Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-03
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 The Fridays of Advent are fasting days of obligation in the Catholic church.
 An interesting old picture of Nor- wich in 1860 is shown in McNiclle's window.
 On pleasant days now the photogra- phers are kept busy with Christmas photograph orders.
 Don't forget the Thermos employees dance in T. A. B. hall Friday night Adv.
 ference will be held Monday at II o'clock at the Groton Heights Baptist church. Rev. George II. Chambers of North Stonington will be the speaker.
 Tho funeral of Mrs. William Rich ardson was held Monday at Il o'clock from the home of Leonard Maine in North Stonington and was private Burial was in the Rixtow7 cemetery in GTiswold.
 There Is to be a man placed on the Saybrook ferry crossing for the next tan nights only, to take a record Of the amount of travel at that point. The tlagman will also keep record for the same number of days. The December Connecticut Citizen states that in the six months since Mansfield went into the field for this union he has visited about 80 towns and spoken about 40 times.
 Sale at Spiritual Academy today.
 Social and bean supper, 15 cents.- Adv.
 Local telephone operators, in com mon with those at the other exchanges around the state, have a new query. It 1 is Are you waiting?" and takes the place of the old familiar Operator" The order went out about week ago, to take effect Tuesday.
 Capt. F. L. Bradman, U. S. M. C., has been ordered to the marine bar racks, Mare Island MT. and Mrs.
 Bradman and their children spent
 several years in New London when MT
 Bradman was stationed at the advance base school at the navy yard.
 The heavy long trains that are being hauled over the Shore Line the last
 week have raised havoc with the draw bars on the freight cars; a dozen or more were turned out in the Old Say brook section for repairs, and the | freight transferred from some of them. The Christmas sale at the Trinity I 1 Thursday afternoon.-.Adv.
 The new president, Mrs. John E. Post, presided Wednesday afternoon at | the meeting of the Progressive Mis- | sionary club of the Central Baptist church, held with Mrs. c. R. Gallup of Cliff street, IT attending. Following an 1 interesting session, light refreshments were served.
 Principal Henry A. Tirrell of the Norwich Free Academy will address students of the Manual Training and Industrial school at New London this CThursday) afternoon in the new au- ditorium of the school at 2 o'clock. His subject will be Some Odd Things About Numbers.
 At a meeting of the Connecticut graduates of Georgetown university held Monday evening at The Elton, Waterbury, in connection with an in formal banquet arranged by the Wa terbury graduates, Connecticut chap ter of the alumni association of the university was formed. Farmers in Connecticut have their annual opportunity of selling ties to the New Haven road. They will SUD- ply this year 100000 ties, or about 800, 900 less than last year. Lack of money has made the road cut down in this department. This year no ties will be bought and put into storage. Manufacturers hereabouts have been notified that an exhibition of American cotton fabrics is to be held at the Grand Central Palace. New York, from will be the first of it's kind held in this country, will be under the management of the International Exposition con- pany.