Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

Guard.
 The approach Of April 1st means the customary choir changes in most of the churches.
 The Bird Study clubs are making the most of these pleasant days for woodland strolls.
 Now that dead grass in pastures and woods IS so dry, the danger of woodland fires increases.
 A North stonington resident, Mrs. Chester Maine. was poisoned recently from burning wood with ivy on it. France, Walter Hewitt, David Strong. Fred Brehaut ard Harold Gray.
 Thursdays warm weather started the juvenile ball teams to practice. and diamonds appeared in nearby available fields.
 Play and dance Scotland Road hall, Friday evening, postponed indefinitely. adv.
 | HdITlQIlC OTSdIllZdl1OuS dIS dlISdQy planning for Memorial Day observ- ance. This year May s0th falls on Thursday.
 In order to keep it's property free | from trespassers, the New Haven road Is making special efforts for clear lines this spring.
 All New England knitting yarns will ! L f-,, l1A, and Saturday at the Yarn Shop, IT Cliff St.-adv.
 1 Generous supplies of warm gar ments for the destitute Belgians were l left at the room of the Woman's League during Thursday.
 A long string of open cars was brought up from New London Thurs I day. to be painted in Norwich in ad- vance of the summer demand. Some especially attractive Easter | cards and booklets, as we'll as beau tiful religious articles and emblems, are being featured by the stores. Cutting down the thorn locust tree on Church street was finished at 4S0 Thursday afternoon by City Forester si H. F. Davis, the big tree falling safely toward the west.
 Norwich banks realize that April lst is nearing. and with it the limit of the period in which returns of in- comes must be made, to meet govern ment requirements.
 Several more Spaniards have ar. rived in Noank to work at the ship yard. They will make their home 1T the house owned by the New Haver road, near the station.
 Miss Estella Goodrich of Berlin who resigned with the American Hardware Co. is at the Thames Rive navy yard, where she will proba ply be rated as a yeonan.
 Big shipments are being made thi month by the Norwich Nickel & Bras company from their Thames Sstree plant, where the 50 employees are kep busy throughout nine-hour day.
 At Farmers institute held at tn Old Saybrook town hall, Wednesda! under the auspices of the Farm Brl reau, B. G. Southwick and Miss M. Hayes of Storrs were the speakers. ;. It is a strange fact that in place I. in the county where ice harvesting still going on. cutters are glad ( warmer weather which helps melt th
 big cakes so that they can be handle
 more readily.
 Middletown's first Victory rally ws c held in the town hall on Thursday eI , ening. Miss S2rague, state chairma = of food conservation and A. T. Stever
 of Storrs Agricultural college weI
 the speakers.
 The freight traffic bound for easter
 points is amazing. In the history the New Haven road there never fa Q been so many trains sent over it in
 week as was sent through Saybroc
 during the last five days. At Mantle, R. C. Beckwith ar
 George B. Dickinson are making rt
 pairs to a number of ambulance was
 ons which were drawn from the sta A camp ground to Dickinsons place, 1
 be put in first class shape
 William Fiss. 90, of Rockville, W: d arrested Wednesday in New Orlee. V as he was about to board ship. u
 charge being that he is a draft dod:
 CT. Fiss left Rockville about a ya; j. ago, ostensibly to join the navy. Is Recruits at the Hartford office tn
 week include William F. Marley al ?. Albert c. Snortmann, of Roclzvil '. who have joined the cavalry, al h Carl W. Johnson. S5 Putnam Height | who joined the medical department.
 The Connecticut Woman's Su
 frage association held an executig
 board meeting at headquarters IS Hartford. early in the week, wh
 enough money was raised to send fo
 organizers at once through the sta
 According to latest ruling fire i; state headquarters concerning the ss
 of wheat, potatoes are no longer
 the list of substitutes except tn
 bakers may use them, and rye is r a substitute except that bakers m
 use it as substitute until Mar
 s1st.
 r Dairymen about the state are i % creasirg their daily herds. Leona H. Healey of North Woodstock, se
 retary of the state board of agricl
 ture said Wednesday He finds u ,rt theer are more milking cows in 1 state now than at any other time dl 4 ing the past two years. = The superintendent of the Norwi branch of the State Employment E
 reau, George L.. Chesebro, was SCI
 rying. about Thursday, in the endea ., Or to secure twenty weavers 8 1-T I