Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-18
VARIOUS MATTERS

Plans are already being made for the observance of Columbus day.
 The fund for the Poquonoc Baptist parsonage has reached $2,43S
 Wednesday. Friday and Saturday of this week are the quarterly Ember days.
 Miss Carrie B. Cbamplin. teacher of piano and harmony. IA Chuch street. --adv.
 The mercury stood at 39 degrees early Sunday morning and there was heavy white frost.
 The report of the Holland Public library for the last year shows total circulation of 2,402 volumes. Saturday and Sunday were beauti- ful autumnal days and were improv- ed by motorists in trips in all direc- tions.
 A Mystic correspondent states that Mrs. John K. Bucklyn Is entertining her mother Mrs. P. A. Watts, from Plinfield.
 James E. Lord. of Lords Hill, and Selectman Charles A. Gray have been m Ledyard recently, appraising dam ages to sheep by dogs. A splendid assortment of new Fall millinery now being shown by Mrs. w. H. Rogers, II Union street Your inspection is invited-adv t Gales Ferry the cottage owned by the Misses Geer. of Norwich, has been occupied during the past month by one of the tutors of the Roxbury school
 At a meeting held at the Old Lyme Parish house the other afternoon, the Old Lyme Hospital association was organized with Mrs. Harry Hoffman, president.
 Next Sunday evening at Trinity Methodist church, Dr. A. w. New hall. of the Jessie Lee Home of Una | laska, Alaska. will speak on Alaska and his work.
 Edgar F. Waterman, treasurer of Trinity college, who spent three months at his summer home at | Pleasure Beach, Waterford. has re- | turned to Hartford. The British American War Relief fund, of which Lady Herbert is pres dent, has received new donations an- nounced Sunday including from loyal Plainf1eld people $35. The 150 boys of the Roxbury Tutor ing school left Gales Ferry Saturday afternoon by special train for New Haven, and will take the Yale exam nations this week. Sunday next is the fifth annivers- ary of the conservation of St. Pat rick's church, and a solemn high mass is to be celebrated instead of the usual high mass at f0 30
 former curate at Norwich and Taftville, Rev. Francis Murray, pas tor at Guilford, has been appointed by Bishop Milan. pastor of the newly created St. PauPs parish, Orange.
 Plans for the $15.OOo gymnasium and field house at Connecticut collage, made possible through the gift of Mrs, Appleton A. Hillyer of Hartford. will probably be completed within a week.
 Chemists. students and teachers from Connecticut will attend the an- nual convention of the American Chemical society to be held in the Grand Central Palace. New York this week.
 Notification has reached here that widows of soldiers of the Cival war Mexican wars who have reached the age of seventy years, will receive s2O month instead of SIP. as at present.
 Motorists are glad to hear that petition has been circulated which asks the selectment to make repairs to the road that runs by the Mystic Oral school from the Shore road to Cow Hill road.
 Mention is made by Waterbury pa- pers of the Reid and Hughes com- pany. among merchants expressing general satisfaction with the results of the first Dollar Day, held by Wa terbury, last week.
 State papers mention that Mrs. John Addison Porter and the Misses in Vermont and Canada, will shortly return to their home in Pomfret to spend the autumn.
 large number of summer board CTS from points north including a good proportion of children, left Nor wich for New York on the 1929 train, on the Groton division Saturday morn ing. The train was delayed because of engine troulb up the road.
 Scout patrol boats and 90 which are engaged in the motor boat maneuvers arrived from Boston by way of Cape Cod canal. They are 30 knOC DOatS. NO. 1O came to the SuD- marine base for minor repairs.
 In view of her early departure for another city, Mrs. Nellie R. Burby. retiring superintendent of the Memo rial hospital. New London, has been remembered with handsome gifts by the graduate nurses, nurses in train ing, and hospital assistants.
 The American Committee for Ar menian and Syrian relief, gifts to which are sent to Charles R. Crane, treasurer, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, acknowledged Sunday recent donations including, from Y. P. $. C. E. First Concregational church, Columbia, SIS.
 Art students in this city have been apprised of the twenty seventh annu- al exhibition of the New York Water Color club, New York, to be held in the Fine Arts Building from Nov. to Nov. 26. The exhibition will con- sist of original water colors and pas tels.
 Sunday morning an American Mar tyr was the subject of Rev. Henry w. Hull Jrfb aA