Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

The w. v. 1T. U. Tn a number o1 f towns observed Thursday as a day oi prayer for national constitutions prohibition.
 I Salem gave an illustrated lecture on Peru at Hiram hall, New Haven Thursday evening.
 Although the temperature was above 1 the freezing point Thursday it was a day which drivers and others found uncomfortable. as the air seemed full l of snow.
 Do 1t now-pay your water bill to- day and save additions.-adv. An anniversary high mass of re- Quem for James Donnelly as sung in St. Patricl1's church at eight o'clock Thursday morning by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 The faGgt.n quarterly conference at the W;--eaouse Point, M. E. church
 was conducted Tuesday evening by ener of Norwich.
 Recent aecessions to the Otis Li- brary's music shelves include: Ma
 sons Song Lore of Ireland, K.
 Schindler's doings of the Russian Peo-
 pie and c. J. Sharp's English Folk
 Song.
 Throughout Connecticut, as the dif-
 ferent granges hold meetings and re- port from the state grange convention
 things are said of the meetings in gen.
 eral and of the city's hospitality.
 The Red Cross room will be open today, with plenty of work for volun- teers. A third box packed with use ful muff1ers, sweaters, convaleseents' robes, knitted hospital socks and com fort pillows is ready to be shipped.
 Coneert-Lecture. John Louw Nell son, lyric baritone, Norwich Club House, Jan. 22. p. m.-adv.
 Flags on a number of public build ings were at half staff Thursday in ac- cordance with President Wilson's ex- ecutive order to that effect, the na- tional flag to so remain until after Admiral Dewey's funeral tomorrow.
 A meeting of the Lutheran church boards of Connecticut is to be held Sunday afternoon in the Immanuei Lutheran church, Meriden for the pur pose of planning for the celebration of the 40oth anniversary of the Re- formation.
 The commissions of a number of public in this section expire this month and they have received Governor Holcomb that the commits sions will lbe renewed on the payment o fthe customary fee.
 ship between Buffalo Bill and ex- Governor T. M. Waller, which began when the latter was consul in Eng land and which was renewed when the famous scout visited New London, with the 1o1 Ranch Show.
 Go tomorrow or phone Lerou's dru0I store for Chamber of Commerce ban quet tickets. Don't wait.-adv.
 At the fourth quarterly conference at the Hazardville Methodist church evening, Rev. Thomas lyric, | formerly of Stafford Springs was unanimously invited to return as pas tor for the ninth year and voted a gen erous increase in salary.
 Connecticut dealers have received | consignments of South American | beans. these taking the place of Amer l lean beans. of which there is short age. The Imported beans are much | larger than the domestic vegetables, | but in appearance are the same.
 Miss Selma M. Gebhardt, daughter | of Mrs. Henry Gebhardt and Francis | Prichard, son of Alderman and Mrs | Joseph Prtchard, were married at | o'clock Wednesday afternoon at St. | Rev. T. B. Mathison,th erector.
 Don't fail to hear that Great Educa- tor, Richard c. Maclaurin, Jan. 22, at | Chamber of Commerce banquet.-adv. | Judge Milton A. Shumway of Dan | ielson, who was to preside at the Jan | uary session of the superior court at | Middletown, will not be able to go there until February 2 as the present | term which he is holding in Putnam is lasting longer than was expected.
 Local druggists learned yesterday from Drug and Chemical Markets | that saIcylates led in the downward | trend of drug prices during the last l week. Sodium and bismuth prepara- | tions are cheaper, while acetanilid and | antipyrene showed further reductions. l
 The Deutschland may or may not | be due in New London, but it is a fact l that your water bill is due in Nor l wich. Pay it today.-adv.
 Tributes were paid to the memory | of Dean William M. Grosvenor, a | former Norwich resident at the annu- | al dinner Wednesday night of the Church club of New York at Delmon- | Luther, Edward A. Hartman and | others.
 Norwich Grange, No. TYP, P. of H., | works third and fourth degrees to- night in Grange hall, Chamber of Com | merce building.-adv. 
 Frank D. Haines, states attorney | for Middlesex County, who has been | appointed by Governor Marcus H. | Holcomb, judge of the superior court | to take office August 30, 1918, was born in Colchester, January 16, 1866, | 3 son of David Haynes and Amanda 1 A. Taylor Haynes.
 Labor leaders from all parts of the | state will meet Wednesday in Hart | lord in the off1ce of. William Hyde, commissioner of labor and factory in- | spection, to perfect at least twenty | labor measures which will be present | ed before the Genra1 Assembly within | the next two weeks.
 A big treat for Norwich, President | Richard c. Maclaurin will speak be- lore the Chamber of Commerce at it's banquet Monday evening, Jan. 22. | Tickets now on sale at Lerou's Drug | 
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