Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
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0COI Cii5dSCNA tAAa ~ N-o F--- few months.
 Start the New Year right. Phone 400 and order the Norwich Bulletin de- ivered at your door. Rates 50 cents a ri1onth.-adV.
 Major and Mrs. Albert Warren are guests of Major Warrsn's mother, Mrs. E,mrna Warren of Main street. Major Warren is. in the regular army ser Vice.
 Miss Beryl wolcott of Worcester is the guest of Mir. and Mrs. John B. Bas- sett of Broad street. Miss Wolcott formerly live1 in Danielson. Postmaster Raymond Allen ahncunc- cd Tuesday that the last mail will close at D. m. instead Of I.So on New Years night. The .postoffce will be closed for the day after 11,s0 a. m. The rural service win be suspended for the day and no nleney order or postal savings business will be trans acted.t
 The Danielson Building and Loan association, which is just rounding out Its fourth year, has assets of s40,00o. A new series of shares is to be issued i next month, this being the ninth. The association has more applications for | loans than it can fill:
 | The Anericans Wooien Company's plant at Elu1ville has been closed for | the past few days as the result of a shortage of ya-u.
 Rev. lanatiues Kost, pastor. of St. 1 Joseph's parish, Dayville, which if1- cludes Goodyear, Attawaugan and Bal touviile, has just completed taking the census, long and arduous task. Fath- CT kost's parish will. show substan- l tial gain in number of souls during | t919.
 The schools here viii close tonight | tor the New Years recess, giving the 1 pupils another holiday period extend tng to Monday of next week.
 An Open House service has been ar tanged by Rev. J. T. Edwards for this evenings Watch Night gatherins at the Baptist church. The programme for the service covers the hours from g D. m. to midnight. From to 10 O. clock will be Fellowship hour. At 10 l o'clock musical programme will be- gin, arranged as follows:
 overture-Feast of Lanters Bisnet Perfetutn-MobiIe Sehelemuller
 Souvenir d'Uh Bal LudecRe overtufe-Briday Roses Lavalle
 Baumtanz SchelemllleI
 Tsn Sourdine Tellam q Ballet Selection from Faust Gounot
 Trio in G Carl Bohn
 She musicians will be Miss Grace
 Stanton. pianist; Mrs. F E. Wallace
 violinist; Mrs. J. T. Edwards. 'cellist 1 Following these numbers there vii be q progra 1lme conducted by tht
 Crusaders From 11.30 until the mid.
 night hour there will be special clos
 ing exercises.
 Eusatia PaIIidani is dead! Tn,
 Spanish" granddame of fame to Day
 vile has passed to her. reward
 Greatest of her race, most wonderful
 of her kind, death came to claim he
 at the astounding age of g. For b.
 it knokn that Musaita is or was, tn,
 black Spanish hen that gained na
 ticn-wide distinction a few years ag'
 following the appearance, relative t
 her remarkable age, of a story tha
 was printed in The Bulletin and wa
 afterwads republished, with many va riatiens, faeetious comments and or lamentations in scores of papers i
 all parts of the Unitsd States. Tn 9 story eventually was the means 0 Q bringing. the owners of the hen int r touch with friend, in wester 6 state. from whom they had not hear = from in many years.
 c As matter of authentic record, : may be stated that this wonderful he : really was g years of age. She ha B been the pf"nerty Of James Ban ]. ehard's family at Dayville during all C I that time. She was matched from . very fine and expensive thoroughbre s strain 5f Black Spanish variety egg : During her earlier years she wa : kept on account Of her distinguishe n lineage that she might reproduce he : Kind. It was not until she had at 2 taihed what would ordinarily be con e sidered 3 patriarchal age for a he !, that the idea of keeping her so long a
 life would last occurred to the owner r and then they just waited and mar . yelled as Eusatia piled up the year s Originally her feathers were gloss = black, but as age stole of and sl, q had attaiaed to the venerable estat
 of 15 sunmers. the feathers began
 whiten and eventually her coat wa
 as white as the driven snow. In u
 next half decade the feathers regain e ed some color and she appeared as '. speckled beauty, but this attempte 1t come back was not permanent no moi T. than it is with other forms of life, ar h the near revival of the glorfes of h, e early plumage gave place to anotht II period of fading-afld Eusatia VIZ n gathered to her forebears wearing
 mantle of purest white.
 In all of her years Eusatia iev, 70 spent a useless one. Only last sprir
 she patiently performed the annua . rite of setting on a nest of eggs fro which eventually a fine brood B chickens was brought forth and sf continued to lay until late this vel
 fall.
 Eusatia was known far and wit
 as the most remarkable hen in Ne
 England. and her passing will be \ widespread interest.
 1 The body of Edwin L. Palmer
 being forwarded from Denver, Co
 where he died, to Danielson, for buri
 in Westfield cemetery. Mir Palmer
 death followed a surgical operatio S performed in the hope that he Inogl E be protected from death from sept
 poisoning by which he had been max
 dangerously i'll.
 III A score of years ago Mir. Palmer VI t on or Danielson's most widely know \ citizens. He was one Of the town K most public spirited men and applit
 his energy and ability toward the Ill
 building of the town of Killingiy ar \ especially the borough of Danielso MT. Palmer was born on a sfns
 farm near Jewett City. February ] X 184f. When he was less than five yea
 of age his father died and from \ yer yearly age he was thrown on | own resources.
 Nj He remained on the farm until was 18. He came to Danfeison \ 1885 and entered the employ of Wa
 do Brothers as a clerk in their gro
 cry store, remaining with them f several years. In 1871 he engaged the grocery business in Putnam as \ member of the newly organized if