Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Tides will be high today.
 This is calendar day for November.
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.21 this evening.
 Norwich Free Academy pupils have day.
 Pomfret school has sent s62 to the American ambulance relief fund in Paris.
 Opening sessions of the junior and Academy Bible classes will be held tonight at the Y. M. c. A.
 At Thompson the price of fresh eggs is rising rapidly, the last quotation at the store being 50 cents dozen.
 The public schools of the town will be closed today because of the, state teachers convention in Norwich.
 Special meeting of K. of c. tonight at 7.30. First degree.-adv.
 Saturday, St. Simon and St. Jude's day, the holy communion will be cele- brated in the Episcopal churches.
 A day of almost summer temperature Thursday was g. disappointment to merchants with winter stocks to move.
 Samuel Bodine of Quaker Hill, who was shot in the leg by Mrs. Herbert Miller Saturday, continues to improve at his home.
 The hard rain late Wednesday night and during the early hours of Thurs day helped fill some of the ponds and brooks which have been so low.
 An anniversary high mass of re- quiem for Henry Leprade was sung in St. Pstrick's church at o'clock Thursday by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 The annual chrysanthemum, fruit and vegetable show of the New Ion- don Horticultural society is to be held at the court house early in November
 It isn't safe for big yellow pump kin to loiter In the garden these days, when the boys are getting ready for Halloween and jack-o'- lantern fro1ics.
 Norwich members of the Red Cross will open their season today, meeting for work in the corner store off, the Thayer building morning and aSter noon.
 Thursday evening at the mid-week meeting of the Second Congregational church the topic was Christianity, the Evidence of Things Not Seen. Mark 2: liz.
 An official of, the National D. A. R., Mrs. George M. Minor of Waterford was in Pittsfield the first of the week attending a state convention of the Massachusetts D. A. R. The annual meeting and banquet of the Connecticut Schoolmasters' club which has members in eastern Con necticut, was held at 6.30 o'clock Thursday evening at the Allyn house. Hartford.
 Manchester lodge of Masons has ac- cepted an invitation to attend the meeting of F'ayette lodge of Rockville next Saturday evening. The Masons will probably go to Rockville in a special car.
 Yesterday, Oct. 26, was the 60th birthday of Rear Admiral Charles F. Pond. commanding the IT. S. forces who was born in Brooklyn, Windham county, in 1S55
 The current Connecticut Churchman notes that former Norwich residents, Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Schmitt of An sonia, have announced the enga cement | of their daughter, Esther Beecher, to Frank E. Hoadley. of Ansonia. In one of the leading International art magazines of recent date there is an interesting paper on Erclesia stical and Theatrical Art by Thomas Ray | mond Ball of New York, whose mother was Alice Raymond of Norwich. Randall Spaulding, who diedS Tues day in Montclair, N. J., was well known in Rockville and for some time after his graduation from Yale taught 1 the Rockville High school. After studying abroad one year he went to | Montclair.
 A new bridge Is under construction 1 in the Bickne!l district Wa1renville, and men are at work finishing the strip of new road from Westford to 1 Mansfield will be one of the best to be found anywhere.
 A former curate at St. Patrick's church, Rev William T. Cavanaugh. who has become so deaf as to serious | ly interfere with his work, has learned the sign language and is doing excel l lent work preaching to and teaching deaf mutes in and about Hartford. The Danbury D. A. R. chapter will hold it's first meeting of the year this l Friday) afternoon, when plans for the entertainment of the state general mesting of the D. A. R. to be held in Danbury Nov g will be discussed and | plans for the entertainment of visiting members from all parts of the state.
 A New York paper of Thursday said: The cotton market was thrown into greater confusion for a quarter hour yesterday than at any time since the Sully boom collapsed in 1907. Dan iel J. Sully. now of Watch Hill, re- calls with pleasure that he sold his | first bale of cotton to the late General William G. Ely of Norwich.
 SEWING CLUB MET
 WITH MISS EDITH LUCAS