Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-25
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light Venlcle lamps dt o.z4 O'CLOCK this evening.
 The moon fulls tomorrow, the 2sth, at 1914 p. m.
 K. of c. meeting tonight. First de- gree.-adv.
 Pomona grange is to meet with Old Lyme grange Feb. 14th. A fox shot by Nathaniel Lyon at Phoenixville the other day weighed nearly il pounds.
 A community chorus was organized Wednesday evening at Wheeler school, North Stonington.
 Temperatures as low as zero were recorded about Trading Cove early Thursday morning.
 Hebron friends have received letters recently from Walter Hewitt, who is somewhere in France. Don't forget the Anniversary dance at St. Mary's T. A. B. hall Friday evening, Jan. 22.-adv. The women's visitation committee of the Central Baptist church met after the prayer meeting Thursday evening. Reports come from about the state of swindlers soliciting for different forms of war relief work, wholly with out authority.
 Long coaI-laden trains, some of them drawn by two locomotives. are going through on both roads, indicating that business is speeding up. The c. B. society of Hanover has been invited to attend the meeting of the Norwich Town Christian Endeavor society Sunday evening.
 Some of the Wesleyan students are getting few days at their homes dur ing the mid-year examinations, which last from Jan. A to Feb. 2, inclusive. Thursday at 8 o'clock in St. Pat ricks basement chapel minth's mind requiem high mass for Mrs. Bridget Callahan was sung by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 Hear Miss M, E. Sprague food di- rector of the state speak at the Pa ] triotic Food Exhibit in the Bucking ham Memorial at 3 D.. m. today No admission.-adv. i During the recent outbreak in Nor wich 1t was. claimed that there were no other cases of glanders in the state. Now 30 cases have been discovered in New Britain.
 This (Friday) afternoon the Camp Fire Girls of Broadway church, Mrs. i A. c. Freeman guardian, are to meet with Miss Dorothy Rasmussen of Me Kinley avenue, | The shortage of coal means a hard l ship for many poor women who are | laundresses and who find washing and ironing slow and unsatisfactory work if wood must be used.
 1 Knitting classes have been organized among the pupils of the Center and | Rock Meadow districts of the town oS Union under the leadership of Mrs. T. l o. Newell and Miss Elizabeth Gilling- ham.
 At a meeting of 30 members of the | executive board of the Connecticut | congress of mothers in Hartford it was 1 decided to hold the annual convention of the association ir Hartford May and 10.
 Don't forget the Firemen's Ball in Jewett City. Friday eve, Jan 25. The | famous Pickett orchestra of Williman- l tic of ten pieces, will furnish music ] Proceeds of the hall go to the soldiers Come and help the boys.-adv
 Rural carriers on some routes are still greatly delayed by icy roads finding it necessary to omit portions of their territory where travelling is too dangerous for either a horse o1 automobile.
 MT. and Mrs. Anson Blakeslee Clin- ton of North Haven announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Mildred Lavinia. to William Thomas Cough ot
 Rockville No date has been set fol
 the wedding.
 Thursday morning Mrs. A. A. Sparks
 of Fairmount street received a card
 from her younger son, Earle l.. Sparks Machine Gun battalion, that he hat
 reached England after a fine trip ant
 was in good health and spirits.
 Listed among winners at the New
 Haven poultry show in the Houdmas
 class is former Norwich man, ex.
 Mayor c. T. Driscoll, who was award
 ed fourth for cock, fifth hen, fourtI cockerel, fourth bullet, first pen.
 Next Sunday, Jan. 27th, is the Sun
 day appointed for the special offerins
 toward the $500,000 war work fun(
 being raised by the Episcopal churcl , in America, and to which the Norwicl churches will contribute their share. At Thompson. ice is still being har
 vested chiefly at the Beam pond, al shallower ponds are frozen solid. Thi
 has been cut three times and some ic
 Is said to be P inches thick-a heavie
 crop than can be remembered by an, 4 in that locality.
 Word has been received here of tn
 death of Archibald Dorrance Morris a Bristol, Pa from heart trouble Sun day. Mir. Morris married Maude Mors
 Harris, daughter of the late Cortlan
 Harris, for many years a New Lon
 don business man.
 The fuel bill of the New Haven roa ! has been reduced one-third of the an = nual cost. The reduction amounted t N $1.900,O00 during the last year. tn
 saving on passenger locomotive
 amounting to $G2S140 a year and O
 the freight locomotives $751,12S. el Announcement is made of the mar
 riage of Joseph McCaughey, son of M and Mrs. Joseph McCaughey, of Man chester, and Miss Flora Bousdue
 daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jefferson. (
 stafford Springs. The wedding too \ place in Stafford Springs Saturday. HI Fred Harper of Lynchburg, Va
 grand exalted ruler of the Elks ha
 issued bulletin to the Elks' lodge
 dealing with the wa: work of the orde