Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-30

In the Congregational churches this | evening there will be the service pre- | paratory to communion on Sunday 1 next.
 The pretty custom of hanging ever | green wreaths outside windows and l doors is followed in many sections of | the city.
 The schooner William A. Morse, | Captain Henry Langworthy, is fitting out at Noank for a fishing trip to the Gulf stream for tile fish.
 Miss Jessie Gardiner of Willimantic Normal school is spending her vaca- tion at Mystic with her parents, MT. and Mrs. w. Gardiner.
 MT. and Mrs Clarence Darlington have returned to their home in Noank, after spending Christmas with rela- tives in Norwich Town.
 Because of the storm Tuesday after noon, the meeting of the Progressive Missionary club of the Central Bap- tist church was omitted.
 Masquerade dance tomorrow night. Firemen's hall, Yantic. Prizes for best | ladies and gentlemen's costums. Geer's orchestra.-adv.
 Tuesday at Mantle First Select | man F. A. Beclxwith had the fire engine out for a test and it was found to be l in fine working condition. Mrs. Matte Lcng and daughter, Louise, have returned to Mantle from Norwich, where they were guests ot Mrs. Longs uncle. O. R. Buddington. Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Pot | ter, wife of George Wilcox, who died | at Walnut Hill East Lyme, Monday, | were held Wednesday afternoon. Bur | ial was in Salem.
 Nettie Burdick daughter of Mir. and 1 Mrs. William Burdick, of Waterford, was committed to the county home at Norwich Wednesday morning by the New London probate court.
 At Groton MT. and Mrs. H. Frank l Sleeper of Monument street announce Frances Louise Sleeper to Francis Henry Vessel, son of MT. and Mrs. John L. Wesel of Fort street.
 Two youthful partners, one boy with a coal shovel and another with an an | cient broom, earned vacation money al. day Tuesday cleaning off walks on Church street.
 A Groton correspondent mentions that Walter R. Denison sailed Tues l day from New York on board the steamer Mohawk for Jacksonville, Fla, l where he will spend the winter.
 Never handled so much matter" is the common statement of post office people, eXpressmen and railroad men, showing that the holidays are in keeping with the general rush and prosperity.
 Gov. Holcomb said Tuesday he would shortly call a meeting of the executive committee of the Soldiers home tc consider the report of the board, whict recently investigated complaints of the soldier inmates.
 Re-divisioning the New Haven road l and four-tracking the Shore Line di- vision are two of the methods the New Haven is about to adopt to solve it! problems of traffic, according tc Tuesdays report.
 Ie is encouraging to Eastern Con necticUt manufacturers that the mill
 are asking premiums of between l. f and Is cents a yard for goods dyet
 with fast CT standard coIors. Thi
 holds for blacks as well.
 The state W. c. T. U. paper, tn
 White Ribbon Banner has the follow
 ing obituary note: WiIlington-Mrs
 Harriet Morrison, mother of Mrs. HoI man, president of Holland County W
 c. T U. And she was not, for Go,
 took her.
 ,, Donald W. Tobin of Swanton, Vt
 and Miss Marion Gracey, daughter 0
 MT. and Mrs. John G. Colegrove 0
 New London, were united in marriag
 by Rev. Joseph P. Brown at his resi-
 dence in Huntington street Tuesda
 afternoon.
 Word has been received at Eas
 Lyme of the death of Capt. John l
 Harris, formerly of Niantic, but late
 of Gloucester, Mass. He suffered
 shock at sea on his ship, and wa y Drought home to Gloucester prior {
 his death.
 ,e Mrs. Walter c. Moves of New Yor ,a and Lyme was hostess at a dance c " Tuesday nifht at the Plaza, New Tor al for her two daughters, Misses Maria R A. and Catherine c: Moves. At mic .- night supper was served to the l. guests in the palm room.
 The auxiliary to the woman's Boar
 of Missions at the Second Congregs
 tional church, of which Mrs. Herbe
 J. Wyckoff is president, had planne .- a meeting in the church parlors WeC
 nesday afternoon, but iti was give
 Director Baker of the extension d.
 partment of Storrs Agricultural co .s lege. and County Agent Fay, will Is at Grange hall, Haddam Neck, th d | (Thursday) evening, to organize
 agricultural school, to be held for fo - days this winter.
 FEDS
 Col Frank M. Chapin and Mrs. Cha Id in of Pine Meadow announce the e r, gagement of tl~ir daughter, Mi - Catherine Lines Chapin, to Charl s. Edwin Blake, son of Mfr. and M no Charles H. Blake of Brooklyn, tt q. afnfe MT Blake Is nrincinal of i