Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-31
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 This ts calendar day for April.
 The first quarter of 1916 ends with today.
 Light motor vehicle lamps at s.41 this evening.
 Lilacs have budded noticeably dur ing the past three days.
 Yesterdays warm sun started peo- pie to buy garden and flower seeds.
 So far the weather man has certain ly favored the conference attendants.
 Services preparatory to communion Sunday were held in the churches last evening.
 In the movement of naval vessels list Thursday 1t was announced that the Tonopah is at Block Island.
 An unusually large number of wom- en from the surrounding. towns came to Norwich yesterday to hear the con- ference sermons.
 "A Tale of Two Cities" Lecture by Bishop Quale for Retired Preachers Fund, Trinity M E. church, Friday ONO4AAA45 eS1 s'1o P'
 The Connecticut Plumbers Associa- ton met at Hotel Garde, Hartford, on Wednesday afternoon at o'clock for its annual meeting.
 At Mantle, Walter G. Barker has sold the Mallory cottage situated on the bank of the Mantle river to w. H. Strand of New London.
 Thirty pieces of finished work for Broadway church were returned to the Red Cross room yesterday morn ing by Miss Ella M. Norton.
 There will be no services in most of the Methodist churches in this dis trict the coming Sunday as the pas tors will be at conference in Nor wich.
 Representing St. Agnes Guild of Christ church, Mrs. Bertram Fisk re- turned a quantity of finished work to the Red Cross headquarters during Thursday afternoon.
 Bishop Wn. A. ouale will lecture at Trinity M. E. church Friday even | ing at 7.45. Tickets soc, for benefit of retired preachers fund.-adv. | for the benefit of the farmers of He bron Thursday, from 10 o'clock a. m | to D. m. in the town hall. The speak CTS were from Storrs college. | Ernest Allison Smith, now chairman of the state prohibition committee ot Oklahoma, was a former worker fol 1 the prohibition cause in Norwich Groton, Groton and New London.
 The fly swatting season at Nortt Ashford has begun early this year Rev. P. S. Collins tackled a buncl of the pests in his hay loft and on z single sash window harvested IA.
 c. F. Bartlett of MontviIIe has de. cided to experiment with pigeons thi: summer and opens hisc loft with Car neaux pigeons, the largest known spe' cies of domestic pigeon in the world
 At St. PatricB's chudch the custom. ary Lenten sermon by a Passionis Father from Boston will be omitted l the coming Sunday evening, as the Forty Hours Devotion will be in prog. ress.
 1 A speaker of national reputation Bishop Wm. A. Quale at Trinity M. D church, Friday evening at 7.45. Tick cts soc. Subject, A Tale of Two Cit l ies-adv.
 Maple syrup makers in Union, Tol land county, are wondering how the. will gather the sap this spring in tn deep snow. It is time to tap the trees but it has been so wintry that tn work could not be begun. Mrs. Lucretia E. Geer, mother O Prof. c. M Geer of West Hartford celebrated her 91st birthday Sunday Mrs. Geer, who was Miss Rogers, wa born in Salem, March 26, 1925. Il 1S43 she married John A. Geer.
 Members of the Connecticut Ic Dealers Association met at the Ally House, Hartford, Thursday at 12 O clock for the annual meeting. A con } siderable amount of machinery wa on exhibition in the ball room.
 At Washington Wednesday was Re Cross Day. It began at o'clock wit a bag sale and ended with a ball i which one of those in the fanc dances was the wife of William 4 Slater, Jr., formerly of Norwich. . Don't fail to examine the extensiv line of new spring millinery now bein shown by Mrs. Walter Rogers, T Unio street. Everything new and prices req sonable.-adv.
 The engagement of Miss Agne. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Aleck Rig zutto of New York, to Attorney Fran Q. Cronin, son of MT. and Mrs. J. I Cronin of New London, is announced MT. and Mrs. Rizutto are summer res idents at Ocean Beach. Local sportsmen have been notifie that the first annual registered tour nament of the Connecticut Trap Shoot ers' association is to be held unde the auspices of the Housatonic Ro and Gun club at Lordship Meadov Stratford, Saturday, April 1.