Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-13
COLUMBIA

The district schools in town began Fri day the spring cavation Of one week.
 Miss Marion Holmes, the teacher at the Center school. will spend the vacation with friends in Jersey City.
 The Columbia Burying Ground associa- ton held it's annual meeting Saturday afternoon, the 1st. The officers elected are: A. A. Latham. president; Edward P. Lyman, vice president Fred A. Hunt, secretary and treasurer; James 4. utley' exton. Charles K. Hitchcock, Henry E.. Hutchins and L. E. Winter were elected members of the finance committee. The meeting voted to accept a bequest of $500 from Charles ". Fitch, who died nearly two years ago at Farlbauh, Minn.. and was brought to Columbia for burial the interest on which fund is to be used first for the care of his burial plot and the balance if any for the gem eraI care of the cemetery. They also ac- cepted a bequest of S100 from MT. Fitch toward the erection of a receiving vault. As the secretary has found in correspon- dence an attempt to delay the payment of these bequests by the administrators of the estate. and a disposition to divert these bequests, as also one made to the town of Columbia, to a humane associa- ton in Massachusetts. the meeting au-
  in Minnesota to safeguard the interests of the association and collect the be- quests The treasurer reported a cash balance of S20S69 on hand and trust funds of s1,650, not including the Fitch | beQuests, the interest on which is to be applied to the care of especially desig- mated plots, and the balance if any te 1 the general care of the cemetery. l Miss Anna Dix of Brooklyn, N.- Y. arrived in town Thursday and is at tht home Of Mir. and Mrs. Fred A. Hunt where she expects to remain for tht | present. Her cottage at the lake, whicf has been under construction since Las fall. will be ready for occupancy shortly | There was Q whist party at Yeoman: hall Saturday evening" attended by St persons, the proceeds of $9.25 being giye1 to the fund of the Village Improvement society, which has already expended con siderable money and given gEatuitou labor for the improvement of the Green
 Claude Grlggs held an auction on hi place at Hop River, disposing of his stocl and farming implements at what wer considered fair prices. It is understoot that he will move to Wiliimantic
 MT. and Mrs. IT. W. Porter motored t Shelburn Falls, Mass, Saturday after noon, spending Sunday with their daugh ter Harriet and her husband. Carleton F Davenport.
 W. E. Slater of Hop River sold hi store and moved into another house i the village during the past week
 Rev. T. Newton Owen preached Sun day morning from St. John 12: 19. "Th world is gone after Him." The speake said 1t is the ambition of all nations | achieve worldwide dominion, but it ha been shown that whether by conquest b kings or through league of nations sue cess by force will not prevail. The LOT offers the only empire that can succeed which is the kingdom of God, establishe by Christianity throughout the world.
 Miss Fleurette Bengle, teacher of tn Chestnut Hill school. left Friday to spen the spring vacation at her home Springfield
 Miss Esther Granstran1, teacher at tt West street school. is spending the xacs ton at her home at Quaker Hill, Mas Miss Marie Moore of the Pine stree school is at her home in Springfield