Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-17

Rev. G. H. wrights theme for the preaching service following was Eight Things Worth Doing.
 Gales Ferry school, Miss Grace A. Chapman, teacher, closed the school year with the manual picnic on the grounds of c. A. Satteriee Friday afternoon. Parents and friends of the children were in at tendance. This closes a period of seven years that Miss Chapman has been teacher of the village school. She has been a teacher in the town of Ledyard F years, since she first began teaching. She is graduate of Norwich Free Academy and resides in the Stoddard district Led yard. Miss Chapman has been appointed teacher in the Groton Heights school for the coming year.
 | The following pupils were perfect in 1 attendance for the spring term: Em-Beth Bennett Dorothy Birch, Helen DeRusha, '! Louise Jones, Mary Jones. Mildred Keene, ! David Carter Perfect attendance for the entire school year; Mildred Keene, Doro- thy Birch.
 1 A party of 1S dinner guests of W. Fred | Smith at the Lewis cottage on the Bluff | Sunday included Jean Martin, Lincoln Crawford and W. H. Shields. IT,, all of Norwich. Thomas Haggerty, telegraph op- orator of Boston, and visitors of the i Harvard crews.
 | Flag day afternoon at o'clock the community was invited to assemble at the grounds of the Country club to par ticipate in the dedication of three memo rial Camperdown elms planted by the | Village Improvement association in the triangular plot diagonally oposite the village cemetery on the Military highway The leader of the line of march was Stanley Faford of the Boy Scouts, follow ed by Walter NJ. Buckingham. marshal
 with Harold Brooks. bugler from the marine barracks at the submarine base
 and the school children, marching two by
 two, carrying flags. the adults falling into line at the call of Bugler Brooks The following program was given al the plot the president. Rev. Allen Shaw Bush
 presiding: Poem, read by Rev. MT. Bush
 song. Just Before the Battle Mother by
 school children. Miss Grace A. Chapman
 director; invocation. Rev c. H. Wright
 reading, Oh, Captain. My Captain (Wal
 Whitmanl. Mrs. Delphine Fish song
 Rally Round the Flag, children dedica
 tion of trees. by Rev. MT. Bush. in mem
 ory of Capt. Charles Satterlee. r.
 navy. who with his crew perished on tn
 [. S. s. Tampa while on convoy duty ii
 Bristol channel, England, Sept 26, 1918
 second tree, in memory of First Sergt
 Lyman I Satterle4 Richards. who die March g. 1918, at Fort Williams. Me the third tree was a general n'emoria
 tree. Taps was sounded by Rugler Brooks = The closing song was by the childrer
 The line marched then to the Countr l, club grounds. where the flag raising fror l the new flagstaff took place. There wa
 song by the children. Sherman's Marc 2 to Georgia salute to the flag by tn
 children. and America was sung by al Ice cream was on sale at the close of tn
 exercises. At the business meeting of th
 association at o'clock the presiden
 Rev. MT. Bush. read Your Home Tow = First and an article on Stocllbridge. Mas
 r was Vote6 that inc Village Trlp-or'
 raent association hecnUne an tHc7-Dorai i1 . and the irro roorstors ware named in T = fniinWtns orGer: Trau: | Aniir F. :. Taft Rev. c. F. W1iga! Rev aIten S}74 ,' Bush, Walter IL. Buckingham. Mrs. A lie {, Is. Bush. Mrs. D. C. Perkins Mrs Waltt :. M. Buckingham, Miss Caroline B. Ere l. man, Mrs. R. B. Taft, D. F. Povey AT
 Moves B. Allyn. Henry v. HurIbutt e to make a gift of the plot of land whel
 the memorial trees are planted fo the a $ sociation and immediate incorporation b L. came necessary.
 l. At the meeting of the trustees of II a Nj. F. church in the vestry Friday evel ls ing it was voted to have the church ar