Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Tides will be high today.
 Light vehicle lamps at 4.54 o'clock this evening.
 Fifty printed calling cards for s5 cents at The Bulletin Office-adv.
 Sales of flowers and towering plants have been brisk for the past week. There will be the usual exchanging of holiday gifts by the dissatisfied to- day.
 There has been comparatively little 6shing through the ice so far this winter.
 Steamer Chelsea from New York reached her wharf in good season Tuesday.
 Some of the Norwich banks have already started Christmas clubs for the coming year.
 The Otis library has grouped all it's looks dealing with the topics of avia- ton and submarines. Traffic on the New Haven railroad assumed big proportions Monday night and Tuesday morning.
 The sleighing has disappeared and the snow is melting rapidly as the result of fog and rain-
 Many of the trolley car crews were aiven smokes enough Christmas day to last them over New Years. Sunday next is the quarterly com munion Sunday for the Holy Name society of St. Patrick's parish. Toyland in most of the stores was a sold -out department by Christmas eve, the sales having been big and profit able.
 The early afternoon and evening trolley cars into Norwich Tuesday brought large crowds bound to the theatres.
 John Trayner, Oswald Patterson and Earl Cough1in. of Pequetanuck, while on a fishing trip to the Pits. caught T. fine pickerel.
 Most of the soldiers and sailors who were home for the holiday were obliged to return to camps and sta
 few patrons of the Norwich tele- phone exchange. appreciating the ser vice of the operators, remembered them with boxes of Christmas candy.
 The Christmas day weather furnish ed a variety. including fog, sunshine snow, rain and sieet with moonlight through the clouds in the early even ing.
 If there were any destitute or din- neriess families in Norwich yesterday 1t certainly was not the fault of the -ligilant and generous charitable or eaniza tiOnS.
 At Hebron an agricultural meeting will be held in the town hall today, Dec. 26th for the milk producers. A speaker from New York will make the address.
 The first Sunday evening of the new year will be celebrated by having a noted 'ccliist from Boston, Carl Web stef, play for tlie congregation at the Central Baptist church.
 Many of the thousands who have sent packages during the Christmas rush have commented on. the unfail- ing patience. courtesy and heipfulhess of the postoffice employees. At the January term, of the supreme court scheduled to convene in Hartford next Tuesday the only case from %indham county is that of the town of Chaplin against the town of Bloom field.
 Miss Anna Rowland and Charles Chapman of Lyme on Tuesday of last week were married at the brides home After a short wedding trip they will keep house in the Grumley house at Saybrook. 45,.
 The Ancient Order of Hibernians has sent notices to the state officers urging them to impress the mem Bers of the various divisions the need 0 fgenefosity in the cause of suffer ing Halifax.
 A busy worker for the Red Cross g nd the Woman's league is Mrs. Gym thfa Allen. mother of pr. J. H. Alien, of 76 Church street. who, at S4, is knitting socks for the boys in Uncle Sam's service.
 Last week eight of the Second Con- Eresational church families reported On food saving. total of 94 wheat less. III meatless and 16S wasteless meals, according to reports put on the
 George T. Meech, president of Meech & Stoddard. Inc, of Middletown reach cd his 74tn birthday Dee; 22d; He went to Middlstown in 1866, after serv- Ing over three years in the union army. Knights of Pythias about the state have been :r1 Hartford to inspect the q ambulance purchased by the K. Of P. pf this state and presented to the Tenth regiment. It will be sent to Camp Devens, from where it is to be shipped to Trance. e.---
 A letter received in Meriden by Rev. A. q. Randall, a native of Poduetarl- llck. from his son John, who is in the Lafayette escadri1le. states that the young n1an's first duty will probably be guarding heavy observation aero- planes from attack.
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 A solid freight train of s25 cars go- ing through xMiddletown on the Air Line from Bostoh. drawn by one of the-i