Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-21
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Norwich, Friday, March 81, 1918
VARIOUS MATTERS
This is the first day OF spring.

At Voluntown, William Isitgood and |
William Daw!ey have been repairing |
the roads.
March 21st is the feast day of st.
benedict especially honored by col
ored Catholics.
K. Of C. meeting tonight at sis. First
degree.-adv.
y New England conference is to be
teld by then anti suffragists Tuesday,
April 1. at Hartford.
The planet Mercury will be visible In
the western evening sky for a few
days after March 81.
A limited supply of the new three
cent Victory postage stamps has been
received at post offices in Connecticut.
At present the Connecticut Hospital
for the Insane, at MidGlctown, has
over $500 patients and 500 employ
es
Students from number Of the col
leges and prep schools will arrive
home at the week end for The spring
recess.
Coventry grange at It's meeting
Thursday evening discussed during the
lecturers hour, Agricultural Imple-
rcents."
ers Bros.-adv.
Elmer White, of Thompson, has been
gathering considerable maple sap for
syrup and sugar. The rl1n came very
early this year.
A teachers meeting was held Thurs
day afternoon at Nathan Hale hall,
New London, for the purpose of form
Ing a Teachers League.
The other night Bert Bennett. who
is working at a saw mill at Pomfret
Landing, fell cut of his bed hitting i
chair and breaking a rio.
One of the youngest soldiers who
answered his country's call is Ruth
erford Benton of Rockville. He join
cd the colors at the age OF II.
Thursday was the 18th birthday of
1t. Rev. David H. Gcer. Episcopal
| BISHOP of New York. all occasional
| preacher in Connecticut when at Grace
church, Providence.
Subscribers to the fcurth Liberty
| loan who bought bonds On the in
stallment PLAZA. have beel making the
payment for March. Final payments
arc due April Is.
| Buy fresh fish at Osgood wharf to-
| day. Two big cargoes; lowest prices.
adv.
| Members hereabouts have been no
! tifed that the class of 1905 Vale Uni
| versity, will have a get together din
uer at the Yale club New York, this
| GTriday) evening.
Through the efforts OF Mrs. James
| G.. Hammond (Clara Turner there are
thirty-tw babies in France who have
| Laen adopted by New I.0nicners. one
| iCV nv the teTeOro0e o;r'-
| 1t has been announced that the pres
ent college term at Trinity will end on
! Saturday, March 90. The third and f.
nal term of the year will. begin Monday,
| with no intervening vacation.
! Charles A. INITIAL rs the class of
| l6. of the Wheeler school. Eorth Ston-
/ ifgton has received the Italian war
cross for bravery under fire He en-
| listed in 1917 at Brown university.
a Ridgefeld young lady Miss Char
lotte Davis Won the title Of the states
first pianist at competition held. in
Hartford under the auspices of the
states Music Teachers association.
Festival OF 70 olden times. Saturday
evening, Mar. %. Pendleton Hill Zap
t.si church.--adv.
! At Trinity Episcopal Church Thurs
| Gay at 10 o'clock there vas the Len
ten celebration of the holy commu-
/ non. Rev. !. Eldred Brown and Rev
, ,tirhard r. Graham uniting in the
: service.
4. The funeral of c. H. 1.are of Pres
,on was held Wednesday afternoon at
~ Shapley street. New London. The
service was conducted by Rev. j
Romeny anforth. Burial was in Jordan
cemetery.
Employees Of the American Railway
| Express company have been provided
rev cap badges which have just beer
issued. The badges are Two inches
square and are attached diagonally
to the front of the CAPS
Governor Holcomb has appointed
William T. Cutter of Fast Lyme,
Henry L. Borg of Stamford .nd James
A. Newlands Of Hartford, state chem
lists, each to serve for a term Of two
years, dating from June 5. 1913,
DR.. Frank W. Holmes has resumed
his dental nractice in the Shannon
building, Room A. Telephone ES2.-adv
!. W. Gosiee of Manchester has beer
appointed district manager Of the
Traternal Benefit League and will
have charge Of the field work in Hart
fora county, rs well as Il part of Mid
dlesex, Tolland and Windham coun.
ties.
More than 100000 pounds Of yarr
and large supply of knitting needles
1hn whole valued at $2,316.415. is to bt
shipped Immediately TO tEa America,
Red Cross commission IL France foI
distribution in the war swept coun.
tries.
4 former rector Of Grace church
Tantic. Rev. NJ. Mclean Goldie Of tn,
Groton Iron Works has resigned the
'~cctorship and secreta.yship in al
electric company and will shortly b.
associated with other interests in New
London.
Eight small boys OF RidgefelC
cleared sos from an acre Of potatoe
last year. according to a report FLEE
with the Extension Service Of Connec
ticut Agricultural college Storrs, b,
/. NJ. Johnson, county club leader 0
Fairfield.
Aaron Pease. go, OF Vernon, VIII,
died at his kome Tuesday. is survive,
by two daughters, Mrs. ida LOOMS. 0
Derby, and Mrs. Jennie Sparks, of To
leGo, Ohio. The funeral was held
} Thursday afternoon. Burial was i
auckland cemetery.
Oepositors, business men and 9th
ers visiting the Norwich Savings So
ciety's banking house and The Thame
National Bank are welcoming bac
President Arthur H. Brewer, who re
4 Gently returned from Hartford hos
pital and appears in the best of health
Robert McC1elland Brady Of Detroi
era duated from Trinity college in 1885,
has presented the college $4,000, i
honor of r. N. Luther, a close frien
of the donor and brother of d
tlavel S. Luther of Brooklyn, Com
The fund is to further the study c
mathematics.