Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-27

GEdnSes NO fZ- FauOnS or huSDanurys in Pythian nall on Wednesday eve ming. and various opinions were aired by several prominent Norwich gem | tlemen.
 The meeting was called to order by the Worthy Master, Charles A. flag Three applications for membership were received and business of rou- ! tine nature was transacted
 The lecturers programme was one cries by the D. E. F. G!s, Chose | whose last names begin with either of the letters mentioned). songs. poems and short adresses on What Our City Needs Most.
 Following the discoveries came the | introduction by the lecturer, this be- | being a brief history of Norwich. When | was Norwich purchased from the In- dians, asked the lecturer. On June IT, | 1859. It was a territory nine miles square and the purchase price was 70
 pounds. The first mayor Benjamin | Huntington, was elected in July 1874 and held office for twelve years.
 The expense of Uncas monument | was borne by the ladies of Norwich and was erected in the Indian ceme- tery in 1S42. It was constructed of l Quincy granite at the Massachusetts State Prison. Charlestown. The cor ner stone of the monument was laid l by President Jackson, who stopped here with part of his cabinet while making a tour of the eastern states.
 There was no postoffice in Norwich
 before the Revolution and letters were distributed from the New London ] postoffice The Norwich post office
 was established in 1872 and the mails
 averaged two or three week by three stage routes.
 Following the lecturers introduction
 a poem. My Town, was given by Mrs
 Hagberg. The topic of the evening
 was then in order and the first speak
 CT was Judge John H. Barnes. Judge
 Barnes, pn his remarks, said what
 Norwich doesn't need Is gossip, and
 what Norwich does need is brotherly
 love, the practice of fraternal love,
 and to stop knocking.
 | Worthy Master Charles A. Hagberg was the second speaker. He said we
 should get rid of the saloon. should work for better sidewalks and should make Norwich really the Rose of New
 England.
 Rev. Joel B. Slocum, D. D., pastor
 of the Central Baptist church was all so heard on the subject of the evening. 1 Among the several things Rev. Dr.
 Slocum advocated was a cleaner city . Miss Alice Jackson then entertained
 by giving a poem, The Little Old Town I and Herbert R. Branche followed with ] a poem Might as Well be Happy. The lecturer then read the following pa : per on What It Means to Amount to , Something and Be a Credit to the : Town.
 ITO amount to something" a person must be, in a measure at least, suc-
 cessful in some honest occupation
 Someone has said: He has achieved
 success who has lived we'll laughed
 often and loved much. who has gain
 ed the respect of intelligent men and
 the love of little children: who has filled his niche and accomplished his
 task; who has left the world better 2 than he found it, whether by an im- | a
 rescued soul; who has never lacked
 appreciation of earth's beauty: who . has always looked for the best Tn oth- f CTS and given the best he had and
 whose life was an inspiration to those Q with whom he came in contact" Now = it seems to me that person who has a achieved success must have amounted a to something and of a necessity De a 1 credit to his town.
 Many of us are apt to think, when f we first leave our parental roof that Q in order to amount to something we = must save a life. storm a city, write . | book or make a million dollars, with n | which we may return to our native . town, build a library, hall or bridge ? To be sure these things are a credit lr to a person but we cannot all occupy : the high places in life. no more car we all build bridges, halls or libraries We can. however, utilize every oppor- 7 tunity that comes to us to improve | ourselves and to aid others. It seems "a to me that one of the greatest aids tC e success is character" One writer n has said characters are achieved, no =. received. They grow out of a sub.
 stance of a mans soul. They canno
 be put on as a beggar would put oI
 a stolen coat. They grow with use
 false limb wears out or wastes wItl
 use. while a natural limb growl
 stronger and better with use. Thus i s is with characters, for they grow d stronger every time they are put tt | ~a-A Character is power, it is influence ! it makes friends; creates funds; draw patronage and support; and opens ID way to wealth, honor and happiness IS and in a word-success. How fev y young men realize that their success II in life depends a great deal more upol r. what they are than upon what the, Ill know. But he who would succeet
 must pay the price. He must not lool
 for a soft snap for he is very apt t k get left. The men that have reache, N the highest degree of success are thos n men who have depended upon them l. selves. who have pushed themselve Is and the world up with them iron Id chaos into higher civilization and ad r. vancement. If we were to study tn sr life of Washington, we would see. SC B. why he was so well liked by all wit
 whom he came in contact. He was a
 cheerful as he was spirited; frank an
 communicative in the society c
 friends, fond of innocent pleasure. of
 ten sportive in his letters, and liked
 hearty laugh. His hand was liberal " giving quietly and without observa eo tion, as if he were ashamed of noth w ing but being found out or discovere ad in doing good. He was kindly an n- compassionate. and of lively sensibil CT ity to the sorrows of others so ths K had his country needed a victim fc 4, its relief he would nave offered Eim he self as a sacrifice. His understandln c. was lucid, and his judgment accurate rs- so that his conduct or action never be n- trayed hurry or confusion. As a fin;
 praise of him, 1t is said that never
 the tide of time has any man live
 who had in so great a degree the al
 most divine faculty of commandin nd the confidence of his fellow men an ra to rule the willing. Wherever he bC ,y came known, family, state, camp nm continent he always had the conf dd dence of his kind, and having the ar confidence he was able to do a gre; ,of deal more for them than he otherwiI
 could have done. We see then an e1
 ample of a very successful man,
 man whose very aim 1t was to a. ', others who were not so fortunate. n have spoken of the first part of Il