Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-21
MYSTIC
Common Battery System for Telephone Exchange-cantataa at M. E. Church A. O. H. Division to Be Formed.

Work was commenced last week on the remodeling of the telephone ex- change building. The common battery system will soon be in effect all through the Mystic exchange. With this system all that is necessary to do is to take the receiver from the hook and call central as is done in large cities. The lower floor of the ex- change building is to be used for the operators room, business office, etc. The second floor will be used for a re- tiring room for the operators when off duty and furnish them a place to sleep when the weather will not permit them to go home. There will be a reading room upstairs for the conveience of the young ladies employed. Manager Johnson, who has lived in the ex- change building, has moved to a house on Lincoln avenue. On account of the increased number of new telephones in use, a new switchboard will be in stalled. Every subscriber in the ex- change will get a new instrument and the changes contemplated will require the services of a large number of men several weeks.
 About the Village.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Fox enter tained over Sunday Miss Jessie Elm merich of New London and Miss Oril Hymon of Groton.
 William Holiday, who has been the guest of his parents, MT. and Mrs. R. H. Holiday, for two months leaves today for Lenox, Mass, the summer home of Samuel Frothingham. for whom he is chauffeur
 Mrs. F. N. Dibble has returned to Hartford after a visit with her daugh- ter. Mrs. John T. Brooks.
 Ira F. Moves of New Haven spent Sunday with his family
 Palm Sunday cantata.
 One of the first cantatas ever given in Mystic was sung Sunday afternoon and evening in the M. E. church un- der direction of Choirmaster Ira F.. Moves. Over two hundred people were present in the afternoon and in the evening the church was well filled. Those who took part in the cantata, The Crucifixion, were: Sopranos, Mrs. E. R. Lack, Mrs. H. w. White, Miss Ruth I. Keigwin, Miss Nettie Mac Gregor, Miss Margaret A. Boothman, Miss Minnie Gledhill;' altos, Mrs Miss Clara Chase, Miss Etta Belle Woodmansee: tenors. Willard Keig- win, Frank Buclx1yn, J. Henry Schaf- fer; passes, Eli GIedhill, Halsey Park CT, Charles Lamphere; orchestra, @. Victor Grinneu. violin: E. B. Bucklin, cornet; J. F. Newbury, clarinet; organ ist, Mrs. Annie Lathrop: pianist, Miss Louise Paige. The solo work by Eli GIedhill and Willard KeigWin was ex- celIent.
  the guest of her grandparents, Mir. and Mrs. George w. Keigwin.
 Mrs. James w. Baker and two daughters are guests of Mrs. Bakers sister. Mrs. Elwood Lathrop.
 MT. and Mrs. w. W. Ryley are en- tertaining their cousin, Clarence Wyatt of Worcester, Mass.
 Archie Gerrish of Providence is the guest of his mother, Mrs. R. A. Stan ton.
 Hibernian Committee Reports.
 special meeting was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Catholic church to hear from the committee ap- pointed to make arrangements to start a Hibernian society The committee, composed of Cornelius Donahue. Charles Foley, William Gleason, re- ported favorably and stated that the grand officers of the state would be present and that the officers would be installed on next Sunday afternoon.
 Henry Abell of Worcester is the guest of his brother Otis Abell-
 Rev. J R. Danforth of New London will preach this evening at the Con- gregational church.