Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-24
UI1eBa1llgliIz: Norwich, Friday, Jan. q 1919
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 5.22 o'clock this evening.
 The town clock has not been strik- ing for several days.
 The moon was in it's last quarter on Thursday, at 11.22 p. m.
 This week there are ffty-two pa tients at Backus hospital.
 Commencing February 1 all restric- lions on bituminous coal will be re- moved.
 Thursday mornings fog was one of the densest of the season, and unsea- scnable enough, for January.
 A partial list of books on Genealogy in the Otis Library has been prepared by the librarian. Miss Cash.
 The next meeting of the Norwich C. E. Union is to be held with the Con- gregational church at Hanover early ir February.
 Court Hearts of Oak, 16. Foresters 1f America. of Rockville, is to observe its thirty-siXth anniversary Friday evening, Feb. 14.
 Brown and Stone of North Ston- ington, have been filling their ice houses with good clear ice, seven and eight inches in thickness.
 In Connecticut nearly $'5,O0O, G00 in W. s. s. were sold fast year. More than T50,000 people became regular buyers of war savings stamps.
 The Red Cross of Poquonoc met at fhe home of Mrs. Ralph White on the RuddintOn road Thursday afternoon for the last session of the season. Recommendations for the contin- Cance and extension of the work of the Junior Food Army, have been made through the state council of defense. To Inquirer: Fort Schuyler is at Westchester. N. Y. A portion of the 56th artillery has been transferred there from Camp Mills, Long Island.
 Postmaster John P. Murphy has had a new letterboX placed at Otis Li- 5rary corner, an improvement ap- preciated by all who use that box for mail
 A reception and dinner was given Judge E. B. Gager of the supreme court at the Hotel Taft New Haven, | Thursday evening. by associate mem bers of the bar.
 There are only q few Holsters at Noank, but they bring 70 cents a pound so there isn't any money lost by those fishermen who kept Ineu boats overheard.
 Thursday afternoon Troop l, cii1I Scouts, of Park church, met at O. clock in the dining room of the Hugn Henry Osgood Memorial. Miss Lucy Loring is guardian.
 Agent of the state board Of educa- ton, A. W. Buchanan. of Mansfield when in Norwich Thursday, had but few applications from school children for working certificates. Notification has been received by the trade that the Society of Master House Painters and Decorators will meet for the annual convention at New Haven, Feb. D and 26.
 Shriyer and Bond of Groton bor- | ough have won first prize at the pOGl- try show in Madison garden, New | York for cock. hen, cockerel and pull l let of the Non-bearded Silver Polish l fowl.
 | A Hamburg correspondent notes that l Edward Ely and family who started 1 for California last week, were to sai l from New York to Galveston, Texas and go by the southern route to Lcs 1 Angeles.
 All monthly G0-ride communication tickets sold by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company l on and after Feb. 1 will be limited to expire on the last day of the caIen- | dar month.
 A three weeks influenza quarantine at the naval base on Block Island vas lifted Tuesday by direction oI l Fear Admiral Joseph W. Oman. com. l D Of ha II +,.sr f 1 The base will be closed Feb. i
 During the past year there were IA 1 hurials in Maplewood cemetery, Nor Hich. of this total 50 being in Sep temper and October. The averag
 number per month is estimated b. Supt. Washington Holt at ten or # | George Talcott, president of the
 First National bank of Rockville i
 probably the oldest bank official il New England in active service an
 one of the oldest in the country. hay
 ing reached his sgd birthday thi
 week.
 The National Society. United State
 Daughters of 1872, State of Connect
 cut, has candidate for president na
 tional of the order and will presen
 .Ee name of Mrs. Clarence r. F
 Jenne Of Hartford at the annual meet
 Ing in April
 As May is the centennial anniver
 sary of the Connecticut general as
 sembly under the Constitution, whic
 was adopted in 1919. it is likely tha
 the senate and house will have a join
 session next month to consider a pro per observance.
 | The Worcester Chamber Of Com rerce is to participate in the launch
 ing during February at the Groto
 iron Works, since the U. s, Shippin
 Board decided to have the name C
 Hull No. changed 10 Worcester, i
 honor Of the Massachusetts city. Wednesday afternoon. when th Progressive Missionary club met wit Mrs. Franklin H. Brown, PA Laurt
 Hill avenue. twelve were present in ; vice president, Mrs. William Whitma presiding. A busy afternoon wa spent, with sewing and readings. A meeting has been held to consids the feasibility of a national advertis ing campaign to bring the qualitit of Connecticut tobacco more prom rently before the smoking public. Tn < Connecticut valley produces the be! wrapper and binding tobacco in tf t world.
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