Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-21
Norwich Bulletin Willimantie oi flee, g Church St., Telephone 1o5.

What Is Going On Tonight.
 Ladies Catholic Benevolent Associa- tion meets in St. Joseph's hall.
 Members of the housing committee ! appointed at the last meeting of the Willimantic Chamber of Commerce held , meeting at the office of Judge Frank { H. Foss Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. l Further discussion of the housing sit 1 uation in this city as compared with | l conditions in other cities took place. | l Letters have been mailed to various cit l ies in the state asking what is being | done to relieve the housing shortage | 1 where it has become acute. It is hoped | | that answers to these letters will give | the committee. some ideas as to how | other cities are meeting this situation. 1 Charles W. Hill of the American Thread | Company of this city is to- be in Hol- i yoke, Mass, Saturday, and on his re- turn will tell the committeeman what | Holyoke is doing to house her people. l Plans as to the cost of erecting buildings of one or two tenements are being com piled and will be ready for the next meeting of the housing committee to be held before the end of the current month.
 Although the state convention and field day of the Connecticut Drnmmers and Pliers Association is to be held in New Britain in August this year, the plan of the Thread City Continental Fife and Drum Corps to have a field day in this city Saturday, June 5th, will be carried out. The field day will com mence with street parade of the visit ing corps at 2 o'clock, to be followed by contests at Recreation Park and dancing at the state armory in the evening. Man ager and Major odell NJ. Chapman is at the head of the committee in charge
 of making the day success. Thirty
 three prizes will be awarded-15 silver cups, gold souvenir cup. and 15 gold
 and silver medals. The silver cups will
 be awarded as follows: First and second
 for ancient corps modern corps; fife
 drum and bugle corps piccolo or flute corps. bag pipe bands and for general
 appearance. First przie cups will be
 awarded for corps coming the longest
 distance: military, fife and bag pipe
 bands.
 The medals will be awarded as fol-
 lows: First gold and second silver for
 best appearing majors; baton swinging,
 snare drumming bass drumming, ancient
 fling, modern fling and bag pipers.
 Gold medals, first prize, will be award
 ed for piccolo playing, huting and bug
 ling. It is expected that from thirty to
 forty corps will be present to take part
 in the contests
 The speaker at the meeting of the Willimantic Wonlap's club Tuesday af- ternoon at the club rooms No. S03 Main street was Mrs. George " Smith of Will ! lngton, who spoke on Old Blue China
 There was a large attendance at the = meeting including many members of the Willimantic D. A. R. who were given spe
 cial invitations by the entertainment
 committee of the Woman's club as Mrs of Smith is their regent. Mrs. Smith ir ye her description of Old Blue China took he only the china made between the time B. of the Revolutionary war and 1920. Sht E. stated that English artists came to thi! ey country and made pictures of American III scenes that they knew would interes e. American buyers. These pictures wer K taken to Staffordshire, England, wher li- the china was made and later the fin -s ished china pieces were shipped tt lir America for sale. Mrs Smith hat ul brought a number of blue china pieces ss and as the Woman's club had asked al he members and guests to bring whateve u- pieces they: owned. considerable interes .t- was taken un in examining the collection in while Mrs. Smith told of the period ant
 of the history of the various pieces m Some of the plates noticeable for tllei CT worth depicted the following scenes il nd American cities or events in Americal
 history: The Lafayette plate, showing CT Lsfayette at Castle Garden, N. Y. IT, Pittsfeld Films plate, with a picture O
 an old church in the background witt h. the famous elm in the foreground Go ld lumbia College plate. showing the col ch lege in the days of 1S20 the famous Oc enj tagon Church plate. known as the Nev
 South Church at Boston and an ol ed nlate with a picture of Fishkill-on the
 Hudson as it looked in 1900
 ay The next meeting of the Woman of Club to be held May 4th will be address
 ed by Professor c. IT. Lamson of tn i'll Connecticut Agricultural College O ar Methods of Studying Plants and Ami
 mals. The members of the club are als
 preparing for rummase sale to be hel
 in May.
 The April meeting of the board of di m rectors of the Young Mems Christian AS at sociation was held Tuesday afternoon a td' the association building. J. B. Fullerton
 chairman of the enterta nnlent commit
 tee, reported and other routine bushes 10 was transacted. A nominating commit D. tee-R. H. Fenton, A. D. Boss and K
 N Hillhouse--was appointed to report a m possible new directors. this report to >b
 ready prior to the annual meeting of th - Y. M. c. A., which is to be held Tues lth day. May 4th. Several of the preser er- board of directors terms run out th
 year and they have requested that the Ter names be withdrawn from the list frol ih- which the new board will be selected, | r stS S1 Million, was great success.
 'N The Arcanum club of Norwich will I en- the guests of the chamber of commerc IT.. at their meeting next Tuesday evenin VII April 27. At a recent meeting of u @ on chamber Judge Frank IT. Foss was al ,,,' pointed chairman of the committee ar arrangements for the evening" The No .n;r wich men will compete with local Ct
 artists in billiard and pool tournamen
 and challenges of checker players wi ess afford sport for lovers. of the thinkir
 game. The evenings entertainment "
 end with the serving of a buffet lunch. The Five Million was repeated at u Loomer Opera House Tuesday evenir
 and again pleased large audience IT
 parts taken by local talent were actt
 finely, and many people claimed that the
 were just simply "there." The followir
 acted as ushers in seating the capaci
 houses Miss Lotta Jackson, Miss Vi
 ian Williams, Miss Helen Herrick, Mi
 Hattie Hall and the Misses Marion ar
 Agnes Mcintosh.
 The man who borrowed the xaselir for the drum owned by Samuel Stim . son, of North Windham about 10 (
 clock Monday night took to playing wi
 fire and perhaps he regrets that he d
 not have his car filled by paying for u