Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-13
QIl1e Bnllstin
 Nerwioh, Friday, Dec. is, 1s1s.
VARIOUS MATTERS

During this month. the planet Nep- tune is in Cancer near the Beehive.
 Late mail trains have been the rule during this week, due to the earlier storms.
 There has been good sleighing in some of the northern Windham coun- ty towns.
 Letters addressed to Santa Claus are beginning to be received at the ppstoffice.
 The fire lookout station on Mount Ochepetuck, in the town of Union, has been closed for the. winter.
 Native smelts from Poquonock river at Church Bros today.-adv.
 Farmers in some places find snow enough on the ground to aid them in their log-sledding from the woods.
 Some of the Victory boys are gath ering ground pine, laurel and other Chriatmas gresns as a way to ean money.
 A recuperative diet in influenza, Horliek's Matted Milk, very digestible. adv.
 Beginning today, minute of day. light will be added to the short after- moons, and the increase will continue from now on.
 At Phoenixville, Nathaniel Lyon found his hound dog caught in a fox trap recently, rendering the animal unfit for hunting.
 In the list of contributors to the san atorium holiday fund name spelled incorrectly Thursday was that of Miss M. Helena Shoper.
 There is good enrolment in the Saturday children's class at Norwich Art school, of which Miss Dorothy Cregson is teacher.
 A better fruit cake than you are in the habit of buying at Berry's, 12 Oak. Tel. 505-12.-adv.
 - A society of four girls, Miss Loretta Driscoll chairman, has taken out 20 hanks of yarn from the Norwich Red Cross rooms for sweater knitting.
 The Norwich Free Academy has about 545 pupils this term, including out of town students and not includ- ing students at Norwich Art school
 The more than 300 Victory girls and h1ys at Norwich Free Academy have already paid in over $250 on their pledges, the time limit being March 9. 1919.
 d new code of health regulations provid- ing for the physical examination of all employees, including walters, and wait tesses.
 Central Baptist Progressive Mis- sionary Society food sale today, 10 a. m., at IA Main street.-adv.
 Only men in the service and chil- dren are exempt from the Red Cross pNn ha h licited through the schools for the Junior Red Cross.
 The funeral of Joel P. Newton was held at his home at Saybrook Thurs day morning at Il o'clock. The body was taken toe Elm Grove cemetery, Mystic, for burial.
 One of the large suburban trolley cars' of the Middletown- Hartford line has been transferred to the Rockville route, to help fill the gap. caused by the fire in Rockville Monday morning.
 Thin ice edges the two big Norwich reservoirs, Fairview and Stony Brook, which, Supt. w. w Lang estimates, are impounding 600,000,00o gallons just now. The average daily water draught is 2,So0,000 gallons.
 Home baking. Goods delivered. Or der Saturdays coffee ring today, 45c 425 Washington St. Tel. 468-3-adv ] Establishment of permanent wage rates for the 2,000,000 railway work CTS of the United States, to continue after the cost of living has decreased is the aim of the United States rail road administration. Mrs. Cynthia Ann Avery, 81, widow of Isaac Avery, who died at the home of Mrs. J. E. Root in Middletown Wed. 1 nesday morning. was born in Stoning ton, the daughter of Louis and -Cyn thia Stewart Maine.
 At the meeting of the state boar, of control this week an additional ap proprlation of $100, 1000 for the Con necticut hospital for the insane a MthTetown. to cover deficiency ir maintenance, was approved.
 The annual state business 1neetin; of the Mayfiower society is to be hell in Hartford Dec. IS. Of late years i has been the custom to meet at tn Hartford club or the Country club, bu it has been announced that the sessiol this year will be held at the stat capitol.
 | The Slater Memorial is closed fo the. winter. Persons having book from the Peck library may retur7 them to the Free Academy, Room : any forenoon.-adv. } A movement has been started b members of the Loyal Legion to hay Admiral Farragut's flagship, the Hart 1 ford, brought from it's present restin place in Charleston harbor and place
 on exhibition in the New Haven .har
 Dor, where it is considered to rightl
 belong.
 This afternoon, at s.15, in the par
 Tors. of the United Congregations
 church, there is to be a public ad
 dress by Miss Richmond, of Cesares
 Turkey, who is missionary and th
 daughter of missionariSf. Miss Rich
 mond is the guest of Miss Nancy F
 Lucas
 Nearly hundred Connecticut wom en have expressed their desire to at tend the big demonstration in Wash i. | tngton Monday in order to irnpres the senate with the strong sentimer !, throughout the country in favor of tn
 immediate passage of the federal sui
 frage amendment.
 The surplus surgical dressing
 gauge, etc, remaining after filling tn Norwich Red Cross quota will be di
 vided between Backus hospital an
 the tuberculosis sanatorium, by tn
 supervisor of surgical dressings. Mie Matilda Butts, and her assistants SNis