Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-20
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 4.51 o'clock this evening.
 Jewellers about town are finding the holiday business unusually good.
 There are at present 60 men at the State Inebriate Farm at Brewster's Neck.
 Most of the automobile owners about town continue to run their cars in spite of the snow.
 Fifty printed calling cards for s5 cents at The Bulletin off1ce.-adv.
 Painters are at work cleaning and painting the interior of the station at Saybrook Junction.
 the shortest day of the year, only g hours. { minutes long.
 The pupils in the kindergartens will have special Christmas exercises to mark the close of the term.
 Students from colleges and prepara- tory schools will begin to arrive home tomorrow for the holiday recess.
 A fresh supply of handsome Christ mas trees. holly, evergreen and mis- tletoe arrived in Norwich Tuesday.
 There will be the celebration of the Holy Communion tomorrow, St. Thom- as day, at Trinity Episcopal church.
 The Red Cross room in the Thayer building will be open today, with plenty of work for any and all vol unteers.
 Nearly all the stores and business places are now kept open evenings, and as a result there are crowds on the streets.
 Park & Tilford's and Page & Shaw's Christmas candy. Order by telephone or mail. The Lee X Osgood Co.-adv.
 Today Wednesday, District Super George Scriveper, of Nor wich goes to Holland and Crystal Lake to hold conferences at the Methodist churches.
 Christmas travel on the New Ha- ven road will begin in earnest by Fri day and railroad officials anticipate heavy travel throughout the entire holiday week.
 The central committee for the Re lief of Jews Suffering Through the War, acknowledges new subscriptions including from the committee in New London $164.
 The members of the Junior Holy Name Society and the Tierney Tenn perance Cadets of St. Pa4rick's parish will receive holy communion in a body at the 7.S0 mass, next Sunday morn ing.
 Subscriptions for magazines and newspapers published in any country or any language received at 49 Fair mount street by Harry K. Hill.-adv.
 The twenty fourth annual report of the Comfort department of the Con- necticut Woman's Episcopal Auxiliary shows receipts of $1,194.S2. The boxes received are valued at $6,156.74, most of which were for diocesan purposes.
 At Broadway school, at Il o'clock Tuesday morning, the pupils of all the grades assembled in the hall for a general sing, chiefly of Christmas carols, Miss Mary E. Rogers, teacher of music, directing the singing, which was excellent.
 At Philadelphia Mrs. Sarah Thom- son Watriss is suing for a divorce from Frederic N. Watriss, lawyer, MT. Watriss is a former Harvard oars man who has trained with the crews at Gales Ferry.
 Arf interesting fact brought out at the annual church meeting was that Mrs. D. N. Kimba1l and Mrs. Orpha P Ta1cott have been members of the Ellington church for 63 years. Mrs. Kimban is 92 and Mrs. Talcott will be 90 Feb. next.
 Tobacco growers in Connecticut, es- OaCf9llv fha Srna11er o-r0TUars alarmed at the high cost of commer- cia1 fertilizers this year and the in- creased wages demanded by the help, and many next year may seek other uses for their land.
 The January session of the supreme court will be opened in Hartford on the first Tuesday of the month. There are eighteen cases on the docket, in cluding from Windham county, The Washington Cedar 6 Fir Products Co. against Joseph H. Elliott.
 With donations amounting to about s20 during the year. books to the num- day school library of St. James Epis- colpal church. PoQuetanuck but any possible Christmas contributions from Santa Claus would be given place.
 At a'meeting held in New Haven
  Rhodes Scholar to Oxford university from Connecticut, Clerk Hopkins, a senior in Yale college, was chosen. The committee of award included Will liam Beach Olmsted of Pomfret school.
 The state tuberculosis commission Monday gave an order for the fur nishings of the house built for the nurses at the Shelton sanatorium where Dr. E. J. Lynch, formerly of Norwich, is superintendent. The build ing which takes the place of one burn ed cost S7,10o.
 Judge Milton A. shumway of Dan- ielson on Friday will close the super for court session he has been holding at Hartford, The following Friday the court at Hartford will be presided over by Judge Lucien IF. Burpee, who will hold court during Jenuary, Feb- ruary and March.