Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-23
QIfle Rltllkti1,
NorNieh, Friday, Fob. 23, 1917.
VARIOUS MATTERS

three and a half feet . The Stars and Stripes were f1yins
 from all quarters yesterday.
 Ice 21 inches thick is being har.
 ivested in certain wsndham county
 flown.
 l As usual. the theatres were the re- . fuge of big holiday crowds. local and i. suburban.
 Hound the unexpected snowfall most
 distasteful.
 1 The Otis Library was closed for the Of business today.
 | At the car barns. painting and rem Iovating the open cars for the coming Iseason is beginning.
 The planet Mars will be evening start until February 18th; then morn ling star till November 22nd.
 Patriotism is in the ascendancy and thew recruits are being received by lthe local militia companies.
 Running on high speed the second annual New London automobile show opened at the state armory. | Produce dealers are discouraged over I the situation in Florida, having looked | In certain of the rural districts
 the schools closed for Washington's birthday, to remain closed until Mon
 day.
 ', Episcopalian friends here learn
 of Rev. HI. Fitzgerald, rector at He- bron.
 Thursdays snow storms started in ! with n ac but shortly after noon the sun was shining.
 1 A number of art lovers from sur
 rounding towns have visited the ex- l hibit of etchings by Ozias Dodge at Slater Hall this week. Watch your step! was a wise slo- gan yesterday and some of the care less ones discovered how slippery the moist snow could be.
 Many acquaintances in Lebanon and Franklin in particular mourn the death of Miss Belle Gray, Q. form CT resident of Lebanon. A tour of religious education under the auspices of the Connecticut Sun- day school association has sbeen ar ranged for Connecticut. Next week Judge Gardiner Greene, of Norwich will return to Winsted to II superior court, for Litchf1eld county.
 He will preside during the March term at Putnam.
 Owing to the sky-high cost of po- tatoes restaurant owners are cutting them out to a degree. Formerly a whole potatoe went with a dinner and now when ''spulds' are served alone mean ten cents extra
 State Agent A. W. Buchanan from n Thursday, finding three children seeking working certificates. In the morning at Willimantic he issued er- tificates to four applicants.
 Ninety cases of smallpox were re- ported in Connecticut in the different cities and towns during the month of February, according to the monthly bulletin of the State Board of Health, l which has made it's appearance. meeting of officers of the New Lon- don Ffremen's association and May or Ernest B. Rogers at meeting i Wednesday night towards forming 8 legion of citizens to protect the city in | case of riot or war.
 While the acquisitions of the Gov l ernment for supplying the army and | navy look big in bulk figures, wool i en traders in Connecticut are inclined | to minimize the effect they will have | on the market as a whole unless | much larger supplies are sought.
 During the month of January Ss | New Britain citizens died according to l the record of vital statistics in the city | clerks office. This is an unusually high | death rate and is the largest number | of deaths to occur in a single month | in the past five years in New Britain.
 of Eastern Connecticut interest | Thursday was the following New York item under will probated. Palm estate more than s1o,ooo in personal property. All is wiIled to his sister, Sarah A. Palmer of sos West s3d St.
 A report issued by the navy depart ment shows that the Connecticut ma val militia was far ahead of other state naval branches in the manoev- itfa training period. The. Connecti- gut reservers worked aboard the U. s. 5. Virginia
 The will of Rev. John F. Murphy, a former Norwich pastor. but late pas- tor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church in Bridgeport, disposing of an sstats o. valued at between S25.4oo and Miller, of the Bridgeport probate court, Saturday.
 The former Sprague boy and Nor vich Free Academy student, Governor Charles S. Whitman, established a record Wednesday at Albany at his second public pardon hearing, when seventy applications for clemency were heard. The Governor com lted twenty-three sentences.
 A druggists life Is not a happy mel News came to the local pharm- scists Thursday that the railway { congestion has brought about a cur l ailment of production. Higher prices { quoted on codefne and salts and morphine and makers refused to book riders or contracts for forward de- i Ivery. z
 Not in a score of years, according o watermen. has the ice assumed so { Treat thickness, nor has it appeared n such profusion and the surface of | [ he water in the Sound resembles noth- ng so much as a hurdle race in which here are many participants. Not