Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
VARIOUS MATTERS

this evening.
 A small amount of overseas mail arrived this week.
 Figures of the state net estate pen atty tax have just been issued by the state treasurer.
 Having sold out his business, D. C.. Saunders is soon to move from Ston- ington to North Stonington.
 Farmerettes are clearing tthe' tangle of young trees from the yard of the old Stanton place, at Quonochontaug. Certain of the railroad stations now have special windows where furlough tickets are sold to sailors and sol- diers.
 The body of Miss Abbie Mowry was taken to Ashford recently, from Nor wich, for burial in the Woodward cem- etery.
 A Bolton young man, George Wolf who is at Camp Devens. has been promoted to the rank of second lieu tenant.
 Sale of millinery goods Tuesday and Wednesday at Miss Buckley's, 306 Main street-adv.
 | A party of hunters from Greenwich is making the annual trip to Phoe- nixville, boarding with MT. and Mrs. George Reed.
 Larger numbers of employees have | returned to work this week. an evil dence that the influenza cases are growing fewer.
 A new book at the C'tis library which is appealing to juvenile read CTS is G. A. Minick's Home Life 1 Around the World.
 The adoption of daylight saving time each summer as the fixed policy of the United States is urged by the | Connecticut State Council of Defense.
 The contested New Hartford license | case was heard by Judge Gardner 1 Greene, of Norwich, at Litchf1eld on Monday afternoon. Court reserved de- cision.
 Schedules for conservation in the straw hat industry are being mailed to Connecticut hat manufacturers by the Conservation Division Of the War Industries Board.
 There have been no patients admit ted to the Rockville Emergency hos pital since Friday. It is expected that the hospital will be cleared of pa tients in few days.
 Resuming sessions this week IS meeting of the Progressive Missionary Club of the Central Baptist church will be with Mrs. William H. Covey Jr., 42 Freeman avenue.
 Hartford papers note that Lieuten- ant John A. Markham, a son. law of Isaac Bragaw, of Neptune Park and Hartford, who is stlt%led in Texts, is ill with pneumonia.
 MT. D. F. Clifford, school for dane. ing, will open Sat, Nov I'd, at hall ir Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Hours fol little children ? to 3.30. Children ovel If from to s.--adv.
 A Willimantic patient Mrs. Mar! Murphy, 75, who died at the Norwich State Hospital, Sunday morning, i! survived by Ter husband, John Mur phy, Of No. 19 Card street, Williman tic.
 At East Thompson recently, tn district superintendent, Rev. Georg G. Scrivener of Norwich held thu quarterly conference and a praye meeting at the home Of Silas Jos ! lin.
 Owing to the prevailing epidemi of influenza, the mid-year meeting 0 the Connecticut Federation of Wo mems clubs, which was to have beel held in Bridgeport, Thursday, has bee ueleTreQ.
 The boys at Camp Devens, for tn first time in several weeks, .becaus of the quarantine which has been i force there, entertained over 10000 ] visitors Sunday. Only 15,0o0 of tn men were given home passes.
 The White Ribbon Banner, publish ed at Scotland. Conn.,, announces tn fact that the General Federation ( | te o1. .h1 women, has placed itself on record 3 opposed to the liquor traffic.
 Within the coming two weeks. hold CTS of Liberty Loan bonds may, they wish, convert bonds bearing on, four per cenz into four and one-qual A ter per cent. bonds. The change mu be made before November g.
 Ellington's quota in the comir drive for allied war activities is $2 500. The work of raising this amour will be in charge of Mrs. H. Q. Abor : who is taking the place of Mrs. c. Wood, on the Woman's committee.
 The sort of war crops they rai q at Chaplin is indicated by radis \ grown by Blanche Whitman, whit - measures fourteen and one e-haf incl es in circumference. is fourteen il - ches long and weighs three pounds. D The first week in November W - see the beginning of the openil
 of the tobacco warehouses in Tollal
 county. Mucll higher wages will
 paid out this year. than ever befol M Packing of the supplies donated f
 the Red Cross linen shower will tal
 place Friday. In work for this shoy
 CT, patriotic women of the Jewish o . ganizations and of St. Fatrick's pa il ish have been especially successfl
 Voluntown men, Walter Tanner al Benjamin Gallup, were at the Co
 necticut Agricultural college at Stor
 recently, when MT. Gallup uprchas
 a thoroughbred registered Southdoy
 ram, whose half brother was sold |
 Saturday before for $50. u1 It is mentioned by an exchange til
 A. H. Newton of the Connectic
 Trust & Safe Deposit Company a z his family closed their summer pla D. River Knoll. at Andover, Sunday a have returned to their home at ! 21S Collins street, Hartford
 The state barber commission exa, ,rt ined thirty candidates in Bridgep, s+ and November II the con1missi
 meets at the state capitol to exam
 another batch of applicants Eli - Lague of Jewett City is secretary a treasurer of the board and inspector V barber shops.
 D. A.. R. chapters have been nc
 fled. that November 22 the twen
 fifth general meeting, Connecticut
 A. R. will be held at Certer Chur
 Hartford. Governor Marcus H. H eh comb, Mrs. George Thatcher Guerns
 president general, N. $. D. A. R., 3
 others will speak.
 When Rev. William Palmer Ls