Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

 Light vehicle lamps at e,14 o'clock this evening.
 One Norwich store displays the polite notice ''sorry-Put no sugarp The shooting season on ducks closed Tuesday at midnight in spite of other published reports to the contrary. Conspicuous new signs have been erected at the offices of the Marlin Rockwell Corp, Norwich division, on Franklin street.
 Mrs. Mary A. Orcutt, se, of No. 13 Mountain street, Rockville, died at her home Monday. She was Rockville's oldest resident.
 Because of the meeting of the United | Workers Sunday afternoon next the usual service at the Sheltering Arms | Is to be omitted.
 When the officers of Fairyiew lodge of Odd Fellows were installed at Gro | ton Monday evening sixteen stars were displayed on a service flag unfurled. Edwin M. M. Marlor, the prominent l Brooklyn. Conn, resident, who died Tuesday, married Gladys F. Wood, niece of Gurdon P. KimbaH, of Nor | wieh.
 l Monday was the 18th birthday of l Charles G. R. Vinal of Middletown clerk of the superior court for Mid . l dlesex county, known to number ot Norwich lawyers.
 A pleasant Wednesday brought out not only the shoppers but many who have been shut in during the cold 1 weather and the big brigade of baHy carriages and go-carts.
 The lunch room at the Lawten mills plant, Plainfield, opened recently for the benefit of the employees, is in Echarge of Miss Kirby, the industrial nurse, from Norwich.
 Two state men are in the vicinity of | Mystic and Noank examining trees and ! shrubs for the gypsy moth, hut so far they have been unable to find any trace of the pests or their eggs.
 A service flag is flying at 1s5 Frank in street, the home of Thomas Guinon l. roadmaster of the Shore Line electric railway, for his son. Michael Guinon who is in the navy at Newport.
 The state automobile register is mol to be abolished but will be issued about the first of June with all the registra- tions for the year, up to the time o1 going to press, and 1t will include other matters of interest.
 Special communication of Somerae ! lodge of the Master Masen's degree a 7.30 tonight.-adv.
 Among boys just graduated from thu first class in the new branch of ser vice, the motorized field artillery, ,wficl N has been conducted at Camp John stone, Jacksonville, Fla, is Walter Con don of Norwich.
 One of the stores in East Hampton : sold seven dozen pairs of ice creeper | in a few days. and other stores wer 1 all sold out. One dealer said he hai more calls for them last week than il the past five years.
 School teachers about the state wh have been anxious to have a part il the work of the selective draft are t be given an opportunity to do so il helping prepare the index of the re |. suits of the classification.
 While eating raw oysters, E. M. Ash
 bey of Neank closed his teeth on hard substance which on exami1satio proved tos be a small pearl, about a
 large as a good sized pea. Its wort has not been aseertained. .o That a state traffic director will |
 needed by Connecticut before long .
 a result of the remarkable strides mac .- in automobile activities is the beli'
 of Robbins B. Stoeckel, state commis # mioner of motor vehicles.
 Practically all of the Hartford fiji
 insurance companies which have Nol
 wich agents are represented in the lo'
 at Middletown insane asylum, but tl
 loss win be distributed among them
 that none will suffer heavily.
 A Saybrook man, Henry Clement
 former conductor on the Shore Lii
 electric railway, has enlisted in the
 s. guards being raised for munitio1 factories, docks, etc. He is stationt 1S at Chariestewn navy yard.
 After two pestpenements, a pleasz ss meeting of Comfort circle of u he Kings Daughters was held Wedne .i day afternoon with Mrs. William
 Baker of Rogers avenue. Mrs. A. "A Utley presiding and twelve attendiE Ii. -.-------.+ --'--- .u Ye Olde Towne mill, New Londc V which was operated by the Daughte
 of the American Revolution last sur
 mer, is occupied now by MT. and NJ
 William Stead, who moved to Nc - London from South Coventry late
 the fall.
 At the Yarn Shop, No. 1T Cliff $ E. all yarns will be sold at the old prie nd until Monday, Jan. Fist. Buy now a sstH save money.-adv.
 The income tax law exempts frt taxation salaries paid by the staee - any political sub division of the sta ,s Therefore any of the employees of 'Ao | city or town of Norwich will not
 obliged to include as taxable incQl
 salaries frim that source. It was expected that the. foul af quarterly conference would be h
 Sunday evening at the Sterling NJ. 5l church. On account of the death oi
 relative, the district superintende ills Rev. George G. Scrivener, of Norwi IS, was unable to be present. -- The fact that Stafford has register 50 dogs within the past few days n taken as an indication by Commissit
 CT of Domestic Animals James
 Whittlesey of what is being done
 many towns and cities of the st IT | uy1a fh< l. e,