Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-11

Coroner and Mrs. Brown Return to
 Norwich.
 An entertainment was given by the pupils of the village school, under the management of their teacher, Miss Grace A. Chapman. in the NJ. E. church vestry. Saturday evening. The following program was given:
 song, Fetching the Cows, school: recitation. The New Baby. Gertrude Lamp. Mary Birch: song. Four Little Maids at Tea, Marie Allen, Mary and Madeline Birch and Laura Mcclure; recitation, Donald Potter; duet, It's Whitman and Gertrude Allen; recita- tions. My Grin, Dorothy Birch: The Reason Why, Laura Mcclure; solo, ! Don't Want Your Playthings. Lester Whitman; recitation, Little Johnnys Version of November, Madeline Birch; duet, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, Gertrude Allen and Mary Birch: reel tations, Our Hired Girl, Marie Allen: Bill Studies Gozinta, Gordon Mariere; duet, Nanny Moon, Gertrude and Ma rie Allen.
 At the close of the program sand wiChes, cake and cocoa yere served. The proceeds of the affair are to be devoted to improvements in the sChoolroom.
 Preparatory Sermons.
 Rev James NJ. Potter spoke from Hebrews, 10th chapter, 5th verse, on Sunday morning last in the NJ. F.. church the theme being Why Gods Son Took a Body. This was the sec ond of a series of sermons prepara- tory to Christmas.
 Committees Appointed. At the Sunday school session. the | several committees were announced for 1 the Christmas celebration. Four teach | CTS, Mrs. James M. Potter, Mrs. Eu- gene La FOntaine. Mrs. Dudley C. | Perkins, Miss Jennie G. Perkins and Miss Alice Satterlee. to purchase gifts for the Christmas tree. i R. Irving Hurlbutt and Winthrop | liurlbutt to provide the tree. | Decorating. Miss Sarah Latimer's | class and Miss Laura A Perkins. ] Awards for regular attendance were given Elm Beth Bennett. a rolled gold l pin. for ten months, and Mrs. Harmon L. Perkins. silver pin for six months. Mrs. Dudley C. Perkins was the | leader of the Epworth League service at : o'clock Sunday evening, with this | topic, A Nameless Prophet, Who Kept l Fresh Gods Name. There were spe- | Cial readings and a duet, sung by J Marie and Gertrude Allen. | Improvements made in the interior of the NJ. E. church recently include | the addition of a green velour curtain on rod added to the choir screen. Miss Alice Brewer of Norwich and | Miss Florence Geer of Geer Hill. Led yard, were guests at the home of Mrs. | Henry w. Hurlbutt, last Thursday, to visit Mrs. Hurlbutt's daughter Mrs. J. Edmund Norman. and Miss Mary | Voorhees,, of Brooklyn, N. '. Held AI-Day Session. i At the all-day session of the Ladies' | Aid society of the M. E. church. last Friday. one quilt was tied and the work on aprons resumed. Dance at Cottage. l Tracy Smith and Harlan Newberry gave a dance at the cottage of Mir. | Newberry near the village last Fri | day evening. Guests were present | from Meeting House Hill, Norwich | and Montville. About fifty were pres ent. Cake and coffee were served. Visitor from Panama. | C. Allyn Brown of the foreign stalff | of the American Steel Products Co, of Pittsburgh enroute, from Christo
 bal, Panama, to Pittsburgh, where he had been summoned to report to the
 company, called on his grandmother | Mrs. Lucy Brown and family of the village last Friday. As a gift to his
 aunt, Mrs. Lulu Hampstead, MT.
 Brown brought pair of paroquet, | direct from Panama.
 Mrs. Fanny Adams Molthrop re-
 turned home last week from a months
 visit at the home of her brother. Da-
 vid Adams in New Haven. | MT. and Mrs. Edward Young, and 1 MT. and Mrs. Allen Young of Water
 ford spent Sunday at the home of Mir.
 and Mrs. Latham E. Smith.
 Leaves for Key West. Captain Charles Satterlee, of the | Coast Guard service, left Monday to
 take comand of the U- S. S. Miami at Key West. where he will be stationed for the winter.
 Rev. James M. Potter attended the | Musical Institute in New London. at
 the Vocational Hall, Monday after
 noon and evening.
 Mrs. William Brooks of Hartford
 spent several days the past week | with her sister, Mrs. Caro- Maniere. | Close Red Fern.
 Coroner Franklin H. Brown and
 Mrs. Brown left their cottage. Red | Fern, Tuesday morning. by automo- bile, for their home on Laurel Hill | avenue, Norwich. Mrs. Brown, who
 has been convalescing from an illness l of some weeks has not been as well
 of late. Mrs. E. V. Mann of Provi- | dence, R. l., sister of Mrs. Brown,
 superintended the closing of their
 cottage. and joined them. at the home | in Norwich that afternoon.
 Mrs. Latham E. Smith attended the funeral services of her aunt, Miss
 Mary Emma Perkins in Groton, Mon | day afternoon.
 Friends of Mrs. Charles H. Chap man of the Lester district. are pain | ed to learn of her serious illness. | Mrs. Ellen Stoddard, who has been | the guest of Mrs. Isaac G. Geer, of
 Geer Hill, Ledyard, returned home | Tuesday.
 Miss Mary Voorhees, who has been | a guest at the home of Mir and Mrs | Henry w. Hurlbutt for two weeks,
 returned to her home in Brooklyn, N. y, Monday