Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-06
OEsesatastiga.
 Norwich, Monday, May s, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Country visitors returned to town with the first of the apple blossoms.
 The Hotel Griswold is to open June that house.
 Special services will be held in the churches Thursday next, Ascension Day.
 The lobstermen about Watch Hill report very small catches of Holsters | this season so far.
 Rev. G. A. Smith is the new pastor i at the M. E. church in Oneco, coming ! from Niantic, Conn
 Herbert O. Clough, of West Hart i ford, has been elected superintendent i of the schools in Vernon.
 The tie train working on the New Haven road is putting up at the Say brook Point round house daily.
 During Sunday afternoon there were 36 visitors to the Otis library reading room. Miss Mildred D. Rogers was in charge.
 A sign at the rooms of the Young Mems Hebrew Association, on Lower Broadway, announces that all soldiers and sailors are welcome.
 From Voluntown Miss Margaret Riddelle has gone to Putnam to work at the county home for children. She is to be employed at sewing.
 The May mass for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the parish boys ill the country's service will be offered at St. Patrick's church today.
 An arrangement of gay tulips com bined with decorative evergreens at the L. o. Libbey residence. 121 Broad way, is an attractive novelty.
 A number from the Central Baptist church plan to attend the sessions of the Northern Baptist convention to be held at Atlantic City May 15-21.
 A state executive board meeting of the Kings Daughters and Sons was aeld in Hartford last week to arrange for the annual convention in October.
 A Noank man. Capt. Joseph Sistare has been in Norwich to purchase bar relS for use of Noank fishermen who ship their fish and Holsters to the city markets.
 The public will not hear much about it, but every individual bank worker in Norwich has had a valiant part in the brilliant success of the Liberty
 an drive.
 Scores of sailors from the subma- rine base were in Norwich Saturday and Sunday and it was noteworthy that so many of them had brought cameras along.
 The two curates of St. Patricks parish will begin Tuesday taking the annual census, visiting the Main and | East Main street sections, Laurel Hill and Thamesville.
 Six Sisters of Mercy of this diocese | have just completed twenty five yeas | of religious life, one being Sister M l Ambrose, superior of St. Michael's ] convent, Pawcatuck. | Saturday at o'clock, in St. Pat rick's church, an anniversary requiem 1 high mass for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Catherine Good was sung by Rev. J. H. Broderick. i t is rUmored at Hebron that Jared 2 Tenant will soon leave for New Lon ! don, where he will work in the ship ! yard. and that Miss Bertha Porter will 5e postmistress there.
 Lernuel c. Fielding is another of Trinity Methodist Sunday school boys . In the service of the country He is On a submarine chaser in European l waters. The honor roll of that church is now 24.
 i. Five per cent. was added to all water bills remaining unpaid April 20th. A further addition of 50 cents was added to the same bills still unpaid May 1st A still further addition of s1 will be made to the same bills if not paid or or before May 10th. 191S.-adv. A Chinaman who has been under ob- servation in the Groton lookup for the past few days because a laundrymar with whom he was working was taker to Norwich as a scarlet fever patient was released Saturday.
 The Liberty loan committee request ed that all publicity matter which ha. been displayed in the store windows and elsewhere be taken down as soor as the campaign closed which wa.
 Saturday night, May f.
 The run of shad in the Connection
 river continues only medium. Tn,
 fish are of fairly good size, five to si.
 pounds each. The crews are haulin! in 20 to 60 daily The tide freshet
 mokes the nets hard to manage. In talk to his people on matter of general Darish interests Sunday. tn a rector of St. Patrick's church. Rev
 John H. Broderick stated that the cos Of all parish supplies had advanced il 3 a marked degree during the past year
 G. r. Heublein of Hartford admit
 that he has turned over to the gov
 eminent the use of his 52-foot powe
 boat, the Frances Louise, being pu
 into commission at Essex, where sh - had been laid up. This 80 horsepowe
 craft was built in Mystic in 1914, In the family of the late Martin ( Chapman, of Pendleton Hill. by mer \ accident, the discovery was made tha the widow and her three daughter had modestly purchased a $25O bon
 each-$1000 between the four, with an other member of the family yet to bu
 a bond.
 At Wequetequock, cards have bee
 received from Oscar Eccleston, broth CT of Mrs. N. G. Main. now in Cam
 Upton. MT. Eccleston is stationed tw miles from Harold Shea, who yer from the Norwich Westerly trolle line when MT. Eccleston did.-West erly News.
 The Connecticut members of tr