Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at $40 o'clock this evening.
 Memorial Week visitors will find Norwich looking her best.
 The Peck Library has among new books six volumes of Japanese De- signs.
 The benches have been put out in the city parks and all were utilized Sunday.
 At Colchester, David Elgart will plant twenty-five acres of cucumbers this season.
 Few automobiles lacked a green tag, after the effective work of the girl solicitors at the bank corner Sunday.
 The other day at Sterling William Hawes shot a black snake four feet long, on the state road opposite his home.
 snowballs for Memorial Day at Morrison's, 465 West Main street. adv.
 From Old saybrook William F. O. Brien, Shore Line electric road, has been transferred to the Westerly, R. l., division.
 The city water wagon made a trip through the business streets Sunday, making an effective spring drive against the dust.
 George W. Herrick has transferred to the Connecticut selicia Corporation a tract of about four acres of land near Lantern Hill.
 The fine collection of Red Cross posters in a show window of the Bos- ton Store has attracted attention and excited admiration. The special Red Cross exhibit is one of the display windows at the Por- teous & Mitchell store held the in terest of passing hundreds. An occasional Norwich Town visi- tor. Miss Frances G. Cowles, instruc- tor in English at Willimantic High school, is to go to the Waterbury high school. Taxes will be collected today at the store of John G. Potter & Sons, East Side. from II a. m. to 1 p. m.-adv. At the Gales Ferry farm of Mir. and ! Mrs: Latham E. Smith, Matilda, one of the motherly turkeys in the flock :, is doing her bit in a war year by rearing five little turkeys and seven ducklings.
 The ordnance department desires to appoint. immediately three clerks for the Connecticut ordnance office. These positions are open to clerks qualified as miscellaneous voucher clerk or sundry voucher clerk. l To the semi-annual conference of the County Sunday school associa- | ton which will hold it's session in Trinity Methodist church Tuesday, the church delegates are Mrs. Albert Boardman and Mrs. G. ". Guard
 At the twentieth annual conference of Kings Daughters and Sons of Hart ] ford county held in the Methodist church at Windsor Friday, during the afternoon, Mrs. Louis O. Potter, of Norwich the state president spoke. 1 A Mantle correspondent mentions that Louis Anderson, of Hartford, has arrived at the state camp ground and 1 is assisting Caretaker R. c. Beckwith of the camp in putting things in or der. The large plot of the Backus his pita1 grounds along Washington street where potatoes were raised last year l has been seeGed down this year fol a hay crop for the hospitals dairy 1 cows.
 l The Shore Line company is acquir- 1 ing the right to land in Plainfield anG other towns near. The management is planning to run high tension wires from Central Village over Sugar Brook to Brooklyn and probably tt Willimantic.
 The Red Cross quota for the city O Rockville alone was $500 and the to- tai Friday noon amounted to $15,G46. 37. The total for Holland is $660 Somersville $s6050: Talcottville s601. 75; Ellington, S750, and Stafford Springs, $4,OoO.
 fl No objection was offered to the ap proval of the method of constructin; trolley turnout on Broad street il
  fore the public utilities commission ol the petition of the Shore Line Elec tric Railway company.
 Three of the South Coventry mill have earned the Red Cross flags whicl are given when every employe give at least dollar. The three are tn Kingsbury Box ard Printing company William F. Wood and Son. and H. and w. A. Washburn.
 At the twenty-second annual meet ing of the Connecticut Federation 0 Women's Clubs in Hartford last weel county directors elected included, Mrs William D. Harris. New London: Mrs W. B. Bean, Rockville, and Mrs Christopher c. Case, Willimantic
 Seventy-five pictures are shown a the Atheneum gallery, Hartford in tn second annual exhibition of painting given under the management of Jame D. Gill. Many Connecticut scenes ar shown in the exhibit. among them |, Study at East Lyme, by Henry I s Smith.
 Hartford women will entertain
 number of out-of-town guests Wed nesday evening over the New Eng : land conference of the National Wo
 mans party. to be held at the Hart
 ford club. Mrs. William Bradfor
 Green will entertain Miss Catheriu
 Byrne and Miss Anna Leavitt of Put nam.
 Saturday morning at St. Patrick
 church, Rev. J. H. Broderick off1ciat
 ed at the mass when II chilaSen re
 ceived first holy communion. At yes rers Sunday afternoon the same chi 5 dren were given the Scapulars by Fla
 ther Brodericl, consecrating them