Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
VARIOUS MATTERS

scriptions in a single day this week
 Prime soft shell crabs, and good variety of strictly fresh fish at Pow CTS Bros.'-adv Norwich Grange has decided that it would be unwise to hold its meeting tonight as planned.
 Over 30 women are given work weekly by the Employment Bureau of the United Workers.
 Because of the health situation Comfort Circle of the Kings Daugh- ters has postponed its meeting two weeks
 l When the Worcester train left Nor wich Tuesday mroning there were nine coffins at the local station to be put aboard.
 Connecticut girls who were at Smith college have returned home, the col ! lege being under quarantine and closed indefinitely.
 1 At 8. meeting of the New London Negro Circle for War Relief held at | the home of Mrs. Mary Hawkins on | Monday night it was voted to buy sloO Liberty bond
 | Wesleyan university D. K. E. men who have died in the service include | w, s. Buck, 1917, of New London, ! Kelley Field, Texas.
 | The body of ]. Alfred Warren. who ! died from pneumonia at his home, 54 | Connecticut avenue, New London, on | Sunday. was sent 10 Willimantic for burial in South Coventry cemetery. ! In her garden at the Morgan cot | tage, below Thamesville. Mrs. H. J. Laturner picked Monday a ripe straw berry and several blossoms and buds on the same vine. rare for October [. | Captain William A. Murray, who has been keeper of Little Gull Island | light station for many years, has been transferred at his own request to the Hudson City light station at Hudson. N. Y.
 The examinations for bank clerks set by the state civil service commis- sion were taken by 13S candidates at
 the state capitol Saturday. About
 forty took the examination in New Haven
 The New England branch of the Womens Foreign Missionary Society, which was to meet in Springfield, Oct
 8. 9 and 10. has decided not to hold the meetings due to the epidemic Of influenza.
 The New Britain state normal school opened Monday morning, but during
 the day. Principal Marcus Wl2ite, for
 nierly of Norwich Free Academy fac
 ulty, closed it and sent the young wo-
 men home.
 The funeral of Julian Cramer, of
 Clinton, who died in Norwich last
 week, was held from the Clinton Con-
 gregational church, Rev Frank Park
 officiating. MT. Cramer is survived
 by his wife.
 Tuesday afternoon, a brief meeting of leaders of the circles composing the City Union of the Kings Daughters was held at the Y. M. C. A, six cir
 cies being represented and Mrs. Chas. A. Hagberg presiding.
 Residents Of the Mohegan Indian
 Reservation are warning the public against a woman who is collecting funds who claims to be authorized
 10 get up an entertainment for the : benefit of the Indians there. Norwich acquaintances of the fam fly sorrow because of the death in Washington of Captain John L. Ln- , ley aged 9S. scn of the late Governor George L. Lilley. The body is to be
 brought to Waterbury for burial
 News was received recently by Dr l and Mrs. J. H. Allen of Norwich, that 4 their younger son. Christopher GarC ' Allen, has been assigned to the sub : marine destroyer Radford, at present . at Norfolk Va, drydock underso.ns minor repairs.
 The present epidemic of Spanish in E fluenza calls to the minds Of many O z the older generation a severe plague X among horses in the early '10s. The s disease was popularly known as "epi zootic," and was often referred to a: ! horse influenza. E The annual meeting of the trustee. S and managers of the Holland Count, Home is to be held at the home to. a day. The Windham County Home an \ nual meeting, which was to have beer held Thursday. has been postponed tt 9 date tQ be announced. Cards for the registration of mill i dealers and milk producers are to b, s filled out and mailed to the state dair! 5 and food commissioner and local mill
 dealers and milk producers who havt : not received cards may obtain then at the town clerks office. At Bolton Charles Pinney who re E ceiYed twenty nine votes and who the moderator declared. was elected third selectman against Kingslel Barrows, who received six votes ant was declared elected second select
 man, is to insist on a recount. The Connecticut State Grange vii introduce at the next session of tn general assembly a proposed statut placing the stealing of fruit or vege tables from a farm or garden in tn
 same class with poultry stealing, thu
 making it a crime and carrying
 heavy penalty.
 Mrs. Jane Burnharn Otis. wife o U ia of ,1y1-1 Ia
 N. Y. who died Oct ?, was born il
 Wilhngton, this state, July 10, 182E
 and was the sister of the late Cheste
 D. Burnham and an aunt of Herber \ D., Edgar r. and Miss Ida J. Burn
 ham of Hartford.
 In connection with the decrease
 number of hunters licenses issued
 is noted that many of the young me
 who formerly took out licenses t
 hunt small game are now hunting fo
 bigger game across the pond. The
 nope to bag the Kaiser before tn
 hunting law is off.
 \ Explaining the. sugar famine il
 Norwich Tuesday, a wholesale deale
 stated that his firm has between fit and sixty thousand pounds in stocl
 but cannot give it to the retailers be
 cause the latter have not receive
 their certificates, as expected, frol
 the state food administrator. The law on game birds, partridg - quail, pheasants and woodcock wa
 of Tuesday for period of six week
 In former years the open season c
 birds was from the first Of Octobt l. to the first of December This yea :, the season is reduced to six week v from October to November 24
 At the recent state meeting of tt ts Daughters of the American Revoll E tiOr1 is, WindSor y,laa