Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-25
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS | The moon was new Sunday at 3.3f D. m.
 A Merry Christmas to The Bulletins
 readers! Light vehicle lamps at 45s o'clock this evening.
 The telegraph offices will transmit
 many Christmas greetings today.
 Fifty @rinted calling safds for s5
 cents at The Bulletin effiee.--adv. Dry walks Saturday and Sunday
 were appreciated by the crowds in the
 streets.
 Heavy trahie and bad weatfeH at
 western points made holiday travel | late, on Saturday. 1 Christmas trade found diffieuity in get | ting skilled heip this year. Country reads are in eeed shape, 50 that many will come to town for pest-
 Christmas bargains temeEre#.
 Aa the law eeznRsis eiesea ssleeas today, a number ar the streets will be quiet as they were en Sunday. The custom sf hanging Christmas ! wreaths en the outside of windows is one that grsws in favor in Norwich. Next Sunday & class of nrefa t,ansrs dist church at the Communion ser- vice.
 There iH a ,amest ia the rural ais- fYfakS Eat Ia Hjclxarxy zfc l this season. In market the price is high.
 Y~.11srday's weather eentinuea 'eeid
 "-Iough ta give hepe6af possible sport to the beya wha will receive skates from Santa Claus, The funeral of Raymend ffairass who wna drowned in Dodge pend was held at his hene, Niantic, at 3 o'clock Saturday afteFaaea, The comfortable reading peeHa at the Otis library was visited by aa persons Sunday afternoon, Miss Sadie J. Baw= son was in charge, Groton's first community Christmas 1 tro celebration was held Christmas eve
 on Monument street. GPeten Heights. i The tree was donated by Clarence La- tban.
 New books added to the shelves at 1.-the Peck Library, Slater hall, include l Poultney Bigelow's History of the Ger
 man Struggle For Liberty, four vol l umes.
 l Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening the l Christmas entertainment exercises of l the Second Congregational Sunday | school will be held in the church par | lors.
 Relatives here receive the encourag- ! ing news that a former Norwich resi- ] dent, Amos D. Allen. who was serious ly ill at his home in Napa. California, l is now able to be out and about l Members of the Junior Holy Name
 society and Tierney Temperance Ca | detS Received Christmas holy commu- nion at 7.30 Sunday morning, the mass
 being read by Rev. J. H. Frederick. 1 The British-American War Relief fund, East Fifty-Ninth street, New York, of which Mrs. F. w. Whitridge 1 is the acting president, announces gifts | including from the branch at Plairtield, s25.
 New York papers mention that Mrs.
 Walter Chadwick Moves. of New York | and Lyme, will give 8 small dance | Tuesday night at No. Al East Fifty
 First street for her daughter, Miss Catherine Moves. | Ensign Robert Tarner Darrow. U. s. N., of New London. and Miss Vir- l ginia Olive Winter, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Mahlon Alpheus Winter of Washington, D. C., will be married in
 that city next Wednesday evening. Il The Christmas crib, representing
 the manager scene, is in place at the | gospel side of the sanctuary of St. o+,eso .I,. TIzs
 the offerings for the crib are devoted
 tc the poor, especially poor children. II Pou1trymen hereabouts are receiving
 notification that there will be gov ernnerrt exhibit at the twenty-eighth
 show, which opens in New York, Fri day, December 29, and ends Wednes- day, January 8.
 | just graduated from and awarded cer- | tificates at the Renaud Training School | of Embalmers, New York, 1ssClarence Le Roy Epps. son of Mrs. Carrie Fpps of Norwich, an ambitious young man, of great prominence.
 The 60 or more men at Hall Broth CTS woolen mill, Hallville received
 Saturday their first pay under the new
 schedule, of 60 hours pay for 55 hours Work. 1ncluo1ng the recently an-
 nounced 10 per cent. raise, making 15
 per cent. raise within the past two months.
 The Moosup Journal commens on
 the reopening of the First Methodist
 church, Norwich, of which Rev. D. P.
 Phreaner, formerly of MooslIe is pas
 tor, saying MT. Phreaner with charact- ehistic zeal and self-sacrif1ce did work
 which saved the parish fully five hun dred dollars.
 A former Norwich resident, Mrs
 Elizabeth R. Currier of New York is
 visiting her father, Rev. R. R. Park CT, of Hartford. Mrs. Carrier has jusct
 finished a financial campaign in Phil iadelphia for the Woman's Medical Col
 lege of Pennsylvnfa, having in the F , days campaign raised $202.00 | Nro-.hn~s ne +hn N,a+;ova1 xx71.,.