Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-31
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich. Wednesday, Jan. s1, 1917.
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at b.s2 this evening.
 Yesterday was observed in a number
 of places as Child Labor day.
 Sunday next is Septuagesima Sum
 day, about 70 days before Easter. At Andover, Ralph Bass is cutting
 ice on Bingham Pond Is inches thick. l Several from Norwich will attend the Motor Boat Show in New York | this week.
 | James A. Utley while digging graves | in the Columbia cemetery encountered | IS inches of frost last week. l Among those attending the funeral | of David Buckley of Poplar street, Fair Haven. Monday, was Rev. M. P. Hart of Mystic.
 Ignoring all automobile laws, a roadster dashed down Broadway hill at 7.45 last evening without even a | tail light visible.
 John Rodemeyer of Canaan has been Chamber of Commerce banquet We'd l nesday evening. Feb. z. The mid-winter meeting of the alumni council of Smith college will be held Feb. 1s. 20 and 21. Several from Connecticut will attend. This weeks meeting of the Epworth League Cabinet of Trinity Methodist church is to be held this evening at the hcme Of Miss Elizabeth Lane., Reports from oyster growers of the state indicate that there will be a i noticeable shortage of marketable oys- ters during the rest of the season. A tatal of s26 was deposited in the Coventry school savings bank during the past term bringing the total amount deposited to date up to $217.- 56.
 .The 18th Conn. Regiment associa- year meeting at the Hotel Oneco in New Haven. on Lincoln Day evening, Feb. F.
 At o'clock. Tuesday. in St. Pat I rickS church, an anniversary high mass of requiem for MT. and Mrs. John Lyons was sung by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 Twelve additional cases of small pox have been reported to the state board boa of health. Seven are in ston- ington, two in New London and three in Waterbury.
 The light rain late Monday night made walking dangerous as the rain froze on top of the snow covered side walks. Rising temperature Tuesday soon left the walks clear. Postmasters have received a notice from the post office department that the price of envelopes and newspaper wrappers has been increased slightly owing to the high cost of paper.
  of Alfred B. White. was held Tues day at 2.30 at her home, No. S9S Farm ington avenue, West Hartford. Mrs. White, who died Saturday. had friends in Norwich.
 The party of Norwich tourists which sailed for the West Indies Jan. Is has reached Havana, their steamer. The Tenadores, having been reported on Tuesday at Colon Jan. 29. on her return trip.
 President Frederick H. Sykes of the Connecticut College for Women was the speaker at the meeting of the Hartford Section, Council of Jewish Women, Tuesday afternoon in the yes try of Temple Beth Israel. A meeting of the executive board of the Connecticut Association of wich Girls club belongs, has been held at the home of Miss Gertrude Whittemore in Naugatuck to plan for | the state convention. At the twenty-second annual meet ing of the New York Federation of Churches, held in the Hotel Savoy, Monday, an address on The Present Status of the League to Enforce Peace was delivered by Hamilton Holt of New York and Woodustock. The village of Noank is considerably stirred up over the bill that was in- troduced Friday in the general as- sembly by MT. Holt of New London. The bill would prevent the use of otter travis or drag nets in the wa ters of Long Island or Fishers Island sounds.
 Mrs. George Maynard Minor of Wa terford, vice president general of the D. A. R.. was one of the speakers Monday night at the twentieth ami versary celebration of the formation of Fort Massachusetts Chapter, D. A. R., of North Adams.
 News has been received by MT. and Mrs. Lemuel M. Fielding, of Baltic street, that the U. s. Duncan, on which their son. Lemuel O. Fielding is electrician. has reached the West Boston, which port they. left Jan. 8.
 All special taxes on pool tables. in public poolrooms or social quarters, bowling alleys and theatres were due and payable Monday for the six months ending June 30, 1917. Those liable to the tax who do not pay are subject to a penalty of fifty per cent and prosecution.
 Alone in their home at 71 Crown street, Meriden. Mir. and Mrs. George A. Parker Sunday celebrated the 66th anniversary of their marriage in Weathersfield, Vermont, January 28, 1851. Mrs. Parker was Laura A. Co., nant. Mir. Parker was born in Ash ford, Conn. in 1926. Mrs. Parker came from Reading, Vermont REDEEM REVENUE STAMPS GnnM nncClnI