Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-09
VARIOUS MATTERS

Ii.
Light vehicle lamps at sos o'clock |
this evening
Sportsrnen say good fall of snow is !
needed to make conditions just right |
for fox hunting.
Frost fish are not so numerous at |
the beaches in the shore towns of the |
county this year as last, it is report |
ed.
A Westerly man. Henry p Collins, |
has bouSht the house owned in Ncfth |
Stonington by Mrs. G. L. Burr of Bal |
tic.
The community Christmas tree and
holiday decorations were removed
from Union Square Tuesday after
noon.
The planet Venus is now steadily
drawing away from the sui in the
western evening sky.
The Knights of Columbus member
ship in this state is now about $4,000
and an effort will be made to increase
it to at least 10000.
Franklin council. No. g. r. & NJ,
meets tonight at Masonic Temple, at
T.3o, for ballot only.-adv.
Cloudy and stormy weather are try
ing the patience of the merchants, who
.are at the height of the January
clearing sale season.
Coal is arriving at Connecticut ports
very slowly of late. The stormy wea-
Their of last week hindered the arri-
val of barGes greatly,
Tea will be served, following the
January meeting of the Wouan's For
eiEn Missionary society of Trinity
Methodist church this (Tharsday) af-
Jernocn.
The rain Wednesday morning froze
az it fell and for a time made dam
gerous walking. After noon there was
Il Sudden rise in tenn Gerature which
again dashed the hopes OF the ice
men.
Charles INITIAL. class of '1G at the
Nheeler senool. Nc III Stonington, and
for several years prclnineat in ath-
'atics At that institution, is now il
| the American ambulance corps on duty
| il Italy.
CwinS to the illness Of Rev. Viii
liam A. fitzgerald, pastor Of Sacred
Heart church. Gpoton. Rev Francis F.
! Iiay, an instructor in ST, Thomas $
| Seminary, Hartford. will be acting
tpastoE for the next few weeks,
The East Lyme Parent Teachers as
! sociat;o1 is to meet this CThugsdayl
EevenirS' at the Flanders school Mrs.
.. 2. Richmond is chairman CT the
Erro2rammo committee, with Miss Eve
Parker and Mrs. Warso assistants.
At Hamburg there was no grange
! meeting last week, owing T.. 90 n /, Il
illness and hlG - a. neg. Tne master
N"-FtJN lee. IS one OF those i'll, Eav-
irg had Influenza followed by Fneu-
nlo1-ia, but at present is improving
+! Div. ., a. o. H. meets this IThurs-
day) exening at s O'Clock Installation
Of officers. All members expected
present.-adv.
The governors achievement certi-
ficates which are to be awarded boys
and girls of the Junior Food Army
who sent in reports Of their summers
work, are being prepared for distribu
ttiGn at the farm bureaus of the state
| Postmaster J. P. Murphy received
a telegram from WASH ~, ton, instruct
ing hun to put the flag on The post.
Office building at half mast and he has
Kept it there until after the fIaeral o.
former President Theodore Roose-
welt.
| The number of hands employed a.
the Groton Iron Works Tuesday wa.
S,17G. Ninety eight hands were take1
on that day. Since November so, 1918
the working force has been Increases
l02. Eventually about 1000 will b.
fenpioyed.
4 Clergyman who spent last sum
raer in Y. NJ. G. A. work a. Fort Ter
Try Row George D. Owens, has re
signed after seven years as pastor o
Thomaston Congrega tionai church. t
+ take effect March l, His plans ar
/ not announced.
6 After the holiday interruption. re7
! Richard r. Graham, rector OF Chris
chuFch, resumed his Wednesday Wis
" its to the Norwich State TubercuIosi
-. Sanatori1ns tkis week. holding tn
service Of morning prayer at 1880
the waiting room.
| Charles G. r, Vina1, clerk of til
Middlesax county Superior court, ba
rendered his resignation 70 Chief JUS
p, tice Samuel O. Prentice effective Jal
81, Me. Yinal is 70. and as he he
:. served since 1865 holds the record il
II clerksAtp in the history OF state eonrt
The engagement is announced
Miss Madel Beu1ah Hess. daushtt
CT Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Hess or Ne
London 10 Herbert H. Sanger of Rocf
lester. y. Y. Mr.. SANGER was former
: [ connected with the Z. 8. n. r., ST
toned at the fitting out sect-sl. sta
pier.
Baptist churches and church men
- bers throughout the country may ere
-. a memorial church in Washington
Z honor Of Roger Williams, similar
B Churches a1re4 DIV built in the nation
& capital by Lutherans, the Disciples
Z Christ, Southern Methodists and Pr,
I byterians.
I In connection with the two sta
I hospitals for the insane at Midlle. ~
\ and at Norwich the state board
Z charities recommends that a psycE
pathic or reception hospital for t
1 spe cialized treatment of newly cor
Titted patients be established at ca
institution.
Accor Ling to a decision Just hand
down by Judge Gardiner Greene
Norwich. Of the superior court Ma
garet Fuchs, of Stanford, wife
Mcmillan, is given a tudrrnent
e. SO 47t.17 against her husband W
U-as recently sued for breach of pro1
Use by a New Rochelle girl.
H. A correspondent writes that wea.tt
conditions this season are similar
those in 1881, when at Christrn
doors and windows were open as FIRE
ly as in May and great care had to
exercised in driving not to overhs
a the horses furnished as they VT
with a heavy coat for winter.
It is an interesting fact that N
Maynard Iadd, the Philadelpf
sculptor. whose marvellous work ov
seas in making masl5s for mutiIa.
soldiers was described in The BuI
tin Monday, is sister in law of n
Ladd, recently appointed matron
the Eliza Huntington Memorial Ho.
old At the former Red Cross rooms
{ the Thayer building this fThurgd;
. afternoon at O'clock, the Norw
branch Of the Needlework Guild \