Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-23
CANTERBURY GREEN
Christmas Sunday seryices-Roxes Sent to So1thern SchooI-lmprove- nnents ominenced-FuneraI of Mrs. Andrew J, Hetrick.


 Sent to so1thern sehooI-lmprove-
 nnents Comlnenced-FuneraI of Mrs.
 Andrew J. Hetrick.
 Christmas Sunday will be observed by special Christmas music at the morning service. In the evening the Christian Endeavor meeting has for It's subject, Helping to accomplish the purpose of Christ's coming. John 10: 1-16. Leader Edith ExIey.
 The Christmas concert and tree comes Christmas night-Monday at 8 o'clock.
 Christmas Cheer For Southern School. Three good sized boxes were sent thls week by parcel post to the school at Star, North Carolina, carrying glfts from Black Hill and Canterbury .Treen to community which would nave had no Christmas this year
 In various houses here the holi- oay season is especially welcome be- cause or the presence over vacations nf young folks home from school. es Exley from their teaching, Ralph Brown from Storrs Agricultural col iege.
 School Improvements.
 Charles D. Hine, state secretary or board of education in his address at the Public. Education meeting held Tn Grange hall, Tuesday night, paid a high compliment to the work of the local school committee when he en- umerated the long list of improve ments noticeable in the equipment of Canterbury schools within the last few years. The ventilation boards in the windows. stove jackets and some of me stoves, hardwood floors in near ly all schools, single blackboards in all 1af E,11 sets of maps. cupboards for material, these were some of the items men toned which rank Canterbury school equipment among the best of the rural schools.
 5 Supervisor Bond spoke at the meet training. L. T. Garrison of Willi- mantle showed acquaintance witt, the school visitation in the thorough manner in which he sketched the school curriculum of today He urged upon the parents their own wis., 1tation of the schools. Mrs. Belle Holeomb Johnson of the travelling li- brary spoke of the need of the town for its one library. An interesting demonstration in modern methods was given by Mrs. Dorothy Bennett and her little class in English who read from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, the scene on the closing of the caskets. Miss Edith Williams accompaniment of Mrs. Sagur and Hi- ram Howes, piano and violin; being beautifully sang, Anchored.
 Attended Farmers Meeting.
 Canterbury was represented at the Putnam meeting of the Farmers asso- citation Monday by Worthy Master Hubert M. Graves of the grange and Truman Hart, secretary of local Farmers Extension school Frank II x-c-r@ o1~ oortunity for cooperation between the association and the country towns in the matter of taking up abandoned farms, and their placing under proper farm management. Rev. Marion Jones was asked to speak on the re- lation of Boys and Girls clubs and the Rural Community.
 Funeral of Mrs. Hetrick.
 The funeral of Mrs. Andrew J. Het- rick, Thursday, December IA, was at tended at her home by friends and relatives. The service was in Charge of her former Norwich pastor, Rev. Edward s. Worcester, who carried out Mrs, Hetrick's wishes in the reading of the 18th chapter of First Cotinthi- ans. The hymns selected by Mrs. Hetrick were Lead Kindly Light, and Nearer, My God to Thee, sung by a choir of seven voices, aecompanied by MT. and Mrs. Hiram Hawes on the piano and violin. The singers were Mrs. JamessLathrop, Mrs Emily Bush- nell, MT. and Mrs. Hart Golf, Mrs. Walter Sagur. Mrs. Clinton Brink and Mrs. Herbert Graves There was read- ing also of Isaac Watts hymn, Our God, Our Help in Ages Past. preced- ed by violin rendering of the music | Anne.
 Burial Was in Carey cemetery. The beaDrs were Andrew and John Clark, her brothers. and Walter Kingsley and Riley Witter, her brothers n-law. The flowers were beautiful.
 Mrs Hetriek's only son. Captain Harold $. Hetrick, was able to get leave of absence from his station at San Antonio, Texas, arriving in Can- terbury the day following his moth CTS death. Her illness had been a brief one. She was cared for during her last week by Mrs George Hatch. an old friend and neighbor. Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved hus- band and son.
 Short Paragraphs.
 Little Dorothy Appley who has been very i'll with bronchitis, at her grand fathers James Apples, is improv- ing
 Miss Sarah Louise HalIey, teacher In Detroit, IS spending her vacation with her mother. Mrs. Sarah Baldwin Had1ey.
 Mrs. Belle Holconb Johnston was a guest at the parsonage Tuesday night. Wednesday she took her usual trip around the town distributing books, but on account of bad travelling and short days she was unable to visit all the houses on her list.
 Henry Randall has sold his farm to purchasers from Long Island. All are sorry to have MT. RandalI's family leave this community.
 George Fawley is working for Till fnghast Brothers of Central Village His brother, Frank, is transporting the school children from Hyde Street district.
 Benjamin Cornell has purchased an automobile.
 Beeeher Brown put his knee out of | joint Sunday morning.