Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich. Thursday, March 28, 1918.
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at s.s7 o'clock this evening.
 There was considerable moving yes- terday, in advance of the first of April. A number of social affairs are scheduled for Easter Monday even Ing.
 St, Patricks parish school closed "Wednesday noon. to reopen Easter Monday.
 As is customary, The Bulletin will publish the Easter musical programmes Saturday morning.
 Governor Holcombs Fast Day proclamation is posted conspicuouoly in the Otis library.
 At Trinity Methodist church, the EPworth League will have charge of the Easter decorations.
 In most of the larger cities of the state the stores will keep open for at least part of the day, Good Friday.
 In many of the suburban places Boy Scouts have rendered most valuable aid in collecting books for the sol diers.
 Fast day is one of the holidays when rural postal carriers drive over their routes as usual. The other day is Christmas.
 The annual Good Friday offerings in the Catholic churches go toward the preservation of sacred places in the Holy Land.
 The first native smelts of the season, caught in the Westerly river, near Watch Hill, Were sold in the Norwich market Wednesday.
 Payment on bills due to Dr. John W. Callahan will be received at Ring & Sisk's Store,-adv.
 At present there are S6 patients at the Norwich State Tuberculosis Sana- torium, two or three in each of the new isolation wards.
 Merchants claim there is so much Easter shopping that there ought to be a real style show Sunday, if the weather proves favorable.
 Opening new millinery store, A Broadway, today. Choice trimmed and smart hats at popular prices. Pub- lie invited. Mime, Fournier.-adv.
 The mercury slid down to 20 de- grees Wednesday morning; the pre- vious day furnished a surprise in the shape of a brief snowfall.
 At Hamburg, D. T. Doane has a force of men chopping and six teams drawing logs for a mill, from timber purchased from s. P. Sterling.
 The total sale of War Thrift stamps made in the New London banks and the post office in the past week was an- uounced yesterday as S12,902.55.
 Because a full moon dominates the evening sky. it is predicted that fair weather will characterize the days un- til the moon quarters, April 4th.
 The death occurred at East Provi- denc, R. |, last week of Enoch Hox- sic, recently of Canterbury. Burial was @r NVvu ARNOA' '' 1' 0er0uA u15'
 Again the clock in the Norwich city hall is maintaining a dignifed silanoe, failing to strike the hours Wednesday, although recently repair ed
 Sunny days this week have helped along the blossoms for Easter trade. Lilies, daffohils. tulips, jonquila, hya- cipths, nareissus and genesta are at aheir best.
 Many hardy shrubs and vines are injured by freezing every winter, but this spring more than usual will be found winter killed, some of the nurs- erymen say.
 At it's meeting Tuesday evening in ranbury, Red Cross council, Knights of Columbus, elected delegates to the state convention of the order to be held in Norwich May 13 and IA.
 A Norwich railroad man who is at 1 Saybrook Junction daily states that t;le freight traffic now is a sight to open the eyes of behoiders, a continuous ! run of trains in both directions 1 Bank employees will have a holiday | tomorrow and will need it, since theif work has been increased greatly by persons who have neglected making in come tax returns until the very lasi days.
 Members of the order of the Knights Templar have been called upon b5 1 the heads of the order to make | either Good Friday or Ascension day l 4l Iok 1f C., the recovery of Jerusalem by Christian nations.
 George W. Clark s2 died recently In Cincinnati. Mir. Clarks wife, Eliz; Downing, of Scotland, Conn.,, diet some years ago. He leaves a son George NJ. Clark. of Louisville, Ky. ant a daughter, Mrs. Henry SherricE Q I Cincinnati
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 eE in Norwich and who has persona friends here. Major General Adolphu w. Greeley, U. s. A., retired, famous
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