Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

I Dealers in candy, ice cream and ta- 1 ble novelties are having good orders | for tonorrow's feast. Connecticut eyeglasses, binoculars I and telescopes are needed to spot | submarines in the war zone. l The Vernon Stiles Inn at Thomp- son, visited by many Norwich mo- l tor parties. has been closed for the 1 season.
 l Because of the holiday Thursday, trade. in all lines will be brisk today, I and good business is expected this | evening.
 1 For a real good time tonight. Elk$ l dance. Tickets 50 cents couple | adv.
 I As in previous years, special effort will be made to have Thanksgiving a l day of cheer for the public institu- tions in Norwich.
 Many of the boys from camps with in reasonable distance will arrive | home tonight or Thursday morning, on Thanksgiving furloughs.
 The number of freight cars being Inioaded from the sidings at the Navy Yard indicate the amount of building work going on there. Prayer meeting at the Central Bap- tist church is to be held Friday eve ming instead of Thursday, this week, cn account of Thanksgiving Day. The chrysanthemum season is draw ing to close. One Norwich florist claims to have sold more of the blooms this Fall than ever before. In one of the show windows of the George ". Kies company is exhibited pair of wooden shoes, once worn in Holland by F. J. Langenbach, of Nor wich.
 Train passengers on the Groton di- vision have had their attention at tracted by the unusually big ffocks of crows in the woods above Allyn's Point.
 | Everybody's welcome at the Elks' dance tonight, Elks' hall. Tickets 50 cents a couple.-adv. Last week 10 of the families of the Second Congregational church report cd on food saving a total of s4 wheat less. 147 meatless and 1S6 wasteless meals.
 That Indian summer has ended ab- ruptiy is indicated by the hurry calls being received by the plumbers, be- cause of the freezing of exposed wa ter pipes.
 h. petition in bankruptcy in the United States court at Hartford. He has lia- hilities Of s1,4I5.2S, all unsecured. He has no assets.
 At the union Thanksgiving service .,f Christ church and Trinity. church at Christ church Thursday morning the offering will be given >to the War chiidrer's Relief Fund.
 A service nag is displayed at the home of MT. and Mrs. Albert H. ses en 3f,s hss for os ths their Reserves, now probably in France.
 Some of the advertising signs dis played by the New Haven road; have been defaced, especially those at the
 Gales Ferry station. an act which means severe penalty if the perpetra- tor is identified.
 A poultry raiser in one Windham county town had seven hens killed on the roost by some kind of an animal doubtless a fox. The heads were eaten off while the rest of the fowls was left whole.
 The wind was in a quarter to suit day, and they managed to decorate some of the streets in a way which resulted in anything but a holiday week appearance.
 A clergyman prominent in the Con -necticut diocese, Rev. F'rederick D. Buckley. rector of Trinity church. in Waterbury, whose funeral took place this week. was college mate at Trin- tty of Archdeacon J. Eidred Brown, of Norwich.
 At Mantle the Red Cross workers are speeding up the knitting in re- spense to urgent calls from the chap ter for sweaters and other articles. Since Oct. IS, 139 garments of the fifty sets required have been return ed to the chapter.
 At the exhibition of the New Haven Paint and Clay club there are five contributions by G. Albert Thompson yich Art School, including Potter's Dock. Noank; October; Old Mystic and In the Harbor.
 The general war-tirue eeum,ss;op or the churches, which represents the united Protestant forces of America has issued cali to prayer upon the request Of the Var Service Commis- sions of the various denominations. for Thanksgiving day.
 In the endeavor to offset the high cost of living. many Norwich house. a number are learning where to se- cure food stuffs. fruit, meats, fish. etc. from dealers who advertise special lines at reasonable prices
 For the first time in five montbs former State Treasurer Henry Fl. Gal lup was able to walk for short dis tance in the streets of Norwich Tues day although he has been going to his office since November 1st. Mir. Gallup has been ill with neuritis at his home at Best View.
 
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