Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-06
VARIOUS MATTERS

I VARIOUS MAI IERS
 High fdes will prevail today.
 Monday was St. Agatha's. day. I The moon fulls at 1928 p. m. today the 9th.
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.ss thi. Ievening.
 | A few slefghs were out yesterda,
 afternoon.
 Mondays snow spoiled the skating and held up ice cutting.
 Yesterdays snow was slippery Ienough to require that horses be vel lsharpened.
 | The annual state convention of Tur- liner societies is to be held in Mertden IMarch IS.
 Men living along the coves have been finding fishing through the ice the best in years.
 At North Ashford a birthday sur lprise party was given Rev. Harvey M Lawson last week.
 The planet Uranus becomes a morn ing star this month, but is too close to
 thesun to be well seen.
 | M. works the second degree tonight at Masonic temple at 7.S0.-adv. 1 At present there are 53 patients at Backus hospital Every pricate room and every semi private bed is occu- pied.
 A months mind requiem high mass 1 for William McCloud was sung in St. Patrick's church Monday by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 Plumbers have had hurry calls for a day or two, to thaw out pipes or re- pair bursts following the cold snap of Friday night and Saturday.
 Former Governor Simeon E. Bald win, who has a number of personal friends in Norwich, was born at New Haven 77 years ago Monday.
 A number of nurses from this sec ton will attend the quarterly meeting of the Graduate Nurses association of the state at Waterbury tomorrow.
 Several from Connecticut will attend the annual meeting of the graduate council of Mt. Holyoke college to be held at the college Friday and Satur- day, Feb. Is and IT.
 Rev. Prof. Benjamin W. Bacon of the Yale School of Religion, formerly of Norwich, ofhciated at the morning service in the Second Congregational church in Derby Sunday.
 reached a depth of twenty-seven inches in the ground in some places about South Coventry, owing to the cold weather with so little snow.
 District Superintendent George G. Scrivener. of Norwich was scheduled to make his official visit to the Wap- ping Methodist church Monday, deferred the trip because of the severe storm.
 Grand Chief Daughter Mrs Mary Wallace of New Jersey was enter Daughters of Scotia, at special meeting at Fairview hall, Groton, Sun day evening.
 vile common council met with rep resentatives of the Rockville Wilai- mantle Lighting company Saturday and made a new contract as the old contract expired February l.
 It has been learned by agents here that life insurance companies will probably insert a war clause in their policies, if they do not already have one, in view of actual breaking off of diplomatic relations with Germany.
 The bureau of fisheries of the de- partment of commerce has just issued a bulletin headed ''The Grayfish, Try Il" in which it advocates as econom- ical and toothsome what fishermen in these parts have always called the dogfsh.
 Local members of the trade learn that the 33d annual convention of the Association of Master House Painters and Decorators of the United States and Canada is to be held at the Hotel Taft, New Haven, Feb. 1S, IA, 15 and 16.
 News has come to local scouts that Dan Beard of Flushing, L. l., national scout commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, issued an order to the or ganization's 290,000 members Sunday asking them to be in readiness should the country call them.
 Five hundred dollars for the relief l of war sufferers was raised at a mass meeting of the Hebrew people of New London at the Empire theatre Sunday afternoon, following stirring addresses by Rev. HE Mashlowsky, Rabbi Aaron | raitelbaum and Dr. L. Kohn.
 The Woman'e Home Missionary so- ciety of the New London Methodist | church, which was organized 25 years | ago, celebrated it's anniversary Mon l lay evening at a silver reception held l ! tthe home of Mrs. Stephen A. Pren- 1 is, president since it's organization.
 A record of passenger train service l rom August to December, 1916, shows | hat the New Haven railroad main 1 -ained a fairly consistent average turing the five months and that the 1 New Haven's percentage of trains on | lime compares favorably with the re- | ports for other roads
 At the summer cottage in Ashford | owned by Mrs. F. J. Cassidy of Nor | Tich there was excitement the other | night when John Fitts, the caretaker, while reading a paper, tipped the ta- ole so the lamD fell off and expIodod