Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-14

rooms. MISS MlluEeu D' no6eEs WAs in charge.
 Trinity Methodist church calendar contained the memorial minute: In memoriam, Mrs. Clara s. Obrien, 1S2S-191S.
 Many of the winter tenants at Nep- tune Park have had trouble, water pipes in the cottages freezing during the past two weeks.
 Get tickets at once for Y. M. C.. A. course at the "Y" or Barrows' shoe store.-adv.
 Nearly score of artillerymen from the island forts reached Norwich on the 4.45 trolley car Saturday afternoon for Sunday furlough.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Union Congregational church at Rockville has given a s10O Liberty bond to the parish house fund of the church.
 This weeks meeting of the Vineyard Workers of the Central Baptist church is to be held with Mrs Squire Gregson of the Joseph Perkins road.
 Some of the rural mail carriers had to cut path with an axe last week through the e-burdened trees which had fallen along their routes.
 Temperatures not far above zera were recorded early Sunday morning and although the sun was bright, cutting wind prevailed all day. rt
 Two more stars, No. IA and No. b, have been added to the Second church service flag for Winfred Charles Young and Theodore z. Haviland, respective ly.
 Those who have ordered tickets for !. M. c. A. course are asked to call at the "Y" for thern.-adv. '
 St. Mary's Total Abstinence and Be- nevolent society, organized Jan. 2s, 1861, has completed and had framed the society's mortuary roll, list of SS names.
 For the repose of the soul of Mrs. Margaret Sullivan, a months mind high mass of requiem was sung in St. Patrick's church recently by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 In an order issued from the head
 
 Home guard Friday, a chance is given to men in the ranks to qualify for commissions.
 The city missionary, Rev. C. A. Nor throp, is unable to secure enough coal to meet the demands of the poor and is giving out wood, for which exorbi- tant prices are charged.
 Beginning just before i o'clock Sat urday morning, there was brief near blizzard, followed by heavy rain storm and rising temperature which carried off most of the ice.
 A report concerning the permanent union of the Broadway and Second Congregational churches is to be dis tributed in print before it's discussion is taken up Thursday evening. The Yarn Shop at No. r Cliff street has a wonderful new assortment of yarns. Good Shepherd Agency It is getting hard to find anyone at Bolton to chop wood, there is such demand for choppers. The price has risen from $2 cord at the beginning of winter to $2.50 and s2.75 cord. An invitation has been received by Sunshine branches hereabouts to at- | tend the Fist birthday celebration oi the Universal Sunshine society to be held at the Hotal McAlpin, New York Tuesday, Jan. 15, from until { o'clock.
 George H. Rathbun, 71, who dieG Thursday night at his home ill Bloom. l 6o1d of Af born in Richmond, R. l., April 27, 1SA7 eldest son of George T. and Sarah A Rathbun. He went to Bloomfield t,
 live in 1869.
 Postal employees are warned again
 in an order issued from the office O
 the postmaster general and published
 in the government postal bulletin Sat
 urday. against contractingN debt
 which they have no reasonable pros
 pect of paying"
 Norwich dealers have been notifie
 that the annual convention of the Con
 necticut Retail Hardware Dealers as
 sociation is to be held in Waterbur, Feb. 12 and 1S, at The Elton, fron : noon of the first day until the after noon of the second. It was announced Sunday at S Patricks church by Rev. J. H. Bred erick that the parish school would ope today, although, as the supply of coa
 is short, 1t was impossible to te whether it could be kept open through : out the winter term or not. : A kindergarten taught by Miss Eliz
 abeth'Crowe, cooking class instruct
  sewing schools taught by about "A vol : unteers are being maintained at th ? United Workers house this winter. su I pervised for the fifth year by Mis 1 Alice W. Cogswell. ..-~ The Second Congregational churo Q calendar said Sunday: Our gratef, appreciation of the generous courtes or the Broadway church in offerin the mother church shelter in tx T daughter's home in these difficult daJ ] nas been transmitted by written wor
 to the proper authorities.
 Because of last weeks fire in u
 MldoletoWn state insane asylum, [ more new patients will be taken the, 8 for a time, but all wilt be copnmitte to the Norwich state asylum, the s, perintendent, pr. Wilcox, has been nc
 tified. The total population of tf Middletown hospital was 2,600 patient Neil O'Brien's minstrels. a rece, attraction at the Davis theatre, ocean stalled in West Virginia the other ds when railroad orders stopped the mo,
 ing of Pullman cars. Mir. oHBrien .g
 in communication with Director Ger \ eral McAdoo, with the result that a
 order was issued to move the minstr