Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-09
VARIOUS MATTERS

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| Local merchants have no fault t,
| find with the Easter trade.
See the K. OF C. parade Thursday. K
of {. bazaar, Ofympic.-ady.
There was considerable cleaning u,
of yards and gardens Saturday.
| st. Anne's T. A. society meets to-
night at 7.So instead of Tuesday night
| adv.
The United Workers have the fias
flying on their house. No. 9 Washing
ton street.
Danger from grass fires has beer
lessened for a while by last weeks
heavy rain.
The handsome big flag was flying
i nthe grounds OF st. Patrick's church
Easter Sunday.
Temperatures as low as IS degrees
were recorded Sunday, rather chilly
| tor Easter finery.
BY Saturday night the florists stock
was low and it is believed sales es-
| tablished new high record.
Sunday afternoon 81 persons visit
ed the Otis library reading room
Miss Virginia e. Han was in charge
A Plainfield patient. Mrs. l.. H. Will
cox, is very Ill in Backus hospital,
Norwich. where she has been for sew
eral weeks.
DR.. f. I. Payne of Westerly, for
merly of Norwich, is instructing
First Aid classes twice a week among
Westerly Boy Scouts.
K. OF C. minstrels Thursday evening.
No canvassing at *. of c. bazaar.-adv
c. H. Evans Of Japan is to address
church this evening. in the Guild room
at the church.
The Methodist conference returned
Rev. c. 3. Bromley. formerly of Nor
witch, to the church at Windsorville
for another year.
son City army post in Missouri have
arrived at Fort Wright to reinforce the
men at that post.
The air was clear Sunday and the
wind in such a direction that Park
church chimes could be heard plainly
all over the city.
At South Coventry. the services of
the Congregational church were held
in the auditorium Sunday, the new
floor having been laid.
License your dogs in the town clerks
office now; $1,25 for male and spayed
dogs and $5.25 for female dogs. One
dollar extra after May 1st.-adv.
A native of Elkonk, Rev. Albert H
Stanton, has accepted call to become
pastor OF one of the large churches in
Jersey City. beginning his pastorate
April 1.
An Easter greeting by telegraph was
received Sunday by Mrs. Sander Mi
Mikolasi who is now in the advertis-
ing business in Detroit:
The seventeenth annual convention
ers for Child Welfare is to be held in
the Bridgeport High School auditor
Tub Thursday and Friday.
Anna Warner Bailey chapter of Gro
ton and Stonington has enrolled rs
members in the American Red Cross
since it undertook to secure mem
bers for that organization several
weeks ago.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces for May an ex-
animation for landscape designer. for
men only. A vacancy in the engineer
department at large. War department,
Washington. d. C. at $1a5 a month.
Instructions have been received from
the military census bureau in Hartford
to forward today CMonday) the names
of every male in town. of over sixteen
tary census blank by Saturday even
ing.
Arthur Mcpherson, 81, Of New Lon
short time at the Norwich state hos
pftal died there Friday afternoon. He
is survived by a brother John and a
sister, Mrs. John Mclaughlin of New
London.
Then and Now" a novel entertain
ment of quaint, humorous and pic
turesque scenes of the days of yore,
Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium, Friday even
ing, April the 18th, at o'clock; tick
etc 50 cents.-adv.
At the meeting of Baptist ministers
of Norwich and vicinity at the Moo
sup Baptist church last week, when
twenty clergymen were present, Rev.
Frank Robbins of Preston read pa
vent in Christian Teaching.
The Federal Council of Churches
had asked that the churches of the
fering to the starving women and chill
dren OF Europe. Baskets for this Of
fering were found at the doors of the
Second Congregational church
Andrew Peters. 1s. has been commit
ted to the Holland County Home for
Children at Vernon Center, by Justice
of Peace Marvin Howard of Bolton.
The school officials of Bolton have
been trying to get the boy to attend
school regularly without success.
Members of the IIadiea Auxiliary.
No 55 A o. H, met at Buckingham
Memorial Sunday evening, going to
the home of Mrs. T. G. Murphy, on
Williams street to offer prayers for
the repose of her soul and to express
sympathy with the bereaved family.
Saturdays Hartford Courant said,
Mrs. jerome Mayer of No. 22S Oxford
street gave q card party to a number
Of her friends at the Hotel Bond yes
terday afternoon. after which tea was
served. Mrs. Meyer is the daughter
Of Mrs. Abraham Plaut. of Norwich.
At o'clock this (Monday) after
noon, in St. Thomas church, Miss Rox-
ana Wentworth Bowen Of Woodstock
w.