Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light motor vehicle lamps at 6,07
thi sevenfng.
There will be several informal Leap
Year social affairs this evening.
| The central committee for Jewish
Oar relief has acknowledged from
Willimantic, Conn. 1915.
Horace johnson, the Middle Haddar
weather prophet, who is 81 has writ
ten peace poem entitled "Where Are
| the Laurels 2"
Minstrels benefit T. M. C. A. boys
camp, Friday and Saturday at S.-adv.
took up an fmpromptu collection,
which was turned over to the Red
| Cross treasurer. Monday.
Local relatives win go to Ashaway
r. l., today (Tuesday), when George
Henry Spicer will receive relatives and
friends, in honor Of his 92d birthday.
Schools in the town of Somers have
closed for week vacation and the
| teachers have gone to their homes,
Including Miss Pendleton to Norwich.
Episcopal rectors are selecting their
lists Of Lenten preachers. In this
city there will be a change in the
usual order. because Of the weeks
mission.
The first full moon after March 20
occurs this year on Tuesday, April IS.
Accordingly 1t is the following Sunday,
April 20. which is celebrated as East
er Sunday.
Norwich friends and acquaintance
learn that the condition of DR.. Charles
Q. Maine. who is very i'll at his home
in Stonington, is reported as being
somewhat improved.
Ninety-two etchings and Autographs
by Whistler. the former Stonington
artist, are drawing many visitors
daily to the Keppel galleries, No. 4
East Thirty-Ninth street.
Noticed in a list sent out from Ban
gor. Maine, of ships built prior to 1910
cola. built at Biddeford in 1886 and
hailing from New London.
Mrs. Mary A. Alden, a widow 7S.
Of Rockville, died Sunday at a Hart
ford hospital She was taken to the
hospital Saturday in a critical condi-
ton. She leaves son, Frederick AL
den of Rockville.
Mrs. Charles W. Prentice was in
50 VA SAiO AhCo CiOS6 1iSduNl
Monday morning. During the after
noon Miss Elizabeth Huntington. Mrs.
John P. Huntington and Mrs. Horatio
Bigelow took charge.
Louis Augustus Chandler. corpor-
alton lawyer of Boston, died Saturday
in the Brookline hospital in his
sixtieth year. He was born in Wood
stock. Conn. and was a graduate Of
the Columbia Law school
In New York city, theoffce of the
Page Boiler works, in which Oliver T.
Forbes. Edward Mccormack and 9TH
ers from Norwich are on the staff, is
to be moved to the fine new Browning
building, in Herald square.
William Mclaughlin, the Poquonoc
boy who walked in his sleep from . a
second-story window last July, land
ing on his feet, and mourning as a
result, spinal meningitis, is much i'm
proved and expected to recover.
Cheer up! Minstrels at Y. NJ. c.. A.
Friday and Saturday. Tickets 25c.-
adv.
The Mansfield Fish and Game
club, which has an option on a large
tract of land in Mansfield held its
first meeting last week in Hartford,
preparatory to a meeting for per-
manent organization held Monday ev-
ening,
Robert odgers of Waterford was
arraigned before Justice Peter Tay-
lor Saturday evening on a charge of
tnhuman treatment Of a horse, was
bound over to the May term Of the
superior court. The bonds were placed
at $500.
Neighbors Of Mrs. George c. Bills,
OF Summit street, whose death was
announced Monday. recalled that on
February 7. 1910. Mr.. and Mrs. Bills
anniversary. Mr.. Bills died shortly
after that date.
A Wallingford correspondent writes:
e. Leslie Hopkins, of Norwich. recent
~ engaged as cashier of the Walling-
ford Trust company. was a borough
visitor Saturday. He called at the new
bank and made various suggestions
concerning the work there.
The tax collectors office will be
open this evening and Wednes-
day evening until o'clock to receive
personal taxes. Wednesday, March
l, is the last day of the month of COL
lection of the personal tax.-adv
r. s. Eaton of Providence has ar
rived in the Noank railroad station,
Mr.. Eaton is a supply agent Of the
Vow 11dNSt1 IOdu anu as EJaL1On Agent
G. /. Fitch will soon leave for the
South. Mr.. Eaton was sent to Noank
to take charge during his absence
A circular giving a description
of Jean Crones, who attempted on
February 10 to poison 200 guests at
the University club banquet in Chi
cago. has been received by Connect
cut police from the Chicago depart
naent. Crones' picture appears on the
circular.
It IS an interesting fact that copies
Of the book of poems, wild Posies,"
by John Tro1and, of Norwich, have
reached readers in Manchester and
London, England, and in Kilkenney
and other towns of Ireland, and the
author receives many compliments for
his verse.
Representatives of the Silver Eane
Pickle company Of Glastonbury, were
in Rockville last week and have Wis
tied most Of the farmers of the vi
cinity to interest them in increasing
the cucumber crop this year, valu-
able crop to many farmers of Vernon
and Ellington.