Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-13
QIlae Dulletin,
Norwich, Thursday, Feb. 10, 1919.
VARIOUS MATTERS

engagements in the chruch choir5.
Lyme's oldest shoemaker, Emerson
Mixter, who is So, is i'll in bed with a
| cold.
The popular motto in Wednesdays
| decorations appeared to be: Welcome
Home, Our Heroes"
The w. C. T. unions in towns here
abouts are planning to celebrate Fran
ces Wizards birthday Feb. II.
| The ice harvest at Hamburg haa
| begun, houses being filed from the
| Talcot pond with seven or eight-inch
| ice.
! A number of Connecticut cities plan
| special Memorial day celebrations to
! include welcome home demonstrations
to the boys of the service
| Delegates from this state have left
! for Cleveland, O., via Springfield, to
| attend the Master Painters Interna-
! tional association convention.
A contract of s1,4OO for the removal
! of garbage was awarded to Gustave
Reisenhach at the meeting of the
| Rockville city council Tuesday night.
Early risers Wednesday found that
| the mercury had dropped tolls de-
| grees, but the day proved quite as
| pleasant as the many which have pre-
| coded it.
Argo at Osgood's wharf with fresh
fish. very low prices, today and Friday.
adv.
Owners here are interested in the
| rumor that there is to be a revision of
the automobile liability insurance rate
system, based on list price instead Of
| horsepower.
Miss Edenia Hosmer, who resigned
as telephone operator in the Saybrook
| exchange, became the bride of Clar-
ence Champion in lvoryton Wednesday
at / o'clock.
A highly successful rummage sale for
the benefit of the Halle club was held
Wednesday at the former Plaut-Cad-
den store in general charge of Miss
Annie Mcnamara.
A linen shower was given at the
home of Mrs. Clarence S. Fiske at
Coventry Tuesday evening in honor of
Miss Hattie NJ. Hawkins, who is en-
gagged to Leslie Mills of Westport.
When st. Mary's Tierney cadets held
a Lincoln's birthday dance Tuesday
night in Plant hall. New London, with
! 200 present, the guests included dele
} gatiCns from the Norwich and Noank
, societies.
John J. Hickey, who has come to the
, T'dewater Oil Co. at Scotch Cap from
Bayonne, n. j., had three sons in the
. service in France. The fourth son was
waiting his call when the armistice
was signed.
Personal taxes will be collected to-
day at the drug store Of George N
Rathbone, West Side, from II a. m.
to l p. m.-adv.
An occasional Norwich visitor, Miss
Daphne Selden, of Deep River, state
! organizer of the Connecticut Woman
Suffrage association, has sailed for
France to engage in Y. NJ. C. A. can
teen service.
, The executive board of the New
London chapter of the American Red
Cross has voted to permit the South
Waterford auxiliary to change its name
to the Waterford auxiliary. This takes
in all of Waterford.
The schools throughout the state
were urged by the local chairmen in
the various communities to make some
reference to war savings stamps and
their teaching of thrift in observation
of LinCOln's birthday.
Some of the game bills in the legis-
lature provide, in a general way, that
ferrets, dog and gun may be used dur
ing the open season on birds, but after
q that only the do" and ferrets may be
= used in hunting rabbits.
i When M'ddletown High school bias.
: ketball team plays the first game Of
)! the season this Thursday afternoon
in the local Y. NJ. C. A. the player!
will have for their opponents Bacor
J. Academy team of Colchester
At the February meeting of thu
Mems club of Park church in the Hugh
I. Henry Osgood Memorial Friday even
ing William C. harrington will lecture
! on The Spanish War, Illustrating hi
talk with stereopticon views.
= For the establishment by the Episco
: pal social service commission of an oil
/ peoples home it has been decided i
| possible to take over the old Gleb
Seabury was elected first bishop o
Connecticut.
There is a project to merge the or
CARNATIONS of Connecticut tohacc,
growers with those of southern Massa
chusetts for the purpose of uniting tn
Is smaller growers of Connecticut in
cooperative body to insure protection
and unity of effort.
= DR. Charles L. Cotton, deputy com
p missioner of domestic animals, says
1 swine plague is prevalent among hog
I in Connecticut. Symptoms are simila
D to those of hog cholera, he says. H
attributes the prevalence of the dis
I ease to the mild weather.
Z The Tolland County Farm Burea
4 has a new county agent to succee
] County Agent John f. Clifford re
y signed. Ernest e. Tucker of Long
- meadow. Mass, has come TO Rockvill
from Springfield, Mass, where he ha
L tcen supervisor of war gardens.
Within the next few days New Lon
don will lose about 900 sailors frol
the state pier and the experiment;
Tx station. or about half the entire nav;
r. force stationed in that city. The order
are that these men shall either be dis
ur charged, transferred or placed on II
,d inactive list
Today Thursday Charity Commi.
sioner William Smithwick of Brist
will come to Norwich to take to Il
county home at Warehouse Point thr,
young children of George T. Fits, WI
- lost his wife recently, also to take
IN Bristol an older child who will be care
r. for by its grandmother.
n Notice has been received from Lol
81 don that it has been found necessa1
M to impose a fee of two pence on eat
II parcel post package received fro
b abroad, which fee will be collect
q from the ADDRESSED, except with respe
81 to packages upon which no Britt
customs duty is payable.
Il L,rd,.,,ra cEores D,I-;nG;.