Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-14

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| Captain and Mrs. Jason L. Randall
of Groton are having repairs made on
their cottage at the Willimantic camp
grounds.
Rev. John Collins, pastor Of the Sec
ond Baptist church of North StOning-
ton supplied the pulpit at the Potter
Hill chapel Sunday at 2.45 p. m.
Saturday morning, in ST. Patrick's
church, an anniversary high mass of
sung by Rev. Francis J. Kuster.
Thirst, and Other One Act Plays.
is the title of book written by Eu-
gene G.. O'Neill of New London, a son
Of the noted actor, James ONeiIl.
Three masted schooner John W.
Dana, from New Haven, has been tow
ed to Norwich, where her cargo Of
yellow pine lumber will be discharged.
Each day now Waterman R. Burn
ham is able to be up in his chair, re-
ceiving a few intimate friends and
keeping a keen interest in current af-
fairs.
The marriage of Lena Lucia Pierce
and John Laird Browning is to take
place at the First Congregational
80, at p. m.
Three masted schooner Frank B.
Benedict, has been discharging her
cargo of yellow pine at Fort Point,
and sailed Saturday for the south to
reload lumber.
The semi-annual meeting Of the
State Board of Pardons is to be held
in the Wethersfe1d prison today CNGon-
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plications will be heard.
AZ a recent meeting of the Grand
Temple, held in Hartford, the Rev. J.
B. Ack1ey of Burnside former pastor
of the Uncasville Methodist church,
was elected grand templar.
Funeral services for Benjamin D.
Luce. who died in Port Arthur, Tex,
were held in Mantle at the home of
his mother, Mrs. Susan K. Luce, for
merly of Norwich, Sunday afternoon.
Personal friends here of Governor
David L Walsh of Boston were amused
relation to His ExceIlency. 1t should
have stated that he is an alumnus of
Holy Cross.
The eighth annual outing of the So
ciety of Master Painters of Connecti-
cut is to be held Saturday. June %,
at the Hotel Momauguin, Cosey Beach,
East Haven. 1t will be an all-day ses-
sion, rain or shine.
The textbook, Introducto9y Ameri-
can History, in use in the sixth grade
of the Norwich schools, was written
in part by Henry Eldridge Bourne,
Norwich Free Academy, 10, now of
Western Reserve university, Cleveland,
Ohio.
At Marlborough. Miss Elizabeth V.
Sheedy closed her school in the Cen
ter district on Thursday and has gone
to her home in New London. Miss
Mary c. O'Neill, also of New London,
viii close her school in the Northwest
district, June 16.
This will be commencement week
at Tourtelotte Memorial high school,
North Grosvenordale. Tuesday night
the baccalaureate exercises will be
held. Rev. F. S. Luther, president of
Trinity college, of Hartford, will de-
liver the address,
Those from this vicinity who will
be graduated from Oberltn college,
Oberlfn, O., at the commencement ex-
ercises which terminate next We'd
nesday include Miss Edith Palmer
Lewis of Hampton, with the degree
of bachelor of arts.
To address the high school pupils
at Danielson today, Flag day, Patriotic
Instructor c. A. Potter has secured
Patriotic Instructor J. H. George, Of
Norwich, who will take along rs cor
net to accompany the singing, after his
talk to the assemblage.
DR.. F. I. Payne of Granite street gave
an illustrated lecture on the X-ray re-
Gently before the physics class of the
high school. DR.. Payne's N-ray ap-
paratus was set up in the laboratory
and several practical demonstrations
erformed.-Westerly Sun.
The Atlantic feet will, as usual, pass
the summer months off the New Eng
land coast. During the last two weeks
of August there will be maneuvers in
Block Island sound, the feature of
which will be the sowing of mines
by the navy's mine laying ships.
When the sWoman's American Bap-
fist Foreign Missionary conference of
southwestern Connecticut was held at
the First Baptist church Middletown,
among those who had a part in the
exercises was Mrs. w. T. Thayer of
Wallingford, formerly of Norwich.
The will of F. Hoplzinson Smith, the
author, who built Race Rock light, be-
queathing his entire estate to his
widow, Mrs. Josephine Van Deventer
Smith of $50 East Thirty street,
New York. was admitted to probate
by Surrogate Cohalan at New York
Saturday.
With characteristic energy, Leonard
o. Smith, of Norwich, president of the
State Association of Charities and
Corrections. has. called a meeting of
the executive committee at New Ha-
ven Tuesday, June 18th, to outline a
program for the state meeting in Nor
witch, April, 1916.
Steps toward a memorial to Clara
Barton, founder of the American Ma
tional Red Cross, to be erected in
Washington were taken last week by
the Legion of Loyal Women, which
asked G. A. r. posts, patriotic organ
izations and others throughout the
country and cooperate.