Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

 cents at The Bulletin office.-adv.
 Students at Pomfret school will leave for their homes today, for the holiday recess.
 In some of the southern towns of this county about 10 inches of snow fell during the recent storm.
 Connecticut marketmen report that the price of turkey will be lower at Christmas than at Thanksgiving time.
 Several merchants who ordered 1917 calendars early this year have not yet received them owing to freight condi- tionS. .sf
 Monday was the coldest day of the season, thermometer readings of de- grees being reported from points about town.
 = Monday at o'clock, in St. Pat rick's church, months mind mass for Michael O'Connor was sung by Rev: J. H. Broderick.
 If you want a good quality of candy for Xmas, call at Grover & Caron Go. Special attention given to Xmas candy and tree boxes for churches and schools-adv.
 The donkey which has been added to the household pets at Dr. F. J. Cassidy's belongs to his daughter Pa tricia, not Jane, as stated.
 The first carload of old iron has been brought from Watch Hill to Norwich and the burnt over district cleaned up, but 1t is still a desolate looking place.
 Near the Navy Yard following the snowstorm a drift more than 100 feet long clogged the roadway and made traffic almost impossible for some sve- hicles.
 The current Connecticut Churchman mentions that the income of Calvary Episcopal church, Stonington, has rached the point where it was able to relinquish all missionary aid Decem- Der first.
 The Democratic plan of action for the coming session of the general as- of the Democratic state central com mittee to be held at the Allyn house. in Hartford Dec. 2S.
 Sunday the prayers of the congrega- tions were requested for the repose of the soul of Sister Mary Jerome, a former teacher in St. Patricks school, who died last week.
 The Central Committee for the Re- lief of Jews Suffering Through the War, of which Harry Fischel of New York, is treasurer, acknowledges addi- tional subscriptions including from Norwich. Conn, $35.
 Annual communication of St. James lodge, No. 23. F. and A. M, at Ma sonic temple tonight, at TBS. Election of officers for coming year. Reports for past year.-ady!.
 The program committee of the Norwich Music Association has not only arranged for a recital by Miss JamieSon for its January concert, but for February has scheduled an organ | recital at Broadway church. Rev. pr. Walter E. Bentley, National Secretary of the Actors Church Ali ance, preaching in the Cathedral of St. John, New York, Sunday, spoke with deep feeling of the late Dean Grosvenor of the Cathedral, former Norwich | resident.
 Mrs. Catherine T. Williams, widow of G. M. Williams of the New London l hardware company which still retains | his name, died at the Park hospital in New York the other day as the result of injuries received when run down by an automobile.
 With returns from all except about 10 towns, the school enumeration fig | ures for Connecticut indicate about 100000 children of school age, a gain of about 1S,000 over 1915, which means that the school grant for next year will be about $675.000.
 Coroner Franklin H. Brown of Nor wich, found in his investigation into the death of Joseph Dubar, the night watchman at the Noank shipyard, that l the man shot himself with suicidal in- l tent The body was buried in New London Sunday afternoon. Norwich men prominent in politics, republicans as we'll as democrats, re- | call the able and faithful work done to secure the hospital for this city by | Mayor Daniel P. Dunn of Willimantic | while in the legislature and do not take much stock in the criticisms of him. l Although less than dozen families are living at Watch Hill this winter. there are three mails day, an hour 1 V car service and it requires three cars every morning and evening to transport the men who are working on the construction of nine new cottages.
 Teachers here have been notified of what probably will be te biggest gath ering of scientists ever held which will take place Christmas week when the American Association for Advance ment of Science and forty-seven other scientific bodies convene in New York. The Mantle Sunshine society has made ands ent 12 comfort bags and a \ check for SIP to. the Hartford chap ter of the American Red Cross society, the bags to be sent to the U. s. sol diers now in Mexico. The society has
 received request for more of the
 bags
 The engagement of Miss Marion
 Beach Manchester to Howard Brooke
 Hindle of Drexel Hill, Philadelphia,
 announced by Mrs. Edmunde Besse-
 lieyre of New York recently is of in-
 terest in this section, as Miss Man. chester lived in Montville for eight
 years.
 II George E. Pitcher of Norwich was at his summer cottage on the Bluff at Gales Ferry last week to get the fam fly cat, which apparently enjoys the Ferry in preference to the city, as this
 is the second time it has walked back since the family returned to it's Nor wich home.