Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-26
BENEFIT RECITAL
Charles H. Brown Gives shakespearesn Play at Country C!ub-PPesents Check for $25 to Club.

Check for $25 to Club.
 The social activities for the benefit
 Of the new Gales Ferry Country club
 house follow one another in quick
 succession.
 Shakespeare's tercentenary was ob-
 served last Thursday evening with m
 illustrated lecture on StraLford-ou ou-
 Avon and a. recital of the Merchant of
 Venice given by Charles II. Brown of
 Norwich. The company included:
 PiCka nninies. Misses Hester Wilson,
 Dorothy Frost Ethel Frost, Dorothy Beaver, Mildred Bird, Dorothy WuR, Helena WulT; end men. Misses Edna.
 Mann, Margaret Wilson. Mss Mary
 R. Gibbs was Mrs. VOtes-for- " omen and Miss Beatrice Jones was Miss SWat-the-fy. MT. Brown has trav- eled abroad frequently and visited both StratfOrd and Fenice-Inalling him most familiar with his subject. MT. Brown gave this lecture as 6, benefit. for the club house, with Q check for twenty-five dollars and also gave the door receipts.
 Good Minstre! Show. The mfnstreIs was largely attended at the Gales Ferry club house Satur- day evening. Mrs. Walter NJ Buckingham was in i terlOcutOr and director Of the pro- gram, which was made Up of songs, humorous recitations and local hits, | WLllCl won IlUCn dDpldUSS. 1 Ice cream was sold at the close and | there was an informal dance. Boys Preparedness Camp. A camp of boys on the Bluff are i greatly interested in training for gen. eraI preparedness. They sleep in Ehe tents. Donald DumOnt is quaTtermas- l ter, Gordon Peck, sergeant and the i privates are Charles Frost, Bruce Du- mont, Clarence Warner, Herbert Corey and Gordon AIaniere. Guest From Panama. Miss Marion Rogers of Balboa canal Zone, arrived last Thursday evening to visit her aunt, Mrs. Delphine Fish and l family. Miss Rogers sailed from Pan- anna. on the U. s. s. ChriStOhaL 1 Miss Beth Keeney and friends of | New London are spending some time i at the Keenay bungalow, on the 1 Strand.
 Rev. James M. Potter and Mrs. Pot
 ter with their son, Donald, left Sat 1 urday to spend the week at Whitman" l tic camp ground Rev. MT. Potter 1 hopes to find the change to the woods 1 beneficial to his health as he has been. 1 ill. | George T. E-eech, q prominent Mid 1 dletoWn business man, spent the week i end at The Griswold, Eastern Point, and visited his sister, Mrs. Charles A. | Satterlee and family Monday. i Miss Mary R. Gibbs and party, her l I Miss Carrie Wilcox, with Mrs. Fanny 1 A. GIOlthrop, mOtored to Deans Mill i Monday, on a picnic. l Miss Harriet Bishop Brown and i Miss Cora Allyn of Groton were the 1 guests of Mrs. Charles J. Pierce at AL 1 lyn's Point Friday.
 i Guests From Norwich. 1 Miss Harriet Breed of Norwich was | a, week end guest at the cottage of ] Herman Wulf and family on the Bluff. 1 Mrs. 4. c. Swan of Norwich spent l Tuesday at the Wulf Den. the cottage i of Otto Wulf and family. i Mrs. Norman B. Cornwall and 3. friend from Brooklyn, N. Y, are, i spending some weeks at the home Of
 Mrs. Justin Peckham of Peckham. l Point.
 Entertained on Houseboa4. MT. and Mrs. Walter M. Bucking- ] ham entertained on the houseboat l Gypsy Sunday Mrs. Buckingham | parents, MT. and Mrs. J. Frank Clark, l and Miss FIorine Scof1eId of Norwich i with Mrs. Rowe of New York. Mon i day they entertained MT. Bucking,- i hams sisters, Miss Helen Buckingham of New York and Miss Maud Carew ] Buckingham of Norwich. 1 Mrs. Nathan 4. Gibbs had as her l guests Tuesday Misses Kate and Mary Rudd with Miss North of Norwich Town.
 Mrs. Edwin Keeney of New London
 called on relatives in this place re- | gently.
 Charles w. Pierce of Union Hill, N.
 T., after spending a week with his family Mrs. Pierce and young son who are at the home of MT. Pierce's | parents, S,Tr. and Mrs. Charles J, l Pierce at AIlyn's Point returned to l business last week.
 w. r. Browning of New Brighton, l Staten Island is the guest of his sis | ter Mrs. Edwin w. Jones and family at Twin Oak cottage. Edwin ". Jones of Mt. Vernon, N. Y, spent Sunday at the family cot 1 tage.
 Gave 300 Party. Miss Mildred Bird of the Davis cot tage gave a five hundred party to 12 1 young friends from the Bluff Tuesday evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. The prize for high score, q box Of choco- | lates, went to Clarence Warner. Lem onade and waters were servtd. Camp Meeting Sunday. There will be no services in the 1 village N. E. church tomorrow (Sun- 1 day) as the pastor is having his Vaca- | tiCn at WilHmantic camp ground and | an opportunity is given his congrega- ton to attend the services there that l day.