Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
VARIOUS MATTERS
Monday was St. Lucys day.

Some of the churches will observe next Sunday as Christmas Sunday.
 Fifty printed calling cards for 25 cents at The Bulletin of1ce.-adv.
 A Mantle pastor, Rev. Charles F. Eldredge, supplied the Baptist pulpit in Lebanon, Sunday.
 The term at Yale closes Friday, Dec. r at 1.20 p. m. and the winter term opens Tuesday, Jan. 4, at a. m.
 When it set in to snow Monday merchants brought their Christmas sleds out, expecting a boom in trade.
 People who were at the beaches Sunday found evidences of the un- usually high tides of the past week.
 Thirty consecutive years of active service 6 the record of Sergeant Ben jamin A. Beebe Of the New London po- lice force.
 Sale, salad and meat supper, at Spiritual Academy, Wednesday.-adv.
 The Lyme librarp report for Nevem- Der was as follows: Fiction circulated 539, non- fiction 194, total 733. Reading room attendance 195.
 Work on Rope Ferry bridge, Man tic, which has been closed for several weeks, has been completed and the bridge is now open to the public.
 A former Hebron teacher, Ray Hill Of Maine, who taught in the Lord dis trict, has left Westchester for Georgia, where he will spend the winter.
 Lent will begin March Sth and Eas- ter will be very late, coming on April 23rd. This year Ash Wednesday was February IT and Easter came on April 4th.
 Several local people knew Rabbi Meyer Elkin, of Hartford, whose death was announced Monday and who was long summer resident at Crescent Beach.
 The Shore Line Trolley Co. is using one ~of it's NorwichNew London cars on the line through the section near Centerbrook, while some of their other cars are in the paint shop.
 Sale of Christmas novelties by Mrs. M. Jewett at 58 Church St. Wed. and Thurs, Dec. 15-16.-adv. The sea-going barge Old Dominion has been lowed from Allyn's Point to an anchorage in midstream at New Lonron, having finished discharging her cargo of coal.
 Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 27-2S, the Central Baptist church will entertain conference of Baptist pastors who are coming at the call of the state con- vention to consider the Five-Year Pro- gram.
 Naval orders include: Col. w Wake, c. A. C., from dutp as commanding assigned to duty as commanding off, cer, coast defenses of Long Island sound.
 At Connecticut college Sunday aft ernoon, Rev. Joseph H. Seldom of Nor wich, the speaker at the weekly convo- cation at Thames hall, taking as his theme, Tn Gospel Gift to the Imagi- nation.
 The Kensington, Conn, Congrega- tional church passed the 203rd mile stone of it's organization Friday One of its pastors was Rev. Cornelius Nor row, D. D.. 1879 to 1882, a former Nor Wich pastor.
 The Ladies Union will hold a fair and supper in the Montville Center chapel Wed. afternoon and evening Dec 15. If stormy. next fair day. adv.
 Robert Chamberlain, an empIoye of ] the filling Rubber Co.,, and Miss Min nie McClay, both of New London. were married by Rev. Joseph P. Brown at his home at 199 Huntington street in that city Saturday.
 Seventy-seven members of the Con- necticut Society of Civil Engineers at- tended the best smoker held at the ElkS club in New Britain Friday night c. c. Elwell chairman of the public | utilities commission, presided. Officials here have received invita- | tions to attend the First International Road congress, which will be held in Worcester. December IA, 15, 16 and IT. The congress is intended for all persons interested in good roads.
 Quilt salesmen of Connecticut who have returned from recent trips report | considerable success. the jobbers 1 stocks of these goods being quite gen. orally depleted and the call for imme- 1 diate shipments larger than usual as a l result.
 l The planet Saturn is coming into | view in the eastern evening sky in | Gemini, rising at p. m., and will be | on the meridian between 12.30 mid night and 2.3O a. n., during the month 1 Its rings are finely placed for obser- vation.
 1 When Miss Marion Wells, daughter or MT. and Mrs. w. D. Wells of Mon | tauk avenue, entertained a number | of Connecticut college students and | town friends at tea at her home Sat | urday afternoon, the guests included | Miss Carrie Chapman of Norwich. Announcement has been made of | the gifts to the new church at Filing ton, of a clock for the audience room | the donor being Mrs. Susan Chapman Boa of Oklahoma. Mrs. Chapman is | a sister of the late Wilbur F. Chap man, and formerly lived in Ellington
 The local freights between New Ha- ven and New London take two tc three crews to cover the distance Their sixteen hours working time ex- | plres before vovering half the sched- | ule, caused mostly by the passenger trains and numerous through freights
 The old government steamer Panu- co, Capt Oscar Holm, has gone tc | Fishers Island. The Panuco has gone out of commission and will remain al | the Fort Wright dock until disposed I of by the U. S. government, which plans to replace the Panuco with g new and larger vessel AT DAVIS THEATRE, l Vaudeville and PhotonIays.