Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-03
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at sa4 thls evening.
 Easter trade in the local stores staft- ed in well Monday. ss.
 St. Richard Of Chichester is nonored | in the church calendar today. Raw weather Monday proved un-
 pleasant for first of April moving.
 only tsrss g @ sossss s sss sn Lipssla Assanv' ave small eiris were skipping rope and boys were playIns marbles Monday. The Passover festival begins Friday
 evening, April 9th, and lasts a. week.
 Tbe bright and dainty crocuses at ttfae Ripley homestead on Broadway are l ffi bloom.
 | The trolley express on the Shore lI,iyit ana many atiforl1obi1es are hyfng small American flags
 The large boarding house being built
 at Trading Cove for the Hall mills has
 reached the painting stage.
 m. ' works Ks the fifst degree tonight at Masonic temple at 7.30.--adv. h Center Groton, Emerson whippie | is cutting his peach orchard back to | the stump for new growth this wear. fsishop E. e. Acheson Is to have charge of the Holy week services at St. James Episcopal church, New London. At Niantic, Mrs. GI N. Cranston of place in the village, which She pur- chased recently. The usual number of trout fisher =. 41 a 4- ized early treliey cars in Various d1rec- lions yesterday.
 oscar Eccieston Of HaIiville. who is cofiductor on the Shore Line, has been transferred from the Norwich to the Groton branch.
 So many calls are received for the public nurse provided by the United Workers that in all probability a sec- ond nurse will be employed. Waterford correspondent mentions that Mr. and Mrs. George Bliven and family of North Franklin have moved into Mrs. C. B. Totman's house at Scotch Cap. The automobile caravan Of gypsies which was In this section during the fall was reported Monday at BriaEelin
 on the Hudson, on tfe way from &sus- ton to San Francisco.
 It is noted in Watch Hill news that Mir and Mrs. Frank A1drich, the for nier a native of Norwich, flave arrived home from Napa. Cal, where they have | cen spending the winter. A bin has been reported favorably | by the legislature which wir prohibit | the use Of travis or seines in the Mi antic river hereafter, and this should greatly increase hand line fishing there. The new retaining wall at Richmond park has been completed and the wid- ening of the roadway north of that point is progressing steadily. although Thames street is a wild looking place just now.
 Joining the move made by Boy
 Scouts all oyer the country, the Boy lect all old newspapers and discarded
 paper of all sorts for the purpose of selling it by the pound. The corn and oat crops of Connecti- cut will be considerably smaller this year than in 1916, it is estimated by the agricultural department. based upon reports from the crop agents on the condition March 1. Frank O'Neill and Herbert Hitchcock of East Hampton were in Willfmantic ed the examinations, but will have to receive the consent of their parents, because they are not of age. The New Haven railroad made pub- lie yesterday figures showing deficit In F'ebruary in the net corporate in come Of the main system and of every one of its subsidiaries with the excep-
 ton of the Connecticut company.
 Residents of Thames View park. on the Montville trolley line, recently cIubbed together and built an attrac- fV1A 0f frh1 1t was much needed, as the place is high and exposed during bad weather.
 In Waterbury, Judge Gardiner Greene of Norwich opened the April term of the superior court Friday with a short calendar session and assigned cases for trial for this week. The first case is to be heard this tTuesday) morning.
 MT. and Mrs. H. c. Rowe of Eastern Point are expected to return this week from the south: where they have spent Grotons who has been in New York all winter, has again entered the em- ploy of MT. Rowe as private secretary.
 The following ministers are in charge Of the union Good Friday service at Trinity Methodist church, noon to D. m: Rev. Edward s. Worcester, Rev. Charles H. Rjcketfs. Rev. Joseph F. Cobb, Rev. Arthur Varley, Rev. Her bert J. Wyckon. Rev. Frederick W. Coleman. Rev. Joseph H. SeIden.
 Along with the increase in the retail price of many foodstuffs, the price of meat has taken a jump and has been increased from two to four cents a pound on beef and pork. while lamb has advanced still higher. The ad- vance is due. dealers state, to an in- crease made to them by the big pack CTS.
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 SUCCESSFUL DEVOTION, Thousands sVisit St. Patrick's Church