Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-22
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Norwich, Monday, March 9, 1915
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 This is examination week at the 1 Free Academy.
 March 22 is the feast of St. Cath. l crime of Sweden.
 Native eggs were selling at P cent. | a dozen Saturday.
 Dealers are filling many orders fol
 shrubs and plants evidence of an early | season.
 1 Saturday was National Orange Day,
 which increased the sale of the fruit here.
 l The public schools close this week
 Friday, the 18th and reopen Monday April 5th.
 Patches of snow finger in shaded l places, but there is open water in all 1 the ponds.
 | Lee & Osgood celebrate their Fist 1 anniversary next Thursday by a Spe- | cial sale. Free souvenirs.-Adv. A Bolton man, Julius Stronk, is suFb- l stitut1ng as a. telegraph operator or 1 the railroad at East Hartford A number of Norwich friends will | go to New London this afternoon to
 attend the funeral of B. B. Gardner. | Spring arrived at HAS Sunday
 morning, coming in with a rcd sky l which soon changed to 8 dull gray | Sunday afternoon there were 1O1
 visitors to the Otis library reading
 room, Miss Martha A. Ward being in 1 charge.
 | Several from this city were in New l London Sunday | Jewish societies gave an entertain ment for the war sufferers. A months mind mass requiem high | mass for Mrs. Hannah Fields was sung ] in St. Patrick's church Saturday at s 1 o'clock by Rev. J. H. Broderick. Bids for a carriage to be used in the
 delivery of mail to the Eastern Point | colony during the summer were re- ceived recently at the Groton post l office.
 | Jewish boys of Connecticut who are 1 in the army and navy will have home 1 leave for the Passover, a holiday hav- 1 ing been secured for March 29-31 in, | elusive.
 | The Red Cross tea. at the New York | Flower show to which local members | were invited through Mrs. Robert w l Perkins, treasurer of the Norwich
 branch, cleared over 5000 Saturday. The Connecticut Humane society
 is represented in Manchester. It has
 appointed Clarence M. Agard, formerly | of Norwich as agent to investigate 1 any complaint proper to come before | the Humane society. Miss Ella Augusta McAuley, GA daughter of the late Robert T. and i Sarah J. N1cAuley, died Saturday
 morning at the home of her brother Robert McAuley in Waterford, follow l ing a lingering illness. According to orders issued last 1 evening from thej office of the adju- 1 tant general of the National Guard Company K, First Regiment is the i winner of the shield for the highest ] figure of merit this year. Kenneth Tobin, son of Frank M Tobin, formerly of Norwich, is a
 member of the Canadian contingent
 A postal card was received from him last week in which he states that he is well.
 Enamels on metal by American craftsmen are challenging foreign comparison in the Little Gallery,
 New York, papers praising Frank Gardner Hale, a pupil of the Norwich Art school, with his panel channels for | framing.
 Sarah M. Larrabee, 7s, wife of | Frank LarraJbee, died suddenly at her home in Groton Saturday morning, be- | ing aroused from slumber by illness and succumbing to a heart attack. Mrs. Larrabee is survived by her hus- band and a daughter. Among the 50 attending the annual meeting dinner of the Connecticut Schoolmasters' club at Hartford Sat | urday was Principal Royal A. Moore, | of the Wheeler school, North Stoning-
 ton. The meeting elected Louis H. Stanley, of Hartford, president. Norwich G. A. R. men have been notified that the rty-eighth annual
 encampment of the Department of Connecticut G. A, R., will be held at
 the st:ite Armory in New Britain, on Thursday and Friday, April Is and Is.
 Headquarters will be at Grand Army
 hall
 Two big maple trees in front of the | property of Miss Abbie J. Woodworth, S5 West Thames street, which had
 grown decayed and was unsightly, hav- ing been trimmed to let the wires
 through. was cut down by the city
 men Saturday. and carted to M. F. Bents dump.
 Invitations have been extended by
 MT. and Mrs Peter T. Radiker of
 New York for the wedding of their
 daughter, Miss Marguerite, and Harry
 Clark Hine, son of MT. and Mrs. Henry
 C: Hlne of New Britain in the metrop- oils, April 10. Both are summer res
 idents of Neptune park.