Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-24
WILLIMANTIC
Norwich Bulletin WiiliEantie Office, g Church St. Telephone 105.

Norwich Bulletin Wiilirantic Office, 23 Church St. Telephone 1o5.
 While definite figures could not be. obtained as to the total amount sub scribed up to Friday night in the drive for the Salvation Army Home Service Fund. still it is known that a good start has been made in the be- lated drive for S2400 the towns quota and practically 5000 had been raised during the day. A number of can ivassers were busy during the day about the city streets and today (Sat- urday) Doughnut Day. should produce a substantial sum for the, fund. The employees of the American Thread company plant in this city. true to their former reputation established i'll the Liberty loan campaigns. cana across Friday in good shape. It was 4-Sured that this source should su5- scribe one-fourth of the total quo ta or $500. Charles W. Hill, who has charge of the canvass at the plant, stated Friday night that up to the time of closing. a total of $4S6 had been collected. with less than fifty per cent. of the employees canvassed. The canvass at the plant will be continued today Saturday, and Monday, if nec- essary, to finish it up. Reports were received from a number of the other industries that the fund was being generously subscribed to by their employees. though actual figures could lpot be secured of the amounts ob- tained from those sources Friday night. At the store of Daniel P. Dunn over s100 was subscribed during the day and. agnets of the local branch of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. obtained about $500 during the day and in addition. left many cards to be filled out. The young ladies who have volunteered to sell doughnuts today l (Saturday) are as follows. They will wear blue and white SaShes with the words .'Salvation Army inscribed up- on them: Rose McQuillan. Madeline Twomey, Winifred Hevrin. Alice Don ohue. May Cheney, Florence Hevrin Lillian McKenna, Catherine Shea, Lil- lian Cheney, Ida Delude, Harriet EPotvin, Alice Hickey, Alice Sweeney, Bessie Sullivan and Francis Stanley.
 Don't fail to attend the Spanish War Veterans dance tonight.-adv,
 About fifty members of the senior class of Windham High school will go to Storrs this (Saturday) morn ing to attend the third annual High School day at the Connecticut Agri- cultural College. This is an a1inua event, held under the auspices of the college to which about 5000 stu dents in the senior classes of the higf schools in the state are invited. Al l elaborate programme of entertain
 ment has been arranged.
 - Plans have been perfected for tn
 observance of Memorial Day in Will limantie, which consist, of the pro
 gram as carried out in former years +t,; l.
 held tomorrow afternoon at the Me
 thodist Episcopal church at. D. m Al address will be made By Rev C. liar [ ley Smith. In addition to z the ol @ Vets" members of the Woman's Re lief Corps, Spanish War Veteran e and world war veterans will attend
 The public are cordially invited to at p tend this service. Orders in regar
 to Memorial Day were issued Frida
 as follows:
 WiIlimantic, May 23, 1919.
 Headquarters, Francis $. Lon
 Post. No. go, G. A. R. . ,-s s..:..-.,,,, /; l Delegations from Francis $. Lon : Post c. X. R., will gather at head 2,el quarters of the post at the town hal Q Monday, May 90. at S.30 a. m., for tn
 purpose of decorating the graves (
 veterans of the various wars in Wind d ham. The trip to the various ceme d terie5 will be made in automobi1e
 The Thread City Fife and Drum corr
 will furnish music on the pilgrimag g ;. Services will be held at the Windhar cemetery at a. m., North Windhal l. cemetery at 10 a. m.. and St. Joseph 'c cemetery at II a. m. The procesSio to the Willimantic cemetery will leav S l the post headquarters at D. m. Or ganiZations are requested to be. 0
 hand at 1.45 p. m., to take part in ti z procession. -..-, ...
 Per Post Commander, r -1t .-, GEORGE. THOMAS. k DAN HOLBROOK, Adjutant.
 At special meeting of the stool
 holders of the WiIlimantic Industri
 company held Friday evening in Il ac 1 Willimantic Chamber of Commert ~o rooms, it was voted to increase u Id capital stock of the company
 s26o,0o No other business was r,
 ported.
 le origen Atwood Sessions, 77, retir, ', business man. ' of Willimantic. W; IS found dead. at hiss. home, No. ? Prospect Street. Friday morning re about half past eight. :, Mi Sessiol C had not been in good health for v number of years and had. lived alo1 D. for some time. The millman vi 7 called at the house Friday mornil D found Mir. Sessions in q sitting D
 sition in chair in the Kitchen of | home. The authorities and neishbo -- were notified and after an examin
 tion, Medical Examiner. Dr. r. F. " '- COX, pronounced death due to valvul
 disease of the heart. MT. Sessio
 was born in Chaplin, Sept. Is, 1S-
 and was educated in the local schoo
 After spending a number of years lV farming, MT Sessions came to tf -J city in 1882 and engaged in the u r. dertakihg and furniture business co r. ducted by J. E. Cushman. He r l , mained with the latter ten years a
 then, went into the same line of bu
 mess Ter himself. After changing
 location of the business number
 times, MT. Sessions settled in
 Washburr block at the corner - North and Valley street of which
 was a+half owner. and where he I mained until he sold out the busine
 to Franklin Elmore.
 MT. Sessions married Maria Hou
 in Chaplin in November, 1866. Tn
 had three children, two of whom { Ia living. Mrs. Helen Sessions Elmore lc, Hartford and Mrs. Myra A, Reed -d 1 Boston. He is also survived by granddaughter, Miss Dorothy s. ,k, more, a niece. Mrs. s.,IClara Sessie
 Kirtland of this city, and a cous
 George A. Conant of Hartford. ,c The passing of MT. Sessions remo1 '|, from Willinantic one of it's olde a best known and highly respected ci
 Zens.
 The roof garden dance and carni - held at the high school Friday e,
 I ming was largely attended. and V,
 successful. It was given by the me
 bers of the junior class, 1920, un, ,;t1 the direction of Miss Alice Ottenh