Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-01
VARIOUS MATTERS

Academy tonight.-adv.
 Somerset lodge will work the fel- lowcraft degree tonight-adv.
 According to the almanacs. this Is the first day of spring.
 The best moonlight nights in March are from the 17th to the 21st.
 The mercury dropped to degrees at Trading Cove, early Tuesday morn ing.
 March opens with the days length increased two hours and eight min utes.
 Sundays at p. m., during March, there will be a talk at the Slater Mu- scum on Statues and Stories. adv.
 Telephone troub1emen have been re- pairing the damage done by the re- cent gale.
 There will be no more fishing through the ice as the law is on We'd nesday, March l.
 Coventry grange will confer on four candidates the third and fourth de- grees Thursday evening.
 The post office at West Woodstock was discontinued Feb. 29, patrons re- ceiving their mail at Woodstock Val ley post office.
 Senator George P. Mclean has pre- scented a petition of the First Con- gregational church of Vernon in fa- vor of prohibition.
 A few boxes and reserved seats for sale for the Charity ball at Dunn's drug store.-adv.
 The women's prayer meeting at Bushnell chapel Tuesday afternoon was led in an interesting manner by Mrs. w. G. Tarbox.
 A dispatch from Palm Beach states that MT. and Mrs. Morton F. Plant have arrived there in their private car, from California.
 The district schools in some East ern Connecticut towns are closed this week, it being the regular intermis- sion after eight weeks of school. According to United Service an- nouncements, Lieut.. George R. Nor ton of the 125th company at Fort Terry is ordered to the 124th com pany at Fort Andrews, Mass. Trolleymen's Dance, Pulaski hall, Fri | day evening; Drew's orchestra; danc- ing S.30-12. Cars to Baltic and N. L. adv.
 Department Commander Martin l Laubseher of the United Spanish War Veterans of Rockville, will go to Dan 1 ielson Thursday evening to install the officers of the camp in that place. A group of seven moth scouts in government employ recently took up headquarters at Warrenville. Four have been boarding at E. L. James two at w. c. Browns, and one at G. O. Balch's.
 The experiment at Andover of pro- viding hot lunches for the children at the public school, was reported to be a success at a meeting of mothers held recently at the school, and will be continued
 Miss Barbara Marquardt, daughter of Charles Marquardt of Groton, who has been i'll with diphtheria has al- most fully recovered. Her case was the only diphtheria case discovered | in the borough.
 Remember the date of the Charity ball-March 9th, at the armory-adv, Ruth T. Whiting, of Old saybrook, has brought suit for divorce against Roland J. Whiting of Detroit in which she claims assertion. The date is alleged as June 29, 1912. They were married Sept. 12, 1906.
 The election board of the Moosup Methodist church has announced the election of T. E. Main as delegate to wich. March 31. Mrs. J. c. Gallup has been announced as reserve delegate
 The officers of the local Red Cross have authorized no one, outside of the organization to collect or sell for them, although word has come to them that man is going from house l to house claiming to be so authorized John Sullivan of Central Village and Miss Annette Potvin of Moosur were married at All Hallows church l in Moosup Monday morning. MT. and Mrs. Sullivan will make their home with Mrs. Sullivan's mother in Moo- sup.
 l The Rochester Herald of recent 1 date had the following announcement of local interest: MT and Mrs. Johr H. Huff announce the engagement ot their daughter, Pauline, to MT. Lloyd l Maynard Church, of Rochester, for merly of Norwich.
 The tax collectors office will be oper l this evening until o'clock to receive ! pSISOI1dl leiA0S5. 1Oudy IS Lu6 laSC OaS l of the month of collection of the per. | sonal taX.-adv.
 ! The Tacoma, Wash, E1ks have just dedicated a $160,000 new temple, with ball room, swimming pool, etc, g member of the building committee be-
 ing William B. Coffee, formerly ot Norwich, who is chairman of the lodge board of trustees. l At New York, Monday, George D Smith paid $77.5O for The Casket ot l Opals by George P. Lathrop, former l ly of New London, in binding by
 Toof. at the sale of the library of the
 late Mrs. Gertrude Cowdin of this city at the Anderson Galleries.
 Bradford Paul Raymond, at one l time president of Wesleyan univer- sity, who died suddenly Sunday al
 Mtddletown, was an occasional visi- | tor in Norwich when a member of the
 New England Southern Conference ot
 the Methodist Episcopal church.