Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-24
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light Venicle lamps at 4.SZ O'CLOCK this evening.
 The moon is new tomorrow, the 25th. at $50 a. m.
 The census lists of St. Patricks parish are being printed this week.
 Repairs have been completed at the Sussman factory. on Chestnut street.
 The Old Lyme inn is to close at the end of this month after busy and successful season.
 The sudden rise in temperature and the rain Thursday halted the sales of cold weather supplies.
 Already many tempting table sup plies for Thanksgiving time are being featured in the markets.
 In some of the stores Thursdays dull hours were spent in arranging the stocks for the coming holidays.
 Eastern Connecticut hotel men are in New York attending the National Hotel Mems association convention.
 Thursday evening. at the mid-week meeting of the Second Congregational church, the announced topic was The Relation of Creed and Conduct.
 MT. and Mrs. Myron E. Lyon of North Windham announce the engage ment of their daughter, Ruth Emily, to Joseph Henry Bullock, Jr., of Conantville.
 Miss Porter's school for girls at Pennington, where there are several Norwich students. will have no Thanksgiving recess because of the tardiness in starting the term.
 When the Connecticut Horticultural society meets in it's rooms in the county building at Hartford this evening the subject for discussion will be fall planting of trees, shrubs. bulbs, etc.
 A charitable society intending to dress dolls for Christmas gifts has discovered that there is almost a doll famine in Norwich, so scarce are these Made-in Germany articles this fall.
 Recent accessorions to the music department of the Otis Library in- masterpieces, and Something to Sing; old and new masterpieces for the voice.
 Campaign expense returns made by candidates for judge of probate include
 
 Williams, Salem, Ray A. Bliven, Sa- lem, Joseph P. Smith, Plainfeld, no expense.
 Recent sales Of lots at Saybrock Manor include lot 156 on MiGdletown road by James Jay Smith to Frank E. Briggs of Manchester and lot 35 on Hartford avenue to James Watson, also of Manchester.
 The Red Cross room will be open today. The benevolent Norwich wom- en have surgical dressings, etc, pre- pared nearly sufficient to fill the fpst big packing case of the season to- be forwarded to New York.
 Thursdays rain disappointed the hunters, since today (Friday) ends the hunting season for gray squirrels, quail, woodcock, partridge or ruffed grouse, Mongolian, Chinese and Eng fish pheasauts and Hungarian par fridge.
 A colored woman has been making a house to house canvass soliciting funds for Thanksgiving for the poor o1 Springfield, Mass, and local charity workers are questioning her motives l in coming so far away from home te collect.
 The members of St. Margaret's l Guild of Trinity Episcopal church Miss Blanche Hall, president, met as | usual at the church Thursday even 1 ing and worked in preparation fol their Japanese table at the coming l holiday sale. E James E. Lord of Lords Point, ha6 | nice brood of Wyandottes taker night recently. The dead birds were | found widely distributed in the large | pasture east of the road, with theil heads eaten, off.
 Stanley Trail, s, son of MT. and Mrs Marcus l.. Trail, of Poquonoc, who was taken i'll with infantile paralysis z year ago last August, and has never ! been able to walk since, has left fol Boston, where he has entered the Children's hospital.
 For Trustee Virtume P. Quinn, W | B. Wilcox sold at auction Wednesday | the stock and fixtures of the Progress Confectionery company, in parcels tt buyers from Putnam, Westerly, New London. Jewett City and Plainfield, a: | a total of over $2,400. It was ap. praised at $3.600.
 At recent meeting of the Mantle | Improvement association, Inc, a reso' lutiOn was unanimously passed tha 1 the association offer to spend a cer. l tain amount of money toward laying | cement sidewalks on the west side O. l Pennsylvania avenue and on the norti | side of Main street.
 Elmer Ellsworth Chapman of New | ington, 54, who died at the New Brit. ain general hospital Wednesday morn. ing, following an apoleptic shock, was a native of Montville, unmarried, ant leaves a brother, Henry H. Chapman | of Waterbury, and . sister, Mrs. Henr, Bentley, of Crescent Beach.
 Dr. John J. Mason. who practiced fo, l many years in New York as a nerv,
 specialist, died Wednesday st hi home, I'll Madison avenue. He wa,
 born in Thompson, Conn.,, and wal | educated at Harvard university an, Harvard Medical school. Burial vii