Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-26

| Conductor Jesse Child Undergoes Op- l eration-NegIected Land Might Be Utilized for Potato Growins-Extra l Section for TeIephone Switchboard l --Jitney Service Between Dayville and WiiIiamsvilie.
 Conductor Jesse Child of the local division of the Shore Line Electric Railway company Is a patient at St. l vincent,s hospital, Worcester, where he underwent a surgical operation James c. Gregory of Middletown Passports was the subject of Rev. W. D. Swanield's sermon at the Bap- fist church Sunday evening. Danielson people staying at New Smyrna. Fla, write that the tempera- ture there last week was s2 degrees. Jitney Service Popular. An average of 30 persons are using the jftney service conducted by one man between Dayville and Williams vile every morning, and other work CTS in the growing village go over on other jitney lines.
 Members of the Business Mems as- sociatfon explain that their meeting of pheum theatre Is an open one to all interested.
 Chance for Potato Raising
 Judge J. N. Tucker has pointed out that there is sufflcient neglected land in Killingly to grow a. potato crop the coming summer sufficient to feed all the families in the borough.
 Miss Susan Collins, who has been visiting friends at Columbus, Ga. is expected to return here the latter part of this week.
 Saw Boston Match.
 w. E. Reach witnessed the Morn ingstar- Slosson billiard match in Bos- ha r1fG worlds champions.
 Richard C. Bernard of Fall River visited friends in Danielson over Sun day..
 Members of the Pentecostal church are to hold prayer meeting at Mrs. Frank HiA's, School street, Tuesday evening.
 Public schools will reopen through out the town this morning after hav- ing been closed since Wednesday, giv- ing an extra long Washington recess.
 Switchboard Expansion.
 An extra section has been installed on the switchboard at the local tele- phone exchange.
 Solvio Maynard. who is attending school for the study of wireless teleg- raphy in Boston, has been spending few days at his home on High street.
 Rounding Up Census.
 This is the week that should mark the close of the taking of the military census here. Activity on the part of the enumerators and cooperation by the public should make possible the listing of all desired information at least.
 Inquiry indicates that good progress is being made in the surrounding towns-and many of them hope to have the enumerators complete the work be- fore Saturday night, while some of them undoubtedly will better that by a day or two.
 Profitable Waste Paper.
 The appeal to the people of Daniel son and surrounding towns to save old newspapers, magazines, books and waste paper has met with a splendid success. Ton after ton of such ma terfaI has been held and baIed and sold for good prices. So good are the prices now, in fact, that the income to be derived from material heretofore destroyed is sufficiently attractive to make the saving a feature of good business detail: An example of what can be done is shown by the Boy Scouts The organizations total reve- nue from old papers and like materials was $73- In addition to this sum, the boys raised $45 by their cooperative entertainment run at the Orpheum the atre, Manager J. F. Lewis assisting them in every way.