Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-03
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Norwieh. Saturday, March 3, 1sf7.
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Motorists are finding traveling bet ter, as the roads are. drying up.
 Visitors to Lords Point find that the ice has broken up and that most of it has left the harbors.
 John Miner of North Stonington, who has been patient at a New London hospital was discharged Thursday.
 A Plainfeld patient, Mrs. Arthur Royal, has returned from Backus hos pital. Norwich. greatly improved in health.
 Tobacco farmers in Holland county have been taking advantage or the damp and mild weather to take down their 1916 crop.
 Fresh crab meat and scanops, new arrived today. at Powers Bros.-adv.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for March 21 an examination for weight clerk, for men only, at $s-2s per diem.
 Of former Norwich residents 8 West Avon correspondent writes: Rev. Cliff ton K. Flanders and family have gone south to stay till spring. D The Peck library has recently ac- uuired "Years of My Youth" by William Dean Eowelle. who reached his seth birthday this week.
 'The Peril of America" address at Mems rally tomorrow at S.So by Dr. Sdocum in Thayer store-adv
 The White Ribbon Banner states that unions contributing to the Ban ner fund are Forestville $1. Milldale ef, gift from Stafford union $1. Rev. Edward T. Mathison of Rock vile was the speaker at the service Trinity at Nd1ddletown Thursday even ing.
 There are places in Connecticut ground. As near as Canterbury men fishing had to cut through G-inch ice this week.
 Announcement is made that New Haven railroad men known as car knockers have had their wages raised 1 SIPS per week, making tine scale $2S 1 per week Some of those who work regularly at the Red Cross room are acquiring great efficiency in the preparation, of | hospital supplies and comforts for the wounded.
 Connecticut fur collectors are re- ceiving the last call for the big fur. auction in New York this month, when s3,o0o,o00 worth of all marketable skins will be disposed of.
 At, the annual meeting of the Con- necticut Library association, held in New Britain Wednesday, the officers elected included President Frederick W. Edgerton of New London. At Brooklyn, Rev. A. E. Kinmouth formerly of Ledyard Congregational church, is recovering slowly from the effects of a bad fall on the ice in the parsonage yard a week ago. District Superintendent G. G. Scriv- ener of Norwich has postponed far a fortnight the last quarterly conference l of the Quarryville Methodist church, which was to have been held last Mon day.
 The military census of Holland has been taken during the last week by I. Ti1den Jewett, Charles H. Leonard, | Charles S.. Hurlbut, Harry Morgensen, Nathan O. Ward and Joseph M. Met calf.
 When the sun appeared Friday it was suggestive of spring, sending shoppers after the dainty fabrics dis played in the store windows and the new straw hats which the mflliners are featuring.
 The reports of Storrs college for two | years ending Sept. 30, 1916, have re- gently been received and are ready for distribution. Some very interesting data is given regarding the student enrolment.
 Edwin Gould, Jr.. g, son of the New York capitalist. who was accidentally l killed near Brunswick, Ga, Saturday night while hunting coons with a ! friend, was former student at Pom fret school.
 | Twenty-one tables have been re- | Cnf yad f1Y- 1121 1fef %A Ian | given by the Entre Nous Literary so- ciety of Groton to keep a Norwegian | girl in the state tuberculosis sanato- rum at Norwich.
 Nearly 1,oo0. 900 Red Cross tubercu- | toSiS seals, remaining unSold from last December, were burned Wednesday in furnace in the basement of the cap- ito1 at Hartford, and what might have
 been $10,oo0 vent up in smoke.
 The records of the quartermaster o1 the Connecticut National guard show
 that in the two years ended Oct. 1
 1916, the state paid the funeral ex-
 penses of 3S7 veterans of the Civil wal
 and Al of the Spanish American war
 The militia are still on the Con-
 necticut river bridges, fully equipped
 for long stay. Everything that is
 necessary for their comfort has beer
 placed near at hand. Up to the pres
 ent they have had little trouble witt trespassers.
 Rev. Emmons White, formerly O
 Ledyard, will close his pastorate al
 Ekonk May 1. MT. White will b.
 graduated from Yale in June and ha: received an appointment from tht
 American missionary board to go t
 India, which is his chosen life work. At the final M. U. F. conferenc, which the Hartford Public High Schoo club has been holding the advantag, . of working together and Ibe need O
 pep" in both studies and athletic.
 was the subject of 2. talk by Raymond
 B. Case of Norwich, a member of tn, faculty.
 The marriage of Miss Florence Aid;
 Merriam, daughter of the late Mrs
 Alice Merriam. of Waterford and En
 sign Philip Morgan, U. $. N., son o
 Alderman and Mrs. E. Frank Morgan
 of New London, will take place thi
 evening at the First Congregations ! church New Tandou