Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-28
VARIOUS MATTERS


Today (Friday), is calendar day for
April
Light vehicle lamps at 6.37 o'clock
this evening.
Thursday nights rain helped lessen
the danger from grass and woodland
fires.
Good weather for the past two days
has brought many'shoppers to town for
the special spring sales.
At Hampton Miss Mary McMahan
has bought the Stella Durham place
situated at the south end of the vii
lage.
In East Lyme, George Bathgate has
been appointed chairman of the wv
tory loan drive which is coming nex,t
month
Some of the Norwich employees at
the Groton Iron Works continue to
make the early morning trip down by
special bus.
At the mid-week prayer meeting in
the Central Baptist church the topic
considered was Justification, the pas
tor, Rev. \. F. Purlliss, leading.
Delegates are being named for the
state convention of the ForeSterS OF
America which is TO be held in New
Britain dlting the week of May Il,
A public dinner was given by the La
dies society of the Third Baptist
church, North Stonington, at thee resi-
dence of Judge c. c. Gray, Thursday.
Arrived today two mammoth car
goes fresh fish, Osgood wharf, Steak
Cod, best cuts. lbs. 25c: Smeits l5c,
Flats, Haddock, 10c, Whiting 5c.-adv
The current White Ribbon Banner
notes that the following unions have
contributed to the Banner fund:
SouthinEton 81, Bridgeport 81, Will
mantle So.
\ new OKLA foot flag is flying from
the staff on the Norwich courthouse
In raising and lowering the flag, As
sistant Janttor Joseph J. Fields climbs
1872 steps twice daily.
Thursday morning. Mrs. l. +. Greene
of Greeneville saw an unusually large
flock of wild geese, flying so low that
their honking could be heard plainly
as they moved northward.
At a musicale and entertainment
given at the Y. w c. A. in New Lon
don Thursday evening, the corunjt-
tee in charge included Miss Susan j.
Gallup, formerly of Norwich.
At North Stonington, Sheffield Doug
Hewitt this season Mr.. Hewitt is the
largest land owner in that town.
Five hundred souls for Christ, and
$4,000 for the work is the slogan for
the year of the Advent Christian Wo-
mans Home and Foreign Mission So
ciety.
At a young peoples conference and
social rally to be held in the First Bap-
| fist church. Putnam. this CFriday) af-
| ternoon. one OF the speakers will be
Miss Grace Kern Of Norwich.
The Otis Library has received as a
gift from former Governor 5. +. Bald
win of New Haven his books Life and
Letters of Simeon Baldwin, who was
/ his grandfather and native OF Nor
wich.
The New London police have been
notified by r. p. Stoeckel, commits
sioner of motor vehicles that the OPP
orators license of Joseph Sizer of 50
Crystal avenue has been Indefinitely
81 speaded.
a telephone message has been re-
ceived by Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Adj, of
Chestnut street from their son, Private
Michael Adj who recently arrived at
Can Ao ritt, after nineteen months
.erttC" oversee.
Now ou relatives are in New Haven
10 aIt".3I The funeral of Edward Gran
dali johnson, formerly of Norwich,
ihs N'riday) afternoon at his home SO
Grove street. Burial will be in Ever
| green cemetery, New Haven.
The New Haven Dairy company has
| purchased land on Pequot avenue, New
| London. where it will erect a modern
/ artificial ice plant Scarcity of ice
| n tn OF 61Ic
the company to take this action
| In 1918 the total registration Of all
! Connecticut motor vehicles numbered
94,118 and there were 104, 900 operators
| licensed. 1t is expected that there will
| be marked increase in the registra-
| tions as well as in the licenses this
year.
/ The new Federal tax law requires
| that telegraph companies collect a tag
of 10 cents on all kilograms on which
| the charge amounts to more than 81
cents. Heretofore the war tax haC
been five cents on all kilograms of l;
cents or more.
Walter Atwood of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen has asked thu
police to be on the lookout for two fax,
advertising men who have been repre-.
senting themselves TO be agents of tn,
Benevolent and Protective Association
of Railroad Men.
Venus has been steadily GROWING
brighter and mounting somewhat high.
er in the evening sky. March 81 i
will have reached a point 10 degree!
| above the equator and will be seer
north of the west point of the horizon
for about two hours after sunset.
Favorable reports are received of tn,
steady recovery of Henry Bill Seldeu
Of the art department of Connecticu
College, son of Rev. DIR. j. H. Selde1
and Mrs. Selden, of Norwich after ;
serious illness with pneumonia. Hi
younger son is recovering from simila
illness.
Grace hospital. New Haven. ha
changed the shifts for nurses from 1
hours a day in the maternity house
and 10 additional nurses will Ibe re
CURED when the system is extended t.
the other departments of the institu
ton, the first hospital in the state T.
adopt the three shift system
The New York East Conference n
the Methodist Episcopal church, i
which there is local interest, will hoI
its annual session in the Simpso
church, in Brooklyn n. Y, commenc
ing April 8. Bishop Mcdowell 0
Washington, D. c., will preside. TIL