Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-30
VI IT. " T LII Mayor of CoventS
Publications from Vale.


 Nestor Light to speak for Yale uni versity, which is thought of so highly by Coventry people He said: 1 re- joice that the life of Coventry and the life of the university run closely parallel with one another. I am glad of the record of the town and of the university. He spoke of the towns furnishing the university with two valedictorians-Nath Hale and Ma than Strong, one from the south part of the town and the other from the north parish. He told of the starting of the university through the generosi- ty of the Congregationalists of the state and of it's growth into a large, international and cosmopolitan insti- tuition.
 Prof. Hae's Address.
 One of the guests of the day was Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., of Un- ion college, Schenectady, N. '. He delivered an address which held the close attention of the assemblage. Prof. Hale is a descendant of the fla nous Hale family that claims Nathan Hale. Old Home week, he said, was an institution most significant in the history of America. He said that America was full of the people who had left the town in which they were born and had found success in life elsewhere. At the time I lived in Iowa, a typical state of the middle west, he said, found that there were many people there who had left their homes in the east when young ana had sought their fortunes in the far west. Such people come back east with interest. They see, perhaps, the familiar scenes of youth They see. perhaps places of which they have heard from their father and mother Old Home week, as no doubt it has been said often in this celebration, brings them together.
 Judge Carl Foster Heard.
 Dr. Higgins introduced Judge Car Foster of Bridgeport, who gave brief and interesting address that was pleasing to all present. This brough ! the forenOon's programme to a close 1 During the first and second parts of the programme a social hour was en- | 1oyed and there was more music by the | Hebron Fife and Drum corps.
 Afternoon Session.
 When the people gathered again at 1 the old training ground in the after noon the first number was a selection | by the AdeIphi quartette, and then the 1 historian, Attorney Curtis Dean, re- viewed the towns history for the past | 200 years, pointing out the marked contrast from the early and present 1 days. Miss Ruth A. Higgins. daugh- | ter of Dr. and Mrs. w L. Higgins, of 1 South Coventry, and a niece of Dr. H. ] E. Higgins. of 21 Fairmount street, Norwich. then recited an original poem l commemorative of the towns bi-cen- tennial that was very interesting. Miss | Higgins was graduated with the class i of 1909 Windham High school, and s i at present in her senior year at Mt | HolYoke college.
 | The Adelphi Quartette again render i ed lively selection and responded to l an encore. Dr. Higgins then intro i duced Addison Kingsbury, the dean of the towns manufacturers.
 Hon. Addison kingsbury's Address. 1 MT. Kingsbury said: was born In what was formerly called the Lower 1 village. Naturally, my earliest recol- | lections center around the Sattenet mill located there. There were re- mains of d sawmill Hume and log dam l (Which were common in those days) and as we were nearing home from l school one day there was evidence of ] something unusual 1t was caused by 1 tl6 slNluS way or tn6 log dam near | the bottom which caused large whirlpool, and it did not take long f0t, the pond to empty itself Water being the only power used, the machinery 1 soon stopped: and as the water was getting low there was abundant evi- dence of large quantity of fish, ard many baskets full were caught. l Transportation-how to get to and from market-was B serious problem. 1 as my memory reaches back to the time when neither the Hartford. Prov idence, Fishkill or New London and Willimantic and Palmer railroads were built. All the material to be manufac tured and the manufactured product had to be transported bv team eithe. from Hartford or Norwich A triI could only be made every other ds v that is, going out one day and return ing the next. George Wilber was teamster for number of years and ur to the time the railroads were opened for business. Then there were no IaboI laws limitine the hours of labor fo, either adults or children I began tr