Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Light vehicle lamps at 5.o2 o'clock this evening.
 Dealers have had a big demand for ear muffs this week.
 Rev. c. IT. Ricketts at Y. M. c, A. tomorrow, at S.s0. Hear hin--adv.
 At present there are 1.17s patients at the Norwich state hospital for the insane.
 St. Robert and St. Titus were com memorated in the church calendar Friday.
 The continuous crunching of wheels on the snowy road is an unfalllng re- hinder of cold weather.
 D.A. R. chapters about the state are electing delegates to the spring Conti- mental congress at Washington.
 Norwich people who have been at East Lyme this week say the Mantle river is frozen over its entire length.
 It may be an omen of an early spring that Easter in 1918 comes unusually early, the last day of March, the S1st- Policemen who have been on night duty this week think that the climate of Labrador has nothing on that of Norwich.
 The great 'cellist, Carl Webster. oe Boston, at '. M. c. A., 3.30 p. m- Sun day.-adv.
 Visitors to Washington write home of the severe cold, shortage of coal. and the fact that wood is selling for $14 a cord
 Friday at 8 o'clock in St. Patrick's church the rector, Rev. John H. Brod- erick, sang an anniversary high mass of requiem for Thomas A. Shea. Members of Grace circle of the l r-tr~S Daurhters and the leader Mrs. , Frank J. King, were among workers al tne Red Cross room trldaY after noon.
 There is to be a musical praise set- vice at Park Congregational church at 4.30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Much of the Christmas music will be re- | peated by request. Owners of shrubs and plants are wondering how many of them will be winter-killed, since the snow is too hard and icy to afford much protec- | tion for plant roots.
 ] Most of the Norwich florists have been fortunate in having sufficient coke on hand to keep their greenhouses | choice plants during the freeze of Sunday night.
 I Marked down sale of fancy articles and stamped linen at Woman's EX- change. Baked beans and brown bread served in tea room.-adv.
 There are places in the suburbs i where wells are covered by such i heavy ice that it is impossible to draw l water, horseholders having to depend upon springs and ponds where the icy covering can be broken.
 It has been found necessary to change reception hours for the golden wedding celebration of MT. and Mrs.
 Henry S. Gay at the Buckingham Me morial Monday afternoon next. The
 hours will be from 4 to s.
 The conference for older boys of
 
 was postponed from Dec 2S-30 on ac-
 count of cases of .diphtheria will be
 held at New London Friday, Satur-
 day and Sunday, Feb. 22-24
 The ordinary precautions to keep
 cellar vegetables from freezing have
 not proved sufficient for the unusual
 cold and few bushels here and there in especially exposed points have beer
 frozen, making up a considerable tota , throughout the country. A. W. Buchanan, agent of the state
 board of education, was in Norwich T Thursday and Friday and granted per mits for children to go to work. This
 was MT. Buchanan's first appearance , here for several weeks because of in
 juries received in an automobile acci ' dent.
 , Perfect marble slabs, to replace
 three cracked in transit. have beer received by the Boston builder whc } is erecting a granite mausoleum ir
 Maplewood cemetery for Mrs Josepl
 N. Burdic< and who hopes to con tinue setting the marble lining ii ; spite of the cold ls Owing to the shortage of coal tht
 morning services of St. James Episco pal church, Poquetanuck, Is to bs : held at the houses of parishionsrs fo , the next month. that tomorrow beinl
 at the home of Charles A. Hardness
 Evening services will be omitted ant tomorrow there will be no communion
 Special letterheads, containing al
 engraving of the American flag anon:
 other things. have been mailed to al
 of the divisions of the Ancient Orde : of Hfbernians throughout the state 5 with the request that they be filled il 3 with the names of the various mel 1, who are in the federal service, to g
 on the orders national honor roll f Charles Carbray Passed UncomfortabI Night.