Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

The planet Mars haS disappeared behind the sun during March.
 Already the stores are featuring some attractive Easter novelties. Tailors and dressmakers are begin ming to speed up on their Easter or ders.
 Those who have to buy them find that the prices of nails have advanced sharply.
 For the past few days the roads have been drying up and travel has greatly improved.
 Among recent acquisitions at the Otis Library is w. l.. Stoddard's Mo torists' Almanac for 1917. Sunday next is Passion Sunday. but one week before Palm Sunday and two weeks before Easter.
 Eastern Connecticut students at Mt. Holyoke college will return to their homes April for the Easter recess. Some of the fishermen in the shore towns are making good catches Of bass at present, and good sized ones.
 Crocuses are beginning to break through the ground. with proper timeliness, now that official spring has begun.
 At North Stonington recently. Rob ert E. Taylor captured large mother fox and nine baby foxes. the result of one days hunt.
 Rev egohng gohanan at of %orWioh preached at the Lenten services at Calvary Episcopal church.
 The state convention of the Luther League of Connecticut is to be held at Rockville with the West Main Street Lutheran church in May.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter K Ranney of East Hartford announce the engage ment of their daughter Miss Pauline c. Ranney to Charles S. Cady of Mystic.
 The Senior and Junior Holy Name societies of St. PatrickS parish are to receive their Easter holy communion in 8 body, at the 7.30 mass on Sunday morning next.
 Peter Charles Ward, whose engage ment to Miss Muriel Preston, of Nor wich, was announced Tuesday. is New London agent for the Norwich and New York Propeller Go.
 Merchants are discouraged over the unfavorable weather every Wednes- day, when the stores are open in the evining, and when trade is always good if there is no storm.
 Wednesday afternoon the Ladies' Aid Society tea of Trinity Methodist church was given by Mrs. F. A. Mill Ter and Mrs. Lewis at the home of Mrs. Miller. 20 Penobscot street.
 At the meeting of the Progressive Missionary club at Bushnell chapel, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Charles E S0F f73,,er Missions. The hostess was Miss Ma ria Briggs. Thirty-one attended, spending a very pleasant hour.
 The records of the United Workers show that there were 26 patients cared for during the past. year at the>S Shei- teri1g Arms. the monthly average be ing fifteen persons. Eight deaths oc cured during the year.
 The work of installing forty new looms at the manufacturing plant of the James J. Began Manufacturing looms are of the latest pattern, and are capable of weaving the finest cloth.
 MT. and Mrs. Ernest Rogers have from High Point, N. C., to their home at Rogers Lake. Lyme. MT. Rogers goes south every winter with a large number of hunting dogs
 
 from New York.
 erson, Il, of the County Home for Children at Vernon Center, who ran away from the home the other day, were located at Talcottville and taken to Rockville station house and Super intendent Hick was notified.
 Miss Margaret A. Reed and Elmer E. Stevenson, chief yoeman at the leans, were married March II at AL giers, near New Orleans. MT. Stew enson was formerly stationed at the submarine base in Gales Ferry.
 Christ church, Hartford. will be- come the Cathedral church of the diocese. provided that plans now in preparation hear fruit at the ton, which will be held in Hartford during the second week in June.
 Collectors in this state have been Y ork Fur Auction, which starts next will last all week. This is a longer period than any previous sale and is because the quantity of goods to be disposed of is so much greater.
 Before going to Hartford last fall, Frank W. Nichols, whose funeral was held in Norwich Tuesday, had sold ms cottage at Qu1amDaug, Mystic, te an artist, the son of David Marks. the New York millionaire. The house was burned while being remodeled for the new owner.
 Motor parties are interested in an exhibition of 150 paintings, the work of 75 artists. at the Wadsworth Athe- neum Annex, Hartford. on view for about three weeks. Frank A. Bick- nell, William H. Howe, Jules Turcas, Guy c. and Carleton Virgins of Lyme are represented in the exhibit.
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