Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-24
VARIOUS MATTERS
Cherry blooms are showing.

Inere was a DE IOreSL 1re on BO1LOn mountain Wednesday, when 200 men
 were engaged in fighting the flames
 which burned over 500 acres of land.
 Join the New Home Sewing Machine
 club at Schwartz Bros Best proposi-
 tion ever offered. Investigate it today.
 adv.
 There are 10 or more applications on
 the waiting list at the Norwich tuber
 culosis sanatorium. Of the 80 pa
 tients there now, 46 are men and 34 women.
 A Methodist preacher known to
 many here through his temperance ad- dresses, Rev. J. H. James, of Rock vile, has just celebrated his 80th birthday.
 Miss Amanda Allen, principal of the Groton Heights school for p 1 ing cup by the graduates of the Groton | Heights school.
 Join the New Home Sewing Machine l club at Schwartz Bros.' Best proposi- | tion ever offered. Investigate it today. adv.
 The vice president of the newly or ganized St. Vincent De Paul Charitable society of St. Patrick's parish. Wa |
 merly of Norwich.
 Right Rev. J. J. Milan will observe
 the anniversary of his espiscopal con
 secration Tuesday, April 27th. Ponti- | fical mass will be celebrated at St. Jo-
 seph's Cathedral, Hartford Conrad J. Surbeck, physical direc- | tor of the New London Y. M. c. A., is at South Coventry, for a rest. Mrs. | who ic Iuitf him S11ThooIy h c
 been i'll following a strenuous season. The Connecticut Churchman states | that St. Marks, Mystic. has been pre- sented Litany desk of San Domingo
 mahogany, beautifully made. The
 donors were F. G. King and Alexis l Taylor.
 The promoters of Merchants week | have not made direct appeal to Nor
 wich women to help this year as last, but feel confident that every woman | will do her part toward the success of the week.
 | Separation of town has not gene in- l to effect yet, and the place to license
 your dogs. is the Town Clerks office City Hall. One dollar extra after l May 1st.-adv.
 A case to be tried at Rockville in
 the superior court next Tuesday is | that of Louis B. Whitcomb against | the Central Vermont railway, a suit
 over railroad ties. damages of $7o0 being sought.
 Contracts for the construction of
 sidewalks from the Mystic railroad
 station to the velvet mill in Green
 manville have been awarded to Fred D. Miller of Norwich. Work is to be commenced May 1.
 At Andover, Miss Dorothy Mitchell, and her companion, Miss Barnes, both
 of Hartford, are occupying ex-Senator Sprague's Elm cottage, for the season. A pair of saddle and driving horses
 are adding much to their enjoyment. In the ld-fashioned garden at the residence of Miss Louisa J. Brewer on Washington street the quaint bluebells planted by her mother nearly 100 years ago are now in bloom, but are not as thrifty as usual, owing to the drouth. While John Smith. of Groton Long Point was lobstering at Plum Island
 and on examination of the lobster pots requested him to take them ashore, as they were not constructed
 as required by law.
 B. H. Wendell paid $500 in New
 York Thursday for an original edition of Major John Masons Pequot War,
 published in Boston in 1736, one of the rarest of Connecticut colonial 1 tracts. John Mason was one of the founders of Norwich. A Norwich woman was surprised
 Thursday to receive from the post
 man a birthday card from a friend
 who lives about 20 minutes walk from her home. Investigation proved that I fha card to be so belated will never be known Connecticut nurses have been noti- fled that May 12. at the New York | custom house there will be a compet- tive. examination for chief of the
 training school, for women only. at
 the government Hospital for the In-
 sane, Washington, D. C., at $1,200 a
 year. with maintenance in the institu- tion.