Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-23
COLUMBIA
Local Men Attend Meeting Relative 10 Chaplin School Supervision-Christ- mas Exercises This Evening-Hens Lay 300 Eggs Daily.

Herbert F. Collins and Clayton E.
 Hunt motored to Chaplin Thursday
 evening of last week to attend meet-
 ing of the voters of Chaplin relative
 to having a school supervisor in that
 town. MT. Hunt is a member of the
 town school committee in Columbia.
 Both MT. Collins and MT. Hunt spoke
 in favor of supervision. There is a
 strong opposition to having a super
 visor in Chaplin and probably a town
 meeting will be held to decide the
 matter.
 Mrs. Marietta Rice of Pittsfeld,
 Mass, is spending several weeks with
 the family of her son. Howard A. Rice
 on Columbia Green.
 Pastors Salary Increased. At a joint meeting of the Church
 and Ecclesiastical society held at the
 chapel Friday afternoon of last week, 1t was voted to increase the salary of
 the pastor. Rev. MT. Owens, s1oo. Meyer Bitten has received news of the death of his mother which occur red in New York. MT. Bitten left ear ly Sunday morning for that city. l.. Eugene Winter has received a letter from his sister in California, in- forming him that their mother Mrs. Alpheus Winter, is i'll with pneumo- nia. Mrs. Winter spent last summer In this place with the family of her son, and returned to California in the fall. She is the widow of Rev. AL pheuS Winter. Christmas Exercises. Public Christmas exercises will be held at the church Monday evening.
 There will be recitations and singing by the children. Those having the l matter in charge are: Committee on decorations, L. 7E. Winters Sunday school class; music in charge of Mrs.
 Fred A. Abell; arrangement of pro- gram, Miss Gertrude Gates and Miss Jones.
 Getting 300 Eggs a Day. Winthrop DaIoll, who resides a
 short distance over the town line in Lebanon, is getting excellent results from his pens of several hundred White Leghorn hens the present sea- son. He is said to have been getting ! about 300 eggs daily for some time evidently mean to pay for their board l and lodging.
 Attended Suffrage Meeting. Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch, chairman of the Holland County Woman Suf- frage organization, motored over the snow-clad hills to North Ashford on Thursday of last week. to be present at a suffrage meeting and supper ar | ranged by the Union-Ashford Equal Franchise League. Mrs. Welch reports an interesting meeting. Miss Mullen of New Haven was the principal speaker. Both Holland and Windham counties were interested in the meet | ing. Union in Holland and Ashford in Windham county. Miss Welch spoke in behalf of Holland county and Miss DanielSon SSpoke in regard to propa- sanda work. Rev. c. J. Hartman of St. Philips church, Putnam, offered prayer and spoke during the meeting. Mrs. Harry Lanson. president of the Union League. presided at the meet i ing.
 Mrs. We1ch is member of the state executive board and Wednesday last attended a meeting of the board and | luncheon at Hartford. The new slo- 1 gan in the suffrage movement is Bal 1 lots for Both" instead of Votes for Women" which was generally misun- derstood as excluding men. Miss Mary Welch, who is taking a course at Wykehorn Rise school for | girls, at Washington, Conn, returned l to Columbia, Wednesday. and will ' spend the holiday season with her mother at Noxid, their home by the l lake