Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Housecleaning preparations are no- ticeable in all quarters.
 Somerset lodge works the Entered Apprentice degree this evening.-adv
 Chilly as it was, there was a sug- gestion of April in yesterdays weath- CT.
 One suburban church society made money this week by holding a maple sugar social.
 No less busy than the mi1liners are the dealers in Easter gloves, suits, shoes and ties.
 Many New London visitors Tuesday returned with tiny pots of shamrock which showed thrifty growth.
 Many grass and woodland fires are started now through carelessness in burning old lawns and meadows.
 sedgwick W. R. c. give a Green supper at Buckingham Memorial to- night at 6.15. Tickets 15c.-adv.
 The steamer Yuma will be hauled out at Riverside within a few days to have some minor repairs made.
 A formal announcement has been made of the engagement of Ruby Avery of Somers to Harry Wilcoxson of Stratford.
 Returning Vermont visitors are bringing samples of the new crop ma pie sugar, which is selling there at 25 cents per pound.
 Experts say that nacadam roads are showing special wear this spring, because of the use of chains on auto- mobile wheels during the past winter.
 The farmhouse of Henry R. Girls wold in Waterford caught fire and burned to the ground Monday morn ing. The damage was s3,5O0 with $500 insurance.
 Local members of the society have been informed that the Red Cross will extend its work by giving hrst-aid courses to miners, trainmer, firemen and factory employees.
 The drop in the temperature Tues day was desirable as too prolonged a period of warm weather now might
  cold wave might kill them
 The steamer Chester w. Chapin, which has been running on the Nor wich line for the past few months, left Saturday for New Haven. where she will go on the New Haven line
 After an illness of several months, Ernest A. Kessler of New London at >aj jrxffox Fellows home in Groton, where he had been a resident for nearly three years.
 One of the social events of the sea- son will be the Second Division, A. O. H.. dance, which takes place in the Armory, Thursday evening, March r. Miller's augmented orchestra is en- gagged to play.-adv.
 Governor Weeks has approved acquisitions on the state comptroller of the executive committee of the Sol diers' hospital board for $7,0oo and of the executive committee of the Con- nectfcut hospital for the insane for S1o.oo0
 According to the itinerary for the annual trip of Sphinx temple to the Imperial council of Mystic Shriners, to be held at New Orleans in April, the Shriners are going to be busy from the time they leave Hartford until they return, or from April to April Is.
 Low rates to California, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico. Tourist sleeper without change, berth $500. Wash ington- Sunset route, 17O-22S Wash St, Boston.-adv.
 Fruit growers have been notified that as the result of experimental work by the department of agriculture, a. cheap and simple remedy for the peach scab has been found in the self boiled 1ime-sulphur wash. This can be applied during the growing season with very little danger of injuring the fruit or foliage, and it is very effec- tive.
 Members of the bar are receiving printed copies of the code of profes- of the Connecticut State Bar associa- ersiey was chairman. The code was nual meeting last month
 Overseer Haney Resigns Position.
 IT T. Haney of New London over seer of the dyeing departments in the at PequOt, Uncasvifle and Versailles resigned his position on Monday. MT Haney will devote his time to the new Thames Dye and Bleacherv DIaut now