Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-11
GALES FERRY

At the meeting of the Ladies' Aid society Friday afternoon at the par sonage plans were laid for supper and sale and the following committees were named: Table committee, Mrs.
 D. c. Perkins, Mrs. A. c. Miller, Mrs.
 Charles H. Hoyt, Mrs. Henry ". Hurl-
 butt, Mrs. Delphine Fish, Misses Kate
 B. Colver. Alice Satterlee; aprons and
 fancy work, Mrs. Fanny A. Moithrop;
 soliciting, Mrs. Harmon L. Perkins; to sell tickets for supper. Miss Sarah T. Latimer.
 Charles H. Miller, chief master at arms at the submarine base for three
 years, received his discharge from the
 service Friday and with Mrs. Miller
 and two young children, who have occupied the Davis cottage in the vil-
 lage for two years, left Monday to spend the winter with relatives in | Scranton, Pa. In the spring he con- 1 templates building home on land he
 has purchased at Moscow, Pa. Mir. Mil- Ter has been in the service 23 years. 1 At the Sunday morning service in | the M B. church Rev. O. B. Newton, who attended the meeting of the New l England Methodists at Fremont Tenn l pie, Boston, Dec. and 4, which mark l ed the completion of 100 years by the | Methodist Episcopal church in mis- l sionary work, gave a resume of the
 work of the conference, to interest his | congregation to do their part in the | interest of this world wide mission
 campaign which opened with this cen- | tenary meeting.
 1 At the Sunday school session Mrs. Newton read an interesting letter l from Rev. George M. Burdick, district superintendent of mission work of the { NJ. E. church in Corea, and d personal | friend of Rev. NIT. Newton and Mrs.
 Newton. The offering was for mis- sions. Miss Mary Birch's class con- tinued in the lead in the journey to i Canaan. having travelled 90 miles, Mrs. | 0. E. Newton's class 80 miles, with | Mrs. R. Irving Hurlbutt's class 70 miles.
 The leader for the Epwortn league
 service Sunday evening was Mrs o. E. Newton, with this topic:. Our Visible Bond of Fellowship.
 ! Two auto vans from Mt. Vernon, N. T., loaded with furniture and accom- i panied by four men, arrived in the l village Friday afternoon about f | o'clock. having travelled the entire dis 1 tance since o'clock ill the morning. 1 The furniture belonged to MT. and l Mrs. Frank A. Aplin, who have given ] up their permanent home in that city ta1d the goods were brought to their | summer home at the Ferry Mir. and Mrs. Aplin are leaving for California ] to spend. some time at the home of l their son-i law and daughter, Mir.
 and Mrs. Chester Dean Bonestell, of Camarillo.
 1 Mrs. Harmon L. Perkins and daugh- ! ter, Mrs J. A. Birch, with Mrs. Emma 1 RannRff lI1tn tnrfo iY1d of | Thursday at the home of Mrs Frank
 lin H. BrowIP of Laurel Hill, Nor- wich.
 The Misses Mathewson left their home in the village Saturday morning ] en route to Pittsfield, Mass. stopping 1 at Durham, Conn. for a brief visit 1 with their sister, Mrs. William Scran- | ton. At Pittsfeld they will spend the ] winter at the home of their brother, l Randolph Mathewson.
 There, was no session of the village school Thursday afternoon, as the l teacher, Miss Grace A. Chapman, was
 m attendance at the town teachers
 meeting at Ledyard Center. l Carl Lawson. radio electrician on the oil tanker Trinidadian from New ] York, made brief visit to his par-
 ents, MT. and Mrs. George E. Lawson. | "Wednesday night and Thursday of last week.
 Miss Cora Allyn of Groton was a re-
 cent caller at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Charles J. Pierce. of Al1yri's Point, Mrs. William H. Brooks of West Hartford and her mother, Mrs. Del phine Fish, of the village, spent We'd
 nesday in New York. Mrs. Brooks. 1 who spent several days here with her
 mother, returned home Friday
 At the village school four of the pu- | pills have thcjr names on the honor
 roll for perr|c ct attendance for Noyem- l ber<-Epn / eth Bennett, Helen De 1 Rusha Laura Mcclure and Gordon ! Me -y re.
 -dley c. Perkins is i'll at his ! / me.