Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

 Il Episcopal rectors from this section will be in Afiddletown today to attend the funeral of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart I Lyle c. Gray has leased the Isaa. Maine farm, east of the village o' l North Stonington. for the cominl l year.
 l Housewives are hampered by thu high price of eggs during Lent. but l find fish plenty and reaso1able ir | price.
 Bakers claim there is little profit for l them now, due to the high cost o1 | sugar.
 | At the Red Cross room there arc dis | played 24 handsome comfort bags to be sent to the soldiers. as the gut of a Norwich lady.
 Coventry March 9 Professors William F. Kirkpatrick and H. F. Judkins will be the speakers.
 New Haven last week to pay respect to the late President Timothy Dwight, a native of Norwich.
 Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the terrific wind storm of Sunday. March 1st 1914. which did so much damage to property in this vicinity.
 Men from this state are in New York attending the spring session of the New York exhibition of 5. 10 and 25 cent goods opened at the Broadway Central hotel.
 Groton selectmen have sent 2,5oe names to Hartford for enrollment in the state military census and hope to have the Groton census complete by today or Thursday.
 The tax collectors onice will be open this evening until s o'clock for col iecting the personal tax. Wednesday, of collection-adv.
 Workmen began Tuesday laying a hardwood floor in the Congregational church at South Coventry. Services will be held in the vestry until the audi torium is again in order.
 At the annual Lesbian reception held at the Sufiield school gy1lnasium on Monday evening the patronesses in cluded Mrs. Wilbur Purvis (Laura B. Utley, formerly of Norwich).
 At Noani, William Smith has the contract to build 20 iifeboats for the Coastwise Shipbuiiding company of Baltimore. Two of them are already completed and will be shipped this week.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for March 20 an examination for foreman brickmaker for men only. at the United States penftent1ary, Ieavenworth, Kan., at S1,200 year.
 There is to be farmers institute in Somers today Wednesday,, conducted by the Connecticut Agricultural col fege extension service, co-operating with Somers grange and the Te&and county farm bureau.
 At the alnshouse Tuesday supt. J. B. Chapman's men butchkred four big hogs weighing about HOO pounds. There are plenty of vegetables at the house and nobody is worrying over the high cost Of eating.
 The oldest man In Rockville to an- swer the military census questions is Col. c. F. Jackson of Talcott avenue who is 91. MT. Jackson served over three years in the Civil war and re- tired with the rank of colonel.
 A Watertown correspondent men tions that there will be special Lem ten, service held in Christ church this "Wednesday evening, at which time Rev. J. Eldred Brown, rector of Trin- lty church, Norwich, will be the preacher.
 Warning has been sent out that a sharper claiming to be John Mac Alpin, TO, smooth face and seroDl fea- lures and clever talt<er. is swindfing women in Connecticut through adver- dsements for housekeeper to care for girl of 14.
 Having already expended $1s,0oo on their new church, the congregation of the Montauk avenue Baptist church. New London. has been compelled to call halt in the further work tow ards completing it because of running out of funds.
 The following pleasantry is from a Norwich reports that onions are selling at SIS 100-pound bag in that city. With onions at $7.5o a bushel, Norwich people might about as well use altar of roses for perfume.
 Somewhere in Connecticut is a man named Franklin P. Welsh who is wanted in York, Pa, by Willard F. sIrlckier si on account ol business mat sers Governor Holconb received a letter from Strickler Monday asking him to assist in locating Welsh.
 The new History of the Huntington Family in America devotes much space to the Revolutionary patriot, Barnabas Huntington, born May 2s, 172s, in Nor wich, who married Dec. Il, 1751, Anna wright or Hebron. and lived In Frank lin, the nthe West Farms parish. Nor wich.
 H. W. Gray, a New York publisher, has purchased from Miss Rosaiie c. Goodman and Miss Lillian Goodman a large waterfront estate on the Neck road, Old Lyme, known as the Robert Hall place. There are about 120 acres, 1 with house which was built about l 150 years ago. l
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 The engagement is announced of | John Bentley Munson of Windham, N l Y., employed in Hartford, to Miss lola William H. Wilson, of Westerly, R. |, | and Tampa, Fla. who is spending the winter in Hartford with her aunt, | Mrs. Emerson N. Coleman, formerly | of Norwich.
 Troop Six to Hold soebiai.
 Troop Six Boy Scouts held their