Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

There should be an unusually large display of flags today.
 A bright day like Wednesday starts up sales of the new seasons cars.
 "Wednesday in Hartford the judges of the superior court met for consulta- ton.
 Some Of the choirs have begun re- hearsals for Good Friday and Easter musical services.
 The next term of the supreme court win be opened in Hartford on the first Tuesday of March.
 Tn most of the schools there will be patriotic exercises today. with new note of significance
 The Ash Wednesday services in the Episcopal and Roman Catholic church. es were largely attended.
 A meeting is to be held in Coventry grange hall March under the auspices of Holland county farm bureau.
 The days are getting quite notice ably longer. By Saturday the dayas length will be an even II hours.
 Some towns in Connecticut are ex- periencing difficulty in getting supply of charcoal from the wholesalers.
 The state letter carriers convention is to be held as usual Washingtons birthday. this year in New Britain.
 The an-I,eI convention of the Pliers and DrAmmefs of the state is to be heid in Rockville today CThursday).
 Patriotic societies bought, up good supplies of hatchets, cherries cooked hats and similar emblems yesterday.
 Rev. Edward B. Haines of Lyme has been called to the passionate of the Congregational church at Broad Brook.
 It was only 20 degrees early, We'd nesday morning and the mercury did not rise far above the freezing point all day.
 The Norwich Red Cross fund is practically exhausted, very little being left to purchase material so urgently needed.
 The employees of the Case Board company at Andover were surprised last payday to receive a substantial increase in wages
 There will be the usual sessions of the public schools today, to make up for so much time lost during the in fantfie paralysis panic in the fall
 Frozen water pipes are causing so much trouble that the department is suggesting that faucets-b left running nights, while the weather continues so cold.
 The average rainfall in Connecticut. according to past records, Is supposed to be about 4S inches a year, an aver. age that is falling short each year. it is claimed.
 supt. E. L. Burnap's men of the water department are finding the frost three and one-haf feet deep, and get ting deeper. making much trouble with l the mains.
 New Haven society papers note that l Pomfret summer residents, Mrs. John | Addison Porter and her daughter, Miss l Agnes Porter, have left for Washing ton, D. c.
 A Hartford paper Wednesday stated that Mrs George Maynard Minor has the Academy exhibition in the Athen- 1 cum annex
 The funeral of Mrs. Wilson Kibbe was held at her home in Somers Tues day afternoon Rev. Charles H. Rick l etts of Norwich ofhciated. Burial was In the North cemetery, Somers.
 Lenten preachers at Calvary Epis- copal church, Stonington, for the spe- cial Wednesday evening services in- clude: March ', Rev. R. R. Graham, 14, Rev. J. Eldred Brown, 21, Rev. F. J. oBhanan, all of Norwich.
 Return has been made to the Middle town town clerks office of the marriage Of Miss Gertrude B. Schaefer, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jacob M Schaefer, of that city, and Jchn G. Conklin of Stenington at Mystic Feb. 5.
 At Philadelphia the Baldwin Loco s1t. eating in Norwich, yesterday gave out it's report for the year ended Dec. 31. The gross sales amounted to $59,219- e57, which compares with s22. .0Ss, OH in
 Norwich has an ample and safe sup ply of city water, probably 255, ,o00, ,0O0 gallons in Stony Brook, which is down four feet. and soo,o00.000 in Fairview. down seven feet. Bog Meadow froze over. so had to be drawn off and ran to waste.
 Monday evening next Mrs. Belle Holcomb Johnson of the state board of education is to give the second in a series of stereopticon lectures at the South Coventry library. The subject will be Discovery and the First Colo nial Period.
 Wednesday afternoon, when the Pro- gressive Missionary club met in the Central Baptist lecture room, the host esses were Mrs. w. A Richmond and Miss Manly. Sixteen attended, Mrs John B. Post presiding. There was sewing, readings and light refresh ments.
 Norwich Neptune Park cottagers are interested in the fact that a large, re- caption was given Tuesday by Mrs, Charles Everett Ripley at her home on Pennington avenue, Hartford. Those assisting included Mrs. Leon P. Broad hurst of Hartford and Mrs. Louis 4oser Of Mystic.
 The United States civil service com. mission announces for Feb. 27 an ex- animation for biological assistant, for men only, to i'll vacancies in the bu- reau of biological survey, department