Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-28
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VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MAI iEKS
 Light vehicle lamps at ses o'clock this evening.
 Tuesdays wind did much to dry up the mud on the country roads.
 February goes out with a day eleven hours and eleven minutes in length.
 Small girls were playing Hop Scotch yesterday, and skipping rope has be- gun.
 Possible city buyers are already in the suburbs, in search of desirable farms.
 Late Wednesday afternoon the river was entirely clear, except for anchor Ice in the harbor
 The sale of amileage Books for sol- diers is in progress in twenty five communities in Connecticut.
 War stamps figure as prizes at some of the informal card meets in the quiet social calendar during Lent.
 A recent gift to Peck Library, sla- ter Memorial, is James Truslow Adams Memories of Old Bridgehamp- ton.
 While passenger service on the Shore Line trolley system is curtailed the express freight business is briskei than ever.
 Plenty of Blue Points. Round Clans and nice variety of fresh caughl fish at Powers Bros.-adv
 The Foreign Missionary meeting oi Park church is to be held this week at the home of Mrs. A. N. H. Vaughn 3 Rockwell terrace. There was a meeting of the Nortf Stoningtoni war savings committee oi the war bureau Wednesday in the Wheeler school at p. m.
 E. S. Fowler has been elected pres, ldent of the Epworth League of Trin. l ity Methodist church, with Avery Stanton first vice president. It is announced that the Lenter preacher at the Episcopal church il l Willimantic Friday, March p, will bt Archdeacon J. Eldred Brown of Trin ity church, Norwich.
 | There was a meeting Wednesday ev ening at Holland at the home of Rev E. F. Case for the purpose of start ing thrift stamp club among th men and women of the town. The weatherwise are meditating ol the fact that 1t is not quite four week since Candlemas Day, when tn grounding was popularly supposed t have dealt out six weeks more of win ter weather.
 The tax collectors office will be ope Thursday and Friday evenings unt o'clock to receive personal taxes | adv.
 There was a good attendance Wed nesday at, St. Patrick's church, whe | the rector, Rev. T. H. Broderick san the annual requiem high mass request J ed by the Holy Name society for de ceased members.
 About twenty-five captains in tn Merchant Marine arrived Tuesday t take a course at the submarine bas in how to steer the zigzag course S necessary on the Atlantic these day Of submarine peril.
 Mir. and Mrs, c. NJ. Taylor of Ne, London announce the engagement C their daughter, Miss Myrdell Shep herd. to Alden Elman Finley of Ev erett, Mass, graduate of Norwicl Vermont. university.
 | The heartening news was telephone
 to The Bulletin Wednesday that snow drops are in bloom in the grounds a Perkins avenue residence. Thes dainty sureties of approaching sprin
 usually appear late in January. Relatives from other cities will joi with those in Norwich this mornin
 to assist at a months mind high mas of requiem in St. Patrick's church ft Dr. Patrick J. Cassidy, a popular ph, sician whose death has been wide mourned.
 Lester G. Coles, formerly of the 35i
 company, Fort Terry, who has bee
 there for several months, has bee transferred to the ordnance corps, Ssi regiment, .. A. C., and is now sts toned at Fort Wright. His home in Norwalk.
 Mrs. JeErie Robinson of East Wood
 stock recently received 6 cablegre. from Japan saying her niece, fGi
 Mary E. Sherman, who had baha missionary there fer many years, VI,
 dead. The cause of her death VI
 heart trouble
 sz ..-L- F. nouncement that Mrs. Eliza beth Nic
 ols Peck. ss widow of Rev. John Peck, ard mother of the late John ! Peek, superintendent of schools Derby for 30 years, died at her hor there Monday. Several motortruck loads of furn ture arrived Wednesday at the new
 acquired boarding house of the Wi chester Woolen company, We Thames street, the former Mitcht s place. The remodeled stable will . utilized as a dining hall.
 The National w. c. T. U. commi
 tee on patriotic service is urging loc
 unions to cooperate with the W ' mans Committee in its efforts to s l cure the appointment of policewom and to assist in getting desirable W
 men for such appointments. - The new East Hartford High schc Twas entered Tuesday night and abo
 $50 fin war savings stamps, posta
 stamps and money was taken from t desks of the teachers. Principal E win l.. Robinson. a former Leban
 man, lost considerable money a a stamps.
 Allen Latham of Norwich, one the most noted bee men in the rn,,