Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-21
VARIOUS MATTERS

NoiWtSng iuesuays "aTSH @ig iSio''
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 The almanacs promise sleet for to- day.
 Light motor vehicle lamps at 6.S1 this evening.
 This is St. Benedict's day in the church calendar.
 Railroad and trolley traffic has in creased markedly within the past few days.
 Spring brought the gift of day which has increased three hours in length.
 The advent of spring Monday brought noticeable number of com mercial men to town.
 Farmers recall the ideal weather of a year ago when some Of them were planting peas March Sth.
 This month bids fair to be the snowiest March in the recollections of the weather authorities of the state.
 A special court of the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars is to be held dI Ine ad1 IAOfo N1uD rI1Ody alter noon.
 Some of the temperance societies noted March 20th as the birthday, in 1894, of Neal Dow, the Maine prohibi- tionist.
 St. James lodge, No. 23, F. and A. M, works the first degree tonight at Masonic temple at 7.30.-adv.
 The wind was northwest when the sun crossed the line Monday after noon, which is supposed to foretell six months of cold, dry weather.
 William Murphy has taken the place of engineer at the Shore Line Electric Railway power house at Say brook Ferry, resigned by George Hill
 A Colchester student, Miss Marga- ret Bunyon, was among the seniors at Mount Holyoke College who were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last week
 The 107th annual meeting of the Connecticut Bible Society is to be noon at the Center Church house, in Hartford.
 An inquiry has come to Mrs. R. R, Graham of Norwich from loyal Eng fish women in Plainf1eld regarding the American-British relief work organ ized by Lady Herbert.
 Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, who left Norwich recently, gave an address or Turkey and the Present War in the Park Slope Congregational church ir Brooklyn, N. Y, Sunday. Monday morning Mrs. Horatio Bige- | low and Mrs. John L. Mitchell were 1T charge of Red Cross headquarters During the afternoon, Mrs. John c Averill and Mrs. R. D. Hill had charge Four well filled boxes, the 9th, 10th l 11th and 18th, were shipped last Weel by the Norwich Red Cross, as a re, | suit Of the industry and cooperation of the good women of this city anC | vicinity.
 | In response to numerous inquiries | yesterday it was stated that Dr. An thony Peck, ill with pneumonia, il l showing signs of improvement, so tha l his condition is regarded as favorabl | to recovery.
 The city of Rockville is withou l kerosene, the grocers in the city hay | ing exhausted their supplies within the past few days. It has been fou | weeks since a car has reached ther l with its cargo of oil. l are planning a banquet early in Apr in Hartford, with the arrangement in charge of a committee from TrOo B. It is expected that General Leon ard Wood will be present.
 The Hartford relief committee fo France and her allies is making a appeal to every home within thi state for phonographs which can b spared, or for disused records, to b sent to cheer hospital sufferers.
 Sunday, May ', has been designate as Bible Sunday, when churches c the country are asked to have ser mons upon the Bible, and to hold cele brations for the official centennia celebration of the American Bible So ciety.
 At Connecticut College Rev. F. I Sargent, pastor of the Putnam Con gregational church, conducted vespe service at Thames hall Sunday after noon at 4.45. His talk on Naturalnes in Religion was rich in material fc thought. |, It is claimed that people who al living at shore resorts in Connect cut this winter have had to go to be early in Nhe evening because they di not have fuel supplies enough to CT 1 able them 10 SlC up and Keep the stoves going.
 The contract for the state highwa for the town of Stonington in the vi lage of Mystic, was let last week the A. Vito Construction company
 Thompson. The highway is to COT meet with the highway which w; built by the state last year.
 Rev. Jean Mathieu of Waurega who has been a patient at St. Josepl hospital, Willimantic, following a su
 gical operation, is fast recovering al | in a few days will be able to retul
 to Wauregan to resume his duties
 pastor of Sacred Heart church.
 Senator George M. Landers of Ocet Q avenue, president of the Pressu
 Lighting company, is being sued the New York supreme court for S1
 01S,2S8 damages by Ragland M
 mand, general manager of the Pub
 Lighting Service Corporation, who k Landers recently sued for $7O,OOO f r islander.
 l. Farewell messages were received -' Norwich by MT. and Mrs Samuel