Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-24
.JEWETT CITY

At a meeting of Reliance lodge, No. 2s, L. c. o. F., Monday evening the anniver- sary committee reported on the celebra- tion of the 31st anniversary of the local order to be held Sept. 21. pr. $. H. Holmes has been an Odd Fellow 50 years. having joined lodge in New Haven in | 1871, where he held his membership 19 years. He was one of the five charter members who organized Reliance lodge 1 here Sept. 22, 1890 He has been twice elected to serve the home lodge as its noble grand, and in all it's fraternal ac- tivities he has taken prominent part for the S1 years of it's existence. Monday evening in recognition of his long and faithful service the members of l Reliance lodge went to his home on Tracy avenue unannounced, and the sur prise to the doctor was complete. Noble l Grand Norman B. Parkhurst presented him handsome cane, with silver handle. upon which was engraved the | name of the order and the facts relative | to his 50 years of membership.
 | The doctor is seldom taken completely | off his guard, nor was Ire Monday even l ing, as was evidenced by his ready and l fitting words of response and gratitude. | pr. Holmes is a member of the Past l Grand association of veteran Odd Eel l lows He was the founder of Ruthie
 Rebekah lodge, No. 2S, in Jewett City, | and was it's first noble grand. He has | also been a master Mason fl years. He l has just celebrated his SOth birthday, and with the serving of cake and coffee each
 of his friends in the craft was privileged to sample his grand birthday cake.
 The Community club is to hold
 meeting in the town hall at Pachaug
 Thursday evening.
 Mir. and Mrs. John A. Godek are in
 New York for a week, registered at the | Hotel Empire.
 | John Driscoll of New London was call
 ing on friends in town Tuesday Mir. Driscoll, who has but recently left the
 employ of the W. A. Slater mills. served that concern 49 years. Twenty-one years
 he was night watchman at their mill
 here. Every night during that long term
 of service he tolled the passing hours of
 the night on the bell in the tower-a good
 old custom which is still kept up. Older
 residents would miss this welcome sound | if it were not to be heard during some
 wakeful hour.
 People passing down Soule street stop ] to admire Mrs. G. ". Robinson's hand
 some agapanthus lily in bloom in the
 yard. There are above 50 dark blue blos-
 soms on a single stalk. It is recognized
 commonly as the Blue Lily of the Nile 1 There are few to be seen hereabouts.
 Another out of the ordinary flower, the
 Florida water hyacinth, was once owned
 here by Mrs. G. A. Barber. It was plant
 cd in a tub of mud and water, where it
 grew, thrived and blossomed in great
 beauty. Local visitors to Florida tell that
 some of the smaller rivers there its
 exceeding growth has often impeded : navigation.
 Monday night holds the record for low temperature for August. The mercury fell to 47 degrees at o'clock Tuesday morning.
 MT and Mrs Leslie B. Bliss ana
 laughter Doris are enjoying an automo , pile trip through western Massschusett, 7 which will include the Berkshires and thu
 Mohegan trail.
 At the Baptist church this CWednes ! 1 lay) evening Daniel L. Phillips, whC ? | with his wife has been travelling for 10t
 lays through Canada and the west, vii give talk about the incidents and ex
 Jeriences of that trip.
 Funeral services for Mrs. John EicheI
 )erg were held at the Second Congrega
 tional church Tuesday afternoon Rev
 = H. Andrews. pastor of the church
 spoke along the line of death existin, sven in the midst of life, making tn Q loint that there was always an inexhaust y ble supply of strength for those who's j. rust was well founded fn God. A uuar 1 g | HiscoX, E. F. Burleson and E. H. Hisco5 l. sang Asleep in Jesus and Nearer, M | tod, to Thee. The bearers were tW p sons, Albert and John Heidelberg, Jr e md two sons-in-law, Albert Dilwort $ and Joseph Fraser. Besides those fro1 > the family, there were beautiful flower -e from MT. and Mrs. Henry Gee, Mir an fl Mrs Harry Blackburn, Mr and Mr.
 William Bitgood, Mir and Mrs. James W ,f | Fraser MT. and Mrs. Remi Couture an d family. Mrs. Fred Jodoin and famil, It Christopher M. Dean. MT. Stitht an T. family, Ida V Heidelberg, Medick fan p ly, MT. and Mrs William Dilwortn, Jac .d Rishady, MT and Mrs J. c. Hawkin It MT. and Mrs. John Russ and family r, re pair department of Aspinook bleacher Mir. and Mrs. George B. Dawley, Mir. an Id Mrs. George Wolfenberger. Relativ, y md friends were present from Norwic S. Taftville, Baltic, Westerly, PIainfel le Greeneville and Pachaug. Burial was rs the Jewett City cemetery.