Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-13

II ing Of the state aSTlculIufdl DOdIu
 made extra business for the hotels and II rest2arants Wednesday.
 At the Otis library a book of timely N interest recently acquired is K. K. Kawakanni's Japan in World Politics. H Come to the bargain war fair at the
 Y. M. c. A. Friday and Saturday after
 moons and evenings, Dec. 14 and 15.-
 adv.
 N The New London Red Cross branch is to start out on campaign running from Dec. IT to Dec. A for 2,000 more members. II Shopping for sugar has become the | popular pastimt with many Norwich
 housewives, weo cannot always secure | a bargain.
 | termined updn giving many furniture \ gifts, judging by the holiday buying 1 in the stores.
 l The New York, New Haven and I Hartford track at the navy yard Is in l process of being doubled. bridges wid- ened and overhead bridges rebuilt, l The Norwich Savings Society will be l open for business every legal business | day Saturdays included, from a. m. l till p. m. until further notice.-adv. ! A service flag is displayed at the home of MT. and Mrs. Alfred H. Faulk- l ner, below Tha1nesville. for their son, l Edward Faulkner, who is in the navy. 1 An Ellington boy, Samuel Lavitt, has enlisted in the coast artillery and has been sent to Fishers Island. His brother Joseph expects to enlist this week.
 ! Scarcity of coal in some of the sur ! rounding towns is compelling church | fnr Sory nd ! to hold mid-week meetings in private homes.
 The current White Ribbon Banner. in it's list of superintenfents of special departments. announces as ir charge of anti-narcotics work Miss Nellie J. Starr of Uncasvilie.
 Groton Ircn works has engaged Dr. 4. NJ. Purdy, for a long time health officer of Groton and practicing phy- sician in Mystic. as resident physi- clan for their new plant.
 Important buying in Norwich stores just now is that by church and social chosen to select Christmas gifts for Sunday schools. clubs or sranges.
 Everything is conserved now Some of the Camp Fire Girls are collecting old kid gloves, which will be used to make kid lined vests for the men in the advanced trenches in France.
 The planet Mars is steadily drawing nearer the earth and Increasing in brightness. It was in Leo Dec. 1st, rising about 1 a. rn., and will be in Virgo on the 31st, rising about II D. m
 An open letter is being sent to all the labor unions of Connecticut by Rev. Walter E. Lanphear declaring that in many instances their leaders are betraying them into the hands of the liquor interests.
 Ice on john H. Fori's pond is six incI1es but Mir. Ford does not expect to cut until the coating of the ponds is ar f6 inches thick. Of the 12,0G0 tons which he harvested last season, about 500 tons remain over
 No special ruling has been made to cover exemption from the draft of pilots in balloon schools such as the Collegiate balloon school at Rockville. according to a telegram received by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb from Provost Marshal General Crowder.
 The B. Y. P. U. of Groton Baptist church. St. Mary's guild of Seabury Memorial church and the Young ,sa Wclnan,s society Of the Congress-. attend in a body the Red Cross meet ings on every first Friday of the month.
 The board of managers of the Con- nectiout society, Sons of the, Ameri- can Revolution, has been invited to an informal Innch Saturday at 115l o'clock at the Winthrop hotel, Mer- iden, as guests of a committee headed by H. Wales Lines of John Couch branch, $. A. R.
 Within a few days the new Heover regulations governing the use of food in the home will be received from the printer and be packed for general dis Ftrfbutfon from the Hartford office of the United States food administration. The cards are supplementary to the first home kitchen card.
 War bread is now being made by CcHnecticut bakers in accordance with the ruling of National Food Adnninis- trxtor Hoover and being sold accord Ing to instructions issued. Bakers are of the opinion that few. if any. of their customers noticed any change in the size or appearance of the loaf
 Mentioned snong bankers who at- teHded the state meeting in New Ha- yen Tuesday were Ioi1n c. Ayefifl. Frank Hempstead, Chelsea Savings bank; C. R. Butts. Norwich Savings bank, Norwich; Frank Larr1bee, wf- iin1antic Savings Institute.
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 Has Joined Avistfsu cerns.
 William w. Page of Hartfcrd. well known in Norwich and a former res ident of New I1isden, lett Tort HIu- cum. N. f., Wednesday morning for San Antonio, Texas, where he has joined the U. s. Aviation corps. At the time of his en1fxfmant MF Pace 1r.1r sv%