Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-04
! GALES FERRY

 by the men of the community for current expenses of the M E. church was given In the yestry Wednesday evening from 61 to 8 o'clock The foundation of the SUD- per was a roast pig weighing f30 pounds, given by MT. and Mrs. Latham E. Smith and roasted by their daughter. Miss Mabel Smith. The decorations of the room and tables were by William K. Wright The Boy Scouts troop No, 1 of Gales Ferry acted as walters. A Ladies' Aid society table, at which luncheon sets and aprons were sold, was in charge of Mrs. Fanny A. Molthrop. After supper, the Scouts entertained the audience with a song, The Cheerful Scout Then they gave the scout sign, scout salute, scout motto, scout oath and scout law. Pledge to the flag. Semaphore alphabet, each scout spelling his own name in semaphore sentences, in Morse or international code Song, Here's to B. $. A Exercises in ! first aid, resuscitation. stretcher, splint, l sling, head bandage, chair and tourniquet Miss Jennie G. Perkins was pianist for the songs and the exercises were given under the direction of Sc5utmaster D. C. 1 Perkins. There was large attendance and upwards of S75 was realized from l the supper and sale. At the business meeting of the Village T l ing, the president. Rev. Allen Shaw Bush, i presided The names of the ehairmen of the several departments were read by the secretary, R. B. Taft, and are: Law, Att l torney Earl Mathewson, Norwich high l way, Postmaster D. R. Povey; entertain ment, Mrs. Walter M. Buckingham; fire department, R. B. Taft; education, Miss Grace Povey; junior department, Mrs R. B. Taft; landscape gardening committee. Mrs. Allen S. Bush. William K. Wright. Peter Hoffman, Tracy Smith and Mrs. F. A. Aplin. R. B. Taft. chairman of the Hire department announced his assistants
 as J. Edmund Norman and Stephen H. l Norman. Saturday, April g, beginning
 at 12.30 p. m., for one-hah day, with the use of a team offered by Tracy Smith T volunteers were asked for to work on the highway.
 MT. Long, manager of the Harvard { university boat club, and MT. Phelps who has been steward fot the crews fol
 many years during their annual practice ] at Red Top, with Charles Hart, boatman } all of Cambridge. were Visitors at liar.
 yard quarters Good Friday.
 ! Charles H. Brown of Norwich is aidine , the Village Improvement association ol the village in the landscape gardening de , partment by having the stone wall on hi.
 property removed from point diagonailJ ? opposite the home of Moves B. Allyn or
 the right side of the village street goinI , east, which opens up what is familiarlN known as The Ledge but is now Tn, Park. Cedar posts of attractive design [ will define the line and add to the beaut,
 of the place.
 5 The Pinochle club met at the home O r A. Lincoln Fairfield at Allyn's Point o1
 Tuesday evening. Refreshments wer | d1Irip oo ;oI . next meeting of the club D. R. Pove, l and Walter M., Buckingham will be tn
 hosts at the Country club house. fl Mrs. Charles H. Comstock and her Sis l ter-in-law, Mrs. Hester Prentice of Cali
 fornia. spent several days the past weel f with their relative, Mrs. Emma Babcock ] at her home in Ledyard.
 i Pajiwad Camp Fire circle met witt
 their guardian,N Miss Alice Satterlec n Tuesday afternoon.
 Mrs. Walter M. Buckingham of tn h village and Mrs. Billings F. $. Crandau O
 Stoddard's Wharf motored to Mystic an, : called on friends recently.
 si Lieut.. Commander and Mrs. F. S e Steinwachs and Lieut. Commander an s Mrs. Crutchfield of New London wer
 guests of Commander Guy Davis an Mrs. Davis at the roast pig supper Wed
 nesday evening. The party attended tn theatre in New London that evening. Perry D. Palmer, who recently return
 ed from tour around the world as chic steward of an ocean liner, returned t
 New York city Monday SSter SD 4ndin
 several days at the home of his sistei
 Mrs. P. L. Norman, at Ally n's Poia-. III The work on the cellar and foundatio of the new Gales Ferry free public librar
 is progressing favorably under the labor
 of Latham E. Smith and Norman I
 Brown. The excavation for the buildin
 called for BOXES feet
 Mrs. Allen Penhallow and Mrs. Charle
 Goss of New London attended the >suppe
 at the M. E. Vestry Wednesday eve els1g.
 Miss Sarah T. Latimer was a yisitc
 at the home of relatives in Palmsrtow the past week.