Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-29
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Norwich, ,Monday, Jan. 2e, 1917.
VARIOUS MATTERS

1 VARIOUS MAI TERS l Light vehicle lamps at 5:2s this ievening.
 The moon is in it's first quarter at S:02 this evening.
 1 The K-2 and Worden have left New | York for the Thames Navy Yord.
 The snow of Sunday is packed down | hard enough to make a foundation for good sleighing.
 l The days length has increased 4S minutes, the additional sunlight being | noticeable daily.
 The river coves are frozen and boys
 were skating near the West Side | bridge Saturday.
 Friday is Candlemus Day, the ac- | cepted time limit for holiday wreaths
 and similar decorations. | K. of c. whist Tuesday evening Jan uary 30th at their roofns Franklin l street-adv.
 | Saturdays clear, cold weather brought out the shoppers, trade being
 brisk and steady all the day and ev- ening.
 Seventy-two persons visited the Otis Library reading room Sunday after | aOOA. h1dEt11d A. IVY dIo was III | charge.
 The flowers at the pulpit in the Sec
 ond Congregational church Sunday were n memory of Rev. Dr. L.> l.. West, fc----sr pastor. A Nev xcrl1 house is to republish two volumes of short stories by the
 late F. Sumner, whose wife was Ni--.5 Learned. Of New London. Ex-Governor o. Vincent Coffin, who
 has a number of personal friends in Norwich is i'll and has been taken to the Middlesex hospital, Afiddletown. Yesterday was Missionary Sunday at the Universalst church and Mrs. J. F. Cobb spoke regarding Japanese mission work during the Sunday school hour.
 The British War Relief Fund, New York, of which Mrs. Lucy c. Whitridge is the acting president, acknowledged Sunday from Plainf1eld, Conn.,, ,s35-
 Extra hours were put in at the Red local leaders in this international charity, who were preparing and fin ishing up work.
 At Mantle MT. and and Mrs. F. A. Beckwith of Grand street were sur priSel by party of friends in honor of their 24th wedding anniversary Thursday evening.
 The Connecticut Equal Suffrage membership campaign waged through out the state for the last few months closed Friday with the Groton league in second place, it is believed.
 Patriotic organizations are being notified that preparations have aI- ready begun for an observance in 1920 of the three hundredth annivers- ary of the landing of the PiIgrms.
 The New Haven road signal gang which has been working at Saybroolz, Is now at work on the Middletown bridge, installing a new set of sigals for the railroad on that structure.
 Sold by the peck, potatoes in New London are now quoted at 75 cents for the 15 pounds and the grocers say the farmers are holding onto the stock in their bins in the hope of getting bet ter prices.
 town Poultry show, the cup for the best display of pigeons went to Philip Manwaring, Eastern Point and the cup for the best display. of Belgian hares, to the Imperial Rabbitry, Taftville.
 Savings Institutions throughout the United States have joined in setting aside Saturday, Feb. 3, as Thrift
 
 make special efforts to open new sa.v- ings accounts or add to amounts they have on deposit.
 Art students here learn that the af- l tieth annual exhibition of the Ameri- | can Water Color Society is to be held | at the National Arts Club, New York ! The exhibition opens to the public l Feb. l, and will continue un- l til Saturday. February "A.
 The American Committee for Ar menian and Syrian Relief, subscrip- l tfons to winch are sent to Charles ?. | Crane, treasurer, 70 Fifth Avenue, l New York, has received additional do- l nations from the Congregational Sun l day school at Hanover, Conn, S31.
 An institute for church workers is to | be held in the Central Baptist church | noon and evening, ad all day Sunday. | It will be coducted by Dr. William J. | Sly, Director of Religious Education | for Rhode Island and Connecticut.
 Norwich friends are interested in i the fact that Sister M. Therese (Ian- l nah c. Leutz) who is an especially l German scholar has been Hartford where she is teaching. She l is an honor graduate of Norwich Free l Academy.
 In fighting the Baptist church fire at Thompson Saturday good work l was done by the old Vernon Stiles i (1S2O. The Norwich | Torrent was built in 1769 and Chief | H. L .Stanton's records show that it | is the sixth oldest fire engine in the | United States. After 36 years of married life a di- | vorce complaint was filed with the | clerk of the superior court at Water 1 bury Saturday by Emma Passano, who | req ueStS that she be freed from Louis | PaSSano, incorporate and cruel. They l were married in yWillimantic in 1881, l and Passano is now in Meriden.