Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-26
VARIOUS MATTERS

Today is calendar day for February
 Light vehicle lamps at 5:25 this evening.
 skaters were trying the ice on Gardner lake.
 Tn number of Connecticut towns
 Carpenters and other outdoor work | CTS appreciated the rising temperature Thursday.
 These are good days to remember I for the birds.
 School attendance is being affected | by cases of grip colds and other win | ter ailments among the pupils. 1 Early as it is, real estate dealers are I country places from possible city pur- | chasers.
 Road-buiIders hereabouts are re- | ceiving tickets to the National Good Roads congress to be held in Boston | in February.
 This is Girls Friendly week and special services are being held in Episcopal churches which have branches of the society. The Sunday school teachers and of dcers of the Second Congregational church are to have a supper in the Junior room this evening. Thursdays steamer reports noted that the Tenadores, with Norwich pas sergers aboard. had reached Bocas del .'oro ,on the trip to Havana At the poultry show in Middletown. prize awards in the single-comb White Leghorn class included Oak ridge Farms, Norwich, first hen.
 Thursday. the feast of the con version of St. Paul. Rev. J. Eldred Brown celebrated the holy commun- ion at Trinity Episcopal church. Al Hadda1n correspondent notes that David Carlson has returned to ter course in live stock and farm bookkeeping.
 Although there has been consider able cold weather this winter plumbers have had a rather dull season, as far as work mending leaking water pipes is concerned.
 District Superintendent G. G. Scriv- ener, who held conference at the Methodist church in Bridgeton, R. I. Thursday, is to be at North Grosven- ordale church today.
 Richard A. Storrs, supervisor of ag- ricUlture in Colchester and Lebanon, has resigned and is to take a large farm in his home town, Cheshire, moving there February l.
 School principals are receiving lit- erature pertaining to the annual meet ing of the National Society for the Promotion Of Industrial Education at Indianapolis, Ind, from Feb. 21 to "A.
 At the last meeting of Senexet grange, South Woodstock, interesting reports of the state grange meeting at Norwich were given by Worthy Master Hamilton and Assistant Lecturer Mt- chael L. Whyte.
 Useful books recently acquired by the Otis library are by H. E. Collins, and deal with such topics as Pipes and Piping; Pumps. trouble and remedies;; Shaft Governors, centrifugal and in etia, and Steam Turbines.
 Many relatives and friends of the deceased members of the Holy Name society attended a mass for the re- pose of their souls, sung in St. Pat rfcks church Thursday at eight o'clock by Rev. J. H. Broderick.
 The committees in charge of the banquet of the Rockville Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday evening in the office of President Smythenan to name the toastmaster and speakers for the banquet, which comes Feb. Tth.
 An invitation has been sent out by Mrs. Florence s. Marcy Crofut, regent attend the course of free lectures which the chapter is to conduct this winter in the old state house in Hart ford.
 Among the measures introduced in the general assembly yesterday was a bill providing for the appropriation of SIG, 900 for the maintenance of a sum- mer school for teachers at the State Normal school in Danbury for a peri cd of two years.
 The United States Civil service commission announces for Feb. 6 an examination for specialist in dairy cattle breeding. for men only, to fill a dustry, Department of Agriculture, at a salary ranging from $2,5o9 to $3,000.
 William F. Webb of Mystic an- ter, Miss Ruth c. Webb, to Dr. John A. Wentworth of Portland. Me. The wedding will take place this summer. Miss Webb Is a graduate of the Hart ford Hospital Training School for Nurses.
 With Alden Miner of North Ston- ington and Hopkinston leading, Walter 1 Miner, Fred Mathews and Alden Miner 1 of Ashaway captured two unusually | large gray foxes the other day. They had been feasting for some time past 1 on hens from 6 flock owned by Walter Kenyon.
 Thursday evening the Center prim- ary school at North Stonington was in session from to o'clock and the grammar school from to g, illustrat- ing the regular work of the schools. | Supervisor Lowell of Norwich and State Inspector of Schools H. O. 1 C1ough were present.
 There is encouragement for farmers and farmers sons. who are trappers, in yesterdays reports that at the big fur auction in New York, there was a 20 per cent. advance on prices for | all belts. sales taking in mink, wild cat, house cat, ermine, beaver, civet 1 cat, mole, opposSum and wolf. Informal Reception for New Pastor. |