Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-30
GALES FERRY

The people of Gales Ferry and the stangers within her gates, enjoyed, per- haps, what was the first Governor Day for the Ferry, Wednesday afta-ncon, when Governor Everett J. Lake visited the Connecticut Girl Scout camp, al Browns Crossing. The day anl place were ideal. Music was furnished by inc Hawaiian orchestra of the Submarine Base. Songs by the Girl Scouts, inter prative dancing by some gef tncir Iur- bers, athletics and water sports, with basketball, made an interesting pto- granme from to 5 o'clock. About two hundred were in attendance. Among those present from Norwich were Charles H. Brown, MT. and Mrs. Lucihs Brown MT and Mrs. B. P. Bishop. Miss l;jsncp, James B. Rough, Miss Ais Stephens, Mrs. William B. Birge, Lewis Roath, the Misses Osgood, Miss Mary E. IicA- ards, the Misses Richards ot Chicago Mir and Mrs. Will L. Stearns, Mrs. Amos A. Browning Miss Alice Browning, Miss Saraph P. Browning, Miss Hobbs Ed- win W. Higgins and the Afiss9s Higgins.
 The business meeting If the Village Improvement Association was held Mon day evening at the Country club house. Rev. Allen Shaw Bush, the president, ere siding Walter M. Buckingham acted as secretary in the absence of D.R. Puvey. The chairman of the entertainment com mittee, Mrs. Walter N. Buckingham. cut- lined plans for Community fair and Wo- mans Exchange of fancy articles to be in charge of Mrs. Mary c. Watrous, and the food table in charge of Mrs. Emma s. Bennett. The association s tc have I 5 and 10 cent store and the library to have a booth.
 Regulations in regard b parking cal s in the village streets were suggested ani the matter was left with the highway de- partment.
 Invitations have been sent out to the marriage of Brucilla Burlington and po- rian Snow at the Country club house on this (Saturda9) evening, to be followed by a reception and dancing.
 D. c. Perkins scoutmasteT, in his aux Hilary boat Ruth, accomDanied by Rev. Allen S. Bush and three ooy sanIts Gordon Manierre, Alfred D. Sears and Alfred Erickson, went 10 New London Thursday afternoon to see the New York Yacht club fleet arrive from New Ha- ven that evening for harb0r tnat Light, and to watch the fleet get unIer way on Friday morning for Block Island. The party concluded the day fisning and clamming, returning to the Ferry Fiday evening.
 About fifty girls and boys of the Bible Vocational school of Gre4lville, w::h their teachers, picknicked al the sr ounds and cottage of Rev. md Ms. R. D. Trick, Wednesday.
 Attorney F. Roy Hurlbutt and par t. of Charleston, w. ", returned from q visit with relatives in Colchester. cary Thursday morning to the home of Mrs. Ellen Stoddard where they had been guests and left there again homeward bound in their car that day expecting 10 visit Corona, L. l., a former home. to spend few days before leaving for their home in West Virginia. The party in- cluded MT. and Mrs. Hurlbutt and two young sons, and MT Hulrbutt's mother, Mrs. Frank Hurlbutt. They left homt July 4, in their car.
 Mrs. Frank Johnson of Best View and Mir. and Mrs. Charles B. Jennings of New London, motored to the Ferry, and were callers Wednesday afternoon.
 Mrs. George A. Stanton of Norwich was the guest of Mrs, Franklin H. Brown, at he's,ein cottage, Wednesday.
 Stephen Norman, chairman of the fire department of the Village Improvement Association has painted the fire lad ders a brilliant red.
 Henry Larsen of Boston, Mass, Is the guest of his uncle and aunt MT. and Mrs. Andrew P. Miller at their home north of the village.
 Mrs. Alfred E. voohees and daughters Misses Mary and Mildred Voohees of Brooklyn, N. r., who have been spending month here returned home Friday. MT Voorhees,, who spent the past two weeks with his family, returned the Tuesday previous.
 Horace H. Sears of Hastings on the Hudson, who spent several days with his family at Wren's Nest, last week. re- turned Monday evening.
 Miss Addie Secor, of New York. who l is spending the summer with her sister Mrs. A. C. Risdon, leaves today (Satur- 1 day) to join motor party in Boston. tc | tour the coast of Maine and the White l Mountains, the trip to cover two weeks