Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-07
VARIOUS MATTERS

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Light motor vehicle lamps at $40
this evening.
The D-1 has sailed from New Lon
don for Newport.
Sunday next is Passion Sunday, two
weeks before Easter.
Thursday had all the characteristics
of a changeable April day.
Nearly all Of the late o. S. Chaffee
property in Chaffeevi1le has been sold.
The sodality social in Olympic hall,
April 24.-adv.
Today. April It'll. will be exactly 10
hours long.
Miss Aides has been called to New
York by the serious illness of a rela-
tive. Home Tuesday or Wednesday,
adv.
New London is making plans for
clean City week, which in reality will
extend over two weeks, commencing
April II.
Rev. Richard R. Graham of Nor
witch preached the Lenten sermon at
Bishop Seabury Memorial church in
Groton Wednesday evening.
The lower middle design class at
Norwich Art school has completed a
number of pretty silver neck chains in
the metal work department.
A few of the flag tags to be sold by
the D. A. r. Saturday for Belgian re-
lief were displayed Thursday by wear
ers who had bought them in advance.
Knights of Columbus meeting to-
night. First degree-ady
The annual meeting of the Woman's
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety is to be held at the Memorial
Baptist church, Hartford, Friday, April
II.
Eastern Connecticut young women
who are students at Mount Holyole
spending the spring vacation at their
homes.
A special first Friday mass at $50
O'clock is being said in St. Patrick's
church today, and there will be Lenten
and Sacred Heart devotions in the
evening.
AS near as can be ascertained, Fred
eric Faulkner's string of IA trout at
Stafford Springs is the biggest catch
among those vino have whipped the
brooks hereabCuts.
Pupils from the Norwich Commercial
school have greatly aided Mrs Robert
w, Perkins of the local Red Cross by
generously typewriting labels for the
| packages forwarded in the war relief
boxes.
The residence Of Edward S. wildes
at Andover was completely destroyed
| by fire Monday morning. The fire is
| believed to have started in a barrel Of
lime in an outbuilding attached to the
| house.
Get a ticket for the Sodality social
| Easter Monday, Olympic.-adv.
Bids for the construction of the state
road which is to run from Groton sta
| ton to Eastern Point road will be
opened in Hartford Wednesday, April
II. at the Office Of the state highway
commission.
The New Haven road has received
the first of the 33 big freight engines
which were ordered the first part of
| the year when the embargo was most
| severe. The new type engine is a
| monster mikado.
Joseph Hall has hung collection OF
| excellent Egyptian photographs in the
| Converse Art gallery at Slater Memo
rial. These pictures are used in con-
nection with the Friday afternoon his
tory of art talks.
| Rev. ]. N. Geisler, pastor of the Lee
| Methodist church, Tolland, for six
years, who has been appointed to a
| new parish at East Hampton, received
a purse of gold at a surprise party
Wednesday night.
Tt is expected that the Santa Maria
the replica of Christopher Columbus
ship, which visited Norwich last fall
and which has been in the PawcatucB
| river all winter, will leave Westerly
about the first of May to begin a 5000
| mile tow to Chicago.
Thursday evening at the midweel
meeting of the Second Congregations.
| church the first part of the service
was devotional and the second par
| was given to a review of the Old Tes.
| lament section of the teacher trainins
course.
Thursday morning Mrs Charles D
| Noyes and Mrs Frederic w. Cary were
| in charge at Red Cross headquarters
In the afternoon Miss Richards, Mis-.
Alexandrine Trumbull, Mrs. Bertran
Fisk, Miss Louise Robinson and Mis-,
Phoebe Brewster had charge.
The April term of the superior cour
opens in Rockville today (Friday) a
10 O'Clock. Judge Joel H. Reed of Stat
ford Springs presiding. Criminal casei
will be presented by State Attorne!
Thomas F. Noone. There will be ;
short calendar and assignment of case,
for trial
Railroad foremen in all department.
are now doing the worrying act relativ
to hired help, which is decidedly scarce
Work in this line has not been kept vi
as it should be all winter, and at pres
ent is in bad shape, with needed he'll
not available for the section foreman
in particular.
NORWICH DELEGATION CALLS
ON DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT
Local Men Want to Use Company
Land For Carnival.
A delegation of Norwich bushes
men paid a visit to Supt. P T. hitch
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