Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS Rural carriers will have a holiday today.
 this evening. Yesterdays snow was extremely slippery and many falls resulted. The banks and the library will be closed over the holiday as usual The moon appeared just in time to encourage Wednesday evening shop ping. Hotels and restaurants are prepar- ing to entertain many dinner parties today.
 received draft notice to be ready for
 orders.
 Some of the colored men employed
 at Noank shipyard have left for a
 warmer climate. Although Wednesdays snow was light, the children managed to get some
 coasting out of it.
  tra. demands upon the different charf- table organizations The mail carriers burdens have been tncrea sed by the customary number or Thanksgiving cards. The meeting of the Holland county farm bureau is to be held in ~Wes- leyan hall, Rockville, Dec. D. Enlistnnents at Hartford Tuesday in cluded Harold Ford of Willimantic, ordnance corps. national army. Delegates from Connecticut will at tend the meeting of the National Live stock Sanitary association in Chicago Saturday, Dec. g. Valuable government pamphlets on meat substitutes and wheat substitutes may be procured at the room of the Norwich Red CRoss Sunlight Hop, Bijou. Jewett City, this afternoon. Ideal Singing Orchestra adv.
 Work has been started at North stonington on the construction of a barn fer Mrs. Flora Bliven. The barn will be 30 by 40 feet. At Lyme today, Rev. E. M. Chapman of New London will conduct the union Thanksgiving service in the Congre- gatfonal church at 10.S0 a. m. Tn number of churches Thanks giving, offering for the relief of suffer ing and destitution, in Armenia and Palestine will be taken today. At present there are 7s children at Norwich besides two newly arrived children who are still in the detention house.
 The Westerly Sun notes that MT. and Mrs Edward B. Coy {Ruth Lord, formerly of Norwich) have returned from ten days automobile trip through Maine special effort is to be made in Connecticut during the next few days to enlist photngraphers in the aviation section of the signal corps. as there is an urgent need for these men in the service.
 | need of moro money to purchase yarn. i There are many kritters ready to give 1 their time and labor in completing the sets. but the free wool supply is ex- l hausted.
 i Tho funeral of Charles E.. Kibbe, a l former resident of Ellington, was held l at his home on Village street, Rock l vi1le. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock l Burial was in the Ellington Center i cemetery.
 l Requests to the state. by Mrs. Emma Y. Newell of Soutfington in her will 1 include $5.6ge to the state Masonic 1 home in Wallingford and like sum 1 to the home for incurable children in Newington.
 | The Arcanum club is proud of it's seven-star service flag, for Charming 1 P. Huntington. Johnson Banfield, I-Harold R. Robinson Julian I.Williams.
 i Frederick $. Crcweli, Harold Preston
 and Paul c. Carpenter.
 | Wednesday morning the Lester &, Ii Wasley company displayed at its man
 | ufactory on Franklin street a service
 flag with two stors-for Fred Auburn.
 now at Atlanta, Ga. and William Hol- H lin, on Governors Island. N F. E. Barlow of Mystic took party of young men to the recent grange N supper in Ledyardh They were Lever
 ett Thompson, Nelson Brown. Frank L.
 Rarlok, Arthur McIsaac. Eugene Bur
 dick and Robert Rathbun.
 The 21st employe of the state high way department to enlist in the United States service was accepted yesterday l He is Gustave E. Okerfelt, Jr-, of 1 aviation section of the signal corps The funeral services for Miss Edith L. Avery were conducted by Rev. H. W.)&1utbcIS oi tue 1Eplou GoHSfcSd- tionaI church at 2.3o Wednesday after noon at her home, 14 Baker ave- nue. Groton. and were largely attend ed
 A total of 1.fs5 employees of the New Haven Railroad company are serving in either the army or navy. Of this number Sz5 have volunteered for ser vice since the outbreak of the war and SEQ men have been accepted for ser vice in the national army. At Mystic, E. V. Whiting has cenrA pleted No. 23 down draft boiler for the Richmond Radiator company of Norwich, which he has been ---crxing ot for the past few weeks. He expects
 to build two more sizes, No. 26 and