation Army and by a collection show the appres ation of the boys for'the noble work done by that organization in France and at home. The total amount col- lected for the Salvation army w: $30.10 which will be given them today® A rising tribute was paid to those comrades who had made the supreme sacrifice in the recent struggle. It was also voted at the meeting to turn out on Memorial Day as an org- anization upon the invitation of = the| Grand Army and act as an escort to| the ‘veterans of '61. A letter from the War Service| Communi Club__signed by J. O. Stutzman signifying ness to co-operate sible to further organization w Earle C. Herr The mecting adjourned meet again in @vo wecks. present ‘at the. meetin name as member of the new ization which bids fair to Le the m;, the clut in_ any the. wc s read by willing- 1y of the Commander oS 10 to BASS CLEF DRAWS ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE The first concert given by the Bass Clef during 1918-1919 at Slater Hall, called out a large and enthusiatsic au- dience on Friday cvening. The club. whose ranks have been cnlarged by the return from military service of several members, gave a fine account- ing of its vocal powers, under the al- ways able leadership of Charles D. n,,ing with uniform- and fine_musical in- elections, ranging ., were admirably cveral encores ity | terpretation. i from grav rendered, 1 most hap- Sesses a very of remar rant with numbers, fine baritone voice, range and timbre, matic sweetne: cluding an Italian aria, a trio French chansons, several English bal- and old-fashioned svirituals, ex- pressing the pathos and emotions tra- ditiona] of the negro race, were all sung with irresistible charm and pol- ished diction. Responding to ins applause, the soloist, who wa: | generous with his encores, zave sev- eral delightful typical English and Irish ballads, which met with unani- mous approval. The final number. TLochinvar (Ham- mond} sung by the club. with Mr. Schofield taking the solo work, closed the folowing very enjoyable pro- gramme: Part L Give a Man a Horse, O'Hara The Club 0. Lu Palemio, Verdi Mr. Schofield (a) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (b) O, Peter, Go Ring a Dem Bells Negro Spirituals The Club L’Amour de Uloi, (a) 0ld French The Club (a) May the Maiden (b) My Ways 3 fc) T Want to Be Read)y, (d) Highland Joy, Mr. Schofield Carpenter Sticklers Lockinwar. Cluly with The The Mr. Schoficld smpaniments played wi sual intelligent in- terpretation hy iss Annie L. and Frederick W. | The club per. Active Mem Aubrey, Filimore, Lamb. Charles . Tenors, dX \ ort cederick . Prentice. First Charles s follows: « hm" Charles Parson. William A. Buck- Carpenter, J. Har- Gray i Maitning, M. —Clinton Robert ( D. Frame, Johnson, William B. B. Mitchell. Ar- . James J. Moore liam . Rush. i Andrews, D. William A. Lund, icorge ussey, ughn, OTHO CHASE AND THOMAS TRACY HOME Otho Chase. son of Mrs. E. 10 of 124 McKinley avenue. is spending a 48 hour furlouzh at his home here, his ship, U. S, S. C. No. 34, having landed at the port of Boston on Iriday. Mr. Chase is a cosswain and for the past 18 months has been with the i h sea. ne he has seen muc pean coast and when his dered home the course ta Plymouth, England, to Brest, the Azores. Bermuda, Charl to Boston. The trip from I Boston took three months, Thomas Tracy of the F turned home with Mr. Ct months in the service. While in Brest they met George Crowe and Thomas Sears, two local boys in the navy. of the I SUBSCRIPTION DANCE One of the most delightful events of the season took place at the Waure- gan Totel on Friday evening when al before the well attended subscription dance wasjlriday n |ziven by the Private Social club. The|mMmiftec w ',ru.m e was held in the ballroom of the| ;‘“!Ol‘\ : hotel. which was handsomely decorat-} 7 g '}F‘-\ ed with palms and cut flowers by| a8s. he Ernst. About 73 couples were present| Over the and enjoyved the well arranged (l:lm(:;v program of 13 numbe music _for| * which was furnished by Stanley's Jazz| orchesira. During the intermi guests were favored with a sax solo Harry Ieltcorn, a member the orchest and a tenor solo Nichelas J, Spellman ADDITIONAL BONUS Notices: we! the Norwich Woolen corporation at 1 |bonus. This additior honts ymakes 20 per cent. wl is paying j put. Jast fall the company cent. zand this new 10 the wages back to war cent. basi per ne Enlists For Overscas Service. Horace W. Collins of Danielson has reperied will be held ten, D. C. A in Washing- enlisted in the U. S. A. for overseas service in the field artiliery. of} Burleigh | ; Hammond | were | Taft |V Frank | vle H.| I Leonard | Chase sub- | During_this AT WAUREGAN HOTEL s FOR WOOLEN EMPLOYES| re posted in the plant of | Thamesville on Iriday to the effect that beginning June all employes would receive ional 10 per cent. now ! :h the company to its emploves on their out-; After the signing of the armistice cut down 10 per vuts| Varnizh istock co PROF. J. H. GEORGE ARRIVES FOR MEMORIAL WEEK VISIT| Moved by’ the impulse to joi Grand Army comrades in rial day parade, Prof. J. George, all the 1.600 m present home in Minneanolis, blew town Friday nizht. actual fact reached Norwich on the boat t looking rosy and hav in the best of heal the Wauregan ur Memorial day. Mr. George left Ta field, Ida his old! ir Memo- | Herhert rom il the of Sprin M 1own with where (b) Chanson de Route, Puget (c) Pappillon Couteiu de Ulege D'ambosio o (6) Vitoria, Vitoria, Carissinic RO thaCEORGE Mr. Schofield (AR (a) A Hong Kong Romance. Hodly|former sear (b) A Grand Part; be made a forme E X Norwich, when Prof, d (\‘Dr there At Sp The Americans Come! Fay Foster S gt of Bin jdeath of forme comir and peeted i i | I i i dee news Gale hurst Professo friends Geor althoug trip eas S reunion with hi {post and jweek | E-THIRD AL QUOTA ONLY ON Louis of the Service Fuu | ening received from Gove M local Hartford, Crandall Norwich Home Ser | L. M. Conn 101 wify come 0.3 ' (« scriptions solicitors has not y gested call (\rm) one of ville and ported. It from these night. . The total amount htllf‘ over o one-thir the made reports the lh:‘dlr(’x Attention! BOAT OWNERS We are offering for teday omnly a 159 discount on all of our Boat Paints and| This| es, Copper Paint, Red “and Green Yach; | gs | A"RES‘ Tows d “Good Clothes St Line Suits for Yo Conservative Sty! Dressers, have ih | from $2.50 to $5.00 Per Su fact. OUR CUSTOMERS TELL US THAT Fit for Style for Tailoring for it Quality - for Quality ARE YO | A great number ars But then we {Cash and can do it. hold a mass meet a hre Bre sts one s the kind ?' re Roosevelt, Jr, | "life time. We ha \re in ) x 7-0 These Doors are of extra fine quality, Made of C 11-8 inch th AT Fred C. Crowell’s 87 Water Street Open Saturday Evenings Until 9 O’Clock. ypress, WHITESTONE C!GARS Are $48.00 Fer Thousand F. GANANT 11 Freaklin 86 . Bl

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