Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-20
COLUMBIA
Local Ball Team Defeats Lehnnnn-
 Grax Club Presents Play cufrant sush erowinn in Bark q Elm Tree.


 Cyrus Hilton and a friend. Charles Ant0ss of Glastonbury, came by mo torcycla to Columbia, Sunday, and were guests of MT. and Mrs. lanes F. Little
 Mrs. Nellie Frost Of Melrose, Mass. has been visiting friends in this place tho past week.
 lebanon Defeated.
 A ball game was played here last Saturday by Columbia and Lebanon hines, the latter being defeated, S to 5. Today CSaturdayl g game will be played by the same mines at Lebanon.
 At the meeting of the local grange "Wednesday evening a class of five was instructed in the first and second de- Presented Play.
 The Grex Club of the Congregational church of Willimantic, came here last lsSaturday evening and presented the three-act play "The Colonel's Maid" at Yeomans' hall to a large and ap- well staged. and every part well in- terpreted. After the entertainment there was dancing to music by Ly- mans orchestra.
 ner of Bolton, was in town recently on probate business.
 Miss Brady of Andover spent the weekend with friends in town.
 The Ladies Aid society met at Yeo- mans hall Thursday afternoon for work preparatory to the annual fair. Fred l. Avery. Horace E. Little and l Lyndon Little of Hartford, spent the week end with local friends. pr. Snow and family and Mrs. and Mrs. Frederick Walker of Hartford, I were calling upon friends in town Sunday.
 Husband Pays Fine and Costs. I T1 l fore Justice Raymond E. Clarke, Mon day, on complaint of grand juror Charles $. Morshall, charged with as- saulting his wife, Esther Silverstein The accused pleaded guilty and was | fined one dollar and costs, on the first count, which amounted to S12.02, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail or the second count, with judgment sus. pended, and accused put upon his good behavior.
 Mrs. Cecil L. Gates and daughter left Monday tSa flor for Silver Silver Bay N E
 and where Mir. Gates is engaged in ' Ai. c. A. work.
 MT and Mrs. Henry o. Little yitl friends from Bridgewater, Mass, mo ! tored here Sunday, called upoi : friends, and visited the, Old Buryin.
 were spent in Columbia. N Currants from Elm Tree. F From present appearances, Rev. T i, N. Owen, will harvest a fair crop o
 currants from the large elm tree il
 front of the parsonage. Columbia f 5 the only place in this vicinity wher
 entrants are picked from elm trees
 but entrants have been gathered iron this particular tree for several years ' Some bird is supposed to have carrie the seed and deposited it in a holloI place where the limbs first branch ou
 about g or 10 feet from the surfac iof the ground the seed germinate took root and is now a fair size 2 currant bush with branches more tha two feet high well laden with bios
 soms.
 , Mrs. Kate Wolff was surprised on morning recently when she examine
 a wire rat trap which had been place
 in the cellar and discovered six larg l and lively rats imprisoned in it. The ? were soon dispatchedA The apple trees are in full bloor l and spraying will be next in order. Building Another Bungalow. pr. Wells. of Hartford is having an other bungalow erected on the yves shore of the lake near one formerI , erected on his land adjoining the Cen : ter church property.
 'Merrythought" poultry farm ha . now some fifteen hundred youn z chicks in it's various pens.