Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-25
U1e B11listtn. Norwich, Tuesday, March 25, 1919
VARIOUS MATTERS

trees and shrubs for spring planting much earlier than usual
 George Gary has completed an ice house at Orcuttville and is filling it with ice from Lake Champlain.
 Rev. William Robinson, of Windsor Locks, has beep called to become rec tor of ce church at Old Saybrook.
 March 27th, Mi Careme, (mid-Lent) is generally the date of some special social event among French residents.
 Eastern Connecticut will be repre- sented at parade and review, of the Eth division in New York today (Tuesday).
 Fresh fish arriving daily, Osgood's Wharf, wholesale and retail. Low prices.-adv.
 Sportsmen claim that the season has | proved favorable for game birds, which have undoubtedly wintered much bet 1 ter than usual.
 I An examination of candidates for the state license to practice optometry is to be held in New Haven today (Tues- day) and Wednesday.
 l It is absolutely necessary that sol dier's family have immediate assist ance. Tel. 1216, Mrs. George c, Butts, i Sachem Terrace.-adv.
 l It is the desire of the Old Lyme war bureau to secure a military service record of the boys who entered the 1 service from that town,
 1 Monday at o'clock in St Patrick's S 1 church, an anniversary requiem high mass for Thomas E. Murphy was sung by Rev. John H. Frederick | The New Haven road has started a | crusade to stop the practice of walk ] lsrar passing on railroad property.
 Up in Holland county some hay in small lots is being sold at thirty to 1 thirty-five dollars a ton in the barn. but there is not much for sale. l James L. Case of Norwich spoke at the Montville Baptist church Sunday morning, his topic being along the 1 lines of Reconstruction After Victory | A Norw'~-- visitor in Georgia writes home Of lgeable weather. warm then cold, though fruit trees are in blossom and spring flowers are bloom
 ing.
 Charles Farra is the Wilmington boy who is to receive s20 from the state as a reward for the information he gave which led to the arrest of Claude Fay
 Tor in 1917
 There is a project 10 have such an
 observance of Arbor Day as will se-
 cure widespread planting of trees
 dedicated to those whose lives were
 sacrificed in the great war.
 By the new law dealers will be com-
 pelled to mark plainly the price of the
 luxury tax on each article and will not
 be allowed to merge the tax with tho
 price of the article indiscriminately.
 Palmer Bros quilt mill at Palmer
 town stated on ew schedule o
 working hours .Ionday morning
 Work hours are now from 7.15 ustil 12
 and from l until ,. Saturdays iron
 7.15 until 113o
 Frank Farnham who died at Grotol
 after a short illness from jaundice fol
 lowed by complications, was a residen
 of Groton but for the past year ha!
 been watchman at the Watson proper
 ty at Eastern Point.
 The collection of clothing for tn
 destitute people abroad is to be con
 tinued through this week by the com . mittee of which Mrs. Edmund W. Per 2inS IS chairman. Articles are to b' left at the Elks' Home. It is learned here that Smith Col lege War Service department is raisint a fund for the maintainance and tn, equipment of the three Smith unit now on duty in France. The fund i to be collected by Smith alumnae. \ Beginning today (Tuesday) the Nor \ wich State Tuberculosis Sanatoriun E will resume taking patients, none hay E ing been received during the past tw E weeks because of grip cases. Just nov there are 110 patients at the sanator ium.
 The total number of dog tags to b lCt in ho tot o K which 68195 are for individual dog and 1915 are for kennels. The mum Der is about the same as for thre years past and is slightly smaller tha in 1916.
 The returns from the special driv \ at Gales Ferry for the Near East Re lief work as announced by Mrs. Waite N M. Buckingham, chairman of the com mittee, show $70 with $21 raised as E special offering by the Sunday schot "a of the M. E. church.
 - The congregations at St Patrick D church were &dmonished from the pu pit Sunday to remember that congres K has ruled that clocks mast bn put fu; \ ward an hour the coming Sunda \ March 30th, and that services will \ neld on the new time.
 That Baby Farming has become SeliOuS ufSildCe III IOnneCllCut IS aS k serted in the annual report of the Cor E necticut Children's Aid Society jul out. The report alleges poor stand n ards among public and private agencit E connected w!eh baby farming. Because of the greatly increased e7 \ pense during the past year, the OC \ Fellows Home, Fairview, at Groto
 has somewhat exceeded it's appropriG E tion, but it is the intention of the se7 \ eral lodges in the state to raise suft
 cient money to make up this deficit Those who are contributing wol \ clothing for the Red Cross at Quak z Hill are being asked to leave articl S with Mrs. Frederick Comstock. MI E Guy Radway will receive donations E Cohanzie and Gilead and Miss Jess Cruikshanks in Great Neck district. Come Along, the musical comet E which began a Hartford engageme with a special benefit performance f the United Jewish Charities, Mond: night, is the composition of Jol Louw Nelson, son of Bishop R. H. Ne E son, of Albany, former rector of Chri , church, Norwich.
 For the second time at Park chur Barnes anthem, By the Waters Babylon was sung Sunday by the qua tette, Mrs. Albert F. Story, Miss Hie
 Eben Learned and Eugene B. Seaman - Mrs. Story singing the effective SC E parts. Miss Taft's prelude was Di gle's Reverie in a Mission Garden.
 Ezra Leonard Chapman, S6. forme ly jailer at Holland, who died at t L. l.