Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 The R. F. D. carriers will have a holiday Tuesday next, New Years day.
 Most of the early trains running through here are loaded with express matter.
 Knitting bags and other articles at reduced prices at Woman's Exchange adv.
 Connecticut visitors report the tenn perature in Vermont last week as SS below zero.
 Two men are still kept busy on the parcel post delivery wagon for the Norwich post office. Friday, Holy Innocents' Day, there was the celebration of holy comnun- ion at Christ church by the rector, Rev. Richard R. Graham The soft snow of Friday. falling on the ice, made walking dangerous un- til the sun melted the new snow.
 After severe nasal hemorrhages which left her in a somewhat weak ened condition, Mrs. N. D. Sevin is recovering, at her home on Church street.
 Be sure you're there, New Years eve, at the Elks' dance. Tickets soc a couple.-adv.
 Berlin Grange will open a farm school in Grange Hall the last week in January, under the direction of the Connecticut Agricultural College at Storrs.
 Some of the boys in Eastern Con necticut towns have made their first payment of g to the Red Triangle Y- M. c. A. fund. pledged during the re- cent big drive.
 The Stafford Springs Press notes , that Dr. and Mrs: G: P Bard were in and Mrs. Harold B. AIowry, all for merly of Norwich.
 Government tree inspectors and at W. c. Browns at Ashford for sew eral weeks. have finished their work and have gone elsewhere. Dec. 51, New Years eve, is gala night at the Elks' dance. Tickets soc couple at the door.-adv.
 !, An Ellington man, George D. Ban croft, has returned to New York af ter spending Christmas with his fam fly. Since his last visit home he has made a trip to France with some of Uncle Sam's soldiers.
 The residents of Lords Point are responding cheerfully in contributing street lights the past summer. It is hoped another season to extend the service in several other locations. New Years Day the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, following it's usual custom, will omit a number of local trains into and out of New + TTyney To,. A drive will be started in the pub- 1 lie schools of the state Monday, Jan. i ', for the purpose of securing 8 mini ! mum of 50 per cent. of the school children of Connectiiut provided with 2 25 cent thrift stamp and a thrift | card.
 Men, hear Rev. J. W. Areson at Y. M. c. A. Sunday at s.3O. Orchestra and vocal solos.-adv. Monday is the last day for getting I the new automobile markers. and any | one who has not by the end of that | day made arrangements with the de- | partment for getting his marker will | find that he is unable to use his car in 1918.
 | Owing to changes made at the last general convention of the Episcopal | church the fiscal year of the Episco-
 
 | Jan. 1 and end Dec. 31 of the same year, instead of ending at Easter time, as formerly.
 The Norwich branch of the wo- | mans League for National Service, Mrs. John D. Hall chairman, provided 1 Christmas cheer for five families with nine children, where the husbands are children were cared for.
 Daily reports on the health of all l the cities and towns in the state will be kept during the ensuing year Dr. 1 John T.. Black, secretary of the de- | partment, announced that a system
 has been worked out and will be put i in operation January 1.
 Funeral services were held at Wa terbury Wednesday for Jared Beecher
 Blakeslee. Fl, who died Saturday night. He leaves his wife. one son | Edwin Blakeslee of Thomaston and
 Joseph Blakeslee of Lebanon.
 Miss Grace M. Thompson. daughter
 of Mrs. G. H. M. Thompson, of 4s Blydenburg avenue, New London, and M. Theodore Lee of Glasgow, Scot | land, were married Thursday evening at New London by Rev c. Harley Methodist church.
 | Since the assumption by the gov ernment of control of the New Haven | and other railroads in the United States, officers at the state recruiting statoans expect orders from the war department waiving the necessity for the payment of fares for recruits sent
 to training camps.
 I A letter has been received from
 Somewhere in France by Rev. John | o. Barrows, of Norwich Town, from l Ira Hart Moves of Stonington,> who has been transferred to a hospital | nearer the front. His address is Camp | Hosp. No. lS, U. s. Military, P. O. | 707, A. E. F., France.
 Much interest was expressed here | Friday in the announcement that G. | Warren Davis was to go out of the | milk business Monday. MT. Davis says
 it is matter of high prices of grain
 and scarcity of help and that the