Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

| VARIOUS MATTERS The moon fuIls tomorrow. the 2sth, I at 4:52 a. m.
 Light vehicle lamps at 4:55 o'clock this evening A few of the Christmas trees went | into the discard Wednesday. Fifty printed calling cards for 35 cents at The Bulletin Ofice.-adv. A Christmas festival is to be held l by North Stonington grange Friday 1 evening.
 Junior Liberty choruses are being | organized in some of the schools about | the state.
 Belated parcel post Christmas gifts | continued to reach the Norwich post office Wednesday.
 Sessions at Storrs College were re- stunned Wednesday the college closing only for Christmas day room in the Thayer building with new zest, following the holiday. Most of the factories about town were hurnming Wednesday after the brief shutdown for Christmas. The number of Civil war pensioners l in Connecticut is S,217 and the annual ar,1ount paid them is $1964si09.51@ To the surprise of local merchants | there was no after Christmas lull yes tehrday but business continued good. The Christmas social and entertain ment of the Central Baptist Sunday school is to be held tomorrow evening. Rev. Raymond Maplestiem. field secretary of Sufield School. and fre- quent visitor in Norwich, is ill at the l school.
 At Broadway Congregational church this (Thursday) evening. the prayer I meeting subject will be The Unexpect- | ed in Jesus.
 Today, the feast Of St. John. the Evangelist there will be the celebra- ton of Holy Communion in the Epis- copal churches.
 Companies I and K, Norwich Home Guards will have battalion drill at the < armory this (Thrrsday) evening by Major John A. Hagberg.
 Yesterdays sun did not thaw the snow much, as the temperature records showed a mark of about 28 degrees even in the middle of the day. Wednesday afternoon. a meeting of Auxiliary. W. B. M, of the Second Congregational church was held at the parsonage with the president, Mrs Herbert J. Wyckoff.
 In spite of the scarcity of sugar, many Benevolent Norwich housewives have remembered the hospitals with the GUS tonary holiday donations of jellies, jarffs and fruit juices. There is to be a total eclipse of the moon tomorrow, December 2S, visible hsre. The moon enter the suns shadow at 3h.. 5n., a. m. leaves the shadow at 6h. 27 m. a. m.
 Morgan G. BuIkeley, a formsr gover- nor of Connecticut, United States sen ator and first president of the National
 baseball league, was born at East
 Haddam @ years ago yesterday.
 Earl D. wilson, who heads the boys
 mems Christian Association is looking
 for accommodations for the 800 boys
 who are expected to arrive in that city
 Friday the 18th.
 The embargo on shipments of ex-
 press matter through the agency of
 the Adams Express company has been
 lifted on all kinds of shipments to all
 most all points, according to an an-
 nouncement made Tuesday.
 The State W. c. T. U. appointments
 Of superintendents of departments in
 cluile, Social Meetings, Mrs. Jennie P. Scripture, Wfllin1antic; Medal contests,
 Mrs. A. E. Cutler, Mystic; Work Anrong
 Soldiers and Sailors. Mrs. Carrie A. Griggs, Willimantic.
 It is an interesting fact that even
 the violent and destructive patients at
 the Norwich State hospital seem quiet
 ed and impressed by the holiday deco rations, never attempting to remove them The. wards are especially at
 tractive this Christmas. Harold A. Brundage, assistant cou'n- .ty agent for the Fairfield County Farm Bureau has resigned to become boys and girls club leader for both Iitch- ] field and Hartford counties. Mir. Brun- dage is a graduate of the Connecticut
 Agricultural college at Storrs.
 The work of sending out the aues- tionnaires to drafted men in the juris- diction of the exemption board for Di- vision No. 23 including all of Holland County was finished Wednesday morning. More than 400 were mailed and will be returnab1e next week Thursday.
 Twenty-Five or thirty sacks of mail for Forts Wright and Terry were at the New London post office to go over on the first boat Wednesday,. Christ mas day there was no boat. to the forts
 so that many of the men must have missed the Christmas presents from friends and relatives.
 At Merjjwood, the beautiful resi- dencs of Mir: and Mrs. Joseph Brewer
 Of Milton. Mass, Saturday afternoon,
 theff daughter. Miss Rachel Sfocum
 Hrewer. became the bride of Prof. Ells-
 worth Huntington. research associate
 in geography at Yale University. a rel
 atve of the Guliiver family, of Nor
 wich.
 Miss Fl A. Cater, chairman of the
 New Isonaon Humane society, re