Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-20
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at :, s.2s this evening.
 Yesterday the days length had in- creased one minute over three hours.
 Work has been started on the new tgynnasium at Wheeler School. North Stonington-
 The Brotherhood of Broadway church is planning a specially interesting meeting for March 30th, when the speaker will be President Alfred Aiken, O fthe Federal Reserve bank. Boston.
 Norwich visitors in Washington find the weather much warmer than here. but write home to complain of so much rain.
 | Monday evening the Alpha Sigma society of the Second Congregational church held a meeting in the Ladies, room at the church.
 l The Lenten address at St James, l Wednesday evening by Archdeacon J. Eldred Brown, of Norwich. At this weeks meeting of the Pro- Baptist church, Mrs. Charles E. Ellis of Leffingwell will speak on 'Home Mis- sions."
 Mfr. and Mrs. T.. L. Foster of West erfy, R. l.. have announced the en- gagernent of their daughter. Miss Ed na Foster, to Floyd K Young of Ster-. | ling Conn.
 Jane T.. prescc-tt. 2s. maid em- ploved F. -s. George Ely at Old 11yr~~- ( 'd Saturday morning at a New l r~t.c1 hospital where she had been l under. treatment day or two. It was difficult to believe. in the face of the cold winds of Monday. that tomorrow, March 21st at 43S in the morning the sun will be on the ver-- l nal equinox and official Spring will be- gin.
 The auxiliary schooner Star and the Beret J. are expected to arrive in Noank soon and prepare to fit out for the haifbut season These two yes- sells have been fishing out of Nan tuclSet this winter.
 Game commission shows that nearly 5000 hunters licenses were granted during the year and more than 50,00O were issued during the two years end- ing September 30, 1916.
 The speaker at the meeting Of the Fortnightly to be held at Mystic this Tuesday, evening. will be G. Albert
 
 School director. who will take as his subject Realism in Modern Painting. Miss Madeline Marquardt, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Henry E. Marquardt of Groton, was hostess at a linen shower Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Esther Spicer. whose engage n1ent of Henry Erail of Poquonoc has been announced.
 News has been received here that
 
 clubs IS to hold it's tenth biennial con- vention at Birmingham Ala from April Is to 20, including five full days of concerts Six hundred clubs are to be represented.
 At tho Knights of Columbus rooms | in Hartford, the third degree will be | conferred Sunday, April l. on a class non Of Jewett City. assisted by Dep uty John Hassett of Rockville and the | Rockville degree team.
 Mrs. Herbert Barnes of Nashville, | Tenn, formerly of Boston, announces the arrangement of her daughter, Miss Grace Redwav. to Hart Jarvis Beach of New York and Hartlands. Saybrook. Conn. MT. Beach is a son of MT. and Mrs. George Watson Beach.
 A Beacon Falls correspondent notes that John w. Rice who has been on official duties for the Connecticut Agri- i cultural college at Storrs, making tests at the Wallace HoIstein Cattle Co, at Waiiingford, for several weeks return ed Friday to his home at Hillcrest farm.
 Nathan Pumerantz. tailor of New London has filed petition in bank l ruptcy in the United States district | court in Hartford, showing liabilities | of $12.4e1- He has s145 of available i assets and othe rassets of $12.13O in l 1fnJJid2fad iT1S P1a foT fi-oi 1 loss in 1913.
 A number of Norwich readers who ] depend upon certain New York papers | did not know the railroad strike was l ended. Monday morning, as the mail 1 ing editions merely told of the confer ence fin progress. As usual. readers of l The Bulletin got the news up to 2.30 a. l m., or later.
 At a meeting of the Connecticut | Manchester Friday eve,ing a commit | tee of three was appointed, W. B. 1 Thrall of Vernon, W. 7itl<in of Man. chester and H. B. Poneroy of Coven- try.Ywho will canvass the towns for l new members.
 At 3 sale of paintings at the Amer icart Art Galleries in, New York last late H. w Ranger, Of Noank. were sold: Spring Pastures" for $10o0; "The Swamp Pool" for $1.200; "FwiI- lows" g. 800; "The Spring Hole, Haley's Woods" for S925.
 Arrangements have been made by the Connecticut Public Library com- mittee to place branch libraries in the Moosup public schools, the Aldricil Free Public library furnishing the books. Thus far books have been placed iu the Pond HilI, Central Vil- lage and Figs schools.
 A two weeks mission at the old in Puffffalo was begun Sun day under the direction of Fathers