Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-05-14

Trolley crews noticed Saturday tina
! traffic fell of, due to FREQUENT shower
and low temperature, which kept shop
pers at home.
: During Sunday afternoon 100 per'
sons visited the reading room at TIT
Otis Library Miss Sadie J. Dawson
| was in charge
1t is noted at North Woodstock tina
. the Social Danes next meeting will
be at the home of c1rs. Calvin Raw
son, formerly of Norwich.
While other food supplies are dear
| oranges are reasonable in price, since
CALIFORNIA; pickers have begun send
ing 2O,000,000 a day to the eastern
market.
Today, Tuesday and wedn esday are
Rogation days in the Catholic church
from early times devoted annually. to
prayers for Gods blessing on the crops
of the year.
The weekly calendar of Trinity Me-
thodist church contains memor-
| Iund and Levi S. Saunders, members
who died during the week
i Concerted effort is being made
! throughout the country and states to
| strengthen the Quartermaster Enlisted
| Reserve Corps, for which thousands of
motor vehicle drivers are needed.
There was an informal flag raising
| at the state tuberculosis sanatorium
at o'clock Saturday afternoon, a
| pole so feet tall having been erected
| in front of the administration build
ing
When the First National Farm Loan
Association of Hartford County was
| organized last week at Hartford, the
| officers elected included Prof. Guy G.
| Smith of Storrs college, secretary and
| treasurer.
At the high mass in St Patrick's
| church Sunday, Rev. Myles P. Calvin
| preached from a text in the days Cos
pei. John XVI. $3.50, IF you ask the
| Father anything in my name, He will
give it you
The eighty sixth annual session of
the Connecticut Universalist conven-
ton is to be held in Danbury in May,
1918. the motion to hold the meeting
there being passed t the session in
Hartford last week.
At New Haven Saturday afternoon
at o'clock there was a flag raising
on the grounds of the Country club
house. \ short address was made by
Rev. Prof. Benjamin W. Bacon, a for
mer Norwich resident.
Sterling young man. Lloyd Miner,
who for some time has worked in a
Joined the United States navy and is
stationed days on the battleship Maine
at the Brooklyn navy yard.
Eastern Connecticut men will be in
New York today, when the twenty
second annual meeting of the National
Association of Manufacturers will open
at the Waldorf-Astoria and continue
through Wednesday evening.
The Central Committee for the Re
lief of Jews Suffering Through the
War, of which Berry FiscteI. New
York, is treasurer, Acknowledged Sur
day recent gifts, including from the
committee in Norwich, Conn. 1913.
Friends Of Mrs Richard n. Hiscox
(Viola Case) of Cliff street, who visit
ed her at Back1s hospital Sunday,
We're gratifed TO find her sitting up,
after seven weeks of serious illness.
Her little son is also improving, al
though slowly.
Final preparations have been COM
pleted for the reception and entertain
ment of the delegates and guests to
the annual convention of the grand
lodge of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, which will open in New Ha-
ven Wednesday.
The Cardinal MERCER Fund, which
provides mone=- for Cardinal Mercier
TO use in the relief of suffering among
the destitute of his native country. re-
ceived last week q check for 1915 from
the Apostle ship Of Prayer. which has
branch leagues in Norwich.
At the May meeting Of Sabra Trum-
bull chapter, d. A r., OF Rockville, a
delightful feature was the singing by
Mrs Eunice Park Luce of Stafford
Springs. soloist at the Rockville Union
CONGREGATIONAL church, a former mem
Der of Park church choir, Norwich.
John Odber of Baddam, former keep
er of the Middlesex County Home,
started for Middlotowr in an automo-
bile Saturday afternoon. When he
reached the home of Daniel w. Prior
on The Haddarn road, he was taken i'll
and died suddenly from heart trouble
urday from a business trip to New
York states that everywhere mer-
chants were advising customers that
it is real economy to buy now, espec-
lines. before war boosts prices fur
Their.
A circular letter from Bishop J. ].
Milan was read in ali the Catholic |
churches Sunday, announcing a no
vena, or nine days devotion in honor !
of the Holy Ghost in all the churches |
of the diocese from Friday, May Is, |
to Saturday, the Eve of Pentecost |
May 26.
Musicians from this section will go |
to New Haven today cMonday) to wit |
ness at L p. m, the biggest parade of |
musicians in the history of the city, |
headed by g band of 200 pieces, open |
ing the twenty second annual conven-
ton of the American Federation of |
Notification has been received here |
of a national conference of co1ored |
men called to be held in Providence, |
r. l., May %, 80 and 81 in the inter /
est of the race and of the nation It |
will be the beginning of a national |
to mobilize so, 900 colored |
men ready for patriotic service when |
called.