Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-30
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NerMiea, Friday, Jan. E., lsz0
VARIOUS MATTERS

In1S evening.
 Mild weather for the season is pre- dicted for over the week end.
 Due to grip and similar cases, drug- gists in town have had busy WeeA'l
 The dance at Fitchville Friday night is indefinitely postponed.-adv'
 A set of Prang color charts has been received at Peck Library, Nor wich Free Academy.
 Some of the city sidewalks emerged Thursday from the coating of snow and ice which has hidden them for fortnight.
 An East woodstock man, William Denning, has just finished shenlns several tons of corn for seed store in Boston.
 In the Hartford city court Wednes- day, Mary Branigan, 1s, was commit. ted to the state farm for women at East Lyme.
 4 new system Of betting takes the place of the former overhead system running through the boiler rooms al the Pawcatuek Woolen mills. At Thompson, a familiar old horse, Fanny, which has been owned by the Dexter family 24 years, having had but one owner, died a few days ago. In some of the towns it is noted that hungry blue jays are so tame they sit on the house steps with JunA cos, chiclsadees, and. English spar rows.
 There is complaint in some sections that patrons on the rural routes do not keep snow shoveled out from about the mail-boxes so that carriers can get 1 to them easily.
 l Minstrel and dance, state armory, ] Winimantic, Saturday night snow starts at s: dancing at 9.-adv ] More than ordinary interest IS be- I ing manifested in the corn exhibit ID connection with Farmers Week al the state armory, Hartford, during the week of Feb. g to 14.
 The Connecticut Children's Aid so- ' ciety has begun a drive to raise S500. .Oo0. The main use for the mon ey is to improve the Home for Grip pied Children in Newington. State foresters report Connecticut about 4T per cent. woodland. but that doesn't mean timberiand. The most thickly wooded tracts in the state are in Holland county and in Litchheid. I Norwich members have been noti- fled that the Connecticut Society of | Social Hygiene wIll hold its ninth an- nual meeting Feb. in the health and charities department, Bridgeport. i The United States civil service commission announces for Feb. 2l an examination for foreman of repair for vacancies at $6.sS per diem at the U- 1 $. Naval Ordinance Plant, South ! Charleston, West Va.
 l Thursday evening at Park Congre- gational church at the mid week ser l vice in the chapel, Rev. pr. Howe's topic in Bible characters was St Ste- } pben. Acts and [. The pianist was Miss Beatrice Eastwood.
 The Army and Navy Club on State ? street. New London, will close Sat urday night, and the girls center in the Harris building will also close the same night with a big farewell party to the men in the service.
 Professional entertainers. assisted by Costellos Jazz. band of Hartford ire taking part in the minstrels and lance at. the State Arrnory. Willi1nan- l.c, Saturday night, January 31.-adv. The marriage of Mss. Ethel Far ner and George E. Allen, both of | NeWe London, took place Wednesday morning, Rev. C. $. NJ. Stewart per- forming the ceremony. MT. and Mrs Allen will reside in>Niantic.
 As a legal order of the health off
 
 London must be ventilated by hay ing at least two ~cntilators opened
 vide at each end or each car anG Aach car must be fumi gated each day
 Leonard H. Healy of Woodstock,
 orner member of the executive com.
 .nittee of the state grange, installed
 the officers of Pennington Grange
 No. 49, in Grange hall there, Thurs
 Jay evening.
 It is noted at Waterbury that in campaign for S75,0O0 to remodel anr ! redecorate the interior of St. Anne ? church, Rev. Ernest A. Lamontague formerly of Voluntown, pastor pledges of over s96,O0O have been St |. cured.
 'i One by one, three large tobacc 3 sheds on the plantation owned by Ja ? cob Greenberg & Son at Ellington
 collapsed Tuesday. The rain Tues B day morning. added to the weight o snow, was a greater burden than tn
 structures could bear.
 . The board of assessors of the tow
 of Vernon, William B. Thrall, Allen |
 Lathrop and Fred W. Ste1 ..-e2, re f leased the new tax list V -dnesday
 The total tax stands at $1O,1S3, ,72 while it was $7,<75, GAS a year ago, al , increase of S2,72S, 074.
 Two miniature operas of his ow- composition were produced by Dl
 Jules Jordan of Providence, a nativ
 of Windham, before crowded hous ' in the Guild hall at Peace Dale Mon day night. They were A Leap Yea ! Furiough and The Rivals. Contradicting the statistics of tn z, federal council, it was stated Thurs | day that the number of persons i this country belonging to the Jew
 ish church is over three million. Tn Federal Council Of Churches of Chris m America gave the number as 2s0
 0eo.
 A Deep River correspondent note
 that through the efforts of Rev. r. Ii Muster, formerly of Norwich, an
 Rev. Cyril Higgins, formerly of West
 erly, the comedy drama, AIuIdoon' Isi Picnic, was presented at St. John Industrial School recently for th
 pleasure of the boys.
 The chief train despatcher of th
 Shore. Line Electric Railway and
 E. Whittemore, roadmaster, of Nol
 wicll, with 9. crew and laborers are 7 Saybrooll loading salt from the stol 7 house in the carbarns to be used 0 l the lines east and will load the 1c ls ton of soft csal at the power hous this week.
 -l 4 proposal for the inauguration :
 the seventy third annual meeting ,
 the Connecticut State Teachers Ass. 2 citation of plan for statewiC
 publicity campaign for the better
 ment cf Connecticut schools is en Q bodied in a statement issued | ? President Stanley H. Holmes of u ' association