Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-06
VARIOUS MATTERS

were reported Sunday morning.
Every pleasant day now photograph
ers are rushed, filling Christmas ord
ers.
Greeks from a number Of Connect
cut towns are leaving to join the
army.
There was a celebration Of the fes-
tival of Chanukah in the synagogues
on the Sabbath day.
Box for masquerade at Armory next
Friday night by the military compa-
MES on sale at G. A. Davis'.-adv.
Next Sunday, at the morning SER
vice, Miss Clara Converse of Japan is
to speak at the Central Baptist church.
The Goth birthday anniversary Of
Isaac Washington was informally OBJ
served at his home in West Mystic
last week.
Sale of Christmas novelties by Miss
Maud c. Buckingham, at Sc Mckinley
avenue, will continue until Christ
mas.-adv.
Following the custom of the old
country, many English housekeepers
are already preparing plum puddings
for gifts and for the Christmas feast.
Motor parties to the Connectiver
river Saturday noted the great quanti
ties of coal being hushed up the river
before navigation closes for the win
ter.
Colonel Andrew Hero, acting COM
mandant of Fort H. G. Wright, will
probably continue as commandant Of
the coast defences of Lond Island
sound for several months.
A blue hawk recently shot by
Charles Tyler at Moosup Pond had an
his neck brass tag inscribed. Lib
Grated September Is, 1915. by Steph-
en- Allen, Crondon, Wisconsin"
Huntington Wilson, wro attended the
Huntington Family reunion in Nor
wich, at which time he was first as
sistant secretary of state. has witten
a book entitled, Save America!
Saturday morning the funeral Of
Mrs. Samuel K. Ellis, SO. was held at
her home in Rockville. Besides her
husband she leaves five children, one
being Mrs. Clark H. Crane of Mans
field.
Don't fail to attend the Rummage
morrow at 10 a. m. in Thayer build
ing; many bargains.-Adv.
At Trinity Methodist church, the
loose offering for Sunday was given
to the Benevolent fund Of the church.
1t has zeen voted that this collection
be taken on the first Sunday of the
month.
Hammond Harrison ShuInway, 76.
-p1l1 La Of
Webster, Mass, was born in Thomp
son, Conn, Nov. S. 1889. a son Of
Harmon and Rhoby -(Towne) Shum-
way.
Rev Kenneth B. Welles, now pas
Yale, 1909, and of the Union Theolog-
ical seminary, 1912. has been called to
the pulpit of the Congregational
church at Old Lyme.
AS Wednesday is the feast of the
Immaculate Conception and a holy
day of obligation in the Catholic
chu1>h, masses are to be held at st.
Patrick's church at 5. and o'clock,
the last high mass.
The battleship Connecticut, on
which are a number of Eastern Con-
necticut boys left Port Prince on De-
cember l for Hampton Roads and has
been directed by radio to proceed to
the Philadelphia yard.
At the rummage sale held in Nor
witch last week a woman spied
bargain which she needed, tried it and
proved that it fitted o. K, passed
over the price and triumphantly car
ried off set of false teeth.
When the brethren of the famous
Amen Corner gathered in the ballroom
of the Waldorf, at New York, Friday
night for their fifteenth annual din
ner. one of the guests was George L.
Tirrell, formerly of Norwich.
A new state law which passed the
last session OF the state legislature
provides that inmates of all aims
houses in Connecticut are to be ex-
amined to ascertain whether any Of
them rs imbeciles or insane.
No movement for community
Christmas tree has been made in Nor
witch this year. The uncertainty Of
the weather during Christmas week
this pleasant public feature in pre-
Vious years.
The commissary department of the
New Haven road has been moved from
New Haven to North Braintree, Mass,
freighting facilities. The increase of
sseigbt traffic is felt. especially in
New Haven.
Tickets for the amateur vaudeville
at the State Hospital may be secur-
ed Monday and Tuesday evenings in
the trolley waiting room and on
Franklin square. Automobiles please
enter at North drive, at State Hospi-
tai and exit south.-adv.
The following notice was sent out
Saturday from Washington: Post
masters should limit the issue Of
copying pencils to employees who are
required to use them and should i'm
press upon such employees the necessi-
ty for conserving the supply.
Some 80 owners Of motorboats and
members of yacht clubs throughout
the state, are expected at a meeting
to be held at the Poquonnosk Yacht
clubhouse in Bridgeport, Friday night
when the organization of the Water
ways' League Of Connecticut will be
perfected.
Referring to the recent address Of
Rev. William Zunbro, of Norwich at
the First Church, West Woodstock,
the Putnam Patriot said: His word
pictures of life in India were inter-
esting, instructive and convincing as
showing the needs. Of the people Of
kI,0 nk,-ry