Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-15

During Sunday afternoon, 45 visi- tors enjoyed the privileges of the Otis Library reading. room. Miss Virginia F. Hall was in charge.
 Children, birds. cats and dogs have fountain on the Little Plain has been uncovered for the season.
 License Syour dogs in the town ! clerk s efice now. Female dogs s1Q-S male and spayed dogs $1.25. Qa& dol lay extra after May 1st.-sSv.
 As a result of the special collection l at the three masses Sunday, St. Pat rick's parish is' to invest in a s10O0 bond of the Third Liberty Loan. The hundreds of cfocuses in bloom at Sentry Hill, the residence of Mrs Thomas Harland, at Norwich Town are a beautiful sight just now.
 Houses about town are beginning to display in the windows honor flag | cards and other devices indicating that members have subscribed for | Liberty bonds. -..-. 20. .-- .--..4-->, Local housewives are watching for the humble dandelon to blossom in nearby fields and lawns, since the market variety is bringing as high as 90 cents a peck.
 Methodist pastors. in some of the eastern Connecticut churches, who are expecting new appointments after | conference, delivered. special farewell sermons Sunday.
 James M. Main. 76. of North Ston- fngton, died Friday at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Reuben Cook, of North Stonington village The funeral was held Sunday.
 The first regular meeting of the Ni- antic Chamber of Commerce has been held with 31 members present. One of the directors is J. T. Cruttenden of Norwich and Mantle.
 Andrew J. Fitzpatrick of Middle 1 town was sent to the Norwich state inebriate farm for six months on the ground that he had been three times convicted of ixntoication.
 Travelling to Washington and hnd- ing rooms when one gets there are so unsatisfactory that but few Eastern 1 Connecticut members of the D. A, R Will risk attendance at the annual congress.
 Retail liquor dealers state that the price of whiskey has advanced S5 cents per gallon since the first of the month. A gallon of standard whiskey al the new rate. including duties and taxes, now costs close to $S. Local churches have been notified that the war commission for the Episcopal churches that was. to raise so00,0O0 for the benefit of Episcopal boys in the service have had that amount oversubscribed, obtaining | S600,O
 The Connecticut conference on ru- ral church work is. to be held this year, during the last week of June, at the Berkeley Divinity school, Mid dletown. It is probable that about | fifty clergymen of various denomina- tions will be present
 The Middletown Press says: Mi chael Dwyer, who was sent to the Norwich State Farm last month for breaking jail at Haddam a few days before the expiration of his commit ment, was reported to the police here as having disappeared from the farm
 
 A letter delayed since January has reached his home in Norwich from George NJ. Skelly, of the Engineers Corps, stating that the Sixth Regi- ment is engaged in constructive en- gineering with the British forces in northern France, where the winter has proved very severe. -
 New civil cases for the April term of the Holland county superior court which opened in Rockville Friday in ciuded: Earl Walker of Mansfield vs Laura l.. Walker, his wife, divorce. on statutory grounds; Ida c. Baker ot Holland vs. Albertus Baker of Brook lyn, divorce for assertion.
 At the D. A. R. Congress in Wash ington this week, none of the Nor wich members will be present. Tine chapter will be represented by a for mer Norwich resident, Miss Carrie F Rogers of Washington, who is alter nate for the regent, Mrs. William Ty- Ter Browne, of Broadway.
 The federal food administration or. der which forbade the sale of live hens or the killing for sale of hens between the date of Feb. Il and Apri | oV. ndS Deel dmendeu 10 end these em bargoes at midnight April 1s, accord. ing to word received by Federal Ad ministrator Robert Scoville.
 cat and dog in a Norwich house hold, which are accustomed to be fec when the family meals are put on in, table, absolutely refuse to conform ts the new time system, but appear ar hour late three times daily, noisii, protesting against this new-fangle; daylight saving plan.
 At camounage supper served b, the East Hampton Council of Defens, in the town hall last week. the speak CTS included Miss Dorothy Buckle, of Stors college, assistant state lead CT of Home Demonstration agents anS A. J. Brundage.s of Storrs, state clul leader of the Junior Food Army.
 This (Monday)' morning at St Aloysius church. New Canaan. ther, is to be an anniversary mass of re. quiem for the repose of the soul of Z former pastor of the church, Rev. Johr H. Stapleton, at one time curate al St. Mary's church, Putnam. later pas tor of the Sacred Heart parish. Taft. vile.
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