Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-12

hard name, one teacher wss expsl1sa. etc He replied chat he would suc- eeed if they would give him a trial. He taught the full term, and gave perfect satisfaction. The next winter tney sent for him to come and teaeh the school again. He had already en- gagged a school near his home, the oth- CT being thirty miles away. and he was not aware they were so well pleased with him.
 Last summer, 65 years after taking his nrst school he was permitted to visit the same place He found one of his old l.upils, man a few years younger than himself, still. living there In course of conversation the man said You are the best teacher ever had'' and added there is only one other pa. 1 pill living that I know of and she lives rear here. The same day he called on the lady who greeted him.. sYou
 were the best teacher Lever went to-
 So he has several times remarked that
 the first school he ever taught when
 he was Is was the only one where he
 gave perfect satisfaction.
 1 He continued his education in the comnerciaa college at Poughkeepsie Ion. the Hudson and taught many years during which time he was at the head iof 8 business coles5e at sVestedly, R. F.. and here in Norwich. One of his boys, now 8 man, recently said: sa was one of the pupils in the college We boys used to try our pranks CT Jim, but we always got worsted. He @as grand teacher We don't have lany such nowadays"
 He was fne singer and played tht violin. He made q violin when h.
 was fourteen and another before h, | nj a4Tr -1.A .s. --.t.. schools also. He had a fine n1usica tenor voice! which was still very ap lparent the last Sabbath he attende, ichurcb which was Feb. 24.
 4 He was just and upright in all hi ldealings and his Christian characte . WIS above reproaeh, He was modes land retiring in his disposition. ] tquiet, gentle man, hence a gentleman
 His homegcing is 8 loss to the com lmunity. but our loss is his gain. -Whei approached about the probability c his seing he said: We must not niur 7 lmur. God has been very good to m, praise the Lord for His goodness. Al ter, he took to his bed on March 8 l, : went down very rapidly till the end. ..f He leaves widow and one brothe. 2 lwith nieces and nepfiews to nrour 2 This loss. His first wife was Maria 2 lChase of Brooklyn, Conn. to whoi ' he was married May s, 1881. He live
 Isvith her 39 years. His second vii . was Mary Jane Ledingweil Gart1ne ' who lived only few months whe ! Isiie, too. was called home. On Oct. |, 1910. he was ma arried to Miss Amel ! N. Starkweather, a distant relative,
 Chautauqua, N. r., who survives hiT |. He was member of the First Ba5
 cf nh rl,1,. l.o 6AA ArxA41
 formerly Bible class teacher and cal ,. Her leader of the choir.
 He was always cheerful and hopt n ful and made an ideal home tarougi
 out his entire married life.
 Mrs. D. E. Adams, ST. l. Mrs. Sarah J. Adams, widow of fo : mer Superintendent of Schools al a. Town Treasurer Dwight R. Adam E Sir, and mother of former Town Trea 1t urer Dwight R. Adams. died at h .- home in Centreville, R. l., shortly b l. fore midnight Sunday night Of bro
 chitis, following an illness of five da, '. If she had lived until. April Il $ e, would have been s7 years old. She > survived by her son.
 fe Mrs. Adams was born in Canterbul
 Conn. April Il, 1921, being dsught F. of the late Samuel L. and Bets A. t1ouGn- ana a SiSLer or the late Walt V. s. Hough. of the Whitman HouB
 Company of Providence Her gran l. father was surgeon in the Contine m tai army during the Revoiutiona sd War.
 at Mrs. Adams was one of. the old.
 residents of Pawtuxet Valley. hayi L. lived in the house in which she di E. for more than a half century. V. was unusually active for person
 her advanced age, having been up a II around her home up to five days al .n when she was stricken with a bro e. chial cold. With the exception of ks hearing she retained all of her facu on ies up to her death, her memory bel ". especially keen. She was a, devt al Christian and during her late yes sn had spent most of the time readi ce the Bible, many passages of which g ch had committed to memory.