Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
GALES FERRY
Country Club House Opened for the Season-Card Party-Mrs. Latham E. Smith Entertains at Birthday Dinner-cottases Opened for the Season.

Rev. o. E. Newton administered holy communion in the M. E. church Sun day morning following his sermon, taken from I Corinthians, Il: "A, the text being This Do in Remembrance Of Me. At the offertory Miss Grace A. Chapman sang There is Green Hill Far Away.
 At the Epworth league evening ser vice. conducted by Rev. MT. Newton, the topic on which he spoke was Suc- cess.
 The opening of the Gales Ferry Country club house for the season took place on the Fourth of July even ing, when an ice cream sale preceded an informal dance enjoyed by the peo- ple of the summer colony. A card party of seven tables was given at the clubhouse Saturday even- ing. Thrift stamps were prizes. Transferred to Virginia. First Lieut.. John R. Perkins, son of MT. and Mrs. Dudley c. Perkins or the village, has been transferred from Camp Custer, Mich. to Camp Lee, Va. Lieutenant Perkins. detailed as an in structor at the fourth officers train | ing school, was in charge of the movement of the detachment, infantry section, from Camp Custer to the cen tral officers training school at Camp Lee.
 Mrs. Carleton P. Browning and in- fant daughter Emily King Browning with nurse, arrived Saturday from Kitemaug, the home of MT. Brown 1 ing's parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank w l Browning, at the home here of Mrs Brownings parents, MT. and Mrs. Ma | than A. Gibbs. Mrs. Browning vii 1 spend some weeks here before return | ing to her home at Britannia Beach B. c.
 1 Miss Mary Voorhees and Miss Ad- 1 ams who arrived in the village last 1 week at the cottage of Miss Povey al Allyn place. left Monday morning tc attend the foreign missionary confer | ence at Northfield Mass Miss Strang another guest of Miss Voorhees,, from Brooklyn. returned to her home Sat. l urday.
 Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Keene of Xii. lingly visited at the home of MT. ant Mrs. Eugene LaFontaine in the Stod dard district July Fourth. 1 Birthday Dinner.
 Mrs. Latham E. Smith celebrated her birthday at Rose Lawn farm July Fourth Local residents, with out O I l event. A fine chowder dinner wa! served. Mrs. Smith received gifts ant 1 flowers.
 Miss Helen R. Buckingham of New 1 York is spending a week at the hom, of her brother and sister law, MT and Mrs. Walter NJ. Buckingham.
 The Long Cove contingent of tn, Red Cross auxiliary, met at the home of Mrs. Justin Pecllham Wednesda! with a good attendance
 Mrs. Herman Peckham, who ha been a guest at the home of he daughter, Mrs. Richard Chase. of Lon! Cove for week, returned to New Lon don Monday.
 Open Summer Cottage.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Woodruff anC family from Richmond Hills, L. arrived at their cottage last week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Gilbert s. Raymont and family are among recent arrival at a cottage on the bluff.
 The family Of w. H. B. Dumont 0 Montclair, N. J., arrived last week t spend the season at their cottage.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Frank Clark ant Miss Florine Scofield of Norwich wer entertained at the home of MT ant Mrs. Walter M. Buckingham Jul, Fourth.
 Mrs. B. Murray of Newport was recent guest of her daughter, Mrs Joseph DeRusha, of the village.
 Orrin Latham of Providence, R. I
 was caller on friends at his boy hood home last Wednesday.
 Andrew Donovan of Putnam
 spending the summer at the home o
 MT. and Mrs. Latham E. Smith.