Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-07
QIt1e 811listin. Norwich, Wednesday, May 7, 1919
VARIOUS MATTERS

A I lowered.
 Motor boats are being overhauled for the season.
 Light vehicle lamps at s.20 o'clock this evening"
 Fields in the suburbs are white with tiny Mayfowers.
 Norwich merchants state that spring trade grows in volume daily.
 Men were busy Tuesday repairing the planking on Preston bridge.
 Conspicuous posters in the Main Street Station of the New Haven road call for U. S. army volunteers, men under 55 years of age.
 At Hamburg grange meeting it was voted to buy a s100R Victory bond. This makes a total of s40D in bonds that this grange has taken. F. D. Miller, the Norwich contrac- tor, is working on the road improve 1nents at Poquonnoc, where his men are drilling the big ledge by the post road.
 English residents have been receiv- ing post cards from overseas. remind CTS of the fact that King George V be- gan the tenth year of his reign Tues day.
 A Norwich man who was in New York during Mondays high tempera- ture brought back the story of several heat prostrations. The mercury stood at S5,
 The pond at Shewville is swollen tc the area of a small lake following the spring rains and the dam at the old mill is a picturesque miniature Nj agara.
 The Old Lyme inn at one time man. aged by the late Samuel Johnson, o1 Norwich, Is to be opened this year Last year it remained closed for the season.
 Relatives and friends attended z months mind requiem high mass fol James Nagle, sung by Rev. J. II. Brod- erick at St. Patrick's church, Tuesday a 8 o'clock.
 At this weeks meeting of the Par. ish House association Of Park church Dr. F. S. Bunnell of t-4e Free Academ! culty is to give talk on the Peace Conference. The tennis courts and baseball field at the Submarine Base are in con stant use since warm weather came At present there are nearly 2,300 boy at the Base.
 Windows in every street are dis playing the red V certificates indi eating Victory Loan subscribers. Som motorists are showing them on th' windshields of cars.
 The Church of the Good Shepherd Norwich, will be represented at tht Universalist annual state convention to be held in New. Haven, Wednesda, and Thursday, May 14 ad 15.
 Warm weather is increasing the de mand for the products of the Ameri can Thermos Bottle Company and larg, shipments are made daily from Nor wich by parcel post and express.
 The officers of St Xavier's wo mems Total Abstinence society of Nev London were installed by County Di rector William McGufnness of Nor wich Monday evening in Temperanc hall.
 Plans are being made for novini tfe New London r. W. c. A. quarter from the present building on Stat street to the building on Main street formerly occupied by the Hostes house.
 In memory of Sergeant Charle 1 Boisse, who died at a southern camr high mass of requsem was sung i 1 St Patricll's church Monday at l o'clock hy the rector, Rev. John \ | Broderick The May mass was offered for tll | consolation of the Catholic patients z the Norwich State Tuberculosis San atorium at o'clock Tuesday mornin bv Rev. Peter J. Cunv, Of St. Patrick | church, who ~ave Holy Communion i thirtysix patients.
 The Methodist churches of Ne London, South Manchester and Oar ielson have each resolved to be th first in the Norwich district to "g over the top" in the centenary driv but Trinity Methodist church, Nol wich, has decided to lead them all.
 When the board vr assistants ( the Connecticut Society of Mayf1owe ItDescendants met Saturday with s. Avery of Hartford. these new men bers were admitted: Misses Am, Emma and Alice Welcher of Harfor Mrs. Irving k. Fulton of Southbur and Mrs. George H. Sanger Boone, Iowa.
 ! Nearly 4,00o employees of the Ne Haven road shops have started on new schedule of working hours. a increase from 40 to 48 hours work p' week, increased demand for -ps senger and freight engines causir the return of the men 10 their form CT working hours.
 The Danbury News notes that u body of Mrs. Elliot B. Barber, whic has been in the receiving vault
 Wooster. cemetery since her deatl February 2S. was taken to her form home in North Orange, Mass, Monds for burial. Rev. MT. Barber accon panied the body.
 The Slater Museum, Norwich, hs received the. gift of a cameo pin rel resenting Pliny's Doves, copy of baptismal font at the Vatican. Rom given the museum by the late MT Charles Livingston Macaulay (Pauli1 IMillar). through. the courtesy of h, brother, Edward Harland Miller, no of New York.
 A cablegram. announces that u French government has entrusted ] the Duryea War Relief the work reconstruction in the city of Lille Northern France, held by the German throughout almost the entire wa Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea, founder the Duryea War Relief, is a Pon : fret summer resident.
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