Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-05-18
WILLIM ANTIC

pafly held Tuesday night 1t was voted
after considerable opposition to sell the
building now known as the Chamber OF
Commerce Building on Main street TO
Hyman Rosenberg. The building was
purchased some three years ago from
A. L. Gelinas for the sum of $4,000 and
the stock company was formed to pay
for the building. Shares sold rapidly
at $25 for a time and $1a,950 was raised
the remainder of the value being secured
by mortgage. Stockholders voting
against the sale Of the building said the
price was NOT what it should be for a
building OF its kind. The shareholders
will receive about twenty five per cent
| in dividends on their stock. Rumors cir
culated about the city since lit has been
known that the building would perhaps
be sold to Mr.. Rosenberg, have had it
that he was purchasing for another par
| ty. Following the sale of the building
Mr. Rosenberg denied this rumor. Rem
! tails from the. building have been $4,000
yearly. % ats
Natchaug lodge. No. 22, knights of
| Pythias. was royalty entertained We'd
nesday evening at the Y. NJ c. A., the
| evening having been set aside S. Pyth-
| ian Night Entertainment consisted of
| games bowling and billiards. and dane
Ing. Refreshments were enjoyed during
the evening.
The vespers choir Of st. Mary's church
4 choir boys is to go to Stafford Springs
next Sunday evening to assist in the
/ singing of Vespers at st. Edwards
/ church of which Rev. Felix ]. o'Neil1,
a native of WiAimantic. is pastor. The
| boys are also to present Hello Boys, the
] play that made a hit in this city, at St
Edwards hal later for the benefit of
Father o'Nei:'s church.
| Mrs. g. H. Savage Of storrs gave an
interesting address on Reading for the
! Adolescent Tuesday afternoon at the
meeting of the Willimantic Woman's
club. She urged that mothers devote
| more time TO their children and be at
home when they return from school, as
| it is at this time that children are keyed
up anu the 1uieting atmosphere of the
home is needed. Mrs. Savage named
several books of fiction published today
that are hardly suitable for reading by
children. 4' ~
Willimantic PubEc Library has re-
| ceived fifteen non-f1ction books, given
through the income of the Calvin Chaplin
Memorial Publication Fund in Yale Uni
versity. All were either written by New
Englanders or they are baout some per
son who lived in New England. Twenty
nine fiction books have also been added
to the library. a
The list of non-fiction books follows.
Life of Theodore Thornton Munger
Benjamin ". Bacon; Connecticut wit,
end Other Essays, Henry A. Beers; AL
exander Hamilton, William CuIbertson
Yale Yesterdays, Clarence Deming
Economic Utilization Of History, Henr,
F'arnam; Department of State, GailIort
Hunt; Our Many-Sided Money, -Rober
w. Neeser; Fondsman's Log, Robert W
4 Neeser "A Short Sketch of Isaac H
Bromley, N. G. Osborne Short Sketch
OF Horatio Parker, George W. Chad
wick; Beginnings of Yale; Edwin Oviatt
Letterfiles of S. W. Johnson, Elizabeth
A. OSBORNE; Book of Yale Pageant
Jeffersonian Democracy in New Eng
lapd,' William A. Robinson Library Cul
cure in Early New England, T. G
! Wright.
The following fiction books have beer
received at the library: The Golden An
swer, Bates; Casey Ryan, Bower: Mr.
Proback. Bennett; Gay Cockade, Bal
| ley; Head Of the House of Coombe, Bur
nett; Man From the Wilds, Bindloss
Journeys End. Brown; Far to Seek, Di
yer; Strong Hours. Diver Settling O
the Sage, Evarts The Girls, Ferber; T
/ the LdSL man, trey; Everlasting WINS
per, Gregory; The Jubilee Girl, Haw
kins; If Winter Comes, Hutchinson
Wasted Generation, owen johnson Ma
Who Did the Right Thing, johnson TIL
Ragged Edge, MacGrah; Jane Journe
On. Mitchell; Rich Relatives, Macken
zie; Manslaughter, Miller Lucreti
Lombard Morris; Great Prince Shan
Oppenheim Wrong Mr. Wright, Ruck
Tangled Trails. Ranie; Unclaimed Let
ter Shol Rider Of the Golden Ba,
White Mystery Girl, Wells; YeHoy
Streak, Williams.
Brief Notes.
Stores in Willimantiee are to begi
closing this Thursday afternoon unit
October 9TH inclusive.
The first battalion of the Sevent
Field Artillery, consisting of about 80
horses and men is enroute from Cam
Dix. n. j., TO Camp Devens, Mass. an
will camp in this city over night Frida,
The battalion passes through Middle
town today Thursday camping tonigf
at East Hampton. The march to tn
city will be resumed Friday.
Mrs Thomas f. Kelleher of Par
street is visiting relatives in Sout
Manchester. -
Mrs. Eva Adams and Mrs. Tenn
Randall were delegates from the W,
mans Relief Corps of this city to II
state convention held in New Londe
Wednesday. -
and NJ.