Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05


 The grea. increase cf cost of coal compels Grctor borough to raise the wholesale price ce electric energy to the Ship & Engine Co.
 Regular meeting of Knights of Co., lumbus at 8 o'clock tonigkt.- adv.
 The New Haven road sect;on fore man in the Saybrook district are being called in to have their time pieces inspected this week.
 The mercury reached 8 notch above TO degrees during Tuesday noon. Thursday it was below 50 degees, the air was raw and the wind piercing.
 The district superintendent. Rev. George G. Scrivener, of Norwich, is to Glasgo Methodist church next week Friday. ~
 An Ashford young man, Herbert Merrill, has left for Indiana where he will take a course in wireless teleg- raphy. He expects to be absent for six months.
 Total sales of war savings and thrift stamps in Connecticut up to the last week in March amounted to $2,188, 1 9S2. .S5, according to statement of the state director of war savings. Passengers on the Montvi11e trolley l line are interested in the flock of 21 Shropshire sheep and 12 lambs. so far unmolested by dogs, at the farm ot ] c. A. Gager, IT,. on Mohegan Hill. Payments on bills due to Dr. John W. Callahan will be received at Isins 6 Sisk's store.-adv.
 l History classes recalled yesterday | that it was on April 4, 1913, thSr con gress adopted the flag for the Unit ed States with 13 stars on blue f1eld and 1S stripes of red and white, alter ! mating.
 Having been held at private resi-. dences during the winter the mid
 week service of Park Congregations | church was held in the chapel Thurs day evening and was led by Rev. s. H Howe, D. D.
 | Groton water and light commission
 CTS Tuesday evening voted to com
 nence work at once on the sewer ol J
 state road to be built later in tn
 summer.
 Postmaster Clifford E. Chapman o
 Mantle reports the sale of 51 war say ing certificates amounting to $211.1 ] and 367 thrift stamps amounting
 &9175. making the total sales fo March, s302.s9.
 Military dance in Willimantic Stat hr171ory, Saturday, April 9th. at P. II 1 Tickets Ladies. 25c, gentlemen, 35t Pickett's orchestra.-adv. Fifty cities and towns in Connecti cut furnished 9 total of 245 voluntee recruits for the army during Marcl according to figures made public Major v A. Mercer, commanding tn Connecticut recruiting district. Norwich still has number ofifroze water sarvices and they are waith for tkc warm spring rains to finish th task for the over-worked thawin
 squad. Down here near the shor the frost is out of the ground.-Wesr erly, Sun.
 Because of the local boys at Aye : there Is interest in the fact that
 was on April 4th. in 1920, that Ge Charles Devens. for whom the natior i, a! army camp at Aver, Mass, is nan ed, was born at Charlestown, Mas He died in Boston, January '. 1891. ' Old soldiers at the Bucingha
 Memorial were saying Thursday , was in April B years ago, that u ; United States troops entered Ricl l r1ond, Va, that citv having bet
 evacusted by the southern army som,
 time during the night of the 2nd
 ] April, 1885.
 D During the past year two hundrt
 and sixty six children were enrollt in the club department of the Unitt Workers, representing nine natiol
 alities. Thirty-three teachers assis
 ed tte supervisor, Miss Alice w. Cog ' we'll, in this work, all but two beil ] volunteer workers.
 N; Two boxes of over 100 garments we k received Thursday from Baltic to
 added to over 1000 given the Norwi. \ Red Cross for the destitute Belgian
 and packed under direction of Nil
 Edmund W. Perkins. The five crat \ in which they will be forwarded tod:
 were donated by the Plaut-Cadd
 company.