Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-29
WHY GRANDMA GRAY HAS BEEN
 SILENT

Dear Social Corner Sisters: So many months have passed since sent a line | for the Corner page I have been afraid 1 you would drop me from the family, but | met with the sisters in the Buckingha n | in May and received a cordial welcome | and again I met them at Alexander's Lake and Theodore cannot realize how her pleasant greeting and assurance that i she was more than glad to meet me gave me a most delightful time.
 One excuse for not writing is that we moved in April and few of you probably know some of the hard work which goes with moving We had lived in one house AS years with the excep- ton of two years away and you can imagine the accumulation of movable things from attic to cellar.
 But we were not able to improve the farm and rather than see 1t run down we sold it and now have only a rented house a garden and hens to care for. used to say no rooms were so pleas ant as ours at the old far but I find that the sun shines just as brightly here. the birds sing just as sweetly and we have the best of neighbors. So 1t IS home sweet home here. Our children rallied around us and did the moving and settling. so we have nothing to l complain of and much to enjoy
 I enjoy the Social Corner page and | If you will forgive me will try to con l tribute something more often.
 One sister asks, Who has seen a Rev
 olutionary soldier? My grandfather was born in 1776. the year of the Declara-
 tion of Independence, so of course was not in that war, but later was a soldier. remember him well. I have some
 pieces of furniture grandfather had l SxyLA ha ko l, l are prized as heirlooms and no hunters
 for old fashioned furniture can buy l them. My father was in the war of the
 rebellion and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburgh and was buried In the beautiful cemetery at Arlington. We hope there will be no more wars and peace will reign, but the times seem very troublous at present
 One sister wrote of the uses for news papers. I use them as she suggested and
 I would not know how to keep house without them. I also use orange wrap pers and all waxed papers to wipe of
 my cook stove and like them very much.
 have 12 bright lively Rhode Island red
 chicks, am bringing up and have lots of fun with them. Don't expect such
 good luck as Brave wrote about last January.
 Granger speaks of a Quaker meeting house In the place where I lived in my childhood, there were two Quaker
 churches and several families who be- longed to that sect. One Quaker kept a store there and his sister taught ouI school. l like her very much, but she
 died young with consumption used
 to attend their meetings when the pastor
 of our church was away Some meet ings were silent, not a word spoken and
 so still you could hear pin drop. The
 old men wore their large road-brimmeC
 hats through the meeting When they
 rose and shook hands the meeting was
 over They called it communing witt
 the spirit. Another time I will tell you of a marriage l attended in their church
 How many sisters have attended a Quak
 CT marriage? If not too late I wish tt . thank the sisters who sent me birthda, . cards, Ma of Green Gables, Bug, The oda
 and Delial Deal who sent the lovel, badge. Hope to call on her some da, , 1 when we are out for an auto drive We are sorry to hear of the suddel death of Etta Barber and sympathiz with her family.
 Our editor must be long suffering and kind to keep track of all the sisters
 letters and I shall not. blame him l. the least if he throws this in the vast i i basket
 Kindest regards to all
 l GRANDMA GRAY.