Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-16
VARIOUS MATTERS


 It is daybreak now at ABS. Light vehicle lamps at 5.51 o'clock this evening.
 Yesterday was Quinquagesima Sum day. about fifty days before Easter. We'll anyway, Norwich is certain to 1 have plenty of water and ice next summerI
 What winter can do when it tries was demonstrated by the variety of bad weather Sunday. 4 card received Saturday by Nor wieh relatives of Hilliard Bruce, To- cated him in Raleigh. N. c. Telephone men were over the line at Hampton last week repairing breaks caused by the Ice storm Alpine climbing is simple as q two step, compared to the acrobatie feat | of walking to church in Norwich, Sun day.
 | If local miIkmen were to charge 25 cents 8 quart for milk, they have earn ed 1t certainly during the past two weeks.
 Tomorrow CTuesday), is Mardi Gras, | the day before Lent opens, and will be marked by number of informal so- l cial affairs.
 l An unsteady gait, these days, on 1 the part of otherwtEe staid and digni- | fled citizens does not imply any vi- olation of the dry law. This week the Progressive Mission ary club of the Central Baptist church i is to meet with Mrs. M. B. Williams, No. Francis place.
 The Dollar Day visitors were hun gry and proved good spenders, adding material to the receipts of hotels, restaurants and tea-room. It is noticeable that someof the oaks | in the woods in the suburbs retain all their leaves, in spite of storms and gales, although of course these leaves are dun and brown.
 Uhe advantages of the Otis library reading room were improved during | Sunday afternoon by a good number. Mrs. Irving L. Hamilton was in charge. There were 98 visitors.
 The sun went down like a ball of fire Saturday and the stars were out during the evening, so that the tor rents of rain early Sunday morning surprised and dismayed poor, tired hu- manity.
 Messages received the past week from Postmaster E. L. Davis of Lords Point, who, with his family is spending the winter at Oceanside, Cal, where MT. Davis has business interests, tell of weather like summer
 The present exhibition in New York at the Lotos club is composed of paint ings by the artist members of the club one of the canvases winning special praise being a Winter landscape, by Guy Wiggins, one of the Lyme art ists.
 Five days extra have been added to 1 the ten-day furlough of Douglas B, Sevin, son of MT. and Mrs. Frank D. i Sevin, of Laurel Hill avenue, Norwich who Is in the aviation service, station ed at Carlstrom Field. Arcadia, Flori- day.
 Motorist and trolley car passeng- CTS have new hope that spring is on the way when they catch glimpse oi the beautiful blossoming plants in nearly every window at RivervieW, the James R. Allen residence, below Thamesville.
 Because of weather conditions and bad walking. Rev. Ernest A. .Legg, pas tor of Trinity M. E. church decided to omit the Sunday evening service. Tn the morning he preached a special Lin coin sermon to a congregation of good proportions.
 One of the two Norwich livery sta bles remaining from the dozen ol more of years ago has had the luck to keep five or six sleighs stored, and these are in bigdemand when weather favors and horses can be spared from regular work.
 The second lecture in the Commu nifty House course is Friday evening February. 20th, at 8 p. m. Col. G Edward Buxton of The Providence JournaL-adv.
 There was disappointment Friday evening because due to weather con. ditions, the splendid concert pro- gramme announced by Tubbs' band al Ponemah hall, Taftville, was postpon- | ed by Director John M. Swahn to z more favorable date.
 Many local residents recall the. ex citement and consternation in Nor wich twenty-two years ago thil morning, when The Bulletin told nj startling story of the sinking Of tht U. s. s. Maine in Havana harbor tht previous day, Feb. 15, 1898. An afternoon of auction bridge ir the benefit series held by Faith Trum. bull chapter, D. A. R., was enjoyed by the members Saturday, with Mrs. Hez. ekiah Perkins and her daughter, Mrs Louis 4. Wheeler, of West Thame. street, seven tables being in play. Brookfield families are looking for ward to the school of agriculture anc home making to be held at the towI hall, Brookfield Center, February 24 to 27. Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs and the Fairfield County / Farm Bureau cooperating in the in. =fitute.
 4 message from Washington Satur- day told of sligh improvement 1T the condition of James Lewis Smith of Broad street, Norwich; also tha Mrs. Smith who has had grip for over week, is able to sit up. TheJ are guests of the latter's sister, Mis-: Carrie D. Rogers.
 There was joy along the Montvillt |, 4oute of the Shore Line Electric Rail. way Saturday when, at 4.45 a. m. the
 first car was sent over the rails iron the Norwich barn. The ears gave hour. ly service Saturday and were crowd. ed on every trip. In some section: they ran through small ponds. The United States Civil Servic, commission announces for February 2E an examination for foreman of sewinf machine operators (male) at Edge wood Arsenal, MT. The salary is S1 :. 6s0 per year. No educational test vii be given, and applicants will not b, assembled for mental examination It has been voted by the UniteS Congregational church to extend an in. vitation to the churches of New Lon. don County association to send repre sentatives to be guests of the Nor. wich church, at the special meetins March 9th. to consider challenges O tAe Congregational Forward Move ment-