Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-02


 December will be from the 18th to the. goth.
 All the schools will open this morning, following the br;ef Thanks giving recess.
 Unusually long and heavy freight trains were run through Norwich | Saturday and Sunday,
 Since Saturday the e,In has been setting at 4.ls and will so continue until Monday next, the 9th. A New London patient, Mrs. Julia Cleary, has been committed to the State Hospital at Mansfield.
 Violent west winds yesterday Tnora- | ing broke off many dead twigs and branches of the shade trees.
 Xmas sale of fancy articles today. Dec Sd and 4th, at Buckingham Me- morial, by Mrs. Hadley G. Gray.-adv.
 The last of the visitors who came to town for family reunions on the ! holiday left Norwich Sunday eyen-' | ing,
 A memorial mass for Corporal Ans thony Ronip Jr,, killed in action. is | to be held in St. Ratriek's church today.
 ] The Merry Four will give dance in l 1, "A D. | 4 Rewlands Jazz orchestra will fur l nish the rnusic.-adv.
 1 Norwich merchants expressed sur prise and qualification Saturday over l the good trade, since Saturday after | a holiday is apt to be dull l This weeks social meeting of the 1 Vineyard Workers of the Central Bap- 1 ;ist church, is to De held with Mrs. S. l I3. Palmer,s 14e Broad street. The current White Ribbon Banner complains ti;at while Jewett City voted no-lic,nse, an effort to have 1 old liquor signs removed Las faal- 1 ed.
 | Illumination of the one-half cent a l mile extra railroad fare for Pullman 1 transportation, effective yesterday, 1 December l. was decided on by Di- l recter General MeAdoe.
 Charles J. Bennett, state highway commissioner, will have at his dis posal the coming winter. thirty five I truck nlaws equipped with the fast 1 est working snow removers.
 The federal fuel administrator has relnQuished supervision of the dis tribuion of coal for stelm purposes and all restrictions upon distribution and storage have been removed.
 Last year the cost of snow removal in this stata was $50 e0D for 1 ,00C miles of highway. The estimate of the expense of Keeping the principal two way traffic roads clear is about s4t a mile.
 The supreme lodge Knights oi Pythias, ordered every subordinate lodge to hold Thanksgiving services sometime during the week of Novem- Der s6. which was Victory Thanks: giving week.
 At the Saint Andrews Day cele. hration of the holy communion at Trinity Episcopal church, Rev Rich. ard F. Graham. of Christ church, off. ciatcd. assisted by the rector of Trin- ity, Rev., J. Eldred Brown.
 Annual display Of gifts fer Christ mas al Weman's Exchange. Beautiful handiwork in aprons, handkerchiefs yokes, collars, leather articles, xrna' cards, etc.-adv.
 At the annual lodge of sorrow c Rockville lodge, No. 1859. E. P. O. E , Sunday afternoon, the music was b, : tie Tempo orchestra. of Hartford, an the address was delivered by Attorne z. J. Dannaher. of Meriden.,
 Because of the epidemic in Raleigh N. C., Meredith college, where Mis- 1 Marion E. Stark, daughtar of MT. an Mrs. Charles L. Stark. of Norwich. l q member of the faculty, is unde stxict quarantine, although the col ,ege has not 3 case of influenza.
 At Chester, MT. and Mrs. r. W. Sill . irlan held their annual family reunio Thanksgiving day. This year, tn gathering totalled S5. Guests inelud
 
 l ana child of Poquonock, 13r, and MT. l Raymond SilIiman and child of Mont } 1 vile. , The American Railway Express Company has rescinded the orde placing an embargo on the shippin of standard bred poultry for breed ing purposes. good news to poultr breeders as all shipments will be car ried by all express companies with out delay
 Housewives found 1t unusually dii
 f1eult, prior 10 Thanksgiving, to bu - sIpaih or medium sized turkeys, sine
 the food administration discoura ge
 the killing ard sale Of hen turkey
 weighing less than eight Eaunds an
 young tom turkeys weighing less tha
 twelve pounds.
 Where the entire proceeds of
 church fair or entertainment go {
 the treasury of the church no war ta
 need be paid, but if any part got
 to an auxiliary of the church then u
 tax must be paid, unless special pei
 mission Is received from J. J. Walls
 collector. New Haven.
 The Unitea States Civil Seryit
 commission announces for January
 and February an examination f.
 assistant observer Weather BuFea
 for men and women. Vacsne in o
 fees of the Weather Bureau tf4rougi - out the United States at s1, 800 a ye; E will be filled from this examination. " When the recent feast of St. Cecel s was observed at Mount Saint Jose, p+ Academy, Hamilton Heights, Hartfor
 by a musicale. numbers on the pr
 gramme by two Norwlah studen
 were: Valse Briilante .Ab. Moszkoy :. ski. Catherine Desmond, and St. c * celia, Life Sketch. by Aiary v. Dri - coll.
 Although the three Norwich ice des
 CTS had stored a total of about 2e,0
 tons for the summer trade, two are ed out and are nov buying, while t
 third was forced to buy in Mass
 chusetts as early as July and Aug11
 so that therD has been little profit ct the trade and the new crop is need,
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