Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-07

| tients at the Tuberculosis Sanftafiun
 was deferred yesterday for one week | At New London Tuesday evening Rev. Wiilf;s--l IT. Kennedy of St. Mary l church. Norwich, was the preache
 at St. Josc9h's church Lenten services ! A, nef- sazhood preachers meetin, l at ei .dethodist church in Moosul i Iesday was attended by District Su 1 perintendent c. G. Scrfvener. of Nor wien.
 Chicken pie supper and entertain; ! ment at Bozrah church, given by La dies Aid, Thursday evening, March s
 If stormy. on Friday evening. Price 35c 1 -adv.
 Samuel Rogers. 72. died at his hom,
 on smith avenue, Niantie. at .midnigh
 BriEht's disease. MT. Rogesr was bor1 Tin England.
 pr. John T. Black. secretary of thu
 state board of health, claims that there is little likelihood that this summer will see another outbreak of infan- tile paralysis in Connecticut. The secretaries of the chambers ot
 commerce of Connecticut will hold g meeting at Wallingford Thursday af- |. teFneon. The local chamber will en- certain the visitors at a luncheon. At New York there is to be a sale of about 130 paintings by the late Henry w. Ranger. N. A., the Noank artist, who left his fortune of $250, ,oeG to the National Academy of Design. All interested in the Congregaaional tercentenary plans are urged to attend todayss meetings at the Broadway ssnurcn; sas s.a..J morning afternoon or even
 John H. P. Rounds has been award ed tho contract for carving the mail will succeed, July 1, Fred Luce, who had the contract the past feuE years. 2 There are over eo5patients at Back sernf-priVate room, being occupied. The past month has been a busy one for 6npt. F. l.. Hutchins, the matron and nurses.
 The next meeting of the Briarclin Society of Connecticut. which has Eastern Connecticut members, will be held at the home of Mrs Austin Che ney on Hartford road, South Man chester.
 vice at the Ellington Congregational church Sunday morning, Rev. David E. Jones' for nearly nineteen years pastor of the church, read his resig- nation. effective April 1s.
 ' The marriage of Miss Olive Wat rous of Groton borough and Leon W. Rtx of Salem, Conn, took place Sat-. urday afternoon at the Groton Con- gregational parsonage, Rev. Henry w. Hulburt performing the ceremony.
 When the Hartford Market Garden CTS Association has it's annual ban Guet this Wednesday, evening at T. p l. of the Connecticut Agricultural Col iege, Storrs. will be one of the speak ers.-
 Town and city officials are interest ed in the bill before the legislature which would turn over to the juris- dictton of the probate court the cases of all persons under sixteen years of age when charged with either a civil or criminal offense.
 Tn Portland Sunday, at St. Mary's church. in accordance with the sug- Eestions of Rev. William A. Keefe of Plainfeld. county director of the Holy Name societies. the sermon of the day was on The Holy Name. or the Sec ond Commandment
 A Piainville correspondent men tions that Joseph A. Pagan, regarded as the potato king of that section,
 
 ternoon. where he lectured to the far mers of that section regarding his manner of cultivating potatoes.
 Local people are interested in petition which will be given a hear ing Thursday by the committee on humane institutions of the general as- sembly, regarding the Woman's Re- lief Corps Home in Cromwell which may be taken over by the state.
 It is expected at Berlin, Conn, that Rev. Edward H. Smith. of Ingtai, China, will be a guest at the parsor age over next Sunday and will speak a missionary of the American Board at home in Norwich on furlough.
 Tn probating the estate of Mrs. Ab- 5y Chapman Aidrich, at Warwick, R. Er Judge Curtis ordered bond of sS90. .000 to return an inventory, which under the new inheritance tax law must now be done in this case This law was not in effect when Senator Aldrieh died. ,
 Mayor John Purroy Mitchell of New York city. has written to Governor Charles S. Whitman at Albany, urg- ing that the Empire State follow the example of Copnectiont in the taking of a military census. He also notes that the Connecticut canvassers serve without salary. { The wedding of Miss Roxana Went worth Bowen. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Clarence Winthrop Bowen of New York and Woodstock. and Will jam Stephen Van Rensselaer,, whose engagement was announced in Jan- nary, will take place April g, Easter Monday. in St. Thomas church, New Fork.
 Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, 1as issued from the New York navy eare a statement in which he out ined the organization of the naval 1 auxiliary fleet for which 10 900 men will | ,e needed. The Thin1 Naval District ! 'xtends from New London, Conn, to | 5afnegat, N. J.