Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-09
VIl1e Bl1lig1;ul,
Norwich, Wednesday, April g, 1918
VARIOUS MATTERS

SCHOOL
bluets and other early spring flowers.
The farm bureaus in Connecticut
opened Monday their campaign for
16,0 900 members.
Jitney men of the state have Or
ganized to oppose the proposed legis-
lation relating to jitneys.
During March the Rockville Libra
ry circulated 1924 books. The read
ing room attendance was 1906.
Recent awards of patents include:
John W. Anderson, Groton, assignor
to Electric Boat Co., steam condensing
system.
Grand Army posts about the state
are preparing to make the coming
Memorial day a special Victory ami
versary.
Farmers in the suburbs are plant
ing their cat crops, which have been
delayed by cool weather following the
recent snow
Plans are being made for a special
meeting of all young people of the
Protestant churches of Norwich, East
CT Sunday morning.
Tomorrow. April 10. at 1911 a. m.
the planet Saturn and the moon viii
be in conjunction. Saturn will be
north b degrees "a minutes.
Mrs. j. NJ Barton, sister of Mrs.
Towne, wife of Principal Walter A.
Towne, of New London, died at her
home in Worcester, Sunday.
Argo at Osgoods wharf Big cargo
of fresh caught fish. Low prices
adv.
AS orchard owners are discovering
that none of the peach buds have
turned black yet, it is hoped the re-
cent freeze did not injure them.
Local owners of cottages who are
visiting their shore property are find
ing conditions much better than fol-
lowing the severe winter of last year.
In Tolland county superior court At
torney Michael D. O'Connell of Stafford
Springs, has been appointed a public
defender for the April term of court,
Delegates are being elected by Con-
necticut lodges TO the national con-
vention of the Brotherhood of Rail
road Clerks to open in Cincinnati, May
II.
License your dogs in the town
clerks office now, male and spayed
dogs 1925; female dogs $10.25, One
dollar extra after Mas 1st,-ad1.
An usually large number of evening
grosbeaks is reported in Windham
county towns Possibly the mild win
ter accounts for the large humber
noted.
There are already in Connecticut a
dozen girls clubs of the National
League. The largest of these is the
Waterbury Girls club, with over 400
members.
The Yarn Shop, II Cliff street, is
closing out all grades of yarns at act
| ual cost. Only three days more.-adv.
An exchange notes that A. W
Gessner, of Saybrook Point house, has
taken charge as chief engineer of the
new plant of the Shore Line Electric
Railway company at Montville.
Next week will be known among
the dealers in wall paper as wallpa-
per week, and local dealers are to make
special drive to have householder
make renovations during that period
At a conference for Congregations
Sunday school workers with girls, tC
| be held at Colchester, April 18th, one
of the speakers will be the county
leader, Mrs. William II. Dawley, Of
| Norwich.
Mrs. W. II. Rogers, having recov.
cred from her recent illness, has re-
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! Union street. Complete new stock ha'
been received and new grades arriv-
| ing daily-adv.
The 10th annual meeting of thu
| Connecticut Bible society was held a
Center church, Hartford, Tuesday aft
! ernoon at o'clock. Rev. DR.. Rock
well Harmon Potter president of thu
society, presiding.
! he 1874, o,r,,o1 Of
! Tolland County Medical association t
be held at Rockville, Tuesday, Apri
Is, there will be papers, one by Dr.
| Charles S. Stern of Hartford, and tn
other by DR.. John E. Flaherty of Rock
vile.
1t is stated by Henry Bradley Plant
son of the late Morton F. Plant, tina
the executors of the estate have re
ceived and accepted an offer for Plan
field, New London, which a Hartfor,
promoter is to cut up into build
sites.
At the annual meeting of Mary Cha
Wooster chapter, D. a. R., of Ney
Haven, held Monday in the New Have
Colony Historical society rooms,
member of the chapter board electe
was Mrs. H. Lynwood Tower, form
erly of Norwich.
The section foremen along the Nev
Haven line find it hard to get the re
quired number of men for the sprin
work in placing new ties and cleanin
up the roadbed for the summer traf
fic, since men in the city will not com
out to work on the sections.
In a record just published by tn
Wesleyan Alumni Council, is given
list of twenty six Wesleyan men VIII
gave their lives in the war out of
total of twelve hundred alumni an
under graduates from the Universit
who were enlisted in the service.
The report of the Connecticut stat
bureau of labor statistics, just issue
: for the two years ending November 3
1918, shows that Norwich had
strikes, affecting 295 employees, wi
lost lat days. WiIlimantic had
strikes, in which 250 persons wei
idle 470 days.
The funeral service of Mrs. Sar
Cornelia Perrin Foster, 10, who died ;
New Haven, Sunday, was held Tues
day afternoon at the home Of h
u. nephew, Sidney P. Butler, "a Hun
ington street, New Haven. Burr
will be in Woodstock. She was Il
wife of the late Calvin C. Foster.
A young man who has Norwich al
Lebanon relatives, Van Verplanck,
South Manchester, who went to Franz
early in the war with the John Hol
kins medical unit and has done faitl
full service in army hospitals, h;
) been assigned to the University
= Marseilles for a four months cours
Bound Over to Superior Court.
Thomas Coffey, Is, of Talman sire,