Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-26
UIhe Bnllglim, Norwich, Thursday, Dec. 2s, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Fur buyers in Warrenville1ast week bought large supply of furs. Nearly $1,0o0 worth is sold there every year.
 At present 6f0 officers and 9,s13 men are serving in the active force, or first line now called the Connecticut State Guard.
 Rural carriers drove over their routes Wednesday, so that patrons had | the solace of receiving mail while it was fresh.
 Tomorrow (Friday) the feast day of St. John the Evangelist there will be the celebration of the holy conmun- ion in the Episcopal churches Chaplin's Congregational pastor, Rev. Guy Wingerd, is to preach his farewell sermon New Years day. He is to leave Chaplin for New York. December 26th is St. Stephens day. 1 The state trade schools which closed Tuesday afternoon for a brief Christ mas recess. will reopen today 1 (Thursday).
 1 The Norwich agent of the State Free | Employment Bureau, George l.. Ches- l bro, has had the busiest month in his 1 experience. having secured places for about 450 applicants. l Tffe pensioners on the New Haven | for another year at least. The annual documents have been forwarded to item for their signatures.
 After weather as fltful and aggra- l vating as on an April day, the skies 1 cleared Wednesday noon and the tenn | rerature rose well toward 50 degrees at some points about town. | No improvement about Norwich is 1 more satisfactory to drivers and bet ter to look at than tfe result of the II recent finishing up of the corner at Rockwell Terrace and Mckinley lave- nue.
 At the State Industrial school in Middletown. where there are several eastern Connecticut charges, there were gifts for each of the 75 children Wednesday, wi&h Christmas trees. mu- sic, etc.
 Christmas day grass was growing in the old fashioned garden at the home of the late Frank A. Robinson,t on Ss- chem street. and some Of the shrubs aBpesrod freshly budded, as they might in spring.
 John IT. Stanners, messenger for the Shore Line Electric Railway, who lost two of his toes month ago, in car accident at Guilford, and who was confined to his home in New London is able to be .'bout.
 At the close of the term ir St. Pat ric&'s school, the pupils of the four 1 lower grades were given little Christmas festival by Rev. Father Brodorick and inc upper grade classc g held special exercises.
 This year in some Connecticut tor,i.s l there has been a marked faiiitig off in ttc parcels post matter to soldiers in camps. Last year at Christmas time : the majority of the boys were in the camps in this country.
 It has been voted tc o..ranize a band to be known as the Rockville City Band, which. it is eXpected will have sbont 2 menbcs5. Officers elected include President. John N Keeney; musical director, Carl Ungewiter.
 Schools and churches on Block Isl.
 ard have been ordered closed, ant l all Christmas festivities were calico off, because of an outbreak of inf1ucn. z2 there.> Early in the week 12 cases
 seven in one family, were reportd.
 Mrs. Nancy Smith Latham. S8, wifi, i of Thomas Albert Latham, who ha just died at Noank, was q descendant
 of John Rowland, a passenger on tn,
 Mayfiower in 1920, who was the las
 male survivor of the PRgrim Fathers As a protest against the discharg
 of the most efficient and experience,
 shipbuilders, ,molders anti carpenters Supt w P. Latham resigned at tn 7 Noank plant of the Gro6an Iron works
 Monday forenoon. Others went wit r him.
 Provision dealers state that man,
 of the foreign-b born residents of Nor 9 wich celebrated Christmas as neye
 before, making it a day of real vic
 tory feasting and joyousness, becaus - of the peace dawning for their home n lands.
 The city missionary for the Unite E Workers, Rev. c. A. Northrop, gay f out about 80 Christmas baskets to tn s needy in Norwich. supplying a tote 2 Of about 150 individuals. ;ts in som E cases there was but one in the fami \ lies aided. El The marriage in East Hartford 0 K Saturday of Charles Sumner Cady an
 Miss Pauline Ranney is announcet
 Nr. Cady is the son of Mrs John Ken
 nedy of Old Mystic and his bride the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Waite
 K. Ranney of East Hartford. b In 1918 the state department of mo
 tor vehicles published daily list registrations for the use of varior
 Insurance and automobile compani6
 police departments and busine: '-- houses throughout the state The Ii,
 will not be published during 1919.
 The United States Fuel Adninistrs
 tion has sent notice that the work
 i1o longer necessary, and have crdere T the termination of the Connecticl , fuel activities at the earliest nossib a. date. and the officials are no long, 1- required to fill out questionnaires x other reports