Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-20
Ut1e Bulletin,
Norwich, Friday, Feb. 20. 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Another Current Events class has been organized in town.
 French societies are preparing for
 Motorists are having some trouble these cold days from oil cengealing.
 Monday, Feb. 28. will be observed by all government employees as a holiday.
 The FitchvilIe Dramatic club plans to go to Colchester tonight to present a play
 The prospects of possible sleighing parties please the managers of eoun- try inns.
 Fences and buildings at the, states large farm at Mantle were badly dam aged ty the storms.
 The tax collector will be at the store of Sherwood 5. Potter, East Side, to- day, from Il a. m. te p. m. to receive taxeS.-adV.
 In spite of zero temperature, 1914 Improvements and renovatiehs to some of the shore cottages about Mantle have begun.
 State civil service examinations will be he'd March II for promotion of  for the insane.
 Although in his S6th year, William M Williams of Church street has gone to business every day to the store of the Eaton Chase Co.,, not minding storms or icy walks.
 The theme of the prayer meeting at the Central Baptist church Thursday evening was patrnotie, Lessons from Lincoln and Washington. Rev. Dr. Slocum, the pastor, was leader
 At Moodus this (Friday) evening the fourtf quarterly conference will be held in the Methodist chapel at eight o'clock District Superintendent G. G. Scrivener of Norwich will preside.
 Waterbury papers state that at the Elton Tuesday evening the members of the Sacred Heart church choir were rendered their annual banquet by the Rev. Hugh Treanor. Covers were laid for 25.
 It is noted at Wallingford that a new girls club has been organized at the Baptist church, Mrs. William T. Thayer being in charge There will be classes in sewing and cooking, with special teachers.
 Florence. wife of Charles IT. Howard of Ellington, died at the Hartford hos pital following a surgical operation last Wednesday, Besides her husband. she leaves a son. Guy L. Howard, of Victoria, B. c.
 Mrs. G. Maynard Minor of Water ford vas elected a councillor for three years at the annual meeting of the Connecticut chapter, Daughters of Founders and Patriots, held Wednes- day at Bridgeport.
 The postmaster general has notified postmasters throughout the country that special attention is to be given to prevent mail packages from being forwarded to Newfoundland without customs declaration.
 A former Salem resident, Mrs. T. A. Williams, who has been under treat ment for some time at the Johnson Memorial hospital, Stafford Springs, is gaining steadily and was able to sit up for tho first time Tuesday.
 Harry Pierson, who has two men in the Lyme woods chopping cordwood and getting out ties from the blighted chestnuts, thinks that in five years there will be no more chestnut trees to cut for ties or telephone poles.
 Station Agent Parlzhurst will move into his new house on East Main street as soon as the repairs and inn DIONenenlS are COnD1Sleu- 1Qe house has two tenements. and his son, Wal ter Parkhurst, will occupy it with him. Stafford Press.
 Work of transforming the Masonic home at Wallingford is going on apace and the management hopes to start work this summer on the second build ing of artistic group in Colonial style that ultimately will furnish ac- commJdation to 600.
 Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, bishop of the Episcopal diocese, may take advantage of the Get-Together dinner of the united vestries and other laymen at Bridgeport Monday to ask for the creation of the office of bishop coadjhtor for this diocese.
 A former Yantic rector, Rev. Charles s. Champlin, has begun his duties at Grace church, Baldwinsville. N Y. During the thTe years Rev. MT. Cham pln was in charge of Holy Trinity mission, Southbridge Mass. the parish nearly doubled it's membership.
 The third annual convention of the Knights of Washington is to be held in New Haven on the 22d and 23d of February The Knights of Washing ton is secret. fraternal. semi military order Of me min the Episcopal church. It numbers about 300 members.
 Local astronomers are interested in the visibility of the planet Mercury. The test time for seeing the star Is about 6.43 E. n., 9 little north of the point where the sun sets It is about seven degrees above the western hori- zon and may be seen from now until about Feb. "A
 A ale dinner, the first to be given in New York since 1909. is being ar ranged for March 13 at the Waldorf. It is expected that it will be one of the i largest gatherings of Yale men that ] ever met in New York, as graduates 1 and undergraduates are included in the i general invitation.
 1 In Philadelphia Tuesday night Miss ! Agnes Merkle of North GrosVenordale and George l.. Koch of Philadelphia : were married. Acquaintance dated from summer day two years ago, when MT. Koch rescued Miss Merkle from Webster lake after she had over turned a canoe il 50 feet of water, SLEIGH STALLED
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