Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-03
VARIOUS MATTERS

1 Light vehicle lamps at 5.s5 thi 1 Mrs Comfort Bogue, s5. died il lPawcatuck Thursday. Burial is to b in Poquetanuck.
 Today the days length has increas
 ed an even hour, the sun shining Il hours, minutes.
 | Teamsters and other drivers fount Friday one of the most uncomforta-
 billy cold days of the winter l pr. Frederick H. Sykes, president ot Connecticut college, denied Thursday the rumor that he as to resign as pres l ident.
 l W. D. Ricker's Pharmacy will close Sundays hereafter from 10 to 12.-adv l As Lincoln's day comes on Monday isome of the churches will hold pa ! triotic services the previous day Sunday, February 11th. | Miss Teresa Brown, principal of the l Saltonstall school. New London, an oc- casional Norwich visitor, is seriously ill with pneumonia at her home on Ocean avenue.
 A meeting of the heads of the va-i- ous democratic clubs of the state has | been called by State Organizer Lynch
 
 Hotel Taft. At Christ church Friday morning the Feast of the Purification (Candle- mas day). holy communion was cele- brated at 10 o'clock by the rector. Rev Richard R. Graham.
 The Moosup Weekly Journal says: Rev. c. A. Northrup, city missionary of Norwich. preached an able and help full sermon Sunday morning on Chris tian Enthusias, at the Baptist church From patriotic women in Baltic, Mrs. Richard R. Graham has recently re- ceived and forwarded to New York to British American Relief headquarters, s15 in money and six pairs of knitted socks. An Essex correspondent writes: Miss Rosaile Riordan expects to con- . clude her duties this week. as teach CT of the 4-5 grades, grammar school. Miss Riordan will return to her home | in Norwich.
 This weeks meeting of the Church Improvement society of the Second Congregational church was a thimble tea in the rooms over the Otis library, about g attending. Mrs. D. $. Havi- land was in charge.
 The judges of the Connecticut su- perior court holding divorce sessions
 
 stricter and more positive corrobora- tive testimony in divorce cases in the opinion of attorneys.
 Charles Harrison. the tenor who de- lighted the audience at the Bas-Clef concert in Norwich, January 26th. be- gins a two months tour in the Middle West March 1st. with the Minneapo- lis symphony orchestra. Children's books recently required by the Otis library include: Christ mas in all countries America Austria Germa ny. Holland. Italy. Japan. Rus sia, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland. Miss Grace F. Dart. daughter of MT. Walter R. Shelley of New London, were married at the home of the brides parents Wednesday evening at S.So o'clock by Rev. George R. Atha-
 Past Grand Exalted Ruler Edward Leach of the Ell<s is receiving the sympathy of state Elks in the death of hIs mother, Mrs. Mary A. Leach l The funeral was held Friday at Orient Heights.
 Holland county tobacco growers have learned that the National Tobacco Growers association annual conven- ton is to be held at the Hartford Chamber of Commerce on May 2S and 29. Growers all over the country will be present.
 Patrick Cunningham, former owner of a Wiilimantic hotel. who died in New York, Wednesday. established a furniture and undertaking business in Danbury in 1885 with Thomas F. Foran. later of WiIlimantic, now of New London.
 Visitors from all over the country who come each September to the Fair in Norwich will miss the late William A. Gallup, who for many years had charge of the entries of fruit. grain and vegetables in exhibition hall and was widely known.
 Variable weather this week has pre- vented John H. Ford from cutting ice on the Marx pond, from which he or dinarily gets 1000 tons for his two houses there. He may try cutting to- day. Early in the week the ice was 1-2 inches thick.
 A total of 3S cases. the largest num- Der in several years, were claimed for a hearing at the short calendar session of the superior court at Mid dletown Friday morning before Judge Milton A. Shumkay, of Danielson. In cluded in the number were five un- contested divorce cases.
 The embargo placed on carloads and less than carload shipments by the Railroad company, January 26 for points on the company's line from con- meeting roads will be continued until midnight February 6. according to a notice issued Wednesday,.
 When the twenty fifth anniversary of Cheerful DoerS circle of the order of Kings Daughters was celebrated at kI- .