Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-10
VARIOUS MATTERS

Library. Norwich Free Academy. is William Stearns Davis History or France.
 Tilden Jewett of Holland has been appointed administrator Of the estate of Hans M. Hansen, Sr. Of Bluff Cap.
 Personal taxes will be collected to- day at the Yantic store from 10 to 11S0 a. m.-adv.
 The annual social and business meeting of the Teachers College club of Connecticut is to be held in Hart ford, Feb. Il.
 Monday evening the Vineyard Workers of the Central Baptist church met with Miss Bessie A. Grimes. 125 Broadway.
 Old-fashioned candy hearts for St. Valentines Day, which were taboo during war years, are being featured in Norwich display windows.
 The grand list as completed by the assessor of the town of East Lyme amounts to S3.487,S09 an increase of SSS2, ,199 over the list of 1918.
 Although the mercury did not go above 40 degrees during Monday. the day seemed springlike in comparison with the severe weather of last week.
 
 at Saybrook, of the Shore Line di- vision is able to be around again af- ter suffering from influenza for two weeks.
 During the days. of this week the pastor of the United Congregational church, Rev. Alexander H. Abbott is to call on parishioners in Thames vile district.
 It is for a new mission station in Central China that Bishop Tacconi is making an appeal to charitable members of the Catholic diocese of Connecticut.
 At Noank, Earl Williams of Led yard has purchased the Musante property known. as the Brown house in Brook street and has moved there with his family
 Mrs. John S. Usher. who has been employed at the Holland county home has finished work there and has gone to her own home. Mrs. Hannah Gardner has succeeded her.
 Recent letters from Miss Ray M. Briggs, who visited Norwich friends during December. locate her in New Orleans, where the season is unex- pectedly cold and disagreeable.
 Special meeting of Court Sachem No. 94. Tuesday evening at 7.9O. to take action on the death of our late treas urer, Frank T. Sylvia.-adv.
 Some of the Norwich church ehoirs have been hard hit by the grip wave, substitutes helping out in a number Of cases. So far, little has been done toward planning Easter musical pro- srams.
 News comes from Florida that the rfVr of frTIyY icy+S ooIJ1d TO seph NJ. Burdick and Mrs. N. B. Lew is, of Norwich, is remaining at Or lando, but may go farther south be- fore long.
 At the February meeting of the Lyme seIectmen one of the matters disposed of was the payment of s. 500, the towns share of the state road in Black Hall section which was completed last fall.
 At the February meeting of the town of Vernon school board it was decided to change the date of the be- ginning or the week vacation in the spring. from Wednesday, March 24 to Friday. March 26.
 The Norwich Music Association program committee is expecting, as plans are now shaping themselves, that the February concert, postponed because one of the musicians was i'll, may be held next week.
 Many posts of the veterans of for eign war of the United States will note next Sunday as Maine Memorial day. the twenty second anniversary of the destruction of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor.
 When the New London Second Congregational church held it's an- nual meeting last week. former Norwich man, James G. Copp was elected secretary by the council. He is also secretary of the church.
 They are sure that spring is near ing, down at Hadlyme, as the first lamb has been born on the farm of N. J. Stark. Some facetious neigh bors have proposed naming it Prohi- bitien, while others suggest Bryan.
 During the past year, although the number of farm sales to Connecticut men was comparatively small as compared with other states, more than 70 per cent. of them were made outside of the state of Connecticut.
 The Connecticut Agricultural Sta tian in New Haven has just issued Bulletin 216. It describes the insects attacking squashes, cucumbers and allied plants in Connecticut, and the best methods of combating these pests.
 The planet Saturn will rise at 7.30 D. Hn. on the 18th and at 630 D. m oE the 18th. It will be in opposition to the sun on the 2Sth. Its motion is retrograde this month-about one and half degrees westward. It is south east of Regulus.
 The Newington home is conducted by the Children's Aid Society. Every city in the state is asked to do it's share towards raising $25,0 for a new building. It is planned to erect a new fire-proof structure to replace the present building.
 Since bad weather has kept people at home. evidently they have been wedding out their books and maga- zines, numbers of which are being sent to, Miss Cash, at the Otis Li- brary, to be forwarded to the sana- torium or Norwich State HospitalN
 The current issue of the Catholic Transcript pays a tribute to the late Miss Ella NJ. Broderick. a native of Willimantic, and for sixteen years assistant principal of New Haven State Normal school, as one of the leading public school teachers in Connecticut.
 Employers about the state complain that high wages are making workers so independent that they have no