Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29

Funeral services of Bridget Mo- Atavey, widow of Patrick McAtavey, took place from her late residence, 469 Hamilton avenue, at S:30 o'clock Friday morning. Requiem mass was held in St. Mary's church at g o'clock with Rev. William A. Keefe officiating Mrs. Donovan sang Beautiful Land on High and Henry La 'oEtaine officiat- ed at the organ. The bearers were James Bedding, Moses Harvey, Mi chael Trimmins and Edward Sullivan. There were many beautiful flowers. Relatives from this city and Water bury were present. Mrs. McAtavey fdied Nov. 26 of heart failure. Cum mings and Ring had charge of the funeral arrangements.
 On Thanksgiving morning the St. Mary's Boy Scouts defeated the Clip pers in a fast football game on the Shetucket grounds. Although out weighed they managed to keep their eleven together and won out by clever playing by the score of "A to 12. The stars for St. Mary's were Purdon, Enright and Fox. Fox took the bail i in the first quarter and made an end run and was tackled when only two yards from the goal line. Bob En- right then carried it over Second quarters Jed Fox made a sixty yard run through center for a touchdown. In the fourtfs quarter Jed again car Tried the ball to two touchdowns. The game was refereed by F. Lncoslli and the timekeepers F. Crooks and J. Stearns. St. Mary's lined up as fol- lows:
 c. Haslam, left tackle; Swanton. left guard; 2. Sullivan, center; Ma loney, right guard, E. Sullivan, right | fnn 6xr strrhf d. T1nE1 1nff end Robert Enright, quarterback; Fox, fullback; Leeney, left halfback; . Purdon, right halfback. They have arranged a game with the St. Pat rick's Scouts to be played at Mohe- gan park Sunday afternoon.
 Many strings of barrels were seen burning in the village despite the warning by the mayor.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Grady motor ed to Montreal, where they are spend ing the Thanksgiving holiday with relatives.
 At 1:20 o'clock Friday afternoon Ella Donovan died at her late home 79 Oakridge street. She was the daughter of the late John and Julia Donovan of this city. She had beer i'll for the past six weeks. She ii survived by an only sister, died lived with her, Miss Ellen Donovan.
 Two missionary fathers of the ordel of Saint Vincent will open a tws weeks mission tomorrow Sunday il St. Mary's church, to mark the be. ginning of the diamond jubilee of tn, parish. The preachers of the Vincen tian order are always eloquent anC scholarly and Rev William A. Keefe pastor of St. Mary's is anticipating the best of results from their visit The opening week of the mission vii be for the women and the secont week for the men of the parish ant their friends, as all services will b. . public. The ancient church. some da, to be replaced by an ornate an, Nc modern edifice, has done it's part wei for years and is, in effect the cradl of Catholicity in this section of tn state.
 Norwich was formerly mission fo , the Jesuit fathers of Holy Cross col lege, Worcester and they came her r often early in the past century. Rev John Thayer was here as early a = 1793 and addressed a congregation i the First Congregational church. 1881 Catholics were numerous enoug \ to have a clergyman from Worceste ! come here regularly and even at tha time children were taken to Wor ceSter 10 pc paptlZeo. The nrSt mar riage recorded is that of John Savag and Mary Melvin by Rev. James Fit ton.
 The first mass read in St. Mary church was Dec. 25, 1844, 75 year ago next month. This time three quarters of a century ago St. Mary
 parish was preparing to open tt
 church, the date of the formal oper
 ing being March IT, 1S45 and the ce
 ebrant of the first mass being Re
 John Brady. He was followed b
 Rev. William Logan and Rev. Pet,
 Blenkinsop and others.
 In those days the front part of u
 church was large enough for the pc,
 pie and they came from 20 mil
 around and Sunday wos day of r
 union as well as of church goin
 Now there are a dozen churches
 the field of the mother church al
 there are about a score of pries
 while St. Patrick's church has u reputation of being the finest pari l.church in the country.
 E As Catholicity was cradled in t U old church by his alma mater, Ho ns Cross College, Father Keefe inten