Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12

1 sisters, Misses Palmer and Dunning. | Miss Marie Smidt of Colorado, a | favorite summer guest, Is again with l her friends the Reed and Tyler fam | flies.
 For the next two Sundays the ses- l sions of the Bible school will be omit ted.
 Rev. MT. Parker is taking a needed l vacation of two weeks at least. The | pulpit will be supplied. It being un- l advisable to take his family for a long 1 trip this exceptional sumner, he will | find change in short motor excur- s1ons about the country side. Deacon F. E. Pratt with MT and Mrs. Gaynor. spent the weekend at Quon- | ochontaug.
 Miss Coleman is at Music Colony. on the beach. MT. and Mrs. Benton and Mrs. Sleight called upon her there on Sunday.
 Miss Pauline chalker passed the Pratt.
 pr. E. Dimock of Morrow, his mother, Mrs Eugene Dimock and her guest, Mrs. Julia Holmes Dillworth, a native and former resident, now of East Hartford, called at Maple Corner Sun day afternoon, when out for a motor trip. Mrs. Dillworth recalled the fact that her grandfather Araal Eldredge, once the owner and proprietor of the stage tavern, and Mrs. Dimock, that her husbands parents had lived there at one time.
 Maj. Edward V. Preston and family are sumerIng, as usual, at the Maple wood, PittSfeId, Mass His sister, Mrs. Estelle Preston Chapin, is in Dalton, near by at more quiet hOstelry.
 The extreme heat of Sunday after noon was not conducive to a large at tendance at Bible school or church but all who were present were amply repaid by the singing of Miss Emily Treat Ellis, aCcOmpanist and by Pastor Parker's mental and spiritual impress sion made by Mrs. Margaret SIatterly who was one of the regular speakers at the Sunday school convention he at tended recently at NOrthfield. MT Parker is particularly happy in these reports-nOt from notes in the usual sense but beipg a close listener he sicn made. The Lords supper was observed.
 Deacon William Henry Marsh came over Sunday in his new runabOut and all are glad for him and for his help full wife in the acquisition, aS it places the fine, fertile farmstead on the up land, east of the FentOn river. a mat ter of minutes and not of miles from church, neighb0rs and railroad station.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Pratt also in the TOpliff district have Q car.
 It becomes the sad duty of this cor L'-SE'JIlutiL NO lbLG the paSSln2 on August .th, at Roosevelt hospital New York, of her beloved niece. whose dis trcsSIng Illness has been mentioned in this column from time to time during the last half year Miss Alice Maud Preston, oldest child of Herbert Glazier and Charlotte Marsh Preston, was born in Stafford Springs, September Sth. 1870. In early childhood her parents moved 10 WIl!iamstOWn, Mass where her girlhood was passed. Here she united with the Congregational church and graduated from the Misses Snyder'F select girls school Later she continued her studies at The Elm ma Willard Female Seminary, at Troy. \. H., and from there entered the John Hopkins training school for nurses at Baltimore, Md, after her graduation taking 9 special course in years she followed her profession Wlth great acceptance, being called twice professionally to Vienna, Aus tri Feeling the need of change and rest, she came to Wilmington and with her characteristic zeal. took up the scientific raising and developine of poultry making a speciality of the " hIte LeghOTn, with eXCeptiOnal sue cess. While here she has gained the admiration, respect and esteem of the entire community. Miss Preston was Beautiful in person and in character
 
 her long illness have been untiring in their loving and kindly ministrations Her brave spirit holding out courage ouSIy to the very last. She leaves her two best loved friends, Misses Frances H. Mereereau and Catherine D. Rick etts, an adopted son, Robert Nersereau Preston, one brother, Fred Marsh Preston of PiuecastIe, Florida. and one unc!es, Frances WayIand Preston of West Stafford. The sorrow at what seems her untimely departure. is shared by the church here of which she was d member, and by the intimate circle of ne{ghbOrs, and indeed by all who knew her. The funeral was large attended at her Hillside" home at three o'clock, Thursday, D. m, Rev. Charles A. Parker officiating. Funer- al director Baker was in charge. under the direction of her kinsman, Deacon r. Wayland Pratt. The burial was in the Sylvester T. Preston family plot in the old Hill cemetery, where since colonial days her ancestors. Prest0ns and Glaziers are sleeping.