Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-24

Saturday night, the cause of his death being tubercular trouble. He was born in Canada, the son of William and Sa- rah Halliday Houston. He had resided in Mansfield for the past twenty years and during that time had built up very successful nursery business, the firm being known far and wide in their particular line In addition to his wife, he is survived by three sons Byron V. Houston of Mansfield. Will | liam A. Houston of 3elvediere, N. r.. and John E. Houston of Hartford: also l by daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Morse of | Gillett, N. Y., and a sister, Jennie Black Adder, of Canada The death of MT Houston removes one of Mans | fields most influential citizens. who had done much for the upbutlding of the town.
 The death of Martha Nj. Thas,nson, 10, occurred Sunday morning at ker home in Eagleville where sine had re- | sided practically all her life. Peritoni- | tis was the cause Of death. She was
 the daughter of Ephraim C. and E~- ma Whitman Thompson. She is f-
 vived by a daughter and d number of distant relatives.
 The funeral of Mrs. Adelard c. Blanchette. formerly of Willimantic.
 was held Friday morning in Hartford from her home, No. 33 Preston street
 at S.30 o'clock. The requiem high
 mass at St. Ann's church was sung hx
 Rev. J. A. Belanger. Burial was in
 Mt. St. Benedict cemetery, Hartford
 The bearers were sons of the deceased The funeral of Francis Harold Walls.
 infant son of MT and Mrs. Harold
 Walls was held Saturday morning
 from the home of Nelson Setterberg at
 10 o'clock. Rev. c. Harley Smith con-
 dueted the services. Burial was in the
 Willimantic cemetery. Jay NJ. Shep-
 herd had charge of the funeral ar
 engagements.
 The funeral of Ethel M. Spencer was
 held from her home in Gilead Satur-
 day afternoon at 1 o'clock. Burial was
 in Manchester.
 w. C. Messner of this city recently
 purchased the business at the corner
 of Jackson and, Ash streets. formerly
 conducted by H. B. Martin.
 Alice Nugent, 37, died Sunday after
 noon at clock in St, Joseph's hos
 pital in this city after an illness of
 three weeks. She was recently oper-
 ated on and apparently was getting
 along well. so that her death was
 sudden and unexpected. She is sur
 vived by her mother, Mrs. Alice Nu-
 gent, of Bradford Mass, and a sister
 Mrs. H. II. Monroe, of Lynn, Mass
 Miss Nugent had resided in this city
 for some time.
 Sunday morning four new private
 hre alarm boxes were installed at the
 various plants of the American Thread
 company in this city. Heretofore pri-
 Vate box No. S3 has answered the pur- pose of fire call for the entire plant
 Recently it was deemed advisable tc
 have a private box alarm for eacf
 mill The new boxes installed Sundat will he numbered S1. S2. S4 and S5 The installation of these boxes ac-
 counts in a measure for the othe, , boxes in that section being out oi
 commission on Sunday morning as Nprevicusly reported.
 The police made no arrests ovel
 Saturday night and Sunday.
 } The two young men who were ar rested in this city by the WillimantiC , police early last nursday morning , and were taken back to Manchester for trial for the theft of two oyer coats were found guilty and sentenced
 to 50 days in the Hartford county jail Four bowling teams have beer , formed among members of tn, | Knights of Columbus and it is planned
 to have series of matches at tht ) local alleys beginning this week. Tn, , teams will be known as the Lombardo 5 the Murray, the Pickett and the As
 pinwall the names derived from tn, $ captains of the respective teams. A f a number of the knights are exper 2 howlers, interesting matches are an
 ticipated
 S At the Methodist Episcopal churcI e Sunday six persons were received int V preparatory membership: Mrs Eyelv] 8 Barker, Miss Ethel Perkins, Mis 8 Phoebe Hayward, Francis NJ Perkins . Edwin r. Cross, Jr.. and William E. | ,, l French. Seven were received at tn k South Coventry Methodist church 1 Misses Anna and Mabel Tillinghas st : Doris Daniels, Rosa Wolfe, Myrtl
 Chadwick, Myrtle Lester and Florenc 1 Littlefield Next Sunday is annua b Conference Sunday and the preach
 ing services will be omitted at bot t these churches. also the Sunday schoe | at South Coventry. In the absence 0
 the pastor, the Epworth leagre wi a have charge of the Thursday evenin 2. service leading Want-Ad Centenar = meeting
 s Rev. and Mrs. c. Harley Shit d leave town today (Monday) for tn tt Mass, stopping two days en rout IF with their son in Providence The re e ports which the pastor is taking t T the conference are very creditabl
 none excelling the work of two sma ,I societies, S107 cash from the Woman e Foreign Missionary society and s5 - cash and BPS worth of supplies frol is the Woman's Home Missionary SC If ciety.
 h Two weeks mission at St. Joseri, e church will be brought to close tn It (Monday) morning with mass fe l. the dead of the parish. The missio n has been in charge of Rev. Father l. John Downey and James Chestnut a the Order of Vincentian Fathers al Baltimore. Md, and has been yer Q successful from a spiritual point er view and in point of attendance, iars h congregations being the rule through IF out the two weeks. The second wee Us was held for the men of the parisI es the previous week for the women. { le the several masses Sunday the mis le Sionaries urged the parishioners
 perseVere, that the results of the mis l. sion may be evidenced in their liv, y. as good citize1s and good Catholic m At the First Baptist church Sunds 5 there was a large attendance, muG 'n interest being shown in the Victor - campaign for $400 and more In Il
 evening at o'clock the Y. P. $. c. N meeting was led by Raymond Wrigt E At D. in. an evangelistic service W; Fl l hold urhpn nf do