Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-09
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 Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock "a meeting for men and boys was held at the T. M. c. 4. building. The lentine of Goshen, Mass, whose subject was Abraham Lincoln. Dr. BaHenfine sketched the life of Lin- coln, giving incidents which showed the greatness of the man even be- fore he had become president A few instances of Lincoln's dealing with boys was also cited. Dr. Ballentine ditionS in Linceln's day and the con- diiicns of the present day and after explaining how Lincoln's ideas of re- construction had met with opposition but lad finally triumphed he stated that the United States today needed q leader of such character as Lincoln 10 put forth his ideas for reconstruc- ton and carry them through. Dr. RaIlent:nes comprehensive knowledge of the life of Lincoln made it Dossi- ble for him to show more clearly the part Lincoln had played in history. At the conclusion of his address the speaker was warmly aoplauded. The second rart of the afternoon meeting was de-Oted to the showing of two reels of motion pictures.
 Sunday evening at the First Con- pregational church, Rev. Harry E. McCready, pastor, narrated the fam ous Lincoln story entitled The Per- feet Tribute. Dr. Balenune, the honor guest. of this service. follow ing an invitation from Rev. McCready told several Lincoln stories which met with instant favor with his listeners.
 Conditions in this city continue to improve and travel by automobile, sleigh and foot is much easier. The warm weather of Sunday 1oosened up the snow along the street and a de- cided shrinkage in the amount of snow along Main street could be mo- ticed in the evening. The trolley sft- nation remains the same and no at tempt to clear the tracks running from this city to South Coventry has been made. The snow has become lacl1eS; 0own on the tracks and unless 8 sudden tliaw sets in there will be no iio trolleys for some tue. The trolley line from this city to Norwich reTas.-ns closed, the snow-pIows. hav- ing reachei but little further than Baltic Fke car that became stalled Thursday morning on Windham Road stiil stands snowbound. Train ser vice from tIie city became better dur ins Sunday, but most passenger trains came into the city with two Iocomo- tives The average trains were about .wc hours 1afe during the morning but improved later in the day
 During Saturday S'ipt. of Streets Irving N. Ford had his men busy on ti,c riaiH streets and by night much 0s the sncw had been carried off and dpm7cd al6i.y the river hank in the vicJ~ilv e the boothridges. Two I-.,--. --t!.-i v osc -7sail for this work y.e r~.-.-r rOo+ hanks of snow from either side of Main street RiF tl= tlr~oie getting up Mcin street early Saturday morning. the American Telegraph and Tele- phone Co. truck that started out from q Union street garage at z:45 and at fen o'clock had only arrived at Bridge street. The truck whose capacity was three tons world % a few feet and then sink whee4-hieh in the snow bank. making it neoessary for the man riding in it to shovel it out. This shoveI1ine progress nearly clean ed ID Main street before the truck reached Brideg street.
 Funeral services for Miss Nettie E. Moore were held Saturday afternoon at o'clock from the parlors of J.