Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-10
Utxe Bl1lletiu.
Msrwieh, Tuesday, April 10, 1917.
VARIOUS MATTERS

DabciFs Almanac predicted snow
storm for today-one day late
Rural mail carriers found Mondays
trip as tedious and severe as any dur
i ing the winter.
snow to leave the ground in good con-
dition for planting.
| Mondays morning,s small blizzard
made travel uncomfortable for visitors
returning frorn holiday trips.
thirty ninth annual Sabbath observ-
arce Week. to be held April 1922.
since the formal declaration OF war
the sale of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rifles
and ammunition-has had a marked
boom.
| Because Of the severe storm yester-
Gay, the no session signal was rung,
for pupils in the lower grades of the
schools.
Governor HoFcomb has issued his
annual proclamation for Arbor and
Bird day, designating Friday, April 20,
as the date.
| The Connecticut Milk Producers
Association Is taking all the milk at
Hebron formerly sold to the New Ha-
ven Dairy company.
Warning has been sent out that a
fraud pretending to be an insurance
inspector is going the rounds and is
believed to be r. sneak thief.
License your dogs in the town clerk 3
ONCE now; $1.25 for male and spayed
dogs and $S.25 for female dogs. One
dollar extra after May 1st.-adv.
A new and smaller nag has been
procured for the staff on the court
Irt1 fa ref
caught on the woodwork of the tower
A meeting of the Queen Esther cir
Gle of Trinity Methodist church was
held at the home Of Miss Miriam
Bergstresser. 81 Asylum street Mon
day evening.
With the rush Of war orders on,
some OF the skilled women, as well as
the men employed in the Hopkins &
Allen Arms plant. Norwich, are max
ing 81 per day.
Much OF the timber being used In
the reconstruction Of vessels at Ston-
ington now comes from the north
woods of the town of Stonington and
North Stonington-
The April White Ribbon Banner con-
tains memorial tribute to Mrs. Pris-
ella Green, of Sterling, an active mem
Der OF the church and w. c: T. L., and
interested in all good works.
Mrs. Edward r. Chappell. SIS, of
Bolton, whose funeral was held at the
Methodist church there last week. was
the mother OF Mrs. William Allen and
Mrs. Herbert Bixby of Norwich.
A prominent and active member for
! years of the Second Congregational
church, Mrs. Lucy Forbes, of Union
street, has improved after a long i'll
ness, so as to be about the house.
ton grange Friday evening, Superin-
tendent Lowell of Norwich and the
members Of the school board will be
present to talk on educational topics.
The Westerly Sun mentions that
Mrs. Walter Brearly of Dayville has
arrived for few days visit at the
home of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. H.
L. Harrington of Oak street, Asha-
way.
''Then and Now novel entertain
nent of quaint, humorous and pic
turesque scenes of the days of yore,
| contrasting with the present, at the
Y. NJ. G. A. auditorium, Friday even
| ing, April the 18th. at O'Clock; tick
etc s. cents.-adv.
After an absence of several months
during which time he was employed
in Norwich. WiNiar4 Drummond has
returned to Potter Hill. r. l.. and has
resumed work as a weaver in the
Pawcatuck Wooden mill.
Norwich members of the Grand Ar
my Of the Republic have been notified
of the candidacy of DIR. Benjamin H.
Cheney of New Haven for department
commander. the election to take place
at the department encampment in
Hartford this week.
Rev F. r. Sanford. rector of Cal
vary church, Stonington, has been ap-
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Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, as
examining chaplain in Hebrew of the
Graduating classes at Berkeley Divin-
ity school. MiddIetown.
A former Uncasville pastor, Rev J.
". Geisler, who has been pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at East
Hampton for the past few months, has
moved his household goods to Fall
River. Rev. aSmuel Thatcher has been
assigned to East Hampton church.
Connecticut Daughters of the
American Revolution are endorsing
Miss Natalie Summer Lincoln of
Litchfield, author of 1 Spy, The Ire
vor Case. The Lost Dispatch and other
novels, as editor of the D. A. r. mag
azine published at Washington, D. c.
'Then and Now" a novel entertain
ment Of quaint. humorous and pic
turesque scenes of the days of yore
contrasting with the present, at the
Y. NJ. G. A. auditorium, Friday even
ing, April the 18th, at o'clock: tick
cts on sale at Cranston's, IS cents
adv.
The heirs of Edwin Way, the tobacco
millionaire, OF Michigan, including
Charles Way. Mrs. Tanner and Mrs.
Ellis, of Gilead, Mrs A c. Andrews
Willlmantic, Mrs. Holbrook, Columbia,
and AIRS. John SEWN, Norwich, have
RECEIVED their inheritance, nearly $780,
900 each.
The American Red Cross announced
last night the organization of a great
national supply system in all the prin-
cipal cities of the United States which
will have charge Of forwarding and
distributing all gifts and comforts for
American troops ana American mill
tary hospitals.
The Salfnagundi Club is holding a
special exhibition Of pictures in New
York. or picture first shown at
Lyme. critic said Monday: Edmund
Greacen's Union Square is submerged