Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-01
lIlae Rlalietiaa,
Norwich, Friday, Dec. I, 1916.
VARIOUS MATTERS
It is daybreak today at 5.14.

It is daybreak today at 5.14. Light vehicle lamps at 4.4s o'clock this evening.
 The moon is in it's first quarter at s.56 D. m. today. The U. S. Oklahoma has left Block Island for Hampton Roads. At present there are s3 children at the county home on Smith avenue. The best moonlight nights during December will be from the 7th to the 18th.
 Regular meeting of K. of c. post poned to Sunday at 2.30. First degree. -adv.
 Many holiday greeting cards were delivered by the mail carriers on their morning rounds.
 Yesterdays long steady rains helped to fill uH the ponds and brooks which have been so low.
 The theatres profted by the stormy holiday, crowds attending the differ ent performances.
 mems Ball in Olympic hall tonight at S.30.-adv.
 Lumberman in Holland county are finding 1t almost impossible to get all the help they need.
 Thanksgiving was a dull rainy day, as one resident expressed it, Hike Sum- day without the Sunday papers"
 "Wednesday night and Thursday morn...g, fine looking turkeys were of fered by Norwich dealers at 40c a pound.
 Sale of Xmas novelties, Dec. 4th and 5th in the Central building. Room 27. Mrs. Hadley G. Gray.-adv.
 A few Of the factories are shut down over today and Saturday. but most of them are so busy they will start up this morning.
 The 475 pupils in the ten rooms of the customary Thanksgiving recess until Monday.
 Again there is rumor that c. M. Shay of Grotons is to purchase the de- serted village of Shewville from its owners, MT. and Mrs. Wilcox.
 Dancing and Department. Mr. D. F. Clifford will be at Wauregan House parIors, Sat-, Dec. 2. from 3 to 6 to
  lessons $S. Further information see MT. Clifford or write.-adv.
 This (Friday) afternoon, when the Progressive Missionary club of the Central Baptist church meets in the lecture room. Mrs. Frank A. Foster will be hostess!
 A quantity of oakum has arrived at the Red Cross room to be made up into | Ir1Trn 0odo al nra wounds. The room will be open today for volunteer work. The Kennebunk, Me, Eastern Star notes that MT. and Mrs. William Mad dox announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Florence B. Maddox of Pomfret,' Conn.,, to Douglas s. Weeks of Ashford.
 In the superior court at New Ha- ven Wednesday, Judge Gardiner Greene of Norwich non-suited two i'm portant auto actions against Ogden Douglass for alleged damages when another car collided with his.
 Annual sale of Christmas novelties by Miss Maud c, Buckingham, 66 Me- Kinley avenue. Opening days, Mon day and Tuesday, Dec. to 5, and con- tinuing until Christmas. from a. m. to g D. m. Articles from 25 cents up. Table of special gifts for gentlemen. -adv.
 Efforts are being made 10 have a state road built from West Stafford to Leonard's corner on the Holland turn pike. This road will open up direct and shorter line of travel by way of state highway to Rockville from Stafford Springs.
 As is usual on a holiday. people liv- ing on rural routes had to spend Thanksgiving without their newspa- pers and other mail. This hardship will be remedied when the government rules that substitutes drive over such rputes every holiday.
 Fifteen hundred of the e,00o Jews in the United States who have gone in for farming, including Connecticut res- idents, have sent delegates to the opening session of the eighth annual convention of the Federation of Jew