Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-08
sTONINGTON.
Carl A. koelb's First Vacation In Twenty Years-Junk Dealers Must Take Out Lioenses-Need of New Town BuiIdinq.

Carl A. Koelb, cashier at the Amer 1can Velvet company, is taking va cation of two weeks. the first that he has had since coming here over twenty years ago. He and Mrs. Koelb are at present at Newport, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hammond They will make an auto trip to Ashburnham, Mass, where they will visit t1le Misses Koelb and MacGowan at Gushing academy. They will be accom2an anied by Ralph Koelb and pr. and Mks. F. T. MacGowan.
 Junk Dealers Licenses. Junk dealers who come here from out of town and who for some time have been allowed to do business here without payment of the usual license fee. are now being brought to book and the borough is getting the ben 1 eft.
 Travel Club to Meet. The Travel club will hold it's first winter session Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the reading room of the Free library. Miss Anne Atwood will have as her subject, The Spaniarcs; ilems; Co Arabs and Moors; (d) Mos lems. Miss Asa Wilcox will have a paper on Granada and the Alhambra.
 Quarters for Boy Scouts.
 The Boy Scout movement in the bor- l ough is well advanced through the efforts of c. H. Simmons, a summer resident, who. raised the funds neces 1 sary to carry on the work and ] James H. Stivers who has been ap- ] pointed scoutmaster by the National | association of New ' York. Rooms have been secured in the Potter block for
 the meetings of the Scouts who will l soon be organized MT Stfvers has 1 been assured of the aid of w. F. 1 Broughton, Jr., Theodore Dewhurst and 1 J. Edward F'airbrother. Already large | number of the boys here have signified ! their desire to be enrolled, but before 1 this is done every boy must have the 1 consent of his parents who fill out 1 the printed form for this purpose.
 Baptist Services. Sunday morning Rev. G. B. Marston I will preach at the morning service in I the Baptist church at 10.45 and at the 1 evening service at 7.30 p. III. She I morning subject will be The Souls ! Anchor, and the evening subject, The l Grasshopper Standards. The Young i Peoples society will meet at 6.45 Sun l day evening, the subject being, The Christian Home Life.
 New Building Needed. 1 The need of a building in the town ! of Stonington in which to locate the { offices of the judge of probate, the 1 town clerk and various other offices : has long been felt, and the time is at l hand when something must be done l either by the people or by the town ] itself. There is no longer room ip l the present location and in space pro- i vided for the preservation of books
 and documents of value to the town. Forty Hours Devotion. 1 The Forty Hours Devotion will open \ at St. Mary's church Sunday at the 1 10 o'clock mass
 i Mir and Mrs Thomas Mills of Wor- ! af ha If md i Mrs Patrick Fitzpatrick, accom- panied 1 by Miss Margaret Fitzpatrick, who has
 been their guest for the past two months.
 Thursday evening Ruth chapter, o E. S., met in Masonic hall, in regular i session. At the next meeting several 1 candidates will be initiated.
 1 Mrs. E. M Crocker and Mrs. Hannah 1 Floyd arS spending the winter in the | borough.
 James R. Chesebro of Jersey City
 who has been visiting his aunt, Miss 1 Fannie Chesebro. returns home today I Saturday..
 James K. Chesebro and Elias Chese- 1 bro of Jersey City have purchased the l Joseph Chesebro place at Wequete- 1 ouock.
 Mrs. Fred Chesebro, who has beer ! visiting rIr. and Mrs. Gilbert Chese- l bro. is now a guest of Mr. and Mrs George D. Bradley.
 Officers of Historical Society.
 The officers chosen at the meeting O 1 the Stonington Historical and Genea- | logical society were: President, J. H 1 Weeks; vice president. E. B. Hinckley 1 secretary, Miss Gertrude Palmer
 treasurer Dr. Charles M. Williams
 board of managers, Mrs. Nellie F | Trumbull and John $. Palmer. I'm offer of the lighthouse department O ! a lease of the old lighthouse was con .sidered and a committee appointed t l.onk into the matter.