Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-06
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at s.14 this evening.
 A few sleighs were out Monday but the snow was too rough for good so-
 The March teachers, meeting is to De held at South Coventry today (Tuesday).
 The no session signal for the lower grades of the public schools sounded at noon Monday.
 Pythian Sisters win hold 2 publds p. m. Admission 25c.-adv.
 The employees of the Mantle Manu- featuring Co. have recently been granted a 10 per cent. raise in wages.
 Eighty-one persons visited the Otis Library reading room Sunday after noon. Miss Mildred D. Rogers was in charge
 The Carry Willy Page property on Pleasant street has been purchased by Groton borough as a site for the new fire house.
 The stores are featuring numerous novelties and emblems in green and gold. for St. Patrick's Day decora- tons and favors.
 Display of the national, colors ev anywhere at a,l times is advocated by Governor IIolcornb in a letter to the military census committee.
 Mir Jim Pounch Is wanted to attend the trial If Bass VIZ. Stevens and Sy- mington March 6 at New Londcn.-adv
 Some extra hours of work were put in at the Red Cross room Monday, so urgent is the call for supplies to fill the next box to be forwarded.
 The number of automobiles run dur ing yesterdays storm indicated how many car owners here are using their machines in a year-round season.
 The engagement of Miss Ethel Grif- fin, daughter of A. George Griffin of New London and Best View, to Hen ry Gordon Hanks of Hartford, is an- nounced.
 A Holland girl. Miss Mildred A. Metcalf, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jo- seph M. Metcalf, was graduated on Thursday from the Rhode Island Hos pital for Nurses.
 A Coventry girl, Miss Noetje c. ScheH, makes fifty pounds of butter a week. Her butter won a scoring y exhibition in Hartford. Te grange meeting at Andover on Monday night was an open meeting. John D. Clifford, county agricultural agent. was the speaker and the topic, was The Rotation of Crops. The executive committee of the Tol- land County Farm Bureau is to hold it's March meeting at the office of County Agent John F. Clifford We'd nesday afternoon in Rockville.
 Mir. F. c. Warner will speak at the r. M. C. A. auxiliary meeting this af- ternoon at the home of Mrs. Prentice on N. l.. Go. Imp. League work--ady.
 E1ithan E.. Geer. 4s, youngest son of General Elihue and Eliza Se1den Geer. died at the Hartford hospital on Friday. The funeral was at his res idence in Hadlyme Monday at II a. n-
 The Eastern Point cottage recently sold by Mrs. George D. Colt, of Nor wicfl, to Charles Miller, is to be moved this week from it's present location near the stone wharf. to Thames street.
 The quarterly conference scheduled to be held Monday at the East Thompson Methodist church by Dis trict Superintendent George G. Scriv- | because of the storm. The. storm of Monday was the wild est of the season. 4 high wind car ried the particles of icy snow about and until past noon. those obliged to be out of doors found travelling most tedious and uncomfortable.
 When the New London Horticultural society holds its meeting at the Mu- nicipal building Thursday evening, its members will be addressed by Dan Baarda, 8 prominent Boston gardener, on Spring Towering Bulbs. The Entre Nous Literary society of girl tuberculosis patient at the State Tuberculosis Sanatarium at Norwich at a benefit whist held at the Groton Heights school Saturday afternoon. Tn the event of war. the government will need many more troops for the safeguarding of Panama, in the opin- ion of Charles H. Brown, of Norwich, Brown, is recently back from the 1sthmus.
 At Lyme, the library, school, Mems club and Boys club. pool room. bas- ketbali, churches, lodges and all pub lie gatherings which have been closed for the past two weeks because of a suspected case of smallpox, were opened Monday.
 The generous sbequest left by the late Adam Reid for the poor of Norwich has been turned over to that splendid organization, The United Workers, as trustees, and is administered by a committee of which Mrs. William A. Norton is chairman.
 Hartford papers mention the re- moval of the J. c. Ripley Art com pany rom Pratt street to new quar- ters on TrumbulI street. This busi- ness was founded in Norwich by the late John e. Ripley, for many years a Main street merchant
 All the mills in Vernon manufac- fllrad e10tI1 for he 5v,..