Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04

The officers of the units at Fort Wright encourage their men to sing and now song 'rehearsals are included in the routine of the day. This weeks meeting of Alpha Sig ma Society of the Second Congregas tiOnal church is to be held with Miss The Holy Sacrifice of the mass for February, for the 100 young men oi the parish in the federal service, will be offered in St. Patrick's church this morning.
 Coal teams and wagons loaded with wood went through the streets Sun- day, and similar vehicles were being unloaded before houses late Saturday evening.
 Rev. Richard R. Graham, rector oi Christ church. offfciated at the cele- | bration of the holy communion Sat urday morning at 10 o'clock, on the Feast of the Fabrication. There is local interest in the fact that the Danbury K. of c. council end ed it's weeks drive for camp welfare work with $10,000 in the bank anl |
 Quality should be first considered for the sweater your boy will veal | lover there" The highest grade yarn. | obtainable are to be found at TAt Yarn Shop.-adv.
 Local lodges will be represented a l the annual communication of tn, grand lodge of Connecticut. F. 6 A l M., at the Masonic temple, in Hart ford, Wednesday and Thursday. Saturday in the Catholic churche. was Candlemas day, when all the can l dies to be used in the ceremonies O l the coming year were solemnly bless ed, light having a special symbolism The youngest Masonic lodge in Con necticut is Corner Stone, No. 122, To- cated at North Grosvenordale, il l Thompson, the northeast corner towl in the state. It was chartered Marcl | 22, 1894.
 Several men walked from the main land, at a point near Mystic ocer tn, ice to Fishers Island, a distance O | five miles, several times last week, {; feat unprecedented in the memory 0 the oldest inhabitant.
 Il
 Inmates of penal institutions in Con necticut may help the state increas it's food supply by undertaking farm ing work the coming spring and sum
 mer, by a new ruling of the Connect
 cut Prison association.
 l Art students have received notice
 that the ninety-third annual exhibitio
 of the National Academy of Desig
 will be held in the Fine Arts Building
 No. 215 West 57th street, New Yorl from March 16 until April 21.
 Five per cent. was added to all wa ter bills remaining unpaid Jan. 2otl
 1918. A second addition of fifty cent |. has been made to the same bills lei ] unpaid February list. A further ad dition of one dollar will he made each bill if not paid on or before Fet
 ruary 20th.-adv. I A native of Norwich, Rev. Je , seph B. King of Torrington, delivere a patriotic address at tS. Joseph
 church, Winsted, Sunday evenins when a military yesper service WE
 held and the service flag at the chure was blessed.
 Directors for the public service rs
 serve, the recruiting branch of u employment service, have been al
 nounced at Washington. They inclut
 for Connecticut, Leo A. Korper
 Hartford, formerly of South Willing ton.
 N Service pins are the latest jewell novelty noted. They are to be wol only by persons who have some men
 Der of their family in the service the United States. The pins are the design Of a flag with star . the center.
 Ai Beginning Feb. F. Lincoln's Birtl day, and continuing until Feb.
 Washington's Birthday, enrollmel work will be carried on to bring {
 the children in all the S6o. .o00 scEoo
 of the country into the Red Cross iu,
 for membership.
 When the grounding came out
 his hole Saturday the sun was shi
 ing brightly so he saw his shadow al N 1t back to his dugout, which mea
 six more weeks of winter. Likewi
 he met temperature record of 18
 grees below zero.
 M The New York Sunday World pi
 tured the camp at West Palm Beat N serves, stating that it's summer car M --opened in 1916-is at Camp Dew, E Uncasvil1e the Thames, Conn. T E Florida camp covers 50 acres. E Ten hens in ten-llen poultry hor \ in the window of the Danbury Hal
 ware store are halting the attenti of hundreds of passersby, says I q Danbury News. It is an exhibit
 Roy D. Jones. extension poultrym from Storrs. and the local Farm E
 reau.
 I- Sunday, the feast of St. Blaise, pi
 sicfan, bishop, martyr in the fou
 century, famed for his skill in curl n throat ailments, the threats of tn v attending the 7.30 mass in St. Patric
 church were blessed by Rev. J.
 Broderick, assisted by Rev. Peter
 Cuny.
 In order to conserve the supply
 coal, two more Rockville fire hou
 will be closed. Fire Chief George Milne has closed the HocSanum H To company's house on West Main str
 and will close the Fftton Engine 2
 Snipsic Hook and Ladder house
 Prospect street
 - Among the Connecticut suffragi 3. who attended the suffrage meeting no the home of Mrs. Henry H. Toy o- shend. in New Haven, under the a
 pices of the Connecticut Woman s ,n frage association, Friday, were l. Willis Austin, Norwich, and \
 Frances Johnston, Woodstock.