Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-20
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at s.5s o'clock this evening.
 The ice in coves along the river is commencing to break up.
 It is many weeks since there was a demand for umbrellas. as on Tuesday, due to the heavy rain.
 Since the ground is bare, large fiocks of crows are in the suburban meadows in search of stray seeds.
 Wise householders are giving eel lars and attics thorough airings, af- ter the long closed season.
 The census of patients at the Nor- wieh State Hospital for the Insane this week shows a total of 120S.
 A Norwich man who was in Lisbon this week found that there is four feet Of frost in the ground there.
 Rockville is again receiving some of It's coal supply from Stafford on &C., count of the shortage in the former city.
 The rank of Thomas Pfeiffer in the ilSI Ol HdIueS Ou Ot. EdtTlChS 5 CLUTCH service flag was omitted. He is a cor- poral.
 There is to be meeting of the Par ent Teachers' Association Thursday evening at the Northwest Corner school, North Stonington.
 The new cam&iflage effects on strange war ships in New London tar- bor is attracting the attention of lo- cal visitors to that city.
 E. L. Hall of Derby was elected president of the Connecticut Laundry Owners association at it's annual meeting at Hartford Monday. Growers of house plants notice that they are beginning to look thrifty and to take on a deeper shade of green, since nilder weather began.
 Every Friday evening during Lent there will be Stations of the Cross fament in St.. Patrick's basement cha pei.
 There is much interest throughout Holland county in the appointment of a county commissioner to succeed Commissioner John G. Wightman, re- signed.
 By direction of the state commits sioner 0f motor vehicles, motor cars heretofore listed as pleasure cars" will, vii from new on be listed as "pas-
 The February meeting of the House. wives Army has been postponed until Wednesday,, Feb. 27th. The Bucking- ham Memorial at o'clock. The pub lie are cordially invited.-adv.
 The Sunday morning service of St. James Episcopal church, Poquetanuclx, is to be held at the home of John H. Taylor, Jr Last Sundays service was at Henry Sauer's.
 Dealers state that it is noticeable how many persons continue the use of rice and cereals as substitutes for po- tatoes, having learned their value during the recent potato shortage.
 The Gift Scouts of Park church held a meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4.d5 in the Hugh Henry Osgood Memorial Twenty attended, the meeting being in charge of the captain. Miss Eliza Detn A. PlpSr.
 Robert E, Taylor of North Stonifig l ton, accompanied by his sons Dewey ard Oscar Taylor. shot two large red foxes at Lantern hill and shot at two | others but failed to bring them dowr one day recently.
 l By aN new ieiltrrage rule, the con. signee has twofull days for unloading free. After that demurrage charge pei car is $3 for the first day, $4 for tht second, s5 for the third and so on .uI to $10 for the tenth day. l The New Haven railroad report. greatly improved passenger train ser l vice on all it's lines since the adven Of relatively mild weather and re- rnoval of the handicaps created by ex treme winter temperatures and ice ant snow.
 School Supervisor o. E. Lowell, o Norwich. reports 12 pupils in Ledyart school investing $1O in War Ceftifi cates, 45 in Preston investing $f00.5 and IT in North Stonington investins s1S75 This fine showing is up tc Feb. 1st.
 A conspicuous new sign, in the na. tional colors, placed above the en.