Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-13

Norwich. s1turday. April 1s, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Big QucES o1 a. ProY1deuCe firm l have been carrying loads of lumber overland from Norwich. It was on April 18th in 1889 that John Haynes was chosen first gover- nor of the Connecticut colony. A Noank woman, Mrs. G.E. An drews, has been appointed ticket seller in the union station in New London. Pattersons sawmiH is being moved from Charles Miners woodlot at North Stonington to aslot in the Wolf Neck district.
 Workers at the Red Cross room were busy Friday preparing the 5000 gauge wipes to go in the next box forwarded.
 Schools are preparing special exer- cises for Friday next, the 18th, which Governor Holcomb has designated as Arbor and Bird day.
 Special sale of food of war substi- tutes at Wonan'ss Exchange. Pussy willow yarn in variety of shades. Khaki and sock yarn-adv.
 1t was not much like gentle spring Friday morning, with several inches of snow on the ground and trees and shrubs covered with ice.
 During this month Venus is a morning star, rising two hours before the sun. It reaches it's greatest distance (elonga- tion west) from the sun on April 21.
 Sunday, April. 21, is Liberty Bond Sunday, when the churches are expect al 1A %oly AS ha fIaa need of money with which to carry it on.
 Ellington grange voted at it's meet ing Wednesday evening to buy a $100 Liberty bond. During the evening $50 of the amount was subscribed by those present.
 License your dogs in the town male and spayed dogs $1.25. One dol lar extra after May. 1st.-adv. The Connecticut Bible society during l the past year has distributed more | than $500 Bibles among men of the state called into the military and naval service of the country.
 District No. of this county will hold school institute in Stonington | Wednesday, May 1. The district in cludes Groton, Noank, Mystic, Led yard, North Stonington and Stoning- | ton.
 One morning this week, at the Wo- mems league room, Miss Jennie M. Case secured Liberty bond subscrip- tions of $500, and in the afternoon Miss Osgood sold an equal amount of bonds.
 The Storrs expert, Miss Costello who was scheduled to speak at Bolton April IS, when she will demonstrate war cooking and school lunches i'll Grange hall.
 The new sanatorium at Crescent Beach, the former White Beach hotel just purchased by the state for sea side home for children. may be used early in the fall or even during the late summer. e. | Ina show window of the Boston store is displayed the elegant silk U. S. flag won by Troop Il, Boy Scouts, of Bear Hill, for securing the greatest number of subscriptions during the seconC Liberty loan.
 Charlotte A., 7s widow of Gile. Avery of Groton, died Thursday. He husband died several years ago. Sh is survived by two brothers, Charle F. Ferguson and William c. Ferguson both of Groton.
 The 126th annual meeting of tn Holland County Medical associatio, will be held in the Rockville hous Tuesday. The meeting will be calle to order at noon by President Donal L. Ross of Mansfield Depot.
 Public invited to hear the man wh was in Russia when the revolutio broke out. He speaks at Davis thea tre at S.S0 tomorrow. '. M. c. auspices See item on back page adv.
 The summer term of the Danbur State Normal school will open July
 of this year, it is announced. by tn state board of education. The norma school course will be for six week. and the work will be intensive.
 At o'clock Friday morning in S Patricks church requiem high mas on the first anniversary of the deat of Isabella Flood, wife of ex-Mayo Timothy c. Murphy, was sung by tn rector, Rev. John H. Frederick.
 Capt. Joseph Wilbur, the oyste
 grower of Quiambaug, Mystic, state k that the oysters bedded in the mud (
 the cove were total loss by bein
 smothered. while on gravel bottoI they are all right except those crushe ' by the ice.
 MT. and Mrs. E. F. Mayton of Hin
 son, Fla, announce the engagement 8 their daughter, Miss Robbie Eth,
 Mayton, to James Edward Landers
 Somers. now training with Compan
 A. 106th engineers. Camp Wheele
 Macon, Ga
 I Work received Friday at the We N mans league room in the Thaye
 building from the Lebanon Red Cros < through Mrs. H. B. Hewitt. include
 three sweaters, seven helmets, fol
 pairs socks, four pairs wristlets, ar
 nine muffiers.
 There has been received at the Ot . library the book by E. E. Hale J, - Life and Letters of Edward Evere . Hale, of interest locally, since tn
 distinguished man was frequently el
 tertained at the Gilman homestead \ Norwich Town.
 E Many members of the Brotherhot
 of Railway Clerks will attend patr
 otic meeting under the auspices of u Connecticut lodges of the Brotherhot