Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-05
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at s.ss thi. Ievening.
 Il Novelties in valentines are featured
 in the store windows.
 I The chaperones for the junior prom. fenade at Yale include Mrs. Johr iChamplin of Westerly.
 l The 8sth birthday of Christian En. ideavor was celebrated Sunday in . number of the churches.
 There were ss visitors to she oui library Reading room Sunday after.
 noon. Miss Mildred D. Rogers was +
 charge.
 l The s1narps who predicted a mild winter kept under cover Saturday
 whens the mercury did not get above
 If degrees all day.
 | Prominent military men in Connecti- cut are e~being invited to attend the famous Old Guard ball in New York
 next Friday night.
 l In the main, most of the drivers of
 horses are careful to keep blankets on
 the animals when left standing out, A months mind high mass of re- quiem for Thomas A. Shea was sung
 in St. Patricl's church Saturday by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 Gdmun1 Putnam Edwards, se, a de- the Revolutionary army, died Friday at his home in Elizabeth. N. J. The February ssEFhite Ribbon Banner announces that unions contributing to
 the Banner fund are ForestyilIe sI
 Milldale $1. Gift from Stafford union
 A Norwich man who has been cut ting icenand paying 30 cents an hour has fouN8 the greatest difficulty in get ting workers and in keeping them when found.
 The Serbian relief committee. New
 York, whose funds now total $332,- including from the New London French class. $26.
 Thousands of new ties have been division of the New Haven road. in preparation for early spring replace ment Of the present ties.
 Visitors to the Norwich. tuberculosis sanatorium realize the need of new isolation rooms in that institution. the crowded condition of which the state is being asked to remedy.
 Connecticut dealers, have received notice that the formal organization meeting or the Retail Millinery Asso- c1atfon of America is to be held at the Hotel McAlpin, New York, Feb. 14.
 The Knights of Columbus displayed the Stars and Stripes from their quar- ters In the Sunlight building yesterdav and the flag was also flying on a mum Der of private residences in token of patriotism.
 memorial note in the weekly call endar of the Second Congregational church reads: Entered Into Life. Ian. 2S, 1917, Mrs. Lydia C. Smith, Who soever liveth and believeth on me shall | never die"
 In answer to the inquiry of a New York paperTegarding the war situation, | wrote from Southington: 'T have no | comment to make at present on break with Germany" Mrs. Wallace Grimes, newlyweds, was | held at the home of Dr. and Mrs Smith in Waterford Thursday evening. Mrs. Grimes was Miss Lida | Smith, sister of Dr. Smith
 Yesterday was Septuagesima, theI third Sunday before Lent. The vest | ments and altar hangings in the Cath | oIic churches were in the penftential | color, violet, suggesting preparation | Tor the season of penance.
 Contributions received from the dio- | cese of Hartford during 1916 for the 1 society for the Propa gation of the tadth reached total of $4,93S IS. St |. satrfck's church, Norwich. gave s127.- 10, and Sacred Heart, Taftviile, $7.5O.
 Art students from Norwich who | 'eguarly attend the Lyme shows learn | ure of a grange fair to which is at uned an exhibition of her paintings the Arlington galleries, New York.
 This is Backus hospital week for the central Baptist church. The Benevo- ent union has suggested that all who gish to contribute fruits or delicacies end them direct to the hospital or to drs- M. D. Corbin, on Lincoln avenue.
 The priests of St. Patriclx's church sked the congregation Sunday to pray nat President Wilson and congress aay be directed wisely in the present risis and that this nation may be ept from war such as is devastating Europe.
 At meeting of the British, French nd Belgian permanent blind relief war und held Saturday at the offices of he fund, in New York, it was stated nat nearly $400,O00 has already been which sum was aided by the mall banks filled in Norwich.
 hepoFtS rom Florida, where the ailaudet hydroplane, built at Thames ille. has been tried out, are that it | as stood the test and worked even etter than ever before. Flights had cen made at height of TOO feet and
 speed or S7 miles an hour attained New York Sunday paper had a lcture Of Miss Margaret Jamieson. a raduate or Oberlin and student with 1 le late Josefy, who is to be an eolian pianist Friday evening, in l: eetnoven.s Sonata, Op. 1o9, and works l. Chuck, Saint-Saene, Paderewski and 2 toJowslki. Poquetanuck school, which. was osed two and one-half weeks because the illness witt. scarlet fever of the acher, Miss Gertrude Mullen, of Nor ' lcn, reopened Wednesday with Mrs. i arrie koval of Willimantic, substitute i acner, and is holding sessions Satur- i ays till 2 p. m. ' Many hnndredS |