Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

| VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.21 this l evening. E. Wheatless2aneatless. suppers are be: l ing held by the granges and rural l church socfetfes.
 Rear Admiral Charles F. Pond, U. s. N, was born at Brooklyn. Conn. 6l years ago Friday.
 The school children enjoyed their holiday Friday on account of the State convention of the teachers. Three thousand New London sigma lures to the Hoover food pledge are to be secured ip an extensive drive next week. Pumpkins for Halloween Jack O lanterns will be plenty enough this year., if the Hoover commission does not interfere Special for Saturday, all popular mu- sic Sc, at The Bishop Studio, PAS Main St.-adv. Owing to the storm of Wednesday. Mrs. Kate Hahn of Stonington did not celebrate her birthday at Lantern Hill as was intended.
 The Pasnik company advertised to take Liberty Bonds in payment for any of their cloaks in stock and had three sales Friday. Men! Hear Rev. Geo. H. strouse Sunday at 4 D. m., Thayer building. Also good music.-adv.
 Bank hours all week have meant long and busy hours, while Liberty Loan work was added to the regular pressure Of business.
 Connecticut Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution will commemorate the hiding of the charter in the oak on the Wyllys estate, Hartford, at next weeks meetings.
 Have your kodak finishing done at The Bishop Studio and have your en- larging done free.-adv.
 The C. E.. of the Groton Congrega- tional chrrch met in the vestry Fri day evening to make trench torches. Over five hundred have been finished and as many more are desired.
 Forest B. of the Clay Cotton stables at Stafford Springs, driven by Gillies, park. Windsor, this week, in three straight heats. making the best heat in 214 1-2.
  mon on the Second Commandment Sunday evening at the Central Bap- tist church. All are invfted.-adv.
 Nice looking prunes, grown by W. L. Spencer, of Voluntown, are shown in J. B. Stead's window. The yield from five trees brought MT. Spencer s31- Next year he plans to have over twenty trees.
 Friday evening Rev. A. F. Purhiss, pa stor of the. Central Baptist church, Tarbox's company at Fort Terry, Plum Island. Rev. MT. Purkies will return to Norwich today.
 Building Images of the Eternal. ser mon. on the Second, Commandment. | Sunday evening at the Central Baptist church. All are invited.-adv.
 Farmers wives hereabouts are valu- ing skim milk now, since the Dairy division of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, is telling how to make cottage cheese and in what dishes sour milk may be used.
 Having had the offer of a nne po- sition in Sharon, Penn, Ernest G. Champlin, son of Mrs. Sarah G. Back us, of Norwich. is moving to Sharon from Syracuse, N. Y. with Mrs. Cham plin (Helen R. Mabrey) and their lit tie son..
 The first visiting officer of the fourth degree, Knights of Columbus. to accept the invitation to the annual Plant hall was John M. Lee, of Nor wich, master of the state council New London Telegraph.
 Representatives. from all the op- erating street railway companies in the state held an ail-day conference Thursday with the public utilities co commission mission regarding the adoption different street railways.
 During Friday Murphy & McGarry had two customers who bought suits of clothes with Liberty Bonds. in ac- cordance with an offer advertised by the firm. Both buyers and sellers were perfectly satisfied to help Uncle Sam in this er.~rprising way.
 Rev. Edward T. Mathison, rector of l St. Johns Episcopal church, Rockville, 1 has been appointed chairman for the l town of Vernon, of the Connecticut l Clerk John N. Keeney, who resigned | because of pressure of business.
 Eastern Connecticut friends will at- Church parish house, Hartford The bearers will be Erastus c. Geer, Jr, Erskine H. Geer, Jr., Charles MI Geer and Leslie Geer, nephews.
 Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Robbins B. Stoeckel announces the es- ta blishment of two branch offices for the issuance of motor vehicle licenses I, in New Haven and Bridgeport, and I the issuance of daily lists Of licenses, as they are made out, to motor vehicle drivers
 Hot ashes dumped in the cellar of the jailer's house at the Holland County jail Wednesday evening is be- lieved to have been the cause e the fire that did between S1, 900 and $1,- 500 damages to tSe house. One of the prisoners enptied the ashes from the. boiler into an ash bin.
 Thursday night on the Norwich line boat the body of Lieut.. Rodolpho de Ia Cruz of the Chilean navy. who died in