Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31

Light vehicle lamps at 4: 5o O'CLOCK this evening.
 The year goes out with a day hours, minutes in length. Blacksmiths put in a busy day | Tuesday, sharpening horses. Fifty printed calling cards for 50 cents at the Bulletin office.-adv.
 Dec. 3oth was the feast of St. Sabinus. Today, the S1st, St. Syl- vester is commemorated. | The city garbage collectors are mak- l ing their rounds day earlier than i customary, because of the holiday.
 In all the local stores prices have 1 been lowered on holiday goods and some very satisfactory buying is still going on.
 New Year greeting cards for He- brew residents and their out of town friends are adding to the volume oi the mails.
 Mrs. Fannie c. Lamb of Ledyard announces the engagement of her daughter Hazel to Robert B. King ot Stonington.
 At Noank, the engagement of Miss 1 Margaret Cutten, sister Of George Cutten to Benamin B. Bradshaw has been announced.
 This weeks meeting of the Farther Lights of the Central Baptist church is to be held with Miss Sybil Palmer 142 Broad street.
 It is safe to predict that more God fearing residents of Norwich "won't go home till morning" than has beer true for twelvemonth-
 Fresh fish and oysters, arriving daily at Osgood's wharf. Prices reasonable I-adv.
 Tuesdays snowfall made a very brave showing at the start, but die not do much more than to give the earth a white blanket again.
 Humane society agents are advo- eating not only chain shoes but alsC carpet overshoes for horses, as an aiC to sure-footed travel on the icy streets.
 At Trinity Methodist church, a .wo- mans prayer meeting will be held 1T the primary room this "Wednesday evening, preceding the Watch Nigh service.
 One of the current magazines ha! an illustrated article on the work O J. Alden Weir, the New York artist who was buried in Windham Q few week ago.
 There are several small towns il Connecticut that are not provided with high school privileges and an eff fort will be made by the state super visors to have this lack supplied.
 Dealers here have been notified tha the spring showing of women's gar ments will be opened in New Yorl Friday. Included in the offerings vii be coats, suits, dresses and skirts.
 At Watch Hill following the snow the air was clear and the visibilit, was good so that Block Island stoot out plainly, covered with snow ant locking like an iceberg nthe sound
 Help a great cause by maxim Christmas and New Years gifts o bonds or equivalent to St. Mary's did nond jubilee fund-adv.
 A smooth horse fell on the hi back of the Y. M. c. A. building Tues day morning and slid as far as tn Otis library. It was several hour before the animal could be gotten o, his feet again.
 Ambrose G. Huh, "A, died last Wed nesday at the residence in Nort , Stonington of Governor H. Browr formerly of Norwich, where he Ina lived for some time, Mrs. Brown be ing his sister.
 , Members of several of the othe ? churches have been invited to atten the reception to be rendered Rev Alex ander H. Abbott and Mrs. Abbott a ! the United Church parlors this (Wed J uesday) evening.
 The anniversary of the death of b Jose Rizal Y. Mercado. the FiIipin martyr, was observed by the Filipin ! sailors of the Uniteh States EUb marine base at the Crocker Hous, Tuesday evening.
 U According to reports at Watch Hi the Clyde line steaship Onondagi N sunk on Little Reef on the last da of June, 1918, is to be blown up in n stead of an attempt being made 1 U salvage the craft.
 Steamer Wyandotte plying betwee
 New London and Greenport, Lon
 Island, made her last trip Tuesday ' spite of the efforts of the New LOT don Chamber of Commerce and ci
 izens of Long Island to have the SCI
 vice maintained throughout the vii
 ter season.
 The United States civil service con - mission announces for Jan. IT an es
 animation for railway mail clerk. W
 cancies in the railway mail service \ the States in which this examinatie ~ is held at the entrance salary
 $500 a year, will be filled from tn
 examination.
 The fact that the Belgian govern ,e ment has ordered 150 locomotives
 this country from the American I,oc, 'n motive company and the Baldwin L at comotive company recalls the traditis m that the latter plant would have bet
 located in Norwich, had the town
 people done their part. th Friday, the women of the Unit, m church congregation meet in Il
 church parlors at two o'clock to pr 'e part surgical dressings. At 3:30 re the meeting of the auxiliary to tl ,e board of missions, Mrs. E. w. Higgi
 will report an address recently giv,
 in Hartford by Henry Morgenthau. T. As an example of the business S
 gacity of the Rev. Hugh Treano
 when rector of St. Patrick's chur
 he bought for $S,e00 the abandon n Sachem park as site for the prese - SN. Joseph's cemetery, selling
 sS,000 worth of wood the first ye;
 thus evening-up the purchase price. l Torrington papers state that, wi the gift of $55,Oo0 to St. Franc church, Rev. Arthur O'Keefe, former of Taftville, pastor, came a lett fro mthe donor, John F. Alvord non Catholic explaining that it was recognition of the good work dol
 not alone in that borough but all oy
 the United States by the Catho
 church.
 & A Washington society item reat K; Mir. and Mrs. John Dryden Kus Ys whose marriage took place in Was ington in April, have gone to Ha