Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-02-05
OLD MYSTIC
Union Service Planned-Funerals--
Church Societies Meet-Personals.


A union service of both churches
will be held in the Methodist church
Sunday evening at O'Clock. Rev
Fred e. Coburn, pastor OF the Baptlst
church, will give the message on The
Supreme Need of the Home-ifnpres-
theme which he recently. heard given
by Rev. Cortland Meyer. pastor Of
fremont temple, Boston.
Mrs. Silas e. Burrows, daughter-in-
law of the late Silas 2; Burrows, Of
Old Mystic, died Jan. I'd at Lucerne,
Switzerland. Her body was cremated
and the ashes buried in the Burrows
plot in Elm Grove cemetery.
John s. Sehoonover Spoke.
A banquet was given on the evening
of Jan. 25th at Stroudsburg, Pa, to
celebrate the 18th or silver anniver-
sary of the Stroudsburg and Buskill
Telephone company. One of the adj
brother of Alpheus H. Schoonover, of
Elmhurst. Old Mystic He is a native
and former resident of this village
Frederick A, Barnes of Oaklawn and
Charles @. Eldredge of RiverView cot
tage attended the joint convention of
the county league and eastern Con-
necticut development committee held
last Thursday at New London.
Funeral of MRS. Reach.
IbOSl6 IA6dCu u1Go AuTSOdy at
her home here after a lingering illness
from dropsy. She was about 50 years
of age. She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Jesse Bennett, of the Wolf Neck
district. The funeral was held Satur-
day morning at 10 o'clock at the home
Rev. William Crawford, pastor of the
Methodist church, Old Mystic. officiat-
ed. Burial was in the Bennett burying
ground at Wolf Neck.
The Ladies Aid society of the Rap
fist church met Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Clarence w. Beck
with.
The United Workers of the Meth
odist church met Wednesday afternoon
in the parish house
Miss Susan n. Babcock, Mrs. Charles
H. Burdick. Mr. and Mrs Maurice B.
Caswell and daughter, Esther CasweIl,
went to North Stonington Monday af-
| ternoon to attend the funeral of Mrs.
John Stedman, which was held in the
Baptist church.
Engagement Announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. DIN H Avery of Led
yard announce the engagement of their
| niece, Miss Florence Chapman Cooke
| to Albert Cleveland Shafard of Glas-
| tonbury, CT.
Briefs and Personals.
Miss Jessie Holdredge of Mystic,
| who has been i'll of grip at her home,
returned Monday to her duties as
| teacher of the first and second grades
| of the Old Mystic school. During her
| absence Miss Nellie f. Schoonover OF
| Old Mystic substituted.
Miss Frances Eldredge has recovered
| from an attack of the grip and re-
turned to her duties as teacher al
| Cromwell.
Attorney Dana Taylor Gallup has
| returned to Boston after spending the
week end with his mother, Mrs. Sim
con Gallup.
Oscar F. Crumb is slowly recover
| ing from a severe attack of grip.
Mrs. A. Lee Coles and son, Master
Eldred Coles, have returned from 6
visit to friends in Jewett City.
Mrs. Minnie Greene Chaplin has re-
| turned to Brookline, Mass.
| Mrs. Augustus G. Jarvis has return
ed to her home at Stafford Springs
after a visit to her sister, Mrs. Au-
| guStus Lambert.
Robert Chesebro has moved from
| Waterford to the Chestnut Ridge cot
tage at Burnets Corners.
Miss Iva Johnson has recovered
! Sunday to her duties as teacher at the
state model school at Washington
Center.
Miss Blanche Null of New Londor
has been spending the past week will
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. Ed
win Stapelyn.
/ Rev William Crawford will preacI
Sunday morning from the subjec
Seeking a Better Country
Mrs. Charles H. Denison of Mysti,
was a village caller Thursday after
| noon.
Mrs. David Wilbur of Burnet's Cor
ners district has been i'll with grip.
Blacksmith Recovering.
George Waite, who was badly burnet
last Tuesday while working in hi