Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-13
NaB1Illgism
 Norwich, Tuesday, April 13, 1920.
VARIOUS MATTERS

cense. The Progressive Missionary Club meets this week with Miss Sara Gar diner of 1o1 Cliff street. As is usual each year, Elks about the state are planning fitting pro- gram for Flag Day, June If. The water in the river about Cen traI Wharf is so high that in places it is nearly level with the dock edge. A. M. E. Zion churches have been notified that the annual conference will be held in Cambridge, Mass. on June 18th.
 Much interest has been taken in the commission sale held at the Say brook town hall for the distrist nurse fund.
 W. J. Tatem, former superintendent of the Shore Line Trolley Go. at Olds Saybrook, died at his home in Cleve- land, Ohio, recently.
 At Mystic, Doughnut day for the benefit of the District Visiting Nurse association was success Friday, as over s75 was cleared.
 Big cargo of Watch Hill fresh fish arrived at Osgood's Wharf.-adv.
 At the fourth quarterly, conference of the A. M. E. Zion church. New London. held in the church, April Sth, Elder T. A. Auten, D. D., presided.
 At the Home-Time Sunday night at the Community House, Rev. Alexan- der H. Abbott spoke informally to the young people of the United church.
 The Ellington Boy Scouts collected $1S.75 for the Marne memorial statue. The largest amount was collected by Bernard Johnson, with Davis Cohen second.
 Even now, April 18th, there is a good sized patch of snow on the shady side in the Union street grounds of the Leavens homestead. on Broadway, Norwich.
 Rev. Byron U. Hatfield of Deep River, formerly of Mystic, will deliver /! fore the Daughters of the American Revolution.
 About 50 are members of Women'a 1 Glee club of New London, which held | Its second rehearsal Monday evening. Miss Mary C. Browne is the director of the club.
 By request of the Holy Name So- i ciety a requiem high mass for Frank l T. Sylvia was sung in St. Patrick s I church Monday at 8 o'clock by Rev. J. H. Frederick.
 Because of failure to raise salaries in the state health department, five employees have resigned within the past week to work elsewhere at ad vanced salaries.
 The Coventry Grange Fair Associa- tion, Inc, is planning for it's annual fair. New prizes for boys and girls up to and including IS years of age have been offered.
 A novel means of transportation Monday was high truck, which had as passengers a yoke of stolid looking oxen, on their way through Mair street headed north.
 The Norwich City Missionary, Rev Charles A. Northrop, has constant de mands for children's clothing, shoes hats, etc. The United Workers tele- phone call is S7s2.
 Relatives have requested a memor. ial mass in St. Patrick's church the death of Mrs Murphy, wife of for. mer Mayor T. c. Murphy. | Fred c. Pederson of the State For. estry, who is making a survey of pin' in Connecticut, is making his head quarters just now in Voluntown a the home of W. c. Tanner.
 
 minds its readers that there is al ways a place at The Seaman's Frien, Society for magazines which hay collected during the year, in man, homes.
 The corporate income account O , the New York. New Haven & Hart 7 ford Railroad company, for 191: ! which has just been issued, shows a increase in net income of $35S,s34 t s2,397, ,460 in 1918.
 Edith M. and Mary L. Howard, c Hartford, have received word tha they are heirs to an estate of $500, 900 left by William E. Hastings of M Vernon, N. Y. and Watch Hill wh died some weeks ago. According to the law, no permit needed at any time to kindle a fire a pleughed field. garden or publi highway, provided it is not less tha 200 feet from woodland, brushlan, dry grass or other infammable ma s terial.
 James Hopkins of Attawaugan i1a purchased from Joseph Roche th property at Voluntown known as th Popple place, now occupied by MT Daniel Mathewson. Mir Hopkins ez poets to move his family to his ne home soon.
 At the democratic caucus in Rocl vile last week, the following delt gates to the state convention we, named: State Attorney Thomas .. Noone, Fred Foster, Mayor Frederic
 c. Hartenstein, Richard Farrell ar
 George Dunn.
 Mrs. Blanche pomeroy of somers
 seeking to recover s1o,Ooo from u | estate of Sarah G. Kirkland of Az; T wam, Mass. She claims she manag l. the estate of the deceased for ma,
 years and had not received all Il '. pay coming to her. if Alexander McMurtry of Greenwic light inspector of the state motor V K hicle department, has been promot
 to be chief inspector of the depar
 ment, succeeding Werner F.. Gidma
 who has been chief inspector sin the department was organized in Ju
 1917.
 The navy wants fifteen hundred I
 seryists from the Third Naval distr
 to enlist to man six warships
 which the cadets of the Naval Aca
 emy at Annapolis are to make
 cruise to Cuba, Panama Canal a
 the Pacific coast of North Ameri
 May 10 to Sept. 10.
 A former ball player in Norwi
 Jack Rose, the reformed gambler
 New York, has been speaking
 Middletewn. His subject was T
 Hidden Percentage. and he narrat
 how in the end even the wise gu,
 of the White Light district fell beft
 this unknown quantity.