Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

VANlOOS MAI lENS
 Light vehicle lamps at s.s7 this | evening.
 Lilacs and other early shrubs are
 showing signs of budding.
 Norwich Free Academy will close | Friday for vacation of one week. Mondays springlike temperature sci l people to work cleaning up dooryards and lawns.
 | the Peck Library is The Standard Die l tionary of Facts. l Where the roads have been scraped | they have dried up quickly 50 that travel is greatly improved.
 Rev. Albert F. Earnshaw of Mys- r tic conducted vespers at Connecticut | College Sunday afternoon.
 After a layoff of three days. the town clock has been repaired by John ! A. Ferguson and is striking again. The planet Jupiter is now finely and I conveniently placed for observation in 1.-the western evening sky, in Aries. Next Sunday. Palm Sunday. the
 Forty Hours Devotion Will open at at high mass at 10.S0 o'clock.
 The Central Committee for the Re- lief of Jews Suffering Through the War acknowledges contributions, in cluding from New Londoun. Conn $697. Of the s5 families aided by the City Mission during the past year with food and fuel, 30 were American born. IS colored, If Irish, 12 Polish, 3 French, German, Italian, Hebrew, 1 Swedish. Beginning about June 1, it is the ex- pecta tion of the New Haven railroad to restore to service the Colonial Ex- press. the through day train between Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
 and Boston.
 When Alfred L. Aiken. governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, addresses the Brotherhood of Broad way church Friday evening. his sub
 ject will be. Some Phases of Financial Preparedness.
 The widespread enthusiasm about planting garden crops in back yards and vacant lots this spring will prove for it means a great and unusual sale of garden tools.
 Of former Norwich residents a Col nnsVille correspondent writes: Rev. c. K. Flanders and Mrs. Flanders Be- | turned Friday after four weeks Va cation trip to Washington and other ! places of interest.
 A large first communion class is re- l ceivipg instruction in St Patrick s
 parish, the parochial school children | daily, the children from public schools I on Saturday mornings and at Sun | day school every Sunday. Much of the furniture at the home | of MT. and Mrs. William M Will | Hams, on Church street. has been sold | or removed, as MT. and Mrs. Williams leave April I for Westerly, where they l are to reside with relatives. The Norwich Art school has receiv : ed the notice issued for competition
 in hand decorated and hand-woven S25 offered by Albert Blum. treasurer of the United Piece Dye Works. Friends in many quarters are pleased to learn that, with improved health, Prof. J. H. George is able to conduct the music at Trinity Metho- dist Sunday school each Sunday now,
 with customary ability and Vigor. The state treasurer of the W. c. T. U. announces that there is urgent need of an increased free-wiG offer ing this year to meet state needs and the treasurer has been sending a Spe- cial appeal to each union for co opera tion.
 At the Central Baptist church for the coming Sunday the pulpit will be supplied morning and evening and the
 Mems Glass will be conducred by Rev. Abner F. Bowling of New York, as sistant editor of the Watchman- -EX- aminer.
 In New York Elliott Daingerfield
 is to have a loan exhibition of his own paintings in the Reinhardt galleries
 beginning Wednesday. One of these
 is The City That Never Was. loaned
 by George s. Palmer of the Pequot
 section.
 Mystic was honored Sunday. when Charles H. Davis The Call of the West Wind. winner of the Altman prize of $1,0O9 for a landscape painted by an American-born artist, was re-
 produced in photogravure by New
 York paper.
 The United States Civil Service
 commission announces for April 4 an examination for mineral examiner, for men only Several vacancies in the
 General Land Office for duty in the
 field, at entrance salaries ranging from $1.320 to $1.500 a year. Announcement of the recent mar riage in New York city of Edward McQuillan and Miss Nellie McCabe, has come as a surprise to their friends in New London. The ceremony took place in St, John the Baptist church and was performed by Rev. Father Pause.
 The constantly growing demand for
 practically all lines of building mater
 ial for foreign consumption was
 stronger than ever last week with the
 result that prices for present and fu-
 ture delivery continued to advance in
 a way which made Connecticut build CTS anxious.
 A former agent at the Falls Mills, Norwich. John F. Reardon, now agent
 of the big cotton mills at North Gros-
 yepirdaie, is doing much for the social
 betterment of the operatives. Through
 his aid the Grosvenor Girls club has
 been organized and meets every Tues
 day evening.
 Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, with