Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-03-21

iting for several days WITH Mr.. and Mrs.
T. e. Day.
The Willimantic Automobile Dealers
Association held their weekly meeting and
luncheon Monday at the Hotel Hooker
Albert (The Count Benoit Of this CITY,
is entered in the statet char pfon socket
billiard contest to be staged ae Wooster
Academy, Waterbury, this week Be
mott is matched against Red Kelley of
Bridgeport for the first night The games
are Toe points four days each week TO
be given over to the contests. The win
her win recieye a prize of $50 and it j
PROBABLE big billiard equipment com,
pany will hang UP d gold medal, too. See
ond place nan gets $50 and third man
$50.
Durham Hall library. founded in Feb
rusry,s 1878, by the Wi!umaneic Linen
company and named in honar of Austin
ounEam, former president If the com
oany, has grown steadily and today the
library contains the popular books of the
days and provides magazines and newh-
papers for the use OF the general pub
nc. At the time Of the founding Of tn
library it contained 500 volumes; of Eoet-
~, biography, travel, adventure, science
and notion, and was for the use of tho
employees of the Willimantic Linen com
pony. 1t has always beea used ty the
public, hoWeN er, and its worth is well
known. The library was supported en-
tlrely by the company Unit: its merger
| with the American Thread company in
1888 and Was continued by the American
Unread company as feature Of the vel.
| fare work carried on by the company.
Miss Jennie Ford was the first librari-
| an, her service extending from 1878 TO
1904, her health then compelling her to
a In ri
became librarian and continues 10 fill this
office. Interest in the library has al
ways been manifested by officials CT
company and they have kep9 1t UP TO the
| high standard maintained By all public
libraries. The library is located On the
/ top foer of the main office building at
| the junction of Main and Union street.
The hours of opening are from 1915 10
8 and from TO p. nj. each week day
During the summer the library is closed
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
The shelves Of the ibrar1 provide
| over 1000 volumes covering 4 wide range
| OF subjects, during the pas Two years
| the circulation of magazines after being
III the library thirty days has increased
| from 1900 volumes TO $4,000 volumes
| Everything in the library is up to date
| and an effort has ben made TO accom-
| modate all classes of readers in sub
| seriptions to publications
| Magazines taken include tae Pictorial
| Review, St Nicholas, Youth CotIria n
non, Scribner's, Open Road, Outlook,
! Physical Culture Harp.r's, american,
| Worlds Work, National Geographic,
| Good Housekeeping, Popular Me
| chanics, Ladies Home JourraI Pho
| toplay, Judge, Saturday Evening Post.
American Mac.1int3t, Ea3tile Wcfld
Journal and Fn3tfo-v
| Newspapers subscribed for are the
New York Tim2s, (daly and S1nday)
| Boston Post, N0Twi III Bulletin, Hart
ford Courant, and the Whitman
Chronicle.
An added feature is the circulating
library, whereby an new books can be
obtained, New books for old and
young are daily being added and the
American Thread company has invited
the public of Willimantic 10 avail
themselves of the privileges of the
Duhham Hall library. Some of the
lrecent accesSions are:
Winter Comes A S. NJ. Hutchinson
! inc Gay Gockade, T. Bailey: Alias the
Lone WdIf, Vance; Casey Ryan, Bow
er Martln Conisby's Vengeance. Far
mol; Master OF Man. Cainc: Youth
triumphant, Gibbs Partners of
Cnance, knfbbs; Far to Seek, Diver:
70 Him That HATH, Conner: The Kew
| mol, Durham: Nobody ) Man, onDep =
| helrn; Mane-auy.ltesr Miller. The
iGeneration, Johnson; The Girls, Fe-l7-
e. The Marriage Of Susan, Martin;
QcHIS Window, Me1u@ ,IIecn Children
OF the Whirlhind, Scott The Dauzt-
| Ter of Helen Kent Comstock. Success.
ADAMS The Luminous Face, Wells
| Career of David Noble, Keyes.
for -I-9r-
wood, knipe; Diantha's Quest, Knipe;
A Little Girl of Old New York, Curtis
A Yankee Girl at Bull Run. Curtis. Kit
Fat and .. Few Boys, GiIchrist: Babs a t
Home, CoiYer; Captain Lucy in the
! Home Sector, Hazard; ApriIIy. Alb
! Doll; From Tenderfoot to Golden
Eagle, Blanchard; The Silver Bear,
BroWn; The Kidnapped Campers. Can
held; The Big Tent, Canfis!d, When
Polly Was Eighteen, Dowd. penrose
! Lorry, Campfire Girl, Hornbrook; The
sheldon Six Rose, Remick:: Paul and
Rfoda, kilbourne; The Camp OF Ctrsiye1
+ Folnt, tucson; The Dragons Secret,
, seaman The Laughing Prince. Fill
more; The Wonderful Cbuic and the
Tales it Told, Browne Tales of Laugh :
ter, Virgins; Thankful spicers, Brow
nell; Then Came Caroline, Richards
Philippa's Fortune, Gerry; The Old
Mines Secret, Turpin; The Kidnapped
Campers Again on the Road, can
field; Dorothy Dain.y'5 RED Letter
Days, Brooks; When Grctel was Eff
teen, Rhoades; Nancy of Paradise
Cottage, Watkins.
Books for Boys-Gatty Atkins. RIv.
7 erman, kelland; Torrance from Te,,as
Ames; Metipon's Hostage, Barbour;
Kick FORMATION, Barbour: Connie
Morgan in the Lumber Camps, Hen
Idryx; Connie Morgan IN the Fur Coun-
try, Henryx; High Benton, Worker
| Heyliger'; The Donovan Chance, Lynde;
The War Trail Fort, Schultz: The
Young Wireless Operator as a Fire pa
troll. Thesis; The Young Arctic Trad
ers, Wallace; The Mysterious Rjtleuap
Iomlinson; Princeton Boy Under the
King, P. G. TomIinson; Dick Arnold
of the, Varsity, Silvers; Jack Heatoo
Gold Seeker Collins; Paul and the
PRINTING Press, S w. Bassett; Steve
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