Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-14
JEWETT CITY

Mt Vernon lodge No. 75, F. and A. M, 1 Norman Parkhurst, master, enjoyed one of the finest third degree celebrations in | it's history Tuesday evening.
 A class of five received the Master | Mason degree, the work being done by the crack degree team. The floor work was faultless everything being, from start to finish, performed in full regalia- There were delegations present from Plainfield and Moesup and from Ionic lodge of Greene, R. I.
 i In all there were 125, including S8 wis itors in the lodge room during Lli7 @FVrz- Right Worshipful Sheldon of Moosup.
 took occasion during his remarks, to pay a merited compliment to Mt. Yer nons master, which was heard with , response of applause.
 ! The supper committee, W. H. Payne, ] A. NJ Clarke and F. Kanahan. All past masters of Mt. Vernon proved themselves past masters of the banquet end of the evening" An old fashioned oyster sup per was served with home made dough-
 nuts, chees and coffee and selected R. l. greenings, the choicest from GriSWotdS 1 orchards.
 1 Carpenters are at work at the town ! building making a few improvements , and repairs which include the construc- tion of rooms especially designed for the
 use of Officer McDermott as police head quarters
 1 Mrs William Jofnstone has sold her house on Soule street to John Welsh,
 town clerk of Griswold.
 Mrs. Mary Frye, wife of Charles Frye, after an illness of but five weeks, died Tuesday evening at her home on East Main street. Mrs. Frye leaves little
 baby boy, only five weeks old.
 Mrs. Frye was the daughter of William
 and Mary McNerney Moore and was na-
 tive of Norwich where she was born May
 IS, 1884. 5narles Frye and Mary Moore
 were married by Rev. Father Treanor in
 Norwich April IS, 1912.
 She is survived by her husband, her parents, and little son, three sisters in Norwich, Mrs. Alfred E. LeMoine, Mrs.
 Joseph L. Plante and Miss Grace E. Moore, and a brother, Charles $. Moore of New London.
 , Mrs. Frye enjoyed the friendship ot the many with whom she became ac- quainted in Jewett City. Home attrac- i tions and interests brought to her all the pleasures and comforts which she found necessary Her husbana, family and friends have lost conscientious, true g woman, faithful in all the capacities thai I life called upon her to fill.
 Prohibition Agent Robert Church, wal ! in town Wednesday, and called upon Of f1cer John McDermott, proposing to take !. over the wine and beer locked in a eel : : at the Soule street police station. The seizure is still here and undis :. turbed by MT Church Officer McDer :, mott refused to pass it into his custod! s without written order from Judg ' Brown of the Griswold court. n Over thirty names have been receive,
 i to date for the Rifle club. As only tn Q names of ten persons are needed it seem = that at least Jewett City will have = club of which it ought to be proud. Ther a 1 is a wealth of material to draw from an
 there is numbered among those that hay l. handed in their names several good rih n and revolver shot. However these cracl ! shots will have to look sharp as Joh f Kaufman of Voluntown, who for year r was a member of the falmouth New Yorl , City Rifle club has offered his service . as coach to anyone who wants to lear s the finer arts of the game.
 n MT, Kaufman is today one, of the bes IF rifle shots in the Nationad Rifle Associ 4 ation and holds worlds records that fo .s years the leading expert riflemen hay , tried to equal. Evidence of his ability a T coach is found in the fact that severa IF young men in and around Voluntow IT who have been under his tutelage durin II the past year are now putting up score "a that are seldom beaten. With such s coach the Jewett City Rifle club will 500 i- be competing with the leading riff l. clubs throughout the United States. It ,- expected that meeting for the organiza
 tien of the club will be held in the tow
 hall either Monday or Tuesday night C
 next week.
 Presenting Attorney Judge Henry E ' Burnham is in Baltimore, Md, the gues
 of his oldest son, Alfred Huntingto IF Burnham.
 The very many friends of the jucge toi 1T in wishing him plenty of pleasure in hi ?. annual visit. While he is away, At s torney John T. Barry, his assistant, take
 over his official duties.
 IS The suit club sy7indIe struck Jswet
 City and with Danielsen, Putnam an
 Willfmantic, the local investors are evi le dently stuck for the money they paid il t. First off suits were coming right alons
 the collections being made by an excer d tionally affable party. Recently tn
 members have been advised to forwar
 their dues to an address in New HaYeI l. Wednesday it was learned that all wa le not moving smoothly. The local me f have already stopped their payments. ]
 is probable that an officer will be sent