Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-19
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 What is Geine On Tonight.
 Francis S. Long Post C. A. R., meets in G. A. R. hall. corner of Main and High streets, a-
 7 4 meeting of the general committee in charge of Windhan's Welcome Home celebration. held in the Cham her of Commerce Friday night. en- dcrsed the action of the committee in
 changing the date of the celebration from Aug. zf to Aug. IS. The ratifi cation. oE.s the change came after
 something of a battle. between two
 factions. of local merchants led re, Charles F. Risedorr.
 Fs The meeting was called to order rby Chairman Frank P. Fenton at s.1o.s In brief introductory remarks he.
 stated that at the last meeting act
 ling on a written request from the
 manufacturers the committee had Changed the date from Thutsday to
 a Saturday in order that tfne manu- lecturers might not lose a full days
 work. He then invited the merchants
 committee to state their side of the case.
 James Hurley spoke for the mer-. chants committee. He said that the date had been set for Aug 2i and that the new date was sprung on the people when they were not expecting lit. He said that it would be real hardship to have the merchants lose Saturday trade. The stores would close Thursday afternoon anyway and there would be full days hol- I day the following week.
 The barbers also protested, saying
 that they didn't think the public
 feaily wanted to go unshaved from Friday until Monday.
 Mir. Brick took the cfsor and pre- faced his remarks with the statement that he emphaticaIly disagreed with his fellow merchants. He claimed | that the merchants would no tose a single dollar from their years earn I fngs if they closed on Saturday whereas if they closed on Thursday there would be loss Of s15s060 in
 wages which would be a total loss to I the merchants.
 agreed with all that MT. Brick said in regard to the yearly receipts amount 1 ing to the same if the. stores were closed for one Saturday. S k Attorney T. J. Kelley. a member of
 the executive committee. said that the public wouldn't stand for the celebra : ition on Labor Day as some people had suggested. He said that the com
 mittee wanted the support or the support of the merchants as we'll and they ; wanted to do the thing which would please the greatest number. He suggested that the stores keep open f on Friday night and remain open during certain hours on Saturday.
 l Mir Risedorf said that he was not standing up for the Almighty Dollar. IAu he wanted was to zee that the merchants get their rights. Attorney T Kelley and he had a verbal set to 1 over the relative worth to the country of the man who bought Liberty bonds land the man who enlisted and fought | in the trenches. | the matter of keeping open for the merchants to settle themselves and to tIeave sthe date as 1t stood-Aug. io- The merchants voted to remafn open l Friday night until 16 and to keep open on Saturday morning until Il. : Attorney Kelley then cfrchiated petition calling for a. special city meeting to appropriate $z,eeo Tor the fhave an appropriation of S30e0 from the town but this is not enough
 1 The sub-committees made their re- ! ports. The entertainment conmlttee I is irving to get two airplanes from the i field at Mineola for the day; The dec oration committee asked for an ap- l uropriation to erect memorial to the 1 bows who left but didn't come back II | was suggested that they make tenn 1 nrrarv monument on Lincoln square l sttita b4y inscribed and that the parads nsss 1t with mufffed drums and barred heads. The various organizations l vl,ich were represented at the meet ing spoke of their plans for the pa rade and the meeting adJournea s'
 5.30.
 Mr. snd eMrs. rhomss Wood of tProspect street celebrated their sof- den wedding at their cottage. lngie- hook" at the W1linaantlc Samp tGround Friday. with four genera tions ns Of the family present There were az members of the family at the gather ing. In the afternoon dinner was served and later a group picture was Taken, MT and Mrs. Wood were lborn in Manchester. Engfand pu' fhavrs spent nearly half their lives IT lWifffrna ntic, coming here in 1873 MT weed is fl years old. having beer horn April g, 1s45. He is machin. | ist by trade and has been employed nv the American Thread company land it's predecessor the Afner1caf then coufpany since he came to tnis csfv in 1879, the year he came te this country. Mrs. Wood Is Fl years old They were married in the Man chester Episcopal cathedral July Is 1869. Mrs Wood is the descendant o1 old English military stock, Der gfea1 uncfe serving with Weihngton a Waterloo while her father ana uncie were both in the English army Mf land Mrs. Wood afufiated themseiVes with the Methodiss chu s1 after ar irving, in Wiiiimantic ana have peer