Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-31
1eGnllEtin Norwich, Thursday, Got. s1, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

still cutting some beautiful blossoms
 This (Fhursday) evening there is to be a Halloween masqueracse ball at Palmertown.
 Thermometers in Norwich registered 70 degrees at noon Wednesday for the third successive day.
 Owners of gates and gardens wiu need to be on the alert tonight for visitors up to Halloween pranks.
 The Bill library at Groton is now open Tuesdays and Thursdays from ? to 6 D. m. and Saturdays from to P. m.
 At o'clock Tuesday in St. Patrick's church, months mind requiem high mass for Miss Elizabeth Burke was sung by the rector, Rev. J. H. Broder- ick
 Norwich merchants state thar there is considerable quiet holiday gift buy ing this early in the season. when it is the best time to pick up real bar gains.
 For chrysanthemum sale for the benefit of New London Red Cross chapter the flowers are to be given by Mir. and Mrs. Morton F. Plant of Eastern Point.
 Smelts are not being caught in any considerable numbers in this section yot. Fishermen claim that a few frosty, nippy mornings are needed to set the little fish to biting.
 A Centerbrook correspondent men, tlons that Mrs. Augusta Fox, who has been visiting Mrs. Charles L. Jones, has gone to Willimantic to visit her daughter, Mrs. G. c, Rathburn.
 Out of a hundred and twenty fam lilies in the village of Flanders, East Lyme, over seventy-five have not had the Spanish influenza, some families having as many as SIX members ill at once.
 The Groton and Stonington trolley division of the Shore Line Electric Railway is still short of operators for it's cars. making it necessary for the regulars to work overtime nearly ev- cry day.
 Food Administrator M. Wilson Dart has received word from the state food administrator that New London retail merchants will receive certificates for the next allotment of sugar within a short time.
 Local alumnae were invited to the ceremonies of Founders Day, cele- brated Wednesday at Mount Holyoke college, with Miss M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college, as the chief speaker.
 A number of patriotic little girls in Norwich, through Miss Dorothy Crowell, daughter of MT. and Mrs Nelson T. Crowell, have secured a nice box of linen articles for the French hospital shower being solicited by the Red Cross.
 Late Monday afternoon, Mrs. Ed ward Bates died in West Haven. Her husband, who was a Lyme boy. is left with five young children. Before marriage, Mrs. Bates was Miss Eliza Chapman of South Lyme.
 The funeral of Nathan A. Wood worth was held at his home at Quaker ! Hill at ? o'N0ck Tuesday afternoon The service was conducted by Rev. J Beveridge Lee. Burial was in Cedar Grove cemetery, New London.
 At Noank repairs have been made cn the former Palmer House, now the Bayside Inn. which has been opened for roomers and is patronized mostly by men employed in the se1pyard quarters for whom it is difficult tc find.
 A former Norwich resident now 1T | ' schools and theatres still closed be. cause of influenza. During the wors of the epidemic there the new case; numbered twelve or thirteen hundred daily.
 In a letter received Wednesday b, his aunt, Mrs. Lucy A. Sparks, 0 Norwich, from Sergeant Russel Sparks, of Mystic, he writes of beinj in good health and good spirits A present he IS doing outpost duty il France.
 Mir. and Mrs. Clarence ". Ford o 25 Bayonet street, New London, hay announced the engagement of thei Daughter, Miss Ida May Ford, to liar old c. Quinn. son of MT and Mrs l Frank Quinn, of 37 Williams street il that city.
 It is noted by an exchange tha Charles Hewitt of Poquonoc has ! pig about 10 months old which MT Hewitt claims will easily weigh 40 bounds. The pig is so fat that h can't stand up more than a minute 0 two at a time.
 Some of the old soldiers remembere, 1 Wednesday that October 30th was tn anniversary of the birth, in 1929, 0 Benjamin Franklin Stephenson, found CT of the G. A. R., born in Wayn county. Ill. He died at Rock Greek IL, Aug. 30. 1871.
 Although today, the vigil of tn Feast of All Saints in @ fasting da for Catholics who are under obliga ton to fast, tomorrow (Friday) bein holy day, there is no obligation t abstain from eating meat, the rul when a holy day falls on Friday.
 Albert Wotchick, arrested at tn Sussman farm in Mohegan by Debut Sheriff Michael J. Hickey, on a charg Of intoxication and the theft of hors from Norwich, when brought beror Judge Smiddy pleaded guilty and wa
 lined a dollar and costs, which h paid.
 Notification has been received her
 that the sixth annual meeting an
 luncheon of the Connecticut Bradfer
 Academy club will be held at the hom
 of Miss Ora Wood. 210 Bishop stree
 New Haven. Saturday, Nov g. Mis-
 Marian Coats, the new principal, wi
 be the guest of honor : A months mind high mass of re
 quiem was sung in St., Patrick's churc
 Wednesday morning at o'clock b Rev. John H. Brodetick, for Patric |oSoAoy' Nno uieu idSt month at h
 home on Fishers Island, and who wa
 son of the late MT. and Mrs. Patric
 Cassidy, of School street, Norwich. Some of the Connecticut courts hay
 been feeling the effects Of the CD
 demic. In the superior court at Ne . Haven Tuesday, although there wei 3 90 jurors called in the civil surerif
 court before Judge Kellogg. all b, Il were excused on grounds of il ness. Several did not appear at a
 The tuberculosis commission SCI five patients to the new hospital ;
 Shelton, Monday, these being the fir ones to be admitted to the institntfn