Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-06
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
The moon is in it's last quarter to-
night.
The library is having demands for
books about birds.
st. Patrick,s Parochial school will
open Thursday for the spring term
Apron, cake and candy sale, Spirit
ual Academy, Wednesday. Salads and
bean supper, 20 cents.-adv.
Some one has recalled that in 1875
there was good sleighing in Connect
cut from April 1, to April 10.
F. Nowadays news stand moved
from car station to 256 Main st., opp.
Ferry st. Telephone 77412.-adv.
The flag at Buckingham Memorial
is at half mast for John E. Drohan,
who served in Rhode Island and New
Jersey regiments during the Civil war.
The tide of Saturday night washed
over The sand bar on Shennecossett
beach, Eastern Point, and into the
pond in the rear Of the bath houses.
Curtis Smith, u, died Sunday after
noon at his home in Mantle. He leaves
a widow, who was Miss Jennie Hard
ing, and a son, Frank Smith, Of Bos-
ton.
Miss Amanda 3. Hall, daughter of
Mr., and Mrs. Joseph Hall of Broad
street has a well told story entitled
Honora the Arrogant in the All Story
Weekly for April.
At East Lyme, Ralph Wheeler, who
has been managing the farm Of c. D.
Wilson Of New York has resigned, to
move back to his former home in Wa
terford near Oswegatchie.
The law placing a bounty upon foxes
has been repealed by the legislature
The fox bounty has not been g. heavy
expense locally, but occasionally hunt
ers claimed it every season.
Latest government reports show
that the aggregate value Of twelve
leading crops in Connecticut last year
was $41.50 an acre, much higher than
in any other New England state.
A snow fail such as fell on Saturday
is the best fertilizer that is to be
found The ground was dry, and it
arrived just in time 1t will mean
thousands Of dollars to the farmers
alone.
One Of the poems being featured in
connection with the f1ftieth annivers-
airy Of the important events of the
Civil war is Keanpey at Seven Oaks
by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Of
Norwich.
The Baptist Ministers conference
was held in the Baptist church, Old
Mystic. Monday morning at IL
tor Of North stonington Baptist church
was the reader.
An East Hampton young woman,
Miss Alico Hall has been engaged as
dietician at the Backus hospital in
Norwich. She has been at the Hart
ford hospital where her services were
of the very best.
Horace Johr son, who missed Sat
urday's storm predicts a disturbance
of note from the date Of the eleventh
to the fourteenth of the present month
It will be the breaking up of very I'M
common weather. ..-~ -4
Mrs. Eve. NJ. Griswold wife Of
Charles R. Griswold Of Hartford, while
visiting her niece at Douglaston, L. l.,
died Saturday afternoon after a week 8
illness with pneumonia She was a
sister of Mrs. Harriet E. Chamberlain
Of Lisbon.
The New Haven Paint and = Clay
club has been holding it's fourteenth
annual exhibition at the Yale School
of Fine arts. Ozias Dodge, of Norwich,
is a member Of the club, but is not ex-
htbiting this year.
A dozen American favorite artists
have been brought together for exhi-
billions in the Macbeth Galleries, New
York. The exhibitors include Emil
Carlson, Charles H. Davis, J. Alden
Weir and Carleton Virgins, all
Eastern Connecticut painters.
At Woodstock, Edward C. Chamber
lin recently sold to a lumber company
Of Southbridge half a million feet of
pine timber, grown on what in his boy
hood was a rye field The value will
approximate $4,000 when delivered: 1t
is standing on about IL acres of land,
and IL an object lesson in forestry.
The planet Saturn will be in fine
position for observation throughout
April in the western evening sky, par
ticularly for those having small tele-
scopes without the diagonal eyepiece.
1t will set about midnight early in the
month, and about 10 p m. on the 3oth
Its rings are now seen to excellent
ADVANTAGE