Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-23
VARIOUS MATTERS

The New Haven Dairy company is having it's ice house in Gilead filled. About the state, men who are cut ting ice complain of the scarcity of help.
 Today is the date of the eclipses of the sun, but it will not be visible here.
 Extra work was done at the Red Cross room Monday by a number of | ardent volunteers.
 Don't miss the whist and dance by N G. c. at Buckingham Memorial to- night at o'clock sharp.-adv. A storm which started in to be a blizzard late Sunday night proved no | better than a day of slush Monday. | citation is to hold it's 36th annual con vention in Hartford, Jan. 23, "A and Before the snow Saturday, grass fires had burned over a considerable area along the river bank below Lau- rel Hill.
 A book recently acquired by the Peck library is Mrs. Elizabeth Rob- bins PennelFs Nights in Rome. Venice, London, Pari-.
 Next Sunday the pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Rev. F. w. Cole
 man, wiz ,--duct the service at the The absence of clerks in stores and
 workers in other lines is noticeable now, many being away from work be- | cause ill with grip or grip colds.
 fin the movement of naval vessels it is | ship, The Saturn, has left Guaymas, Mexico, for San Diego, California. The various circles of the Kings Daughters in Norwich have been doing | valuable sewing and similar work for Bacl1us hospital during the winter. Relatives and family friends were in St. Patrick'S church Monday to attend a months mind mass for Thomas J. Hanrahan, sung by Rev. J. H. Brod- erick.
 Monday morning, William E. Crary
 underwent a second serious surgical
 operation at his home in Preston. Last
 evening his condition was considered
 very grave.
 that owing. to illness. Rev. A. T. Ran
 dall, native of Poquetanuclx, rector
 of St. Andrews church, Meriden, was
 unable to hold services Sunday.
 Monday in New York, the engage ment was announced of Miss Gertrude
 Weill, a prominent young society girl,
 to Ralph Plaut, second son of the late
 Joseph Plaut, formerly of Norwich.
 Francesca Frank, proprietor of a
 grocery store, corner Thames and Ledyard streets, Groton, died Satur-
 day. The funeral was held Monday
 morning, at Sacred Heart church, with
 burial in New London.
 In the new telephone directory 3.4o0 stations are listed in the Norwich di-
 vision, which includes from Bozrah
 on the north to Uncasville on the
 south. Over 400 changes have been
 made since the last quarter. A subscriber writes that now is the time to begin next summers campaign against the house fly. Some of last seasons flies that were matched late are now laying eggs in favorable
 places for incubation in the early spring.
 Mrs. Emma Adelaide Ramsbottorn. 69, died Sunday morning at Rockville. after an illness of a number of years. Death was due to heart failure and paralysis She was born in Hebron and moved to Rockville about sixty years ago.
 While the ice at the Beebe pond is seven inches thick, 1t looks as if No ank will have an ice famine next sum mer, as no ice has been harvested yet, and it is rumored that the local ice dealer does not intend to cut any ice
 this winter.
 At a recent costume meeting of the Hartford D. A. R. chapter, a minia-
 ture reproduced was that of Mrs. John
 Trumbull, wife of Colonel John Trum-
 Tisdale and reproduced by Mrs. An
 sel G. Cook.
 Connecticut woolen manufacturers
 Q TSe INxyf Ina io<ia flo&
 in the dress goods, as well as the
 women's wear trade, navies, Copenha-
 gems, blacks, and grays will return to
 favor when the fad for brilliant col
 ors reaches its height.
 At Pascoag, R. T., last week, MT and
 Mrs. George F. Whitford celebrated
 the golden anniversary of their mar
 riage at their home. George F. Whit
 ford and Phoebe A. Smith were mar
 rfed Jan. Is, 1867, in the Free Baptist
 church at Putnam. Conn.
 At Hartford, Sunday, a frequent
 Norwich speaker, Mrs May Pepper
 Vanderbilt, while in charge of the ser ated something of a sensation by cri-
 ticising Billy Sunday for stealing a sermon of Ingersolrs. etc. Alfred Ea11ett has resigned as man
 ager of the Mohican store in New
 London, a place which he has suc- Ssssfully filled for four years J. H. Fields Of Pittsburg, formerly con-
 nected with the Norwich store, has been named as the new manager. It is noted in New York papers that former student at Norwich Art school, Miss Edith R. Abbot is to give
 three illustrated lectures on F1oren- tine sculpture to Metropolitan museum
 members on Thursdays at II a. m. Lu-
 ca della Robbia will be the subject this week.
 Miss C1essie Parthena Putnam, of Cambridge, Mass a descendant of General Israel Putnam of Connecticut died after a short illness Wednesday night, in a hospital in Boston. At one time she lived with her uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs. A. W. Sisson, and attended school at Hebron. Increase Capital Stock. The following concerns have in creased their capital stock: Mystic Woolen Co.,, Stonington,