Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-26
VARIOUS MATTERS

urday carried home fifteen pounds of sugar.
 The witch hazel distilleries of the state are starting on their winters work.
 The mid-winter conference of the stote Universalist society is to be held in Stamford Wednesday, Jan. 23.
 A service flag is displayed at the store of the Geo. W. Kies company for Robert H. Church, now at the sub marine base.
 The long looked for tobacco damp arrived Thursday night, enabling FL lington farmers to take down consid- erable tobacco.
 The Thanksgiving recess of Mt. Holyoie college will extend from We'd nesday, Nov. 2S, at noon, until Friday night, Nov. 30.
 The last of picking over cranber- ries for this season in the Rhode Is- land and Connecticut bogs was fin ished during the past week.
 The delegates sent from Broadway church to the State Sunday School convention in New Haven will report at the meeting Wednesday evening.
 A war rally is to be held in Com stock hall in Eac Lyme this CMon- day) evening under the auspices of the Connecticut State Council of De- fense.
 This weeks meeting of Alpha Sig ma of the Second Congregational church is to be held at the home of Miss Alice Jackson, 294 Laurel Hill avenue.
 Shailor who is in her S7th year, has completed her twentieth pair of wrist lets, besides a number of socks, for the Red Cross.
 Miss Adeline Sperry, who has taught school in Rockville for over B years, has been granted a pension by the retirement boadd, which met at the state capitol last week. The coal passers at the Shore Line Electric power house at SaybroOk ask for advanced wages of 45 cents a day. s2.75 a day; they work eight hour shifts.
 A letter has heen received in this state from a New York concern, ask ing that any firms with any surplus dyestuffs be referred to the New York men, as they are anxious to buy large GuOntitieS.
 Five per cent. was added to all water bills remaining unpaid October 20th- Fifty cents was added to the same bills unpaid November 1St- One dollar was added to the same bills unpaid Mo- vember o0th-adv.
 Social hygiene and the war will be the basis of the programme arranged by the Connecticut society of Social Hygiene, which has Norwich members, for it's seventh annual session tomor- row, in New Haven.
 The Groton Iron works is busy put ting up a large number of buildings for the coming employees and their families. Already three have been constructed. but over 195 more are to follow as rapidly as possible.
 Any new customers as we'll as the old ones desiring excellent old-fash- toned fruit cake or -unexcelled squash pie will order at once. Mrs. Berry, 12 Oak street. Order for Xmas before the 18th of December.-adv.
 The new Winchester Woolen mill, at Thamesville is shipping daily from p to 24 great bales of army cloth, fill. ing a big order for the government. The freight is delivered by autotruck at the Main street station of the New Haven road.
 Beginning last Saturday and con- tinuing until October '. 1918, game birds may come and go as they please, having no fear of the hunter. Quail. woodcock, cartridges and pheasants, as we'll as squirrels. will have a few months of safety,
 The meeting of the standing com E1ittee on visitation and discharges of the Connecticut Prison Association will at the state prison. Fourteen pris- cners to be discharged in December, will be examined at this time.
 The federal authorities will suspend the business of such firms as fail to secure licenses from the United States food administration when they are supposed to do so, according to a tele- sram sent Saturday to Federal Food Administrator Robert Scoville..
 No less than fourteen new applica- tionS for destitute children who de- sire to be accepted in the State Swed- ish Christian .orphanage at Cromwell, are pending. As there are seventy five children in the home already it will be impossible to accept all.
 The school children are to carry their donations today for the Thanks giving dinners of the needy. When Mrs. Lester, one of the early city mis- sionaries, suggested this praiseworthy plan, each child was asked to donate one potato or one apple. or one of each.
 Dethi1ed descriptions of the new 3-cent stamped envelopes and 2-cent post cards have been received by Post master John P. Murphy in the gov ernment's bulletin. issued daily to postmasters. Consignments of the new designs are expected within a day or two.
 The Connecticut dairy commissioner held a meeting at Hebron town hall Thursday evening to talk over and explain the new laws passed at the last session of the legislature, to show the dairy men better methods of cool ing the milk and shipping it, and how to have sanitary milk.
 Mutual distribution of the estate of a Hartford lawyer, well known in Nor wfch, Charles E. Perkins, has been filed in the Hartford probate court, giving each of his five children prop erty valued at $13,63S65. Mr. Per- kins died Jan. 8. 1917. land his estate inventoried $2o2,595 .54
 The historic campgrounds at Man tic, where state troops have camped