Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-22


 of the Poles against their oppressors in the years of 1863 and 1864.
 An emergency call has been issued by the Red Cross chapters of the state for hospital linen to replenisf the sup plies of the hospitals in France.
 A number of team horses were be- ing walked about the streets Monday in the effort to keep the animals in condition during the days of idleness.
 The posters to be used in the cam paign for booming Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certificates have ar rived in Norwich. They are by eel ebrated artists and are very heauti- full.
 At Danbury Monday evening in K. of c. drive for $10,000 Rev. W. A. Keefe of Plainfield spoke on the aims and purposes of the Knights of Columbus in establishing their recreation cen- ters.
 The fourth quarterly conference of the First Methodist church is to be held at the parsonage on West Town street next Tuesday. District Super intendent Rev. G. G. Scrivener will preside.
 Rev. Dr. Peter c. Wright of Hartford, formerly of Norwich. is to preach at the Central Baptist church next Sun day morning. The pastor, Rev. A. F. Purkiss, will return for tn eevening service. Rev. Frederick Haist, rector of the Groton Seabury Memorial Episcopal church, conducted services at the sub l marine base Sunday evening. Mrs. D. Franklin Huddle assisted, singing sev- eral hymns. The Connecticut state council of de- fense is to give hearing this (Tues- ,day) afternoon at o'clock in the house of representatives at the capitol to tobacco growers and others inter ested in tobacco production. During the second week of the na- tion-wide drive ot pledge the retail merchants, of the country to give their customers the benefit of fair and mod crate prices, 413 were signed up in Connecticut, making total of SS2.
 The mems ward of the new isolation addition at the state tuberculosis san atorium, Norwich, is already being used by the superintendent, Dr. Hugh | Campbell, for two patients. The we- | mems ward will be completed Feb. 1st The grand list for the town of Yer non for 1917, as completed by the as- sessors, James T. Fitton, F. W. Stengel and Allen R. Lathrop, is $7,2I5, ,s01 which is somewhat more than the list of 1916, the difference being $1S9,423
 Twenty-Five captains of ocean liners arrived in New London Monday morn | ing to begin the first intensive train ing course at the naval base for the avoiding of U-boats that has been un- dertaken by the United States maya authorities.
 At New Britain, St. Mary's parish one of the largest in the state, is en- trely free from debt an announce ment made Sunday by Rev. John T Winters, rector for 15 years, formerl, of Norwich. The total receipts durirs 1917 were $34,270.
 Because soldiers pay is small, aat
 the price of postage quite an item. . stamp club to supply the boys ha!
 been formed in a number of places |
 of a cent a day which go into thu
 stamp purchasing fund.
 The city of New London has entered
 into negotiations for the purchase of
 ferryboat for use by the city mex
 summer in handling the traffic aeros
 the Thames river, for it is the intention
 of the ferry committee to operate tw,
 boats during the rush season. II A report was filed in superior cour
 in Bridgeport Friday by James F
 Walsh of Greenwich, first temporar,
 receiver of the Danbury- Bethel stree
 railway which has several caster Connecticut stockholders, as a substi
 tute for a report previously filed
 Rev. Thomas lyric, formrely 0
 Stafford Springs, has been invited b
 the official board of the Hazardvill Methodist church to remain as paste of the church for another year. Mi lyric has accepted and it will mak
 his tenth year as pastor of the churcl
 Republicans here have been notifie that the Mckinley dinner Is to b
 held in Waterbury Tuesday. the 2stl \ with but three speakers, Senator W J. Harding of Ohio, McKiniey's ow
 state, Governor Marcus H. Holcon1
 and Lieutenant Governor Clifford I | Wilson.
 The Norwich Red Cross branch an the members of the Wonaan's Leagu for National Service worked on a usual Monday, through the courtesy ' Judge John NJ. Thayer. owner of tf , property, since the Thayer buildin |. had to be heated for office tenants an
 others.
 a Justices of the peace in Conneetie, E. are not allowed deferred classificatio
 in the draft, according to ruling SGT Governor Marcus H. Holcornb by Pro N vost General Crowder. It had been sai N that justices were either municipal ( county officers, so would be put Class 3.
 \ At a state food exhibit and patriot
 meeting for Holland county which wi
 be held in Rockville town hall Thur, day and Friday afternoon and evenir
 the second evening George B. Chandle
 compensation commissioner, will spes
 on What the German Americans ov Themselves.
 \ Connecticut embalmers are interes \ ed in. promoting the Purple Cross ass, E citation, with headquarters in Philade phia, which has for it's purpose tl return of the bodies of American so . diers who die on foreign battlefiel, i. in a sanitary and recognizable corid ]. ton so they can be buried in the