Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 4.55 this ev- ening.
 Fifty printed calling cards for 35 cents at The Bulletin office.-adv. Ice of considerable thickness had formed along the river banks Tuesday. The first week of the New Year will be observed as the annual week of prayer.
 trippers flled trains and trolleys on Tuesday.
 Thirteen new books in foreign lan- guages have been added to the Otis library recently. Mills and factories started up yes- terday morning, after a shutdown since Saturday.
 Next Sunday is the communion Sun- day of the Senior Holy Name society of St Patrick'S parish. The stores had the usual number of instances of persons out to exchange Christmas presents Tuesday.
 There will be the celebration of holy communion in the Episcopal churches | today, the feast day of St. John the Evangelist.
 Related parcels post matter was cleaned up at the post office Tuesday and the holiday business is now prac- | tically ended. Motorists driving over the state road from Colur1bia to Willimantic are glad that the replanking of the iron bridge is completed. The Progressive Missionary club of the Central Baptist church is to meet 1 today with Mrs. F. Herbert Brown of l 125 Laurel Hill avenue. At no time Tuesday did the mercury rise above 38 degrees, but the air was clear and invigorating and everybody appreciated the bright day. Connecticut in four years has spent over $12,O00,000 on her highways, or more than her whole state debt, &C., cording to recently published statis- 1 tics.
 | At Coventry, the Etude club, a mu- sical club. has decided to discontinue f meetings for two months in order to 1 give people a chance to get over the grip.
 | A former Congregational pastor al | Franklin, Rev. H. A. Beadle, now o1 l Pomfret, officiated at the Smith Bar
 rows wedding in Mansfield Centre on l Christmas day.
 l Teachers from Connecticut will at- l tend the annual convention of the Ma | uonal Association for the Advance | ment of Science to be held in New
 York this week. | Following the Christmas rush and | the volume of big business the stores l settled down to normal conditions yes l terday, some of the merchants making | a start on the annual inventory talk ing.
 l Al the Christmas service Sunday morning at Broadway church, the in- fant daughter of MT. and Mrs. Henry Enen CockreH received the rite of bap- 1 tism, being given the name of Pau | line.
 | The secretaries of all departments | and organizations of the Second Con-
 gregational church are preparing tC | present reports of the years work al
 the annual meeting to be held in Jan. \ nary.
 Thieves entered the shome of Mrs
 Ella w. Leeds of 647 Ocean avenue 4NSW LOuOOIls SOulGllIIle SdLuTudy Du
 failed to make away with anything il
 spite of the fact that they ransacket
 some of the rooms.
 Former South Windham residents Arthur $. and B. Clinton Winchestel
 and Miss Katharine Winchester en.
 tertained a number Of guests at z
 Christmas tea party at their apart.
 ment at the Mohican hotel. .s-~ the south gallery at the Fine Arts I building, New York, including can.
 vases by Clifford Beal, Frank A. Bick. nell, Guy c. Wiggins and Carleton
 Wiggins of the Lyme artists colony.
 Stanley Trail, little son of MT. ant l Mrs. Marcus l.. Trail of Poquonocl
 has returned from the Children's Hos
 pital, Boston, where he has been un
 dergoing special treatment for 1nfan
 tile paralysis. He is much improved
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Jan. 3-4 an ex
 animation for junior mechanical engi l neer, for men only, to fill a vacancy il
 the ordnance department at large
 Springfield armory. Mass, at $1,000 :
 year.
 The following members of St
 James Episcopal Sunday school a AO4oCSdAldSh, WCAS ISC6lI W1nn0TS O.
 good attendance prizes: Leslie Hark
 ness. Charles David Geer. IT,, Georg,
 Geer, Marion Geer. Bernice Church Marguerite Miller. An appeal in behalf of the Rumani
 1ns, signed by Mime. H. H. Orghidan
 has been issued in behalf of Mme. Org
 hidan through the Red Cross. Tn Norwich branch of the Red Cross vii
 meet in the Thayer building store to day, and has urgent need of voluntee workers.