Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

For the last two days the river about Noank has been full of wild duck ot all kinds.
 Follow the crowd. Elks' Club dance Tuesday eyening.-adv. At this weeks prayer meeting of Trinity Methodist church the leader Thermometer readings of A degrees in the shade Sunday were in contrast to zero temperatures week before.
 Masquerade social. srd Co. c. N. G. Thursday evening. Feb. 21. Admission 25c.-adv.
 The Lenten regulations sent out by Bishop Milan were read in the Cath During the past week men have been crossing the river on the ice from Lau- rel Hill to their work on the West Side.
 Boston Convention Club dance at sElks' home. Tuesday evening. Admis sion 50 ce.sls. gentleman and lady, adv.
 There is a plan about the state to make suS-.iDraries of the rural schools, from which points books will be dis urIbuted.
 Connecticut principals will attend the National Education association at Kansas City, Mo-. from Feb. 26 to March 2.
 A number of Mardi Gras affairs to- morrow night will mark the close of the social season, Lent beginning Wednesday.
 Sunday afternoon, 160 persons visit ed the Otis library reading room. Miss Martha A. Ward was in charge.
 Eastern Connecticut alumni have been notified that the F'ordham Uni versity alumni prom is to be held at the Astor, New York. tonight.
 Charity Bazaar by Catholic woman's club at the Olympic, Monday and Tuesday evenings. Feb. 1s and 2o- En- tertainment each evening.-adv.
 The fifth meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers at the Engineering Societies building in New York this week will attract local en- gineers.
 The Connecticut College Outing club had a hiking party at Gales Ferry on Saturday, taking the train to Gales Ferry and walking back late in the afternoon.
 Army orders published Saturday in- cIude the names of 172 new officers of the reserve corps. In the list to be made first neutenants is Harry T.. Griswold of Lyme, Conn.
 At Danbury, Mary Wooster chapter, D. A. R.. is complet4ng arrangements for the luncheon to be given to state officers of the D. A. R. at the Danbury Baptist church Friday, Feb. 23.
 The central committee for the relief of Jews suffering through the war. of which Harry Fischel, 6S Park Row, is treasurer, has received new subscrip- tions, including, from Norwich, Conn.,, $i,0o0.
 Rev. John F. Murphy, formerly of Norwich and Mystic, rector of St Mary's church, Bridgeport, whose fu- Der of the first class ordained by Car dinal Gibbons.
 The British-American war relief fund, New York, of which Mrs. Lucy c. Whitridge is the acting president, acknowledges new gifts, including. from Plainfield branch, $40; also from Baltic friends. s15.
 Since Thursday last, men from the city water department have been try Ing to thaw the frozen service main in front of the Steiner residence on
 
 Saturday afternoon. @ A number of churches responded Sunday to a call from the Federal lea to make the day a national day of prayer for the president and for all nations and peoples.
 The final efrort of the Episcopal church in its campaign to raise a $5,- 000, 900 pension fund for its clergy was made Sunday, when a collection was taken in each of the 5000 Episcopal churches in the United States.
 4 Beacon Falls correspondent notes that John W. Rice, dairy tester and expert, who has been on official duties at the Connecticut Agricultural col lege at Storrs for some time. has re- turned to his home at Hi1icrest farm for an indefinite stay.
 In connection with the watchers which the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad company has placed on duty at the bridges and trestles in this vicinity, the company has also Instituted campaign to prevent tres passing on railroad property.
 Postal savings depositors who are subjects of foreign countries have the express assurance of law, act of June 20. 1910, that the faith of the United
 
 ment of all deposits, and that they may be withdrawn on demand.
 It is expected that the IegicIature will increase the dog license fee from one dollar to two dollars. If that is done, the price of license to keep a female dog will be made ten dollars. The farmers favor the change because of attacks of dogs upon sheep.
 The David A. Wells (Norwich) prize in economies, offered to Harvard men for the best thesis embodying the re- suits of original investigation, has been awarded Clarence Henry Haring, 1907, of New Haven, for his thesis on Trade Navigation Between Spain and the In- dies.
 A pleasant little item of apprecia- ton in the Second Congregational church calendar reads: The family in the parsonage is most grateful to the friends in the Church Improvement