Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-14
VARIOUS MATTERS

Mud on the country roads will be axie-deep before many days, as the re- suit of the sudden thaw.
 For the first time in months. the mercury was well above 50 degrees in the shade. Wednesday afternoon.
 Taxes will be received today at drug store of George M. Rathbone, West Side, from Il a. m. to p. rn.-adv.
 A dozen or more Old Lyme carpen- ters are waiting the word to start cNl the government work on Cornfieid Point
 Shoppers in scores came to town yesterday. encouraged by mild weath- CT and lenticed by special clearance bargains.
 H. H. Bean, storekeeper at Midway yard, has left for his home in Los Angeles. He has been at Midway for about year.
 The Connecticut Hardware associa- tion gathered for the annual meeting at The Elton, Waterbury, Tuesday and Wednesday.
 The February meeting of the wo- mans Home Missionary society of Park Congregational church is to be held at tha residence of Mrs. George D. Colt, 22l Broadway.
 Milliners' windows are featuring the gay straw lids of spring and already the new-season hats are being worn In contrast to fur coats.
 The committee of the Broadway church is to confer Friday with those who are to unite with that church on confession of faith at the March com mufion,. @N
 At the meeting of the grange at Hamburg. it was voted to endorse the nation-wid prohibition resolution as adopted by the national and state granges.
 Ash Wednesday morning . at 10 o'clock Rev. J. Eldred Brown, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, officiated at the celebration of the holy com munion.
 Puddles like small lakes covered some of the crossings, by Wednesday night. Melting snow has run into eel lars and the householder has a new perplexity.
 To Inquirer, Norwich: The informa- ton which you desire concerning the fishif1g laws and fishermen's licenses can be obtained by addressing Edgar Ashby, Noank.
 Enemy aliens who registered in this state are being instructed to not call Tor their registration cards until Feh- ruary 2S. at the earliest, and from then until March 1. A few days more of high tempera- ture will soften up the ice so that fish, errnen in the shore towns can get busy It has, been an expensive and discouraging winter for them. The first days drive of the Knights l of Columbus to raise s75,000 in the city | of New Haven this week netted sso,- 1 SIS. 30. Rev. W. A. Keefe of P1ainfield | spoke for the campaign Sunday, i F. A. Weaver, manager of the Mo Curdy farms, at Lyme, will coracluae l his duties in a few weeks and will move his family to Vermont where he viii work on large dairy farm. Pomona grange will meet with old Lyme grange today (Thursday). The meetings will be held in Odd Fellows hall and dinner will be served in the Grange hail. About 100 are expect,d to attend.
 Wednesday marked the fifth anni- versary of the opening of~the Norwich State Tuberculosis Sanatoriun, which | has done such successful work under | the superintendency of Dr. Hugh 1 Campbell.
 l Some of the grist mills near Co., lumbia have ceased grinding on &C., count of a shortage of water. The ! greater part of the water has been converted into ice by the extreme cold weather.
 ! The current issue of The White Rib l bon Banner, in it's memorial column tc | Connecticut residents who have been | workers for the cause of temperance i lists under Norwich, the name Of s Howard Mead. Il Norwich colored people have beer notified that the New England Bap- tist Missionary. convention will hold Il it's third annual mass meeting at Bal ttrnore, February q, meeting with Shiloh Baptist church.
 Fox hunting is the popular sport as well as the best paying one al Hamburg this winter. About 40 ot the animals have been killed. in that
 vicinity and the price. paid for thail
 belts is from s12 to $16 each. H The so-called comic valentine nt longer appears in Norwich stores. Thi.
 seasons novelties feature the aero plane, automobile, military and maya ideas, and some of the figures depict led are dressed in garments of req cloth.
 Rev. J. H. James. whose funeral wa. held Wednesday at Rockville. ha( served Methodist churches of War
 rem. R. l., North Bridgewater, Ply
 mouth, and, Providencetown, Mass Stafford Springs. Burnside, Norwich
 (Sachern street), Danielson and Rock vile. ,Y
 On Wednesday, Otto Czckowski. o
 Taftville purchased from Clark R
 Chapnfun of Hamilton avenue, younf
 calf weighing S87 pounds for s54.1S
 This is at the rate of IA cents liy, weight. MT. Czckowski who has beer
 in business for the past twenty years says the rates today are the highes
 lie has yet seen.