Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-07

The proh1D1tary sign has been re- moved from the entrance to the tuber- culosis sanitarium and many visitors call upon the patients each day.
 At the tenth annual banquet of the Guarde F1orimond held in Willimantic Sunday afternoon M. Adelard Iorin of this city was one of the speakers.
 During Lent, the daily parish mass in St. Patricll's church is to be read at o'clock, instead of at ', as throughout the remainder of the year.
 The White Ribbon Banner for March states that the state w. c. T. U. convention will be held in Water bury, Conn.,, at date to be decided ed later.
 Purim, the day commemorating the saving from destruction of the whole of the people of Israel will this year receive special attention from the Jewish residents.
 A pioneer dry goods merchant of Norwich. James E. Vic5ridge, receiv- ed many gifts and messages of con- graduation at his home in Hanover, Monday on his 73rd birthday.
 Preliminary arrangements for the state convention of fife and drum corps to be held in Rockville next Au- gust are already being made by the Rockville Fife and Drum corps.
 There is a change for the worse in the condition of James Norman, of Old Mystic. who has been critically i'll for the past three weeks. He is the father of Henry Norman, of Norwich
 Some of the residents of Washington street believe that with the building of the new houses on the former Al my property there will come the ex- tension of trolley service throuh that street.
 St. James lodge, No. 23, F. and A. NJ, works the Master Mason degree to- night at Masonic temple at 7.30. Work will be done by past masters of this lodge.-adv.
 At Lakewood, N. J., Miss Sylvia Hold, daughter of United States Dis trict Court Judge George c. Holt. is at Sunset lodge, and has with her the Misses Porter of New Haven and Pomfret.
 Monday morning, at Red Cross head quarters work was given out and re- ceived by Mrs. Horatio Bigelow and Mrs. J. Dana Colt. In the afternoon Mrs. John P. Huntington and Mrs. R D. Hill had charge of the room At the recent Chicago Poultry show Lord Amos, 50-pound bronze gobble1 won first premium in the adult class This big tom was raised at Lords Hill l He was sold to an Illinois breeder soor l after winning at Boston in 1915. At the annual farmers institute which will be held at the North Can. l ton Methodist church, Wednesday March 22. there will be an address or poultry by Leslie Card of the Con | necticut Agricultural college a Storrs.
 1 The Tierney League officers of tn Total Abstinence society of Connect cut held a meeting in St. Joseph' church Noank, Sunday afternoon when the officers were installed b. County Director William H. McGutn ness of Norwich.
 Mrs. J. T. Mcknight, president O the Ellington Women's club has beer chosen delegate to the biennial con vention of the General Federation O l Women's clubs to be held in New oYr1
 from May 23 to June 2. Miss Alice E
 Pinney Is the alternate.
 Difficulties which have arisen owe
 New Haven Rairload Co.'S attempt |
 purchase property along it's route i
 Groton where it has planned to four
 track the present line between Groto and Midway have resulted in a dead } lock ever three pieces of land. In Mondays Bulletin, under Otis Ii brary notes, it was stated that tn four volumes of the "Mayfiowe
 Descendant" were presented by Elish E. Rogers. They were presented b
 Horace Rogers, member of the Sc
 ciety of Mayfower Descendants.
 Wednesday morning at Il ocloc
 has been set as the date and hour ft , what will probably be the final heal
 ing of the public utilities commissic
 on the question of the legality of tf
 recent raise in rates on the Grotc
 and Stonington Street railway.
 Mrs. George Maynard Minor of Vt terford, vice president general of u
 National Society, D. A. R.. will spes . at the meeting of Ruth Wyllys chap
 CT, D. A. R., in Hartford, Thur
 day at D. m. at the parish house
 the Asylum Hill Congregation
 church.
 Today (Tuesday). the members u the finance committee of Trinity Met = odist church with their helpers W begin the every member canvass f ; the current expenses and the benev Il lence for the coming year. Eve . member of the church and the congr 2 gation will be visited.