Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

ILLS evening"
Dabonrs Almanac dares to predict
snow for today.
A number of the college students
here arrived home for the spring re-
cess.
Hundreds of cars loaded with coal
are on the sidings about and below
Allny's Point
The Forty Hours devotion will open
at the high mass in st. Patrick's
church Sunday next.
Last week in VoIuntown, snow in
the woods was 10 inches deep and ice
on the ponds was 16 inches thick.
The National Committee on Prisons
has issued a call to $4,000 clergymen
to observe April 9 as Prison Sunday.
The mercury climbed to 81 degrees
in the shade, Sunday noon, and the
snow and ice melted rapidly all day.
Mrs. Walter Rogers is now showing
a complete line of new spring millinery
at her parlors, II Union street. Your
inspection invited.-adv.
Sunday afternoon 131 visitors en-
joyed the advantages of the Otis Lii
Dfary reading room. MISS Martina
A. Ward was in charge.
The annual pre-Easter vacation ex-
aminations are being held at the State
Normal schools. The tests are sent
out by the state board of education.
At Brooklyn, Frank Spaulding, the
mail driver says he has been on run
ners for fifty days, thing not heard
of before in that section for twenty
five years.
The last session Of the superior
court at Middletown until fall will
open April 4. when Judge Milton A.
Shunway, of Danielson, will be there
for the criminal session.
Growers of crocusus say that the av-
erage date Of their blooming for the
past 80 years has been March IL or
10. This year they are buried under
the snow on March 81.
Delegates from this section will at
tend the annual convention of the
State jewelers. association which will
be held at the Hotel Stratford. Bridge
port. tomorrow (Tuesday).
The central committee for Jewish
relief, of which Harry Fischel, of New
York. is the treasurer, acknowledged
from Colchester, Conn, $50.
At the next meeting of the S. N. E.
Poultry association. which is to be
held in Mystic, Thursday evening,
President A. G. Rivers of Branford
Farms will give an address on Incu-
baton.
At the high mass in st. Patrick's
church Sunday Rev. Peter J. Cuny
preached from the texa, For the let
ter killeth. but the spirit giveth life
The Veni Creator was sung by Mrs.
Bernard c. Coyle.
Saturday morning the Red Cross
headquarters in the Thayer building
was in charge of Mrs. James Lewis
Smith and Mrs. Mary A c. Norton.
Averill was in charge.
Conditions in Armenia as he saw
them during his sixteen years connec-
ton with the medical mission at Van
were told by DR.. Clarence D. USHER
in a lecture at the First Church house
in Danbury, Friday evening.
The Connecticut State Spiritualist
association commemorated the sixty
eighth anniversary of Modern Spirit
uaiism by holding services in Unity
S. Vanderbilt was the speaker.
Michael FTannery, head gamekeepel
of Morton F. Plants state East Lyme
game preserve, has received a large
shipment Of mallard ducks. Mr.
Flannery intends to raise wild ducks
on a large scale at the preserve thi!
season.
The fund of the American Jewish
Relief committee subscriptions tt
which are sent to Felix NJ Warburg
treasurer, New York, now totals So,
675,7s4.47. New gifts acknowledged
yesterday include: From Norwich
| Conn, $1,040.
In Hebron, Banks Jones has beef
appointed fire warden and has an
pointed the following deputy wardens
| Earl Parks for Jones street, H. Clinton
Porter for the center of the town
| Clarkson Bai1y for Amston and Gee
| Fabel for GRANVILLE.
Local Congregational churches wer
notified Sunday of a meeting of tn
| Eastern Connecticut branch, D. B. M
| Thursday, March 80, II a. m. and 1.3
p. M, at the Second Congregations
| church in Putnam. when there will b
a Missionary address.
At Lords Point, the hotel dock ha
| come through the winter withou
| much injury, The Stonington Miro
says: Many times it was feared tn
| ice pack would lift the spiles and car
ry the whole thing away. as it hap
pened several years ago.
| A former Norwich man. Alfred I
| Aiken, governor of the Federal Re
| serve bank of Boston. will address
| meeting of Hartford bankers, Tuesday
March %. His subject will be "Solv
ing the Problem Which Confronts tn
| Federal Reserve SYSTEM
OF the prize pictures in the Nation
al Academy Of Design in New Yorl
much attention is being attracted b
F. Edwin Church's The Peacock Cir
| which was awarded the Thomas I
Clarke prize for the best America
figure composition. Mr. Church ha
spent some time in Lyme.
Out of $500 notices sent to misce]
laneous corporations in the state nc
tifying them to file with the tax com
missioner on or before April 1, return
showing the net income for the pal
year for the purpose Of levying tn
state income tax, only 1900 have mad
returns to date.
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