Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

the church calendar today. Solicitors to the K. of c. war fund will visit you. Be Hberal.-adv.
 This has been a month of postponed meetings for many of the organiza- tions.
 The one session signal for the younger children was sounded Tues- day noon.
 F7oded cellars bothered many house holders during the heavy rain yester- day morning.
 -- There has been two feet of water over the trolley track at Chester farm in Noank at times since Saturdays storm.
 The bureau of fisheries, department of commerce. is distributing a poster giving reasons for eating oysters more generally.
 Rockville's coal shortage has been temporarily relieved by the arrival of fifteen cars of soft coal for the big factories.
 
 schools have been making study of President wilson's address at the opening of congress. Yesterdays was bad storm for the street department. since sand was washed off the walks almost as soon as it had been sprinkled. Miss Grace Stockford and Roy T. c-A -S-rI,& at the brides home in Fairview ave- nue, Groton, by G. A. Atha. In spite of. bad weather many shop pers from surrounding places con- tinue to come to town to take advan- tage of the January inventory sales. Neighbors in many places are chucktng, because men who were hoariing potatoes to force up prices l lost much of their store during the re- cent frost.
 The two big passenger and freight steamers Manhattan and Narragan- sett, that have been tied up at New London for several years have been I taken over by the government. The regular meeting of the House 1 wives Army will be held in the Buck ingham Memorial Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 3 o'clock. Miss N. J. Campbell will speak on Emergency Food.-adv. During Tuesday mornings ice and rain storm, a number of little children returning from the kindergartens fell on the slippery walks, some of them requiring the aid of adults to reach their homes.
 The Sunday afternoon vesper ser- vice of St. Patrick's church 41as beer given up for the present in the inte- rest of coal conservation. Benedictior of the Blessed Sacrament is given fol lowing high mass.
 The New York, New Haven ant Hartford railroad is asking its pa irons to make special effort this weel to move freight and release cars in or der to facilitate the work of relieving the railroad congestion.
 Most of the draymen. milkmen ant delivery drivers were careful to keel their horses protected by storm GOV CTS during yesterdays rain. These GOV CTS are of heavy duck. with water Iproof dressing of paraffne.
 The K. of c. drive is on. Do no only your bit, but your best.-adv. Mrs. Frederick A. Byrnes and Mis- Mary B. Richards, who have charg of the fund donated for holiday enter tainments at the Norwich Tubercu1osi Sanatorium, have received contribu tion from Mrs. John F. Rogers. At the Falls Club this winter, un der the supervision of Miss Alice VI Cogswell, there is a sewing school a
 usual and a cooking class, instructe
 by Miss lone D. Haviland The club i a department of the United Workers Nineteen of the thirty Boy Scout of Trinity Methodist church held
 driT in the church parlors Monday ey ening, after which they were led in
 series of enjoyable games zy visitc in town. Mir. Fowler, of North Adam
 Mass.
 A Norwich wholesale firm which
 normal years received 100 barrels (S5 000 pounds) of sugar every week, rt
 ceived 36 bags (360O pounds), Tue.
 day, the first for a week, and had< distribute this to 300 retail dealers,
 10 pound bag lots.
 At the January meeting of the No :, wich Medical society held at Backl
 hospital, Dr. Frank J. Harper read 8 :. interesting paper on Visceroptosis. D
 John s. Blackmar, who left Monde ' to enter the service at a Georgia can was presented a pigskin hat bag. No more bodies have been found } the ruins of the south wing of u
 main building of the Connecticut Sta . Hospital for the Insane, destroyed | fire, Thursday morning, at Middletow | The work of searching the ruins is hazardous the men are going about \ cautiously.
 q The current issue of The White Ri
 bon Banner says: The Norwich unit has opened it's fiscal year with ve
 promising outlook. The new presidel 2 Mrs. Arthur Wyman. returned from t
 state convention with a determin ]. tion to have local women realize the
 responsibility.
 Il The committee of the Groton Heigh E grammar school had recent meetil
 and decided that the school could n
 open until at least ten tons of co
 could be had. The furnaces have be,
 put in good condition, but no coal
 in sight. It takes one ton a day
 heat the building.
 H Hollands honor ron includes Jam Lynd Taylor, died in action in Franc Nj October, 1916; George Elliott Metca