Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

Today, the 18th, the sun will shine aen hours and three-quarters. A. recent gift to the Otis library is c. ". Kendall's The Truth About Ko- req.
 Extra choice fresh fish on sale daily at Osgood's wharf; low prices. adv.
 Favors and emblems. for Washing tons Birthday celebrations are being featured in the store windows.
 Some Norwich automobile owners have not risked running their ma chimes for the past two weeks
 The Essex town team went to Fort Wright Saturday afternoon to play basketball and defeated the soldiers, 35 to '.
 Mrs. John Johnson, of Norwich, has been the guest of her parents. MT. and Mrs. William Champion of Saybrook.
 This month the planet Venus is still in the morning sky, rising about two hours before the sun. It is low in the southeast.
 William Brown of Rocky Hill is the guest of William Douglass. coming to Norwich to attend the funeral of Alfred G. Hunt.
 The new sidewalks on Union street have been conspicuously good and safe in contrast to the others, during the past fortnight.
 Temperature as higs as A degrees was registered Wednesday and in many, places the snow banks give in dications of slumping.
 The effort to provide substitute teachers for the rural schools. where regular teachers are i'll, is a per plexity to supervisors.
 | The roll call of the Congregational church of North Stonington was to 1 have been held Wednesday. February 18th but has been postponed week. i A visitor in Norwich is inquiring | freak fashion set by those of Hartford l walking about with arctics unbuckled. Franklin chapter. No 4. F. A. M 1 works the Mark Master, Past Master and M. E. Master degrees at Masonic Temple tonight at GAS. Refreshments 1 at close.-adv.
 In the country districts subscribers are still rejoicing. because. when everything else failed them during the l big storm, the telephons was always l to be depended upon.
 That there is encouraging heat. in 1 the February sun was demonstrated Wednesday morning, when ieicles which were enormous and long had melted before 10 o'clock.
 A proclamation, issued from the headquarters of the committee on the 1 National Week of Song, will be read in the local schools next week to call l attention to the proposed observance.
 Colonel William H. Mitchell of Bur lington, Vt recently appointed health | officer of New London, has spent the last few days in Hartford acquaint- ing himself with the state health laws.
 Norwich walks and streets are less ike looking glasses than they have 1 been for two weeks, the roadways in i particular being well worn down, con- sequently safe and easy for walking.
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of ;. Trinity Methodist church is to combine its meeting with that of i tie "Outlookers," Wednesday next, at | the home of Mrs. Bath, 56 Williams | street.
 At the. Father and Son banquet to be held Friday evening in New Lon | don, the speaker will be Dr. Allen Marcrossic of New York. a commits i sioner. of the American Red Cross in France.
 Officials of the State I. o. o. F.. rec ommend that each lodge be assessed at the rate of $1 per member. the cash to be raised as any lodge desires to pay for additions and improve nlents at Fairview home in Groton. All colored women of this county American and foreign born, have beer invited to assemble in the New Ion- don municipal building At 7 o'clock this (Thursdayl evening, to receive instructions in citizenship.
 
 states in the number of autos pel capita, according to a table compiled by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce Connecticut had 102,411 autos regis tered December 31 to a population ot 1,2S5,3T3, a car to every PA people.
 The United States Civil Service Commission announces for March . an examination for assistant, of either sex, under 45 years of age. in schoo hygiene. for vacancy in the Bureal of Education, Department of the In. terior, Washington, D. C., at s1,S00 { Iyear.
 The marriage of Anna Elizabetl Campbell of Noank. and Richard Han. ney Forsythe of Waterford, took plac, at the recory Of St. Patrick's churcl in Mystic, Tuesday afternoon. Tht ceremony was performed by Rev Father Fitzgerald.
 It is planned that the Camp Fir, Girls of Norwich. assisted by Mis- Helen M kenpthorn, of New York National Field secretary, are to hold ; council fire in the lecture room of thi United Congregational church, Friday evening. February 27th.
 A o'clock. Tuesday in St. Patrick church, relatives and friends attended an anniversary requiem high mass for Richard German, a former prom inent business man of Putnam. Tn mass was sung by the assistant pas tor, Rev. Myles P. Calvin.
 A former pastor of the First Con gregationa1 church, Norwich Town Rev. George H. Ewing, since return ing from '. M. c. A. work overse; has settled as pastor at Auburndale Mass. where MT. and Mrs. Ewing hay, become very popular with their churcl people. : Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stevens O : Providence, R. l., daughter of MT, an Mrs c. c. Carpenter and John Doan Wicks, son of MT and Mrs. F. S Wicks of Syracuse, N. T.. and Thomp son, Conn.,, were married at Grac church, New York, Tuesday after noon.
 There was an attendance of eigh at Wednesday afternoons meeting e the Progressive Missionary club. hel with Mrs M. E. Williams of Fran cis place. Mrs. John H. Ford pre- sided and Miss Carter of New Londo gave an interesting talk. Sewing fol lowed.