Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.1s this evening.
 Thin ice has formed for the past two or three mornings. --.. Today the days length has decreased trif1e. over five hours.
 The postoffice at Groton Long Point closed Nov. 1st for the season. At present there are s4 patients at l the Norwich tuberculosis sanatorium. Special sale of mems and women's shoes at s2.55. Barrows', 90 Main street.-adv.
 Many persons in Groton borough have contributed to, the food for French hospitals fund. Connecticut commuters have been l notified that there is no war tax on communication books less than 30 miles. The weather the last two days was favora ble for the duck hunters in. the coves at the mouth of the Connecticut river.
 Trampling Upon the Holiest. subject of sermon on Third Commandment. at Central Baptist church tomorrow night adv.
 The rivers continue high as a result of the recent heavy rains, and in some places are almost as high as in the spring. -'- A book of interest to housekeepers now in circulation at the Otis library is Greens Better Meals for Less | Money. Local boys write home. that Holy Name Society has been organized at Camp Devens, with between 500 and 500 members. While most of the Norwich bakers are seriously ir:convenienced by the shortage of sugar. .... -, The executive committee of the Nor wich c. E. Union is to meet in the Norwich Y. NJ. c. A. building today l (Saturday at 3 p. m.
 The planet Uranus still fingers in the eastern end of Capricornus. It was on the meridian at p. m. Nov. 1st and sets about midnight. One side is already plastered in the new isolation room being built as an addition to the inf1rmary at the Nor- wich tuberculosis sanatorium. Trampling Upon the Holiest, subject of sermon on Third Comma ndment at Central Baptist church tomorrow night adv. s--.- The period when Indian summer is expected is drawing near. about Nov. il tn, which is St. Martins day, in old English times called Martinmas. Friday evening Edward l. Hunt of Norwich was a member of the male chorus of 1000 voices which sang at the Roosevelt mass meeting in Fart ford. : The Epworth lea que of Trinity Meth edist church is to have a Halloween social for all the young people of the
 church and congregation on the even- ing of Nov. 9.
 At 1o.so next Thursday morning there is to be a pontifica. mass. of requiem at St. Joseph's Cathedral. Hartford, for the deceased priests and bishops of the diocese.
 The household goods of Dr. H. C.. Little were moved by. auto truck Wed nesday from Stonington to Willinan- tic where he IS to be physician at the tig American Thread mills.
 See new line of stamped goods at Woman's Exchange, or have :stampizg or embroidery done to order. Hot lunch served daily-adv.
 Relatives of Henry Rice of VoluH-
 
 Gun corps, stationed somewhere in France, recently received a letter from him stating that he is well. Miss Katherine Ludington of Old Lyme, chairman of, ehe war work com mittee of the. Connecticut Woman Suffrage associa tion. has been spend ing several days in Washington, D. c.
 'Jemima.'' a big turkey owned by Mir. and Mrs. Latham Smith of Gales Ferry, is so anxious to do her bit in a war year that she is having a post season of laying. having to date 130 eggs to her credit.
 Under the new war taxes it will cost l,atrOns of dancing five cents more to attend dances during the duration of the war. Local societies who conduct dances will be required to collect tlse war tax at the door.
 A great meeting for men at Y M. c A. hall Sunday at 4 D. m. Vernon w. Cooke, speaker. Swahn's orchestra Give pieces). Hugh Kinder, soloist.- adv.
 The advance in freight that went into effect Thursday will amount to about If the grocer advances his price five cents can. he will clear an extra profit of s1.1E OF case of A cans.
 AL lIlo dIHudi meeting or the IarB1 bureau at Litcrfeld, after the usual reports from the officers, I..:G. Davis, assistant director of extension work fer the Connecticut Agricultural col lege. reported activities in the state for the year.
 Benjamin P. Wheeler of West Hart ford. a summer cottager. at Pleasant View, reports tEat during the period from June to Sept.'S he cleared | s;2.33 on a flock of S1 hens. although a part of that time he did not have the full number in his coops.
 A new Red Cross building, the gift ol Mrs. B. Campion .Acheson to the Middlesex chapter of the Red Cross the first building in the United States erected for and devoted entirely to. the uses of a Red Cross chapter was forE n,ally opened Friday evening. g.e. .,-