Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-24
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Norwich, Friday, March 24. iete.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light motor vehicle lamps ; at e.s4 this evening.
 Thursday was Gerda day among Swedish residents,
 March 24th is St. simeon's day in the church calendar. Special meeting, K. of C., tonight. First degree.-adv.
 Ice Is still being cut and shipped at Orcutts, Holland county, near the state line.
 At Bolton, Charles Summer has given cord of wood to the library to run the furnace library afternoons. A Stafford Springs patient, Joseph Barseleau, has been committed to the Renovattons and repairs are being made to the residence of Miss Abbie l J. Woodwork of West Thames street. On account of the snow some of the ] roads in Coventry and vicinity have | been impossible or nearly so for some l time.
 Next week will be examination week l at Norwich Free Academy, the winter term closing Friday, March 31st, for @ vacation of one week.
 The junior branch of the Holy Name I society of St. Patrick's parish is to receive Easter communion in a body at the early mass on Sunday next 1 Cards have been received in West | ford announcing the marriage of Ed | win H. Chism of that town and Miss Lillia May Beebe of North WiIbraham, Mass.
 Elmer Crawford Adams, violinist, | and Yarrick, master magician, Y. M. | c. A. course, tonight at 8. Tickets | 5Oc.-adv.
 { President Wilson has sent to the senate the name of George Forster as postmaster at Rockville, to succeed George w. Randell, whose term expires April 5.
 At Groton, Marcus Trail has pur- | chased a quantity of timber from John Ackley at the Gardner farm and has | started to cart it to his property at l Poquonoc.
 This week Rev. George G. Scrivener of Norwich, district superintendent, 1 has conducted the fourth quarterly 1 conference of the Old Mystic Methodist l Episcopal church.
 l A civil service examination will be held May 3 ir ETo~ffo~d. New Haven
 T Middletown for an inspector of 1 locomotives. the salary of which at l the start will be $1,800.
 The primary room of the Hicks Me morial school at Holland has formed Junior Audubon societe and the pupils | have secured their pins and literature | for the study of birds
 Residents in the neighborhood of the courthouse notice that the bell. when struck for fire alarms, has a peculiar l tone of late, as though it's fastenings were not altogether secure.
 The Connecticut congress of moth CTS for child welfare is to have it's l 18th annual convention at New Britain | April 2 and 2S. All the sessions will be held at the high school 1 A farmers institute held at the Beth any town hall Tuesday under the au- spices of the Connecticut Agricultural cellege extension service and institute | advisory board proved great success.
 A feature of the April meeting of the Norwich Music association will be or chestral selections by a quintette. The May meeting will have reference, musicwise, to the Shakespeare tercen- tenary.
 Invitations have been issued at Rock
 vile for the marriage of Miss Cora
 Newell, daughter of Mir. and Mrs
 Charles B. Newell, of Laurel street, and
 Elmar Ackor of Hartford, Saturday April 8th.
 Thursday morning those in charge at Red Cross headquarters were Mrs | Charles H. Ricketts and Mrs. William
 H. Dawley. In the afternoon Miss
 Mary G. Osgood and Miss Mary E
 Richards had charge.
 Clergymen here have been notified
 that under the auspices of the Fedora , Council of the Churches of Christ 1T
 America movement has been insti.
 tuted towards a united prayer | throughout the week preceding Easter A The various instructors at the Con, ! necticut Agricultural college are con. tributing to a press bulletin which i! issued weekly from the college ant which contains matter of interest tC farmers, gardeners and stock raiser in the state.
 h The list of men who will write tn, various scenes and incidents of tn \ Yale pageant includes, on the topi
 Yale in Divinity, Benjamin Bacon, 'S1 \ professor of the New Testament in tn Yale school of religion, and a forme H Norwich resident.
 Judge James T. MeskilI, in the Ney Britain police court this week, sen fenced Charles Gavin, a well know1 young man about town, to the stat
 farm for inebriates at Norwich. Gavil
 is the second New Britain man to b committed to this institution. The Worcester (Mass.) Polytechni Institute Dramatic association gave it
 annual show Thursday night, present
 ing The Cup and the Cop, by Winso
 Reed Davis, '16, of Worcester. Joh,
 R. Wheeler of Mystic, Conn, was bus
 mess manager for the presentation
 The March White Ribbon Banne publishes a list of senators and con gressmen from Connecticut, also tn
 counties they represent, in order tha E all may know to whom to forward pc
 titions for the various reforms in whic
 W. c. T. U. members are interested.
 The Southern New England confer - ence in Norwich will be attended b
 five delegates from the Quarryvill
 Methodist church, Rev. w. D. Wood