Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-24


 Thursday, the Feast of the Conver- sion of St. Paul; there will be a cele- bration of theF holy communion in the Episcopal churches.
 A box for the mission school at Hindman, Ky, is to be packed Thurs tional church parlors.
 The 4-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Frank Reig, of Bolton. is in a Hartford hospital for treatment of a bone near the eye.
 State alumni have been notified that Dartmouth College is to be held Friday evening at the Plaza, Boston.
 Delegates from Connecticut are att Hotel Employees and Bartenders' un- ion at Springfield this week.
 Business is rushing. at the plant of the American Strawboard Company at with it's over 250 em- ployes, 70 on the night shift.
 The Hampton Jubilee Singers. who were at Slater hall Monday evening, went from here to Waterbury, where they give a concert this evening.
 Charitable Circle of the Kings Daughters, of which Mrs. H. F. Pal mer is leader, held a meeting in the room over the Otis library Tuesday evening.
 F'lanagan's singing orchestra of Marlboro, Mass, Firemen's ball, Jew ett City, Friday, Jan. 26. 'Nuf ced.''- adv.
 Division Commander Mrs. Edith B. Lamb and staff of Mystic installed officers of Betsy Ross Tent No. 2, "a crll fnT If Nnfn day evening.
 The January White Ribbon Banner announces that contributions to the follows: Shelton $1.oo. Thornaston s1, Hartford S1.
 It was stated Sunday at Waterbury by Rev. Hugh Treanor, in reading his annual report, that the total receipts at the Sacred Heart church were $4,o00 more than last year.
 Application for a marriage license made Monday at Hartford Bureau of Vital Statistics by George Moore, aged aged A, a stenographer of Chester. and Eva Lavoie' aged-21 of AEillimantic: ! At the Fellowship meeting in Mystic today Wednesday, at the Congrega- Ional church. delegates from the Con- gregational churches at Ledyard Road church, Stonington and Pawcatuck will be present.
 Mrs. Mary Simpson Price, 43. died at her home in Rockville, Monday. She leaves her husband and eight children. Her husband. Harvey E. Price, is well known throughout the state. acting as an African dodger' at county fairs
 At the American Art Galleries, New York, is a collection of paintings from number of sources on exhibition. Among the modern pictures a&e number of beautiful early examples by Childe Hassam, of the Lyme artists colony.
 Mrs. Henry p. Loomis of No 26 West Forty eighth street. New York. gave a luncheon Monday at the St. Regis for Mrs Charles Evans Hughes. The guests included Mrs. Lindley Hoffman Chapin, long a summer resident of Waterford.
 The funeral of Horace Johnson, who has several Norwich relatiFes, was held at his home in Middle FHaddam Monday afternoon at 2: 30. Rev. Anthon T. Gesner, of Berkeley Divinity school, officiating. Burial was in Middle Haddam cemetery.
 By a typographical error Tuesday, Dickson H. Leavens, of Norwich. was made treasurer of Yale. instead of at
 
 Leavens married Miss Marjorie L. Browning, daughter of Mir. and Mrs Frank w. Browning.
 Bidding on red foxes was the feature Monday of the opening session of the New York Fur Auction. Connecticut trappers noted. A shortage of these skins, together with the fact that they will he among the favorites again as summer furS was the cause.
 
 Rev. Thomas lyric, of the Methodist church, HazardviIIe, exchanged pull pits with Rev. Earl H. Thayer, pastor of the Somers Congregational church. Sunday and read the resignation of Mr. Thayer, who has accepted call to the church in Wellf1eet, Mass.
 Mrs. Bridget Burns, widow of Ed ward Burns, died Monday at her home in Saybrook, from grip. She leaves two sons, Postmaster Robert D. Burns Edward w. Burns and four daughters, Miss Mary F., Miss Elizabeth, Mrs. Martin O'Brient and Mrs. William E.. Morrow.
 By invitation of Mrs. John P. Elton the executive committee of the Home Department of the New Haven County Farm Bureau motored to Waterbury Friday afternoon and held a meeting at her home. Among those present was Miss H. EStslle Sprague of StorrS Agricultural College.
 The old song by Al Craig Taylor which made such a hit at the Chamber of Commerce dinner Monday evening. When You and I Were Young Mag gie.' was composed by the first teacher of music in the Norwich schools. J. A. Butterfeld, who died a number of years ago in Chicago.
 The Art Alumni Association of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., where there are Norwich teachers and stud ents, has started a campaign among eastern art graduates to raise 1000 to add to it's present fund, the income from which will provide for a perman- ent scholarship in the art department.
 Time to Act.
 Those congressman who want to prohibit election betting should act