Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-17
VARIOUS MATTERS


 A number of Norwich people will be house guests of New Haven friends for the pageant festivities this weekend.
 Next Sunday will be Armenian re- lief day in the churches, according to the proclamation of President Wilson.
 The w. H. NJ. $. of Trinity Methodist church Is planning to send a box to Browning home, Camden, s. C., before Christmas.
 the Evangelist, Rev. J. EIdred Brown will celebrate the holy communion at Trinity Episcopal church.
 Following a hard shower Monday morning, the temperature rose rapid during the middle of the day.
 Monday evening a meeting of Alpha Sigma society, of which Miss Mary Kampf is president, was held in the ladies room at the Second Congrega- tional church.
 The Connecticut Pawnbrokers' asso- citation held it's annual meeting and banquet at New Haven last week about 35 members from all over the state being present.
 News comes from Groton that Belton A. Copp is i'll with appendicitis at his home on Thames street, but it is be- heved that his recovery can be effect ed without a surgical operation.
 Today the tax collector will be at the store of Edward McNamara, 159 Sachem street, Falls, from 12 m. to 1 city tax.-adv.
 Referring tc a mention of the 18th falling on Friday last, a subscriber writes that the superstitious would do well to wait until 1917, when Friday, May 18th, will be a triple hoodoo.
 August Belmont, of New York, Treasurer of the Committee of Mercey, has acknowledged contributions re- ceived during the last week, including from Mrs. T. B. Blackstone, $500.
 The engagement of Miss Rose Tan ner. daughter Of MT. and Mrs. Louis Tanner, to Charles Ierchowitz, son of MT. and Mrs. Harry HerchoWitz, was announced Sunday at New London.
 The Norwich branch of the Red Cross hopes to begin work soon in a store Of the Thayer Building but just now is waiting for concrfputions with which to purchase material for the work.
 During the absence of Rev. Richard R. Graham at the St. slou1s Episcopal convention, Rev T. D. Martin, of Wor- cester, who is supplying for him, spends the week-ends at Christ church rectory.
 The annual session or the Grand Temple of Pythian Sisters is to con- vene in Electric hall. New Britain, 
 Eastern Connecticut will be in att tendance.
 During her visit to Norwich last week, Miss Bunker, a nurse from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, instructed class of 12 Norwich ladies Tuesday and Wednesday in the meth cd of preparing surgical supplies.
 Norwich relatives have been notified that Amos D. Allen, now of Napa, Cal, recently suffered a slight shock which has affected his Jeff side. The news has caused dccp regret to Mr Aliens friends and former neighbors in this city.
 Officers of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Connecticut, which meets in Wateroury next week, include: Grand Chancellor Frederick w. Chapman of Rockville; and grand master of the eXcheQuer, William N. Potter of Willimantic.
 Monday morning, when Dr. Charles A. May called at the jail, the matron, Mrs. John Bowen told him of the treat they had had for supper Sunday night, strawberries and cream, the berries picked from their own vines, some- thing unusual for October 18th.
 When the Sacred Heart Tierney Temperance league of Groton celebrat- ed its first anniversary Sunday in the basement of Sacred Heart church County Director William H. Mc- Guinness of Norwich acted as toast master and welcomed the guests.
 It became known yesterday that there was a case of infantile paralysis at the Middlesex County Temporary Home at Haddam, ana that the insti- tuition had been quarantined. As far as is known, this is the first case to develop in any public institution in the state, other than a hospital.
 The valuable print collection of Frederic R. Halsey of New York, which has been put III the Anderson Galleries for dispersal, contains a print of the Mohegan Indian minister Sam son Occum by Salisbury and the small Washington print of 1783, the mots desirable of the TrumbuIl type.
 Since returning to his home on Warren street Friday evening from Poughkeepsie, where he was injured in an automobile accident, Dwight H. Hough is improving steadily. He made the trip to New York and New London by train, Louis P Roath meet ing him at the latter city with his car
 After an illness which had kept f1f fYY7 fT-NY -f0,--, Iii assistant clerk of the New Haven County Superior Court for many weeks, John s. Fowler, who had held that office since 1889, 27 years, re- signed Saturday. The appointment ot his successor will rest with Judge Tutt1e and TnHpa