Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-15

mind requiem high mass today for F l F. Murtagh
 l Hebrew organizations are electing delegates to the American Jewish congress to be held in Washington next September.
 l His annual visitation to St. Philips
 Episcopal church. Putnam, was made Sunday by Archbishop J. Eldred Brown of Norwich.
 The b1acksmithing plant on School
 street, Groton, owned by the estate of Harris Hymon has been sold to L. E.
 Tucker of Branford Farms. | This weeks meeting of the Pro- gressive Missionary club of the Cen traI Baptist church will be held with Mrs. George A. Stanton, 20 Church street.
 Norwich members have been noti- fled of the meeting to be held in New Haven of the Connecticut Society of Colonial Danes, Tuesday, May P, al the Lawn club.
 Because of the brass shortage. the American Red Cross has asked the
 ed States to omit buttons or pins in conducting campaigns. News reaches Salem that Bella Lyon Pratt, the famous sculptor of Boston,
 who is critically i'll as the result of a nervous breakdown. has passed the crisis and is improving slowly.
 New arrival today of Connecticut river shad, porgies, sea bass and founders, at Powers Bros.-adv. At NoanIz, Sunday, when St. Jo- seph's Tierney Cadets. c. T. A. U., eel ebrated their second anniversary, County Director William H. McGuin- ness of Norwich acted as toastmaster. At the annual young peoples rally of the Eastern Connecticut Branch, w. E. M, to be held in the parish house of Park church. Saturday. May 19, Miss Della Leavens and others will speak.
 The Stonington fishermen made a shipment of 27 barrels of fish to New York Saturday night, the result of a days work. Some of the catch were sQuid, which bring a good price in the market.
 Notice has been sent members of the Universal Sunshine society that the semi i-annuaI meeting will be held January Is, 1918, in New York, at which time the Fist birthday anniver- sary will be celebrated. Miss Hayes of Storrs college is to give a public fruit and vegetable can ming demonstration in the banquet room of the West Woodstock Congre- gational church Wednesday afternoon under the auspices of the Ladies' Cir cle.
 The nineteenth General Court of the National Society of the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, which will convene at the Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C., Wednesday, will be attended by Connecticut dele gates.
 Special meeting of Rev. Daniel Null len assembly this evening at S-adv.
 At Waterbury Saturday Bishop John J. Milan of the Hartford diocese ad- ministered the sacrament of confir- mation to a class of 157 at the Church of the Sacred Heart, of which Rev. Hugh Treanor, formerly of Norwich, is rector.
 Miss Edith NJ. Peck, librarian at the Rockville Public Library, has secured a long list, which includes a large pro- portion of the teachers of the town, to do work on the Connecticut Mill tary Census at the State Library in Hartford.
 An official dispatch received by way of Stockholm says 24 Am, ricans got away May 4 from Constant41ople, in cluding Carl and Arthur GLIliver of Waterbury, members of faculty of Roberts college, and nephews of the Misses Gulliver Of Norwich.
 The death of John R. Twiss, Al, of No Winthrop street, occurred in New London Sunday after brief ill., ness. Mir. Twiss is survived by his wife and three children and also leaves a brother. Harry Twiss, the car starter at the Parade.
 New York men have been looking over the water front at Browning's Beach. The land they inspected ad- joins the Central Vermont railroad has water frontage of about 1000 feet with channel depth of 25 feet in the river.
 community garden has not yet been secured In the meantime Rev. Will liam A. Fitzgerald, Rev. George R. Atha and Rev. Henry w Hulburt are bearing the weight of the supervision and are giving much time and thought to the work.
 When Rev. Emmons White, former ly of 1edyard, preached his farewell sermon at Ekonk Congregational church, John E. Tanner in behalf of the church and society presented MT. White an envelope containing a sub stantfa1 sum of money in apprecia- ton of his services.
 For it's work in caring for blinded soldiers and sailors and teaching them trades that will make them self-sup- porting, the American, British, Frenci and Belgian Permanent Blind Relief War Fund to date has received s466,- 900 in contributions, it was announced Monday, to Norwich contributors to the fund.
 George McFarlane, a 16-year- Montville youth, who is said to be of weak mind, padded away from Brownings Beach Sunday afternoon In canoe belonging to Miss Jessie D. Sutton, secretary to President Sykes at Connecticut college, but was found an hour later propelling the ca noe down the river
 TO SLEEP WE'LL