Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-16
0l1Raalisiiu.
Norwich, Tuesday, March 1s, 1920.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Local tailors and dresSnaKefS peEAh | to feel the rush of the Easter trace. | It has already cost New Londen over ss,O0O to clear the snow and Ice from the streets. Although the mercury did not get above 46 degrees Monday the snow and ice are gradually disappearing. Buy your fish from fishing. boats at Osgood's wharf, arriving daily adv.
 | Letters coming to Norwich from New York these days bear the stamp "Join the Navy-Training-
 A sewing meeting of Ffdeis Class, Mrs. Arthur F. Purkiss teacher, was held in Bushnell chapel Monday eve ming.
 Rockville Lodge, No. 1859. B. P. e ] E., elected officers last week, the | choice for exalted ruler, being Harry | C. Smith.
 The Standard Machinery company of Mystic has just made shipment of two large binding machines 10 firm in China.
 Art students here have been noti- fled that the Eastern Art associarlon convention is to be held in Boston on April l, 2 and 3.
 Records for the last fifteen years show that only once has the Con- necticut river been closed so late in | the year. This was in 1916 when the river was not opened until April l.
 Residents along Broadway who have navigated carefully over the ruts of ice and snow for so many weeks, express the hope. that they will be "out of the trenches by Fast | Day.
 The Willard house on North Wash ington street, once the home of Will liam Alfred Jones, is to be remodelled and renovated by the recent pur- chaser, Philip A. Johnson, son of MT and Mrs. Oliver L. Johnson.
 St. James Lodge. No. 23, F. and A. NJ, works the second degree tonight, at Masonic Temple, at 7:3O-adv.
 There will be four eclipses, two Of the moon and two of the sun, in 1920. The sun will be partially eclipsed Oh May IS and November 10. The moon will be totally eclipsed May and partially eclipsed October 27.
 The Patterson company of Norwich l will soon start in cutting thousands of feet of lumber in the woods at No- ank, near the Pequonnoc road. It is r expected that a number of houses will be built in that section before ! summer.
 The officers of St. Mary's Star ot the Sea Total Abstinence society were installed Sunday evening in Temperance hall on Huntington street, New London, by County Di- rector William H. McGuinness, ol Norwich.
 The big demand for silverware in al forms is felt at the Norwich factor, , of the International Silver Company at Thamesville, where Supt. Chaun cey A. Sherman's force of 145 ern . ployes keeps busy throughout a nine hour day.
 A feature of the County Corn shoy held in the office of the Fairfield County Farm Bureau in Danbury wa a talk given yesterday afternoon b Professor W. l.. Slate, Jr., of tn , Connecticut Agricultural college ex pertinent station.
 A. s. Burgess, representative a Saybrook of the Shore Line Trolle Company, is disposing of the com : pany's material in that vicinity. H = has already sold four of the large in - terurban trolley cars to souther
 railway corporation.
 The current Connecticut Citize emphasizes the fact that the sale ( 't cider containing more than one ha
 of one per cent. of alcohol is as full . prohibited as is that of any other i ''t quor, and subjects the seller to all 't. the. penalties provided.
 Committees of Faith Trumbu
 chapter are making fine progress wit ES arrangements for the State D. 4. l
 conference, to be held in Norwic E March 2S-24. The last conference Norwich was May 26. 1898, when MT N Bella Peck Learned was regent.
 When Superintendent of Transpo
 tatioh J. H. Cain of the Shore Lii
 Trolley Go. made successful al
 tempt to finish opening the Oces
 Beach line there wAs between two ar three feet of solid ice on the tracl
 near the waiting station at the beac
 The Connecticut end of the natio k wide campaign to be carried on transform the department of the i terior by the establishment of a m
 tional department of public worl
 will be looked after by Charles = Bennett, state highway commission,
 Mrs. Lucy Charter Palmer, Ss. di
 in Somers at the home of John Haul
 Thursday morning. A week ago $
 suffered a paralytic shock, She "
 born in South Wilmington. March
 1881. After her marriage with H
 ratio L. Parker she resided in Some
 A Lords Point correspondent wri JX of the sorrow felt at the news tl VIA Mrs. Melissa s. Stewart, had died n the home of her son, Attorney Char .x l.. Stewart, in Norwich, as she h -N N spent last season with her sons ia UT fly at The Refuge, West Side, at our Point.
 and The pastor of the United Cong
 gational church, Rev. A. H. Abb,
 earnestly makes the advance
 nouncement: MaUndy Thursaay, A, rer' 1st, is sacred day for all Christia - In the evening, the church will e
 brate the memorial of the Lords L
 Supper.
 ,ars A conference of Knights of Colr on bus educators was held in New Y -en- Sunday at the Hotel Commodore the discuss ways and means for the re- tension of the K. of c. system se- night vocational schools, fifty tf
 now being in operation in differ
 states.
 tiny Ninety-four families made dema 1ner upon the City Mission department adj the Norwich United Workers du, tion, the past year; thirty-six recei vcrs only clothing (seeond- hand).
 fifty eight others had orders for f
 fuel. shoes, Or medicine, as the . required.
 U Teachers here learn that the .an- meeting of the National Educa V Association to be held in Salt I
 Cttv Iu1v l-1n VIII ha roori1ad l,,.