Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-17
VARIOUS MATTERS


niyersary of its organization today.
It is noted that at the New London
Charity ball, Miss Elizabeth Lane of
Norwich wore pink chiffon and lace.
The annual meeting of the Connec-
ticut Daughters Of Founders and Pa
triots is to be held in Bridgeport Feb.
%.
A member of outdoor workers are
complaining of frost-bitten fingers
and ears, as the result of Tuesdays
cold.
Wednesday afternoon the Farther
Lights of the Central Baptist church
met with Ethel P. Adams of Gardner
Court.
The tax collector will be at the drug
store of George M. Rathbone, West
Side, today, from IL a. m. to p. m. to
receive personal taxes.-adv.
"Wednesday mornings temperature
was degrees higher than that on
Tuesday morning, when it was 16 de-
grees below zero at Trading Cove.
The flag at Buckingham Memorial
is at half mast since the announce
ment of the death of Joseph c. Worth,
who was a member of the Citizens
Corps.
At Mantle Miss Della Tribble died
Tuesday morning at the home of Mrs.
Nehemiah Gates on Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. She had been i'll for several
months.
Historical clippings are being con-
stantly added to the useful and prac-
teal scrapbook presented the Society
of the Founders of Norwich by Will
liam c. Gilman.
Local members Of the Putnam Pha-
lanx have been notified that the 5Sth
| annual banquet of the battalion will
be held at the Hartford club Tuesday
evening, Feb. p.
| A former Norwich artist, Gustave
1Ado1ph Hoffman of Rockville, gave a
| lecture on Etching at the meeting of
| the Hartford Arts and Crafts Club,
| Wednesday evening.
A petition has been presented in
congress from the W. G. T. U. of
| Moodus, South Coventry. Naugatuck,
Thomaston and New Britain favoring
| federal censorship of films.
| Senator George P. Mclean has pre-
scented petitions of the United Work
ers of Norwich and citizens of Mid
! dletown and Norwich, favoring the
tAeating- Owen child labor bill.
Among the thirteen automobile
hearings held before Secretary of
State Burnes at Hartford Tuesday
was that of William Yares, Rockville
who obtained license when under
! age.
Under the provisions of law
| passed by the last general assembly,
which became effective on Jan. 1 of
| this year, nearly all of the schools in
Connecticut have begun teaching citi-
zenship.
About 200 women, members of the
State Federation of Women's clubs,
| assembled in Hartford Tuesday for
the annual luncheon of the federation.
Mrs. James r. Bolton of New Haven
presided.
Mrs. George R. Atha, wife of the
| pastor of the Groton Heights Baptist
| church, who fractured her arm sew
| eral days ago when she slipped on the
| icy pavement, has the injured arm in
a plaster cast.
The interstate commerce commits
| sion will conduct a hearing on al
questions relating to interstate troll
| ley rates on the Groton and Stoning-
! ton trolley road March 10 at Mystic
| commencing at 1880 a. M
| The Old Lyme Country club will To-
| cate its grounds on a tract of land
| not far from the Lyme and Black Hall
| known as Johnny Cake Hill and partly
on the level plain below the hill
| Members of Broadway Church Mis-
| sionary society are returning pieces
of finished work to Red Cross head
quarters and Wednesday the Misses
| Sayles brought in a number of T
bandages which they had completed
Tuesday was prompt day for goods
bought at New York's first auction
sale of furs, conducted by the New
York Fur Auction Sales Corporation
and which has greatly helped the de-
mand for pelts throughout the coun-
try.
Mrs. Katherine A. Trip, So, wife OF
Nehemiah A. Trip of Essex, who dice
| at private hospital in Hartford or
Monday, is survived by her husband
two sons and four sisters, one Of the
sisters being Mrs. Jerome Palmer Of
Stonington.
| Wednesday morning Mrs. Eber
Learned was in charge of the Rec
Cross room, Miss Maize V. Caruthers
having charge during the afternoon
More money for material is needed, as
the many willing workers have moth.
ing much to cut or sew.
Fifteen attended Trinity Methods
Ladies' Aid society tea, held Wed.
nesday at the home of Mrs. Franz
H. Allen, Williams street. After sew.
ing and planning for conference, Mrs
John E. Warner served tea, Mrs Clarl
iC. Homwell assisting Mrs. aAllen il
serving.
The sixth annual exhibition of th'
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts i.
attracting a large number of art Low.
ers to Hartford. Among the land
scapes admired is The Hay Vain, By
| Matilda Brown, and among marines,
Blow From the Northwest, by Guy c
Virgins, both of the Lyme artists
colony.
SPECIAL DISPENSATION FOR
II LOCAL MOOSE ONCE