Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-20
CALES FrRRY

Children's day service entitled The Road to the Golden Age was given In the NJ. B. church Sunday morning, this being specially prepared service for the 5oth anniversary of Chf1dr enss day in Method ism The program opened with an organ prelude, Mrs. Eugene LaFontaine organ ist. and was followed by the processionai with the Sunday school children marching up the aisles to seats. A responsive eef- vice followed with aitiphonal singing and praise. An arch covered with branches of oak leaves and the mountain laurel In flower was arranged inside the chancei rail. Other decorations of roses, peonies and lilies, with quantities of maidenhair ferns. completed the arrangement Rev. ". D. Woodward spoke on The Lost Boy. The primary class sang at the offertory, with Miss Jennie G. Perkins accompanist, the offering being for the student fund of the n. B. church. The preparatory re- hearsais were under the direction of Miss Alice Satterlee and Mrs. R. Irving Hurl- butt, and the decorating committee was | Mrs. Nelson Parker, Mrs. R. Irving Hurl- butt and Mrs. Fanny A Molthrop. The funeral of Miss Amelia Mathewson was held at her late home here Sunday l afternoon at o'clock. Miss Mathewson had suffered 8 lingering illness which she | bore brzvely. Miss Mathewznn was a member of the Congregatlonal church of Durham. where she formerly lived. Rev. | Allen s. Bush conducted the services, and | interment was in the family plot at Yam l tic cemetery, Norwich.
 Local members of Anna Warner Bailey chapter, D. A. R., of Groton and Storing ton, entertained the chapter for the June meeting at the home of Mrs. Billings F.
 s. crandaiI at stoddard Wharf Thursday
 afternoon !, The regent. Miss Betsy B.
 Larrabee, of Groton. presided at the bush ness meeting preceding the program pre- pared for the occasion by Mrs. Crandall as chairman. The program was as fol lows: Salute to the Flag. by members standing recitation. Makers of the Flag (Franklin K. Bane), Gordon Manierre which was his graduation recitation al Ledyard Center last week; reading More
 Than Surface Value (Msrgaret E. Sang ster). Mrs- Carl B. Lawson; The Forgot. ten Half Century, a paper prepared and read by Miss Grace Wheeler of Stoning. ton and recently read by her before the Westerly chapter. D. A R. At the close
 Of the program the hostesses, Mes. Gran dall, Mrs. Delphine Fish, Mrs. Fanny A Molthrop, Mrs. Carl B. Lawson and Mist Alice satterlee, served refreshments oi Ice cream and strawberries with cake About 40 were present. coming in auto
 mobiles.
 Nathan A Gibbs and daughter, Ms:
 Natalie King Gibbs, returned from ter
 days motor trip through the Berkshire:
 and to Newburyport, Mass, last Thurs
 day.
 Among those who attended the A. W
 B. chapter, D. A. R.. meeting at the home of Mrs. B. F. s. Cfandall Thursday after,
 noon were her mother. Mrs. Irwin Haley of Brooklyn, N. r. and Mystic. Mrs. Setf Williams and Mss Grace D. Wheeler ot Stonington.
 Miss Dorothy wulf teacher of physica
 education of Connecticut college, openet the summer cottage of her father Her
 man Wuif of Norwich, on the Bluff herr last week, where she Is entertainin: , guests.
 MT. and Mrs. Otto E. .wulf of Putnam