Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

this evening.
 Rural mail carriers will have holi- | day Thanksgiving day. Some handsome 1917 calendars are being distributed already. Florists find orders for Thanksgiv- | ing flowers coming in well. The new moon shone cold and clear | in cloudless sky last evening.
 Plans are being made for a com- l munity Christmas tree in Old Lyme. Elks social Wednesday night. Dancing at o'clock. Doors open at | S.30.-adv.
 During this month the planet Nep- tune is in the constellation Cancer and Is a telescopic object only. There were 130 visitors to the Otis Library reading room. Sunday after noon. Miss Sadie J. Dawson was in charge.
 Merchants said Monday that Christ mas shopping had really begun, many persons realizing that less than four weeks remain for that purpose.
 Miss Julia Rabbit of Sprague and Bert Oliver. of Occum, were married II, tor of the M. E. church, at Baltic. The American Committee for Ar- menian and Syrian Relief acknow1- edges new donations, including. from Franklin Congregational church s27. Although Mondays temperature was higher than that of Sunday, it was still cold enough to remind the small boy that the season for skate sharpen ing iS af hand
 Edgar Stillman is spending a few days at his home in Westerly, being laid up by @ slight injury received while working at his trade as a car penter fin Norwich.
 Rev. George B. Shaw, pastor of the First Hopkinton Seventh Day Baptist North Stonington Second Baptist church Sunday morning.
 With the coming of December. the district superintendent will hold the fourth quarterly conferences in some of the Methodist churches, as the con- ference year comes to a close in March.
 Time, g o'clock Wednesday evening. Place, the Elks' club. The girl'is wait. ing for you.-a1v.
 In order to be able to meet the re- Quirements aSsecretary and in charge of the Red Cross work. Mrs. Robert W. Perkins recently took a special course of training in the preparation of hospital supplies.
 It is the opinion of 6 local man who Is well posted on retail matters that the coming holiday season, due to the increasing cost of living, is going to see the greatest amount of giving of useful gifts yet recorded.
 John F. Clifford. who has been en- gagged as county agent for. the Tol- land County Farm Bureau, has rented the house in Ellington. formerly oc- cupied by pr. A. E. Brace but will have his office in Rockville.
 The wedding of Miss Helen Teresa O'Neill and Thomas J. Condon, takes place Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock at St. Mary's Star of the Sea church, New London. MT. Condon is a train despatcher in the employ of the New Haven road.
 The organ recital marking MT. Les ter's 25th anniversary at the Broadway church is open to all. 8 p. m. Tuesday. adv.
 Rev. and Mrs. Henry w. Hubert of Groton have received interesting post cards and letters from their son and daughter, Chauncey Hubert and Miss Winifred Hubert, who are teach ing at American colleges in Constan- ttnople. Turkey.
 Under the auspices of the Mems Build of St. Johns Episcopal church. Rockville, former Norwich rector, Rev. Reginald R. Parker of Hartford, will deliver his lecture, A Tour Through the Yellowstone Park, at the church Tuesday evening. Dec. 12.
 At the close Of the morning serv- ice fin the Andover Congregational church, Rev. John J. Lockett, pastor Tor nearly six years, read his resigna- ton. to take effect December 31, hay ing re1eived a call to the First Congre. gational church in Greenfield, Mass.
 The Thanksgiving services in St. Patrick's church Thursday morning will be the regular daily parish mass at o'clock. which Rev. J. H. Brod- ertck has urged his 4.o00 or more par tshioners to attend, to give thanks to God for the blessings of the past year.
 The officials and employees of the Southern division of the Central Yer mont railway will banquet at the Crocker house next Sunday afternoon. A special train will take the employees from up the road to New London and the president and other officials are expected to attend.
 The price of ticket for the EHxs' dance will provide Christmas cheer to some poor family. Fifty cents, lady and gentleman.-adv
 The members of the Thursday night dancing party, Mantle, which meets at the home of MT. and Mrs. Roy Beckwith presented Miss Josephine Kingsbury a silver meat plate and fork. Miss Kingsbury recently an- nounced her engagement to Henry Sankmus, of Fort Wright.
 There is local society interest in the Danbury News item that, in hon or Of Miss Sue Clark, whose marriage with Willard Hamlin, of Watertown. ". r., is to take place January 6, Mrs. J. c. Downs entertained Friday after noon from to 6 o'clock at her home ss Fairview avenue. Danbury.
 When twenty-five hundred people crowded the Montauk theatre, Brook lyn, N. r.. Sunday night at a mass meeting in the interest of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters movement to aid the children of the city, one of the speakers was F. w. Hinrichs. a