Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

school classes busy this week.
 The gift. supreme-Furs for Xmas from Maepherson.-adv.
 Those who have been accustomed to make special Christmas candy at'home find it impossible to obtain sugar this year. -
 The Christmas vacation for the students at Connecticut College for Women will extend from Dec. goth to Jan. 9th.
 Fruit is always in demand for Christmas gifts and the Norwich stores are well supplied this season to meet the demand.
 Letters are coming to local W. C. T. U. members asking that Victory meeting be held January 16th,. when national prohibition becomes effective.
 A wonderful assortment of pipes and smokers articles, at Betting's, 56 Broadway.-adv.
 It. is expected that appointments of census enumerators in this vicinity will be made next week the announce ments coming direct from Washing ton.
 A North Woodstock correspondent mentions that a former Norwich res ident, Mrs. Calvin l.. Rawson is ill at her home in the English Neighbor- hood.
 Firty printed calling cards for 50 cents at The Bulletin office.-adv.,
 At Saybrook. Harold Stevens sus- tained broken wrist when the crank of A. II. Reynolds truck flew off the shaft while he was trying to start the engine.
 Amateur astronomers hereabouts are interested in attempts to make out the big spot on the sun which led the | prophets to predict the end of the world Wednesday. t-
 Furs of unusual value and excel lence at Macpherson's.-adv. '~As | A community Christmas pageant | The Nativity, will be given Sunday evening in the Congregational church in Holland and there will be singing of | Christmas carols.
 | Regular meeting, K. of C., tonight al o'clock. Sunlight building. First de- gree.-adv.
 | When the newly organized Gamma Psi fraternity at Wesleyan held it's 1 first initiation banquet at the College Dining hall, the committee included Leon IL. Bunyan. of Colchester. The pastor, Rev. Alexander II. Ab- bolt, and the United Church commit tee. have been receiving the names o1 | children whom. the parents desire tc | present for baptism on Christmas | Sunday.
 l Smokers gifts that are out of the ordinary at Betting's, 56 Broadway adv. L Marquette council, K of C., of hoo r1o nd oH ivzt t111 1af the officers for the coming year, in cluding chaplain, Rev. Richard F Shortell, formerly of St Patrick: church, Norwich.
 Since the signing of the armistice
 the workers of the Travellers Aid so
 ciety have been of service to about SO. 900 persons. There is a branch il
 Norwich, Mrs. George D. Colt bein,
 one of the state directors. More than 95 per cent. of the Con inecticut shade grown tobacco has bee
 sold at prices as high as. $1.35 ant averaging around $1.10, according to
 report issued from the United State
 department of agriculture.
 A gift as warm as your friendship } A fur coat from Macpherson.-adv
 The project 77@ of enlisting churcl members for work in the New Worl
 movement. which will be inaugurate
 next week by the Northern Baptis convention. is progressing satisfac , torily throughout this state. } Woodstocks distinguished summe resident, Dr. Hamilton Holt, is one (
 the promoters of plans for the Civi
 Auditorium. to be known as Ne'
 York's Town Meeting Hall. announce
 on Wednesday night at dinner 8 the Metropolitan Club.
 John F. Reilly, 98. who died 8 | Brooklyn, recently, was one of tn members of the crew of the famou
 Monitor which fought the Merrima . and saved the Union fleet in Marcl | 1863. It is thought that he was yer
 nearly the last one living.
 Luxurious black lynx scarfs ar
 muffs at Macpherson's for Xmas gift l-adv.
 The honorary state regent, MT q Sara T. Kinney of Hartford gave - talk on The Colonial Yankee at tf
 December meeting of Susan Carrins ton Clarke Chapter, D. A. R., held ( = Wednesday afternoon at the home
 Mrs. George E. Savage in Meriden . The United States civil service con n mission announces for Jan. 13 an e, animation for tank expert Vacanci in the ordnance department at lare n at S1,S00 a year, will be filled fro
 this examination. For the existil P. vacancy male eligibles are desired. a Margaret A.. 66 widow of Willia
 J. Nutland of Rockville, died at u
 Hartford hospital Wednesday after 'e noon. Mrs, Nutland fell down a flig
 of stairs in the Prescott block, Roc
 vile, eleven months ago and has be, fr confined to her bed since that time. A Cases of machinery parts, and se
 eral cases of crude rubber left at Ne
 London by the German undersea era Deutschland on her visit to that DO and now stored at the custom hou will be placed on sale by the bure, of sales of the alien property cust dian.
 The second organization meeting the executive committee of the Co - necticut Woman Suffrage Associati
 since the state convention at Brids
 port, in November, was held Wedne
 day morning at the suffrage fea
 quarters, No. 55 Pratt street, Hal
 ford.
 Thomas E. Beirner, alias Joe Sul
 van, arrested by Deputy Unit States Marshal Timothy A. McCart nv at New London Tuesday. is held he the Hartford county jail, pending 1g moval to Massachusetts where he re to answer for violation of the pos or regulation.
 h. Wholesale druggists here and en other towns were notified Thursd in that depletion of stocks and .furtl nv price advances characterize the m; w ket for coal-tar dye products of Y 'ly rious kinds. Many of the domes