Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-27

Some Norwich housewives are reversing their usual spring activities l and are to do their gardening first, and then their house cleaning.
 Bonfres were burning all about the city yesterday where gardens were being cleared of rubbish and put into condition for spading.
 One of the government lighthouse tenders is in the river outside Trad ing Cove, replacing dolphins carried away by the ice early in the winter.
 Traffic has increased with good weather and the Shore Line Electric road ran half hour cars on its Mont vile line, during Tuesday afternoon.
 It is expected that the Spring meet ing of the Eastern Connecticut Branch w. B. F. M., will be held with the Windham Congregational church early in April.
 Groups of big trucks bringing bread from a Rhode Island city now come to Norwich every pleasant day, the over land traffic being adopted because of railroad delays.
 Large variety of gifts for Easter. handkerchiefs, cards at Womens Ex- change. War bread and cookies on sale. Order Hot Cross Buns-adv.
 On the Union Street grounds in the rear of the Leavens' homestead, grass Is green where the sun strikes. while in the shade there is ice enough for a small skating pond.
 As it is expected to open the season at the Norwich Golf club April 1st, Caretaker Peleg H. Bromley is busy clearing up the grounds, airing the clubhouse and otherwise preparing for the season.
 Invitations have been issued to Con- necticut artists by the New Haven Paint and Clay club for the first view of it's eighteenth exhibition, Monday evening, April 1st, at the Yale School of Fine Arts.
 Although at points in Maplewood cemetery the frost is still two feet deep. Supt. Washington Holt and his two helpers have buried all hut twelve of the thirty bodies placed in the new vault during the winter
 Local motorists are interested in the fact that men are taking parts of old Sayorook Point and Berwick bridge I away and are building the bulkheads and brideVas that were washed away by the storms last winter.
 At Morton F.. Plants Branford Farms hot houses, where William B Nuine has charge, the mushrooms are | just coming forward in their dark room. Tomatoes are seen in all stag es, as well as beans afld peas. Town Clerk Charles S. Holbrook ot Norwich has received his customary allotment of 30 of Governor Holcomb's Fast Day proclamations, which he has distributed to pastors and others who receive these documents yearly.
 The Norwich Red Cross has received from Divisional headquarters a reques to discontinue the making of bed socks comfort pillows, hot water bag cover. and wash cloths. as the necessary sup ply of these articles Is complete. Norwich dealers learn from tn, large seed houses that they are over whelmed with orders which have com in by mail, to such an extent that the, have been compelled to call on thei travelling men to assist at the hom offices.
 Tuesday morning Rev. Richard E Graham was at the Norwich State Tu berculosis Sanatorion, arranging t have Bishop E. c. Acheson visit tFna institution today, to confirm one can didate, a member of the Episcopa church.
 Fort Wright is one of the health
 fest posts in the U. S. A. The frs death among the soldiers in som
 months occurred the other day whe
 Corporal Louis Lucas. of the regr
 lars. went west" His home va in Indiana.
 l The two curates of St. Patrick
 church were at the Norwich Stat
 Hospital Monday hearing the comics
 sions of Catholic patients, and Tues , day morning Rev. Myles P. Galvi went down and administered Easte , holy communion to about eighty. : Owners and drivers of automobile , hereabouts as well as town official , are interested in the effort being mad } by the Connecticut commissioner
 have New York state auto license law
 modified, so as to conform to the stri,
 regula tions in force in Connecticut.
 Waterbury papers note that Sun
 Berlin W. Tinker, formerly of Nol
 wich, has advised the board of edr cation to eliminate five sets of booI
 used in the fifth and sixth grades z
 containing German propaganda = stories which relate to the alleged ST N periority of the German people. NJ Letters continue to come regular
 to Miss Alice E. Dyer, of Sache
 street, from her nephew, Charles
 Dyer, who has been abroad seye
 years. MT. Dyer voluntarily left Ge
 many for Switzerland two years al
 and although now tired of being il
 termed, finds it not easy to leave The White Beach Hotel at Cresce
 Beach, recently purchased by Geor, W. Carrollfi of Norwich, stands on
 high point of land, has a commant
 ing view of Mantle bay and Long I
 land sound. With this purchase go
 about five acres of land and a sun
 mer cottage completely furnished. Tn what brides itself on being u = most cultured residential section Norwich, the city garbage collecto .l were surprised to find "A pounds
 cereals in the ash cans, evident | xq L. i