Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-29


 People are still sending holiday mail and parcels at the post office.
 The Montville quilt mill of Palmer Brothers will shut down until after New Years.
 Hockey playing and skating at Mo- hogan park furnish sport for the school pupils during vacation.
 Men from Groton are carting brush to the birch mill, near Clarl's Falls from the Pugh farm at Ashwillett.
 Travel has improved so much that most of the automobile owners were running their cars again Monday.
 Special meeting of Div. No. ?. A. o. H., tonight. at s o'clock.-Adv.
 The sum seemed warm yesterday aft ernoon but the mercury did not go far above S6 degrees even at noon.
 As observation days for January, Friday, Saturday and Sunday prom ised variety of weather, intensely cold.
 When the Methodists of Danielson hold their watch meeting, New Years eve, District Superintendent G. G. Scriviner Of Norwich will be present
 The recent rains and what snow has melted have helped the mill streams somewhat and in a number of places mills have resumed operation by water power.
 The New London Telegraph men tions that Mrs. c. B. Sears of Groton spent the week end at Mansfield, where she was the guest of her son, Harry Sears.
 New Year calling cards printed at the Bulletin office. 50 for 20c.-Adv.
 The wife of Rev. RI. MacLean Goldie, Yantic, is still in England and Rev. Mr. Goldie is staying at the home of MT. and Mrs. p. ". Willard.
 An elderly Norwich resident recalls that the home of Charles J. Lanman, whose daughter. Susan H., was buried here Monday, was a dwelling, with neatly fenced grounds on the site of what is now the Washington block, facing Washington square.
 Dr. B. o. Brock, the New Haven cat tie inspector, received word from Washington Saturday that the foot and mouth quarantine, so far as the Uuit- ed States was concerned, had been modified in all the counties of Con- necticut except New Haven and Hart ford.
 Norwich relatives and friends learn that Mrs. Katherine Moody SpaIding of Bridgeport, prominent T. A. R. and Kings Daughter and former bril- liant newspaper woman, is now doing important research work for the Fair field Historical society. making her home in Fairfield.
 Dr. J. G. Ely of Hamburg, a mem- Der of the staff of the Memorial hos pital. New London, is seriously i'll with pneumonia at his home, where he is attended by two physicians and a trained nurse. The crisis was passed Saturday evening and hopes are now held out for his recovery.
 Henry Clews. treasurer of the Dol lar Christmas fund, announced yester- day that the fund reached $51, ,000 Christmas day and that the money will be used in purchasing food sup plies for the destitute Belgians One of the liberal contributors was c. H. osgood, Norwich, who gave s1o0.
 Police about the state have been notified by the officer in charge at Fort Slocum, N. T., that Harry C. White, formerly a resident of Hart ford, is wanted for assertion. White had a sister living in Hartford, where field, Mass, on June F, 1914.
 The 20oth anniversary. of the birth of George Whitfield, the English l preacher. who spoke to the congrega- tion of the old Congregational church 1 at Center Groton in February, 1763 was celebrated Sunday morning at the Groton Congregational church, when Rev. Henry W. Hubert preached
 The work of. Mother M. Alphonsa La throp, in the world Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of INN 1Fofef Nathaniel Hawthorne. has been sadly interferred with by the war. She maintains two houses for incurabIe l cancer patients, at T Jackson street N. r., and at Harthorne, N Y.