Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-24
NORWICH BULLETIN
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What Is Going On Tonight
 Knights. of Pythias, NatchAug Lodge, No. 22 meets in the T. 0. o. F. hall.
 Otto Schmidt of south Windham road, and Daniel Eertefeui1e of this city Figured in an automobile accident Saturday night Schmidt who drives a Dodge car was making the turn into the driveway into his yard when the Buick driven by Verte- feuille struck the Dodge on the side. rip ping out a door and damaging the lenders An agreernint was reached IhetHeeal Schmidt and the owner of the Buick, who came down from Hartford sunday to pay. for the damage dons-
 There will be a busy session of the po- lice court this (Monday) morning, the re- suit of the work of State Officers YoHag Harmon and Williams on the utskirts of. this city. Sunday. The arrests made were Tor several violations. Of the motor laKs. The drive by the officers in this section ofr the state is in conjunction with the Safety, First drive being made during April mad May by the state motor vehicle deQartiAeft.
 < call for a special town. meeting has been issued by the selectmen. The meet ing is to he held at the. town hall Thurs day evening, April 2 to determine whether the town will vote to alsssropriate Inc sum of sSH 0g0 for the buildinS of an addition to. the Natehaug school. This sum would construct and furnish the ad- dition Whether the town will vote to construct and finish the school and all7 point. Of a committee of not less than five electors of the town of N-indharr, to have full charge of the erectin the building and furnish ings; also whether the to9n will vote to discoltinue the watering trough at H-indhanl Center and author ize and o7IlpoHer the selectmen to re move the sam and restore the highway after such removal to good condition. arg 1 questions to be decided.
 The school committee and the board oi selectsnen held a joint meeting Thursday | evening for the purpose. of looking oFel the tentative plans submitted by archi- teets and considering the probable cos 1 of the erection of the proposed Natchaug addition
 l So far the local architect has submitted no plan but is exnected to crescent one a- the special meet 'ng Thursday All of tht plans submitted were for less than sS0,G0i and the voters will be asked to. appropri ate on this basis.
 It was argued by some at the meetin. 1 that this nsw. expense. should be deferred l on account Of the present cost Of the Wind ham Center school. The tax has already been raised one mill this year and tn l added expense of the prc-osed new schoo
 would mean another increase iu taxation One n1an's onirion was that the two o, three uRoccuoied rooms al nTesent st tn 1 high school building could he used for year or two by the seventh and eiehtl grade classes or the Natchaue. school ant
 in 9 measure this would relieve the con
 gestion there. Thursday nights meet
 ing it is expected will be the largest hel;
 in many years.
 Friday evening. trustees signed paper ! Of sale which practically completed ne 1 gotiations for the sale of the-orci7erty 0 the First SpirituaHst Society. the c1urcl
 on Bank street which for the east thirteel
 years has been usel as a motion pictur | theatre. The purchaser of the property i
 Mrs. Mary c. F'oti, of High street, thi
 city. Her sons and daughters hay
 conducted the theatre since 1916. Tn
 deeds of the property will be transferre
 to Mrs. Foti early this week. The sale C of the property has been contemplated fo some time by the society Al a n1eetin
 Thursday night Last several offers to pur
 chase or lease the building were discussed . The matter was left 10 the trustees, Ge<
 Hatch. A. l. Bill and 4. L. Mills, to dis
 pose of the building to the best hnancia adv entage
 The history Of the Sceric theatre as tn property has been known for a number c !, years. is interesting. 4 had century az , the spiritualsts of Wiilir1a ntic coul
 hcact of as many adherents as aIrnos
 any religious denonination of the towr The first Spdritualist society of Win , mantle was organized in 1854 and fo ? years held services i'll the old Univers D alist church. Following the Civil wa I there was agitation in the organhatio r for a church -of- their own. The societ
 started to. work, Dr. Calvin Hall o Sonefs, Mass, who visited many place Q in New England where there were Spil ? ltualist societies often came to WIllir1l:tr tlce, He was much interested in the loc; : society and donated a large sum of none $ for the, church here. The remainder ( 5 the sum needed, for the construction wa
 raised by local subscriptions. The Ian s was deeded to the society by Whiting Y n Hayaen, grandfather of Willard V
 Hayden of this city In 1889 the churc h was erected There were over 800 men : hers in the society at that. time. Service - were held regularly 8 the church mt ! the carly 9eis when the older member 0 dying or moving away from the city. q,
 creased the n1en1o 1oershitq to such an c, 1 tent that for about three, years few n1ee g inss were held. The chunh was closed f. : over year and a l1alf before it w. c l leased by John l.. Pickett and John
 Hurley for a moving. picture house IT : opening of the house for enteftain4ne.
 purposes April IS, 1909 stanlaed these tg
 men as the. pioneer picture producers < the city and the Scenic as the first pictu theatre here, One year from the date $ the opening the theatre was purchased l Arthur F. Dornan, of Woonsocket, R.
 and MT. Pickett was retained to mana; zs the. house. MT. Pickett is still in u business as manager-of both the Gem al A Looner theatres. In 1912 MT. Dorns s built the Gem theatre the Scenic theat A for a time was conducted by Burt Hart
 then by James H. AspfnWaLl and Arth, Marshall. The next proprletor was 0 Ea lando P. Smith. In 1915 the Foti fami ! N took over the theatre and have eontinu,
 it with success.
 Wiliimantic Knights of Columbus ma
 q great showing at the Rockville kac, carnival held at town hall there Frid; night. Their show consisted of thirt
 l five minute minstrels. A large delegati, E of local knights made. the trip by aut
 mobile to Rockville. The show was ki success and was given the decision oy < the Manchester minstrels which was pr < daced there the night previous Gflbe s4 Flynn was interlocutor and Mrs. Arth M J. Dubreil was at the piano. A recit M ton by Albert Pich, The Lost Bag d
 snappX jokes were features of the eye
 ing An excellent luncheon, was served
 the Knights of Columbus rooms after |
 show
 Ha The. program was as follows
 H Sunny Tennessee. John Farrell: \ Al hnd1z.s Il.aln Liaart oicl,n l,n t4.. IL....