Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-07

building has been called out Of town by the serious illness of her rnother- adv.
 During Sunday afternoon there were ss visitors to the Otis library reading room. Miss Martha A. Ward was fff1 charge.
 At the Broadway church as a meas ure of fuel conservation, all services will be he.G for the present in the Sunday school room.
 Connecticut dealers have returned from the three-day convention Of the National Association of Ice Dealers,
 Business, which was rather inactive during the week. owing to; the exere1ne. cold. brisksd up Saturday, and in the evening especially. the stores were busy.
 There is plenty of water flowing from the Norwich reservoir, although Fairview and Stony Broolt are cover ed by 14-irich ice and all the brooks are frozen.
 The monthly mass for the parish. boys in the federal service is to be held at St. Patrick's church Thurs day this week, instead of Monday as customary.
 The Church Improvement society of the Second Congregational church is to meet in the Red Cross room. Thay- CT building, this week. Mite boxes to be collected at this meeting. A four days school of agriculture and home economies has been in. ses- sion at the Gosfen, Litchfield County, town hall, under the auspices Of the rConnecticut Agricultural college. | Not ore pound of coal can be ob- | taihed in the village of Noank. It is said that the dealers in Mystic have refused to let any more of their SUD- ply go to Noank, as they need it for their own village.
 1 The papers noted Saturday that it J was January D.. in, 1eSS, when Sam iue3 H1ntineton, 8, Connecticut signer of the Declaration Of Independence died at Norwich, Conn. He was born ] at Windham, Conn, July 5. 1731. The past few days have been strenu- nns ones for families where water 1ipes have been frozen and where ii has been necessary to depend upon kindly neighbors for supplies of water
 for drinking and cooking, purposes. | The January White Ribbon Banner
 notes that the campaign plans adopt
 ed by the Washington convention in.
 clude the observance bv all local union.
 of January 24th as q day of prayer fol
 National Constitutional Prohibition. The New York. New Haven ant Hartford Railroad train changes were
 effective yesterday, January $. the dis continuance of S2 trains including tn, Bay State Limited, Pcston-St Loais Express and State of Maine Express.
 The funeral of Judge Benezet A
 Hough was held Friday afternobn, a
 three o'clock at his home, 30 Deer Hill
 avenue, Danbury. Jhdge Hough wht was a native of Bozrah, was col
 lege mate of Judge Lucius Brown. O . Norwich.
 The receipts of the motor vehie1.
 department from registration of ve hicles and drivers licenses up to Jan nary ? for 1918 amount to $322,6S56s and fines $s34. For the same perie,
 in the year 1917 the receipts Iwer s27S,e4t.55.
 ii The United Groups of the Polish Al iianee of Connecticut, representing or ranizations in practically every cit, in the state held q convention il Danbury Saturday and Sunday. Tn meeting place was the Polish hall CT Ives street
 The total number Of Red Cross seal sold in Connecticut in 1916 was 3, 2s6 900 while in 1917 more than 3, 50000 were sold. As all the return for the year just closed are not f s vet. it is believed that the final tots will be more than 4,e80, ,e0o The five or six men fin the city wate department worked all day Sunday, a = about 20e service pipes are frozen an
 fully 125 water meters have had to b taken out. Superintendent E. l.. Bur
 nap finds four feet of frost in tn
 ground, where the men are digging Mrs. Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury be dueathed the Congregationaf church ( Old Lyme, s10,oe0, the Lyme. Hig
 School association oe Old Lyme s35 800, to create the MacCurdy- Safisbur } fund. and the Ladies' Library associ } ation of Old Lyme $5,ooe. to cre1te
 similar fund.
 Four Norwich employees of tt \ Western Union Telegraph cofapan participated if1 the distribution of tf bonus by the company for tsfe yes
 1917. The bonus was paid in two fl = stailrnerits, July i, and Januaryf to a
 employees of the company since Jar
 uary 1, 1917.
 Prisoners in the state prison
 Wethersfie!d showed their patfiotio
 ism in the recent Red Cross drfy Q when 26S out of SIS ot them paid ev,
 tkeir dollars. for membership. B,
 sides, Italian inmates contribute
 s22S for the Italian war relief fur
 and the Jewish inmates sf05 for Iii
 fund.
 The interesting letter descrfbir
 Christmas at the Norwich tubereufos
 sanatoriui1i. reprinted ia The Bullet
 Wednesday, was written to the Wate ls bury American by 4. W. Burgess |. member of the American's staff. K young man who has won many frien, ., among Norwich visitors since becon '' ing a patient at the sanatorfum.