Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-04

VARIOUS: MATTERS
 The ailnanacs promise snow today.
 The florists are beginning a busy, two weeks.
 be from the 10th to the 18th.
 St. James lodge, No. 2s, works the E A degree this evening adv.
 orchardists have already begun the spraying and pruning of fruit trees.
 The milkmen do not need their lan- terms so early as formerly. It is day.
 Eastertide excursionists to Atlantic City and points farther south are al- ready going through here to New York
 After a long illness Miss Mabel Ira ey of Franklin has returned to teach the intermediate department of the Mantle school.
 The surest road to happiness and independence Is to spend less than you earn and save the difference, through the help of the Christmas club.
 
 Meriden papers state that Rev. Will liam A. Keefe of Voluntown will preach the Lenten sermon Wednesday evening at St. lJoseph's church in that city.
 Mrs. l.. K. Fuller of Scotland, editor of the White Ribbon Banner, has effort to organize . branch of the w. c. T. U. there.
 Lieutenant Andrews, in command at Fort Michie, Gull island, left Satur- day for Old Point Comfort, where he will take an examination for promo tion to captain.
 A mechanical milker is being in stalled at Morton F. Plants farm at the s6 COWS in Mir. Plants herd in an hour, and will save the services of 2 men.
 The New England traffic bureau will have a meeting Thursday in headquar- ters in Springfield. A. c. Thompson, demurrage commissioner, win make an address. Many railroad men plan to attend
 Vice President William Hopkins pre- sided on Monday evening at the regu-
 
 Carpenters hall, and two new members were initiated. Two applications were also received.
 Already SIP has been collected by Deacon George R. Sanders towards the Mohegan church improvement Mrs. Leach of Mohegan has presented the church twelve nice books for the Sunday school library.
 IT IT Cc..n oe I1.~~.--4 ,. tor of The Connecticut Citizen, has been suffering from eyestrain, and much of the editorial work on the April number of The Citizen was done by O. B. Ryther, formerly of Nor wich.
 There is local interest in the an- that the Rev. Bradford Paul Raymond, ,former president of Wesleyan university, was taken sud- denly i'll with a hemorrhage of the stomach while in attendance at the conference in New Rochelle and iS still there.
 A change in the operating depart nent on the Shore Line division of 1 the New Haven road has been made 1 xnown, in the placing in New Haven l life railroad, as master mechanic of his division, covering the territory | rom Midway to New York.
 Members of the Masonic fraternity l In this city who were invited to at- l No. 45. F. and A. M., on Monday even | Ing were notified that on account of ! the sudden illness of Master John H. | Noble the meeting would be postponed | 1t had been planned to work the M. M. ! degree.
 There were forty three fatalities in | the state for March, divided as fol- | lows: Accidental twenty seven; sui | cides, nine; and seven homicides. The 1 of homicides for March is | greater than in any other month for l over year. The total fatalities for this month is sixteen less than that of | February.
 Elsie, widow of Reuben Wilson, died Saturday at the home of her daugh- 1 ter, Mrs. William H. Miller, in Fair | with whom she lived, she is survived l by two sons, Samuel of Norfolk, Va, and Ambrose Wilson of Norwich, and one daughter. Mrs. Amanda Shields of l Va.
 The New Haven Journal Courier says: At Cafe Mellone Saturday noon a number of the members of the New Haven Wellesley club enjoyed a at which Mrs. BrownelI Gage was the guest of honor. Mrs. Gage is a graduate of Wellesley and Is the wife of the dean of the Yale in China.
 The rules of all the railroads of the New Haven line for precautions against fire are especially strict in every particular. Packages containing any inflammable material are required to be marked. and employees are order ed to use care in placing such pack ages where 1t will be impossible for them to catch fire.
 The Continental congress of the D. A. R., which meets in Washington April IT to 22. will be formally re- ceived by President and Mrs. Taft at the White house Wednesday afternoon. April 19, and with other members of the organization and the Sons of the American Revolution, by Mrs Matthew q. Scott, president general of the D. A. R.. on Monday evening, April r.
 Referring to the changes which be- gan in the Second Congregational choir Sunday, the New London Tele- graph noted that Prof. J. H. George substituted for William Geer of New and says of Miss Pearl Jack son of Norwich, the new soprano: Miss Jackson is the possessor of a fine soprano voice and the solo which she rave at the morning serxr