Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-02
VARIOUS MATTERS

| me last day or vacation PROVIDED
excellent skating for the school child
rem.
Fishing through the ice is being
towns.
The public and parochiaI schools
and the Free academy open the winter
term today.
| All OF those who welcomed the New
Year noistly had not been attending
watch meetings.
Colored societies in a number of
places held emancipation celebrations
New Years night.
i A. H. verri1Ts Wireless Book is
among late accessions to the Peck IL
brary, Slater Hall.
St James lodge, NO 2S,, F. and A.
NJ. meets tonight in Masonic temple
at 7.30. No work-adv.
/ The planet Jupiter will be evening
and morning star till Jan. 22nd, then
| evening star till May LIST.
| AS far as possible, crews on local
| trains Of the New Haven road We're
given a holiday New Years day.
There will be an exodus of college
| students and other home-co for
the holiday today and Wednesday.
Social and fraternaI organizations
will resume meetings this week, fol-
lowing suspension during the hoH
days
In sheltered places some of last
| weeks snow remains and will not be
likely to melt under present tempera-
ture conditions.
Merchants are looking for some of
the he Janus sd div dividends to be . eS :
| bargains offered today.
A colossal statue for the city of
| Chicago is being completed by Bella
Lyon Pratt, the sculptor, whose sum-
mer home is at Salem.
It is predicted that the snow
squalls of Monday will continue to-
day and very cold weather is promis-
| ed toward the week end.
The newly laid sidewalks on Union
street have greatly improved that
street las well as adding to the looks
and the value of the properties along
| which they run.
The Moosup Journal mentions that
| those rare and beautiful birds of the
far west, the evening grosbeaks, are
paying their annual visit to friends on
Highland street.
The Irish Relief Fund of which
Thomas Hughes Kelly of New York
is the treasurer, has collected to date
more than $215.000. Recent gifts in
clude 1870 from New London Com.
The property at 118 Main street
purchased some time since by James
L. Crawford has been improved in
various ways, roofs, ETC., painted and
the new owner is continuing the
renovation.
A class is being prepared for con-
frmation when Ri. Rev. Edward c.
Acheson. D. D, Suffragan Bishop of
Connecticut visits st. James Parish
at Poquetanuck, Saturday afternoon,
March 18th.
There were large congregations and
masses at 8, z and o'clock in ST
Patrfck's church Rev. j. H. Brod-
erick ofhciated at the o'clock high
mass and Loesch's Mass was sung by
the choir.
Up in Tolland county, since the ice
storm, or glaze, as the weather bu-
reau terms it, the carrying of walking
sticks with spiked ends has suddenly
come into vogue, by those women de-
string to enjoy the sunshine and the
bracing air.
With characteristic hospitality
George A Keppler, of S. P. Keppler
& Son, tailors, entertained a large
Years day. Refreshments were serv-
ed from a table handsomely decorated
by Reuter-.
A former Norwich rector, who has
been supplying at Putnam, Rev. R. r.
Parker of Hartford will conduct SER
vices in the Church of Our Saviour in
Plainville, in the absence of Rev.
Robert HI. Burton, who is in New Or
leans, visiting his son.
A number Of visiting Sisters were
at ST. Patrick's parish convent Mon
day and many gifts were received by
Sister NJ. Carmel, teacher of the
pleted twenty-five years as a member
of the Sisters of Mercy.
Captain L. w. Robbins, known in
the shore towns of the country, was
lost from his schooner, the John
Bracewen early Saturday off Block |
Island while attempting to secure the |
main jfbboom. The schooner was |
bound from Calais, Me-, to New York |
city.
During 1916 the New England
historical and genealogical Register
published a complete list of the in
scriptionS on the tonbstoneS in the |
Cary and Cleveland cemeteries, Can
and records of the First Con-
church, Plainfield, from
1747 to 1872.
private schools in every city and town
in America are being marshaled into |
one great army of thrift workers |
under the guidance of the National |
Association and the Amer
lean Society for Thrift through the /
of cash prizes for thrift es-
says.