Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-02

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 Norwich, Friday. Feb. ?, 1917. ! l VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.s4 this Ievening.
 Local florists are displaying a va Iriety of spring flowers.
 Rain on top of thawing snow and lice has left some of the country roads decidedly muddy.
 Sportsmen from this vicinity have been fishing through the ice on Garu- lner Lake this week. | Storms and cold the past week have
 cut down the supply of fish brought | into the shore towns. | Auction at Alexander Yerrington's. | 36S Boswell Ave. today.-adv. MT. and Mrs. James Tev1in of New London will observe their silver we'd Iding anniversary Saturday. Today, Friday, Feb. 2. Candlemas day. the ground hog IS expected to come out and look to see its shadow. The new Poquonock Bridge parson- age will be completed during February, according to the contractors state ment.
 Lent will begin Feb. z1 this year. and Sunday, ApriI g, win be Easter, mak- | ing the season Is days earlier than last year.
 The officers of the submarine base at the navy yard entertained at dance e tthe ,tohican hotel ballroom Wednes- day evening.
 Mrs. L. L. Robinson of Franklin sang Some Sweet Day and Nearer. My God. to Thee, at the funeral of James Tucker of Pautipaug Hill. The superior court, criminal term. February term with Judge Gardiner Greene of Norwich on the bench. At the meeting of Coventry grange, Miss F. Mae Lathrop. the new lec- turer. was in charge of the program. It is claimed that Tuesday and Wednesday were the warmest Janu- ary days on record, the temperature reaching 3s and 40 degrees in some sections. sN
 Members of the Mtdd1etown w. c. T. U. are busy already making ar arrangements for the state convention which Is to be held in that city in October.
 When the Connecticut Humane so- ciety held the annual meeting in Hart ford Wednesday Miss M. Louise Sur tevant of Norwich was reelected one of the directors.
 There was a conference of telephone men from this district in Norwich Thursday, the party of IA dining at Mabrey's and resuming their sessions during the afternoon. Auction at Alexander Yerrington's, 363 Boswell Ave, today.-adv. The state board of governors of the Catholic Total Abstinence union met at Torrington Wednesday and discussed plans for the field day and parade to be held there Saturday, June Is.
 During February the planet Neptune Is in Cancer and finely placed for ob- Fservation in the evening sky. It is only few degrees east of Saturn and is motion is still slowly westward.
 Work on the proposed extension of the Central Vermont railroad system from Palmer, Mass, to Providence will be resumed in the spring and com pleted within a year, if rails can be obtained.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Feb. an ex- animation for electrical assistant, for men only, to fill two vacancies, at $1, 200 a year, in the signal service at large, war department.
 Twelve hundred dollars will be paid to 54 members of the Tenth company, sation due them for attendance at regulation army drills during the last six months of 1916.
 Recent deaths at Mohegan have di- rected attention to the fact that the oldest living member of the famous Indian tribe is Mrs. Lydia Fielding, who is a5. She is mother of Lemuel N. Fielding of Norwich.
 Supt. John M. Crampton of the fish and game commission stated this week that he was very much gratified with all over the state in regard to the con- dftion of game birds during the win ter.
 The Red Cross room will be open this morning and afternoon. Progress is being made in the preparation of hospital supplies to fill the 10th box sent off by the Norwich. branch since its organization, and the fifth for the present season.
 Three young men who represented themselves as students working their way through Trinity college are being sought by the police of Connecticut. They solicited subscriptions for maga- zines. collected money in advance and left for parts unknown When the annual meeting of the trustees of the Rockville City hospital was held this week the treasurer re- ported that $40,o00 had been received during the year from the Edgar Kee- ney estate, to be known as the Edgar keeney fund. for the establishment of e bed.
 The change in the war situation had nothing to encourage local druggists Thursday. One of the features of fine last week in the market was the rise or flask on mercury declared by leading agents. Cocaine and menthoI were among the other important i'm creases.
 The trainmasters and assistants. chief train despatcher, enginemen on a%1