Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-05

l AT GrOtOn I4enten services were nelC
at the Seabury Memorial church Fri
day at 7.30. Rev. j. Eldred Brown OF
! Norwich conducted the services
Rev. A II. Wilcox of Norwich will
preach at the PIainfield Congregational
church Sunday morning and will pre-
side at the communion service.
| The advance in the price of pork is
expected to set most of the farmers
TO raising more pigs this season. The
l SO hog is commanding more atten-
| ton than since war times.
In Connecticut during February, four
| persons ended their lives with carbolic
| acid. two by shooting and like num-
| Der by cutting the throat, and one by
I poison other than carbolic acid.
The barge Baravia is reported as
! leaving Newport News for AIlyns
| Point in tow of the whalebaclz steamer
! Bay View. She is loaded with soft
| coal.
| Fort Griswo1d lodge, No. 1913, N. E.
| Q. p, of Groton. met Thursday eve
ming. Several candidates were initial
ed and visitors were present from New
London and Norwich.
Norwich friends will learn with
surprise that William c. GoInpf of
Hartford, has brought an action for a
divorce from Elfreda Louise Gompf.
Judge William f. Henney is counsel
for Mr.. Gompf
The grand council of the Royal Ar
canum in Connecticut has been award
ed the prize offered by the supreme
council for having the least number
of suspensions OF any grand. council
in the country.
Trinity Methodist church, Sunday,
100 a. m, Holy Communion, baptism
and reception of new members: 7.30
D. m, musical service, pastors theme,
The Most Alarming Thing in the
World" All welcome.-adv
A New London exchange notes that
a local veterinary has been in Mont
Vile looking after the health of a pair
of valuable mules, which was pur-
chased by Edward Johnson. The
mules were transferred from Missouri.
a concerted, countrywide attack is
to be made on the house fly this year.
When spring begins. hundreds of sci
entists, aided by laborers, drugs and
chemicals. and mechanical killers, will
try TO drive the household pest out of
existence.
The Connecticut Jersey Cattle
Breeders association met Thursday in
the supreme court room at the capitol
but adjourned without transacting any
business, until Saturday. March II.
Only twelve or fifteen members were
present Thursday
Rev. P. C. Wright will speak in the
Central Baptist church Sunday morn
ing and evening. Mrs. Anna Ellis
Dexter. soprano, will sing in the eve
ming A welI-known music critic of
Boston speaks of her as a singer of
marked capacity.-adv.
The oldest Odd Fellow in two states
died Monday at Wauregan, Michael
Burns, aged SO, member of Attle-
boro, Mass, Orient lodge. He had been
an Odd Fellow for nearly half a cen
fury. Protection lodge had charge of
the funeral dnesday.-Moosup Jour
nal.
Postmaster General Hitchcock Fri
day granted leave of absence for not
exceeding five days to postmasters in
the New England states to enable them
to attend the annual meeting of the
PostmaSters' association of New Eng
land, which is to be held at Boston
April 10.
Low rates TO California, Arizona,
New Mexico, Mexico. Tourist sleeper
without change, berth $500. Wash
ington-Sunset route, 17O-22s Wash.
St, Boston.-adv.
a peculiar fact is noted in connec-
ton with oiled roads. Wherever the
oil was placed and people now have
to walk through the mud, the OIL
soaked dirt, which sticks to the over
shoes and gets on the wearing apparel
has to scrubbed off. 1t cannot be
brushed off even after it is dry.
Collector of Internal Revenue Eaton
states that it will probably be two
weeks or at best ten days before he
will be able to announce the names of
such corporations in the state, who, on
account of failure to report, their tax
schedules under the new corporation
tax law. will fall under the penalty
of the same law
Rev O. e. Tourtellotte and Mrs
Tourtellotte, who went to North Da-
kota two years ago from Oneco, write
OF their great success While west. They
built a $4,000 church at Arthur and
dedicated il free of debt, and at the
Ia st conference were allotted the
charge at Hans boro, \. D., with a debt
of $4,000, which they have cleared Off
Masquerade Social.
\ masquerade social by the Jolly
Five filled Cadillac hall with one of
the largest crowds of the season on
Friday evening The grand march
showed number of original costumes
and the prizes were bestowed as fol-
lows: First, Miss Rose Hamper, a silk
umbrella: second. Oscar T. Rein. q