Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-10

This (Thursday) afternoon, the Par ish House Association of Park Con- gregati0nai church is to meet at the Red Cross room.
 In the week of prayer services at the Central Baptist church this is to be Mems Night, when the Mems Class will attend in q body.
 Only six clergymen were able to reach the Central Baptist church for Monday, so the meeting was postponed for month.
 At Old Lyme, when D. o. Maynard filled his ice house with 14-inch ice, owing to the short help situation, a number of the young women took hold and helped in the work.
 These cold days many garments are gathering dust in attics and ward robes, when they would be appreciated by those who have requests from the FOOT for warm clothing.
 In the Glacial Age the ice could not have been any harder than that which covers the Norwich streets. Walks are pretty well sanded and there is little difficulty in getting about.
 Bad weather or intense cold has no effect on the Norwich Red Cross work which is being carried forward daily with unf1agging zeal ~by patriotic wo- men representing all sections of the town.
 The County Home school has been in eacEinyS ci ion WadS,1-Io,, The same heat which warns the house heats the sehoolr6oms, so there is no object in conserving coal by emitting classes.
 The new war flour, the first car load of which is expected in Connec- ticut this week, contains nothing but wheat. It looks much like the patent white. four which the public has been familiar with.
 The death of Mrs. Rebecca Jenzen. 80, wife of the late Peter Jenzen, oe- cured at the home of her sen-in-law, John Ungeres of Montvilie, Monday night, following a brief illness. She was a native of Germany.
 The Bulletin is in receipt of the New Years edition of The Los Angeles Times; a finely illustrated special mid- winter number, from Mrs. Charles 4, Rurnham, of Norwich, who is spending the winter in that California city.
 The address at the annual meeting of the United Workers this month is to be delivered by pr. Valeria H. Par ker, of Hartford, the famous author ity on social hygiene one of the most prominent women workers Of the state
 Freight trains laden with coal bound east continue to pass along the Shore Line railroad daily in large numbers The tonnage on the same has been in creased and they are new hauling their regular number of cars with ease.
 News received by Mir. and Mrs Lem uel NJ. Fielding. of Baltic street, Nor. wich, from their son. Lemuel OsgooG Fielding, electrician on the torpedo de. stroyer Duncan. locates him at Brest France, after three trips across thu | ocean.
 | Wednesday morning. Rev. %Myles P Calvin, or St. Patrick'5 church, reat mass for the solace of the Catholi 1 IItAOhes thL tllC NUT luUGrCUlOHl l Sanhturiun1, giving holy communion
 to the 25 or 30 able to assist at tn service.
 Emmett E. MacFarland of Anacon da. Montana, and Miss Annabelle Clarl | of Quaker Hill were married Monda, l afternoon at the home of the brid by Rev. J. Beveridge Lee, pastor o
 the Second Congregational church o
 New London.
 On some of the rural mail route
 this week. where carriers have hal to cover much of the icy distance ol foot, not all patrons have been con
 siderate, and one woman burdened
 mailman with over 30 pounds of parce
 post packages,
 The January meeting of the Ann
 Warmer Bailey chapter. D. A. R., t be held at the home of Mrs Charle
 E. White in Groton this (Thursday afternoon, will be memorial to Mir.
 Cuthbert Harrison Slocomb, founde
 Of the chapter. The state law provides for ten Q
 clock closing of saloons but allow
 the common councils of larger citie
 to set later closing hour. The stat prohibition committee seeks the ear Her closing of saloons as a war meas
 ure to save coal.
 The unusual delay in receiving al
 lOtment checks this month is causin
 considerable inconvenience at Ne7
 London to wives of men in the servic,
 These checks usually reach New Lon don on the 2nd or 3rt of the fnor1tl
 but had not arrived on the 9th. By the last of this month it is ez pected that the Norwich Branch of tn Needlewprk Guild, Mrs. James A. Bid well, president, will be formally organ
 iZed. Each member of this benevc lent organization pledges herself {
 donate two articles a year to tf
 cause.
 The papers have been picturins Pr vate Israel Putnam of the Unite States Marine Corps a direct descant mt, fifth generation, of Gen Isra Putnaffl---"Old Put" of Windhsr county He enlisted in the Maril Corps soon after the war was d, clared Holiday wreaths continue to dec . rate windows and in some instanc , doors, about town. In former yea
 these decorations were removed shor iy after New Years, but now custo i sanctions their retention in place 'ul