Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-14

cident only little damaged, and later
 was run home, but Mrs. Taleotts car
 was wrecked
 Provost was an experienced driver and had been in Mir. Keach's employ TOT number of years. He is less than t5V years ot age, strong and a young
 man of excellent habits. Relatives in ciudlng his wife. hurried over to the hoSpltal on learning that he had been injured, and upon arrival there first learned that it had been necessary to
 amputate his leg. when had been so badly mangled that it could not be saved.
 The trucks were bound home after a long trip, and one that was fraught with misfortune, even before the acci- ldent happened, at the time Of the sad occurrence near Bolton
 At a meeting here Saturday of rep lresentatives of Girls .:ftbs in villages i Of the town of Killingly and of the town of Plainfield district organiza- ton, to be known as the. Quinebaug
 valley Girls council was formed. Miss Myra Smith presided at the meeting. Miss Ruth Smith was elected secretary and Miss Jennie Berrinan treasurer. The council will meet once a month The first event that it has planned is an outing day. to be held at Wildwood i park May 24.
 i The funeral of Alex ouimeste, 96 was held from his home on Saturday with services at St James church Rev. M. J. Ginet. NJ. S.. was celebrant Of the requiem mass Burial was in Holy Cros cemetery The bearers were Peter Rondeau, John Fournier, theodore Po1rier and Arthur Viens
 Martin T. Burns was the funeral di- lrector.
 The funeral Of Althea Clara Ahbv
 Brlsson was held from the home of her Eparents, MT. and Mrs. John Brisson. in lDayville, Saturday morning. with ser wees at St. Joseph's church, Rev Ig-
 natius kost officiating. Burial was in St. Joseph's cemetery. Louis E. Ken Inedy was in charge of the funeral ar arrangements.
 At the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Alton Eldridge. Saturday, Rev. J. T. Edwards conducted a funeral ser Ivice for Carlton Eldridge, age 3. Bur ial was in Westfield cemetery The
 bearers were Eric Gilbert. Howard Franklin. Arthur Williams and Clifford Peterson. L. E. Kennedy was the fu-
 neral director,
 l kiIlingiy's spelling teans-represent I ing both the high and graded schools of the town-won in the spelling
 matches with Putnam's high and grad ed schoo teams and come into posses sion of both loving cups offered as tro- lphies. Putnam won individual lonors
 in the match, her representa- tives
 standing the longest A part of the
 match was written, the result in this
 department counting two-thirds.
 while the oral part of the match. as to points accredited, counted one
 third. The cups now held by Killing ly must be contested for again next
 year, when the match will be held in
 Danielson. Another win will give
 Klllingly permanent possession of the
 cups.
 More Yankee division boys have
 reached their homes here and have
 been welcomed with open arms. John
 M. Dove and Henry Gilbert, Brown
 university students who fought with
 field artillery unit, are the boys
 who came down from Camp Devens.
 They have seen very hard service
 overseas, going through the campaign
 ing in which the Yankee division was
 engaged and are veterans of many q hard fought battle! Mir Gilbert's mother, Mrs. Frank H. Gilbert. has been very i'll at her home on Broad street, and it was an especially great satisfaction to her to see her son, who had been overseas since the fall of
 1917.
 Palm Sunday services attracted , large congregations to Danielsor's s
 churches. At St. James and St. Al bans churches palms were distributed
 to the congregations.
 The central fire station will be open
 this (Monday) afternoon for the in-
 spection of the public
 William McDermott of Hartford
 spent the weekend at his home in
 Danielson.
 James A. Baird of Meriden was a , visitor here Sunday.
 MT and Mrs. Henry Getty of Wor- cester spent Sunday with MT and 1 Mrs Eloi Getty of Franklin street This being Holy week, there will be special religious services in the
 churches.
 pr. E. A. Blake took for his text on } Sunday morning at the Baptist l church, Matt. 21:16, Out of the mouths of babes and stockings God
 hath perfected strength" It being
 Palm Sunday he thought the most ap- propriate theme, The Child, Gods Foundation for Perfecting Strength The speaker in 1905 spent the Lenten
 season in and about Jerusalem and l the scenery connected with this great
 incident being familiar to him, gave
 added interest to his words This was the first great Children's Day among the followers of Christ" said the speaker. Tt was then that the
 Founder of our holy religion reveal ed to mankind the worth of the little
 child. The ancient Greeks and Ro- mans had given little attention to
 their care compared to the Hebrew but even the Jew had apparently over , looked the full force of the words that our Lord was this day repeating
 in their ears, Plato had builded his
 great system of philosophy for the
 older ones and the syllogisms of Aris-
 totle could not be comprehended by
 the child. They had never come in
 contact with this Eighth Psalm
 which contained in a nutshell the = whole philosophy of child signif cance.' The common expression of oul < own time was without doubt. rife when Jesus was here, Little children . should be seen not heard" 1t should Q be repeated with great caution. The Q vast throngS of people who swarnnG l the temple on this first children's day . had among them many who had nevel l learned the meaning of their Evening Psalm so often sang, our VIII Col 7 lection, for it was the Hebrews Eve ming Hymn. Angry, perplexed and l tensely nerVed they turned to the = Master, Do you not hear what tho I children are saying?' And what were Q they repeating? Only. Hosannah tc the Son of David" which means Q Save, we pray Thee, thou Son of Da- . vid. Some of them had doubtless 3 received the healing touch of the Lor6 T in answer to their parents supplica- tion. More of the older ones had beer t cured of their diseases and many more 3 were eager for the magic touch ot