Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-02
UlseGullktin
Norwich, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

It is dayhreak today at 5.3i.
 Light vehicle almps at 4.ss o'clock this evening.
 The Thames river is open as far up as Montville. Ii business for New Years day. l,
 This year, the Feast of the Epiph- any, January eth. falls on Sunday.
 Special sales in the stores will at- tract many visitors to town this week.
 The Catholic societies will note to- day as the Feast of the Holy Name ef Jesus. The Camp Dewey property at Kite nlaugh is in charge of caretaker TOT the winter.
 Two or three families are spending the winter in the cottages at Haush. tons Cove. Dabolrs Almanac gives an encourag- l season. this week. i William Ryan of the 56th regiment 1 at Fort Wright was New Years vis- | itor at his home in this city. 1 A book recently acquired by the l | Otis Library is Theodore Roosevelt's ''Ti1e Foes of Our Own Household" The mercury stood at 5 degrees be- l low zero in Norwich Tuesday morn- | 1 ing. At Trading Cove it was be- ] low.
 Local astronomers will be on the watch Saturday evening, when the planet Venus attains it's greatest bril- liancy.
 Some damage was done to ceilings in the Steiner block on Main street, Tuesday, as the result of frozen water pipes bursting.
 l Women about town, who add to their incomes by baking for private or other Iorders,. find the lack of plenty of sugar e serious handicap.
 The first day of the year, month land the quarter had the effect of bur dening the postmen with extra mail. chiSfly bills, Tuesday.
 At Kitemaug, Frank w. Browning does not anticieate that the cold will damage the peach buds, since the ground froze so early that no sap is running.
 Intensely cold seasons, when there is . lack of proper ventilating of houses. halls, etc, generally result in cases of heavy colds and serious throat troubles.
 l. yr..- rr-s day at 10 o'clock. the rector, Rev. J. Edred Brown celebrated the holy com : rnanion, in observance of the Feast of the Circumcision.
 The inability of some property own
 CTS to get coal may result in the clos
 ing of number of houses, whose
 owners and their families may try . boarding during the winter. S It is announced that District. Su- perintendent G. G. Scrivener. of Nor ~ Wich is to conduct the quarterly con- q ference at the Methodist church in
 Uncasville, today, January End. I Some dealers in oleomargarine and renovated butter are careless in their ' to be licensed, according to Dairy and Food Commissioner Frank H. Stdat- muller.
 The Red Cross membership drive a:
 Mantle. which began December-17 and tended December 24. was successfully
 conducted. A total of 242 members
 was secured, 119 in Mantle and 123 in = Flanders.
 Steamer Chelsea remained at her New london wharf Tuesday because
 of the holiday but will come up to
 the Thames Speciality Co. mill at Mont l vile today. Her freight from Norwich
 will be taken to Montville by auto truck.
 A chain letter scheme purporting to
 have been started for the purpose ol
 raising funds for the establishment o1
 a special hospital in Paris for the Iwounded in the face and jaw has beer
 discovered in Connecticut by the Red
 Cross society.
 The week of prayer topics at tht e Central Baptist church will be: Tues. lday evening-Prayer for our Sunday
 School. Wednesday-Prayer for oul tWomen's Work. Thursday-Prayer fo, tMen's Work. Friday Prayer for oul d Young Peoples Work.
 . | d sunrise meeting held in Broadway Con
 gregational church parlors on New .~ Years. During the half hour ser Y vice there was singing of hymns
 prayer, and a brief address by the pas le tor, Rev. Edward s. Worcester. !. A name omitted from the honor rol s in The Bulletins Tuesday edition wa that of Arthur H. Vetter. son of Mi
 land Mrs. Jacob vetter, 21 Platt av Ienue, who, after serving four years i
 the navy, re- enlisted last October an 10 is on the U. S. S. Fulton. at the Stat
 Pier, New London.
 se The members of the Woman's Leagu
 have had to refuse, for several day ,f past, the requests of willing knitter '' who wanted free wool, as the suppl
 is exhausted. An especially fine quail le ty of wool, s25 worth, donated by Mir
 Charles Henry Osgood, has been con ae verted into some beautiful knitted set
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