Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light motor vehicle lamps at 6.1s this evening.
 Grocers and marketmen are featur- ing many Lenten Specialties.
 Owing to the storm Friday the pub lie schools omitted the afternoon ses- sion.
 Choirs and Sunday schools are all ready busted with preparations for Easter concerts.
 The seven year old boy cellist at Y. M. c. A. Mems meeting. Sunday, at 3.30.-adv.
 Tomorrow, Sunday, March 12, will be the twenty eighth anniversary of the famous blizzard of 1888.
 Louis Hill who has been employed at Smiths Pharmacy, has accepted position at the Aetna Bowling alleys.
 Because of Fridays storm, there was no school for the pupils of the lower grades in the public schools.
 This year the stores offer many novelties in favors, cards, emblerns and decorations for St. Patrick's day.
 A good number of checks for the quarterly pension have been received by veteran soldiers in town this month
 At Oneco, Mrs. Myra Foster took a mixture of carbolic acid and sweet oil by mistake one night recently. She is recovering.
 In the recent reading of honor marks at Holy Cross college, Wor- cester, Connecticut students receiving one testimonial included Robert Ma honey of Norwich.
 Men! Hear Harry Brown Allen, boy cornetist at Y. M. c. A. Mems meet ing, 3.30 Sunday.-adv.
 A government commissioner is ad- vising people to eat many eggs and are reasonable in price, with the aim of both economy and health.
 At Westbrook John H. Cooks coops are yielding about six dozen eggs per day. He has quite a number of young chicks and 200 eggs in the in cubator due to hatch soon.
 Sherwood Raymond of East Great Plain has a Southdown Cosset eve to twin lambs that weigh IT pounds and 20 pounds respectively.
 Car hire always is heavy item of expense to the New Haven road. But in January this item increased $213,- 900 above previous costs, and Feb ruary's hire exceeded even that.
 Rev. W. M. zumbro of the Ameri- can college at Madura, India, went from Norwich to give an Illustrated lecture at Connecticut college Friday afternoon at o'clock on Art and h. dia.
 What is Life's Crisis ?" Dr. Slocum's subject at Central church tomorrow night. Special music-adv.
 The snowbound condition of East ern Point road has resulted in an ami mated agitation to the effect that the town of GrCton should take imme- diate steps toward opening it up for traffic.
 The Red Cross headquarters was in charge of Mrs C. H. Preston and Miss Louise B. Meech Friday morning. Mrs. A. Thatcher Otis and Mrs c. c. Gil- dersleeve taking charge during the afternoon.
 The government officially recognized a Norwich plant in the following navy order, announced Friday: Ut Com | N. H., Yard, to work of Gallaudet Co, Norwich, Conn.
 The business meeting of regents, delegates and alternates appointed to ] attend the Continental congress of D. A. R. in Washington in April, is l to be held in Derby Wednesday and 1 Thursday, March 15-16. | Persons ordering patterns through 1 The Bulletins pattern department are reminded to be sure to state the size deSired-Ady
 Ruth Wyllys Chapter, D. A R., ot Hartford held a meeting Thursday af- l ternoon in the parish house of the Asylum Hill Congregational church | The speaker was Mrs. George Maynard Minor of Waterford, on D. A. R. Ideals
 Richard Schellens, son of MT. an6 | Mrs. Pierre L. Schellens of Groton ! talked on his recent experiences il relief work in Servia, at a meetins l of Anna Warner Bailey chapter, D. A R., at the Monument house, Groto1 | Heights, Thursday afternoon.
 The handsome new electric lights il St. Patrick's church were turned o1 for the first time at the Lenten ser | vices Friday evening. The formal il | lumination of the edif1ce will conn
 Sunday evening, when a Passionis
 Father from Boston is to preach.
 A recent letter from Californi; stated that the winter has been tn l worst known in years. in the nOrtherl
 part therG being eight to ten feet O
 snow in the mountain districts. Il
 other localities the floods have don
 much damage, loosening trees, whic
 uprooted.
 Special music at Central Baptis
 tomorrow evening by the Sunda School orchestra. In the series, Chris
 and Current Questions" Dr. Slocum subject will be. What is Life Greatest Crisis ?'-adv. Prof. Holster Stevens of the Con
 necticut Agricultural college at Storr
 addressed the New London Horticul
 tural society on the subject of Prun
 ing and Spraying Fruit Trees at meeting held at the council cham
 Der in the Municipal building Thurs ' day evening.