Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-19

sale or InrlII stamps pas reached the sum of $200. St. James lodge, No. .23 works the first degree tonight at Masonic Tern pie at TAO. Lectures illustrated by. the stereopticon.-adv.
 Cars on the Montville line, which ran every two hours Monday, were so crowded that two conductors were kept busy on each car.
 The Norwich Red Cross workers, under direction of Mrs. Robert W. Perkins. have forwarded the 104th box of hospital supplies.
 The pork and poultry business will get an impetus in this state the com ing year, largely due to the activity ,of the county 1rn1 bureaus.
 Durin~ saday the Fftchville aux Hilary ri taed at the room of the Woman's ' Esague, SIS worth of wool for army and navy knitting.
 At o'clock Monday, in St. Pat rici<s church an anniversary requiem high mass for Mrs. Cornelius Collins was sung by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 This weeks meeting of the Pro- gressive Missionary club of the Gen. tral Baptist church is to be held with Mrs. J. P. Holloway, 69 Oak street.
 The midweek service of Park Con- gregational church is to be held at the home of Mrs. Foster Wilson and Miss Annie E. Vaughn, Si7 Broadway. At Noank. Eugene Smith has resign ed as foreman of the day gang in the freight yard. He is succeeded by Howard Lyndeburg. formerly Of Glenn Falls, N. r. .,
 At a washingtons Birthday party to be held in DaI1ielson Congregation al church, Charles D. Geer, of Nor l wich, win sing and will also conduct the chorus singing.
 It is said among dealers that the ] last winter has been one of the best seasons on record in the candle trade. And now spring buying seems to have set in on an equally large scale. A North Stonington man, George E. Burdtk has established a record at wood chopping. In three days work of and 3-4 hours each, he piled up nine cords of oak, hickory and ma pie.
 Dealers find ft possible to procure plenty of oatmeal and corn meal, but 1t is. very difficult Or practically inn | possible to obtain barley or rice flour, which are both desirable to use hith wheat.
 1 On account of the observance of 1 Washington's birthday, the New Ha- yen railroad, following it's usual GUS tom, will discontinue number of local trains into and out of Boston | Friday, Feb. p.
 At present the Gfoton Iron Works plant at Eastern Point holds three contracts from the Emergency Fleet corporation, the total value is $2s, jsss,eo, including tonnage of stee
 ships totaling 165,0o0 tons.
 The current White Ribbon Banner
 acknowledges the following contri
 buttons: To the Chocolate fund, Mrs
 Newton, $5. Stereomotograph fund,
 Torrington, s5: East Enfield. s5
 MilldaIe s1; Southington. $l. Plain
 vile. s1.
 Miss Helen Bolan of Waterbury re gently 8 teacher of domestic sciene
 has been on leave of absenc
 since September to de war work fo tthe Connecticut Agricultural college Stors, and left recently to attend
 national food conservation conferenc in Washington, D. c. Some one has discovered that. be ginning March 1st, an old 1912 calen
 dar could be used, if a 1913 one wer
 lacking, although 1912, was Lea Year. The dates all coincide, so tn plan Is advocated in year when tn calendar supply is short.
 Fur men in Norwich state that tn fur business shows every indicatio of keeping up to the high mark SC
 in the last season and that. as a xe suit, manufacturers and dealers an tFappers are keeping belts moving i
 . very encouraging way.
 It has been learned here that pass l port regulations of the state depart ! ment now restrict the number : American women permitted to g . l abroad to those whose presence i France Is inperatively required some relief agency recognized by th
 United States government.
 ul The trustees of the Darooch Hon
 for Crippled Children, New York. hay
 become dissatisfied with Groton 2 the summer branch of the Hora
 claiming that the blasting at Midwa
 was disagreeable and dangerous fl their score of young charges, and the
 will sell the Groton property. NJ Colonel M. J. Wise of the quarter
 master department, Connecticut Ns
 tional Guard has sent within a moni
 about 13,o0o pieces of the old blu
 uniform for many years the distinl
 tive service uniform of the organizs \ tion,~ from the state arsenal to " \ rious government depots and arsenal