Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-23
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Newsdealers in town began Monday toH charge four cents for New York papers
 The sun appeared durin part of. Thursday and the mercury rose to o7 degrees.
 z Several Eastern Connecticut people are in Boston attending the New Thought conventions.
 < There are thirteen sections of the city of Rockville to have new walks laid after bids on the work are accepted.
 District seven of North Stoningtoin isi piun1ing itself on the fact that Mrs. Dan7 iel White picked a mess of cowslips April 14.
 At saybrook. Walter Hubbard is. building a motor~ sIoop, which will be completed in time for the shad fishing season.
 Exchange tickets for "oh Aladdin at cranston's, Saturday. April 24, at a. m adv.
 East Central Pomona Grange met in Piedmont hall, Somers, Wednesday. The fifth degree was worked and dinner was served.
 Five acres of land on a side hill have been plowed at Brookrnead farm, the first blowing of the season reported at Coventry,
 Strangers in Norwich notice the handsome banner of the local Rotary club suspended over the stairway in the lobby of the Wauregan House. Thursday at Park cfsrch, mid-weels service in. the chapel. Rev. pr. s. H. Howe's topic was Songs in the Night" " The pianist was Miss Beatrict Eastwood. Mrs. Andrews dancing class will meet at the Wauregan, this afternoon, at the usual tirne.-adv. The wearing of old clothes movement has not taken particularly we'll in Nor wich and vicinity, where wooen mills are busy and em employees are making big pay.
 The democratic caucus at Holland elected the following delegates to the Martin Laubscher E. R. Dimoclz, L. Er- nest Hall.
 Connecticut's pear crop for 1919 is estimated at 47,o0O bushels. the state l being second to Massachusetts in the New England group in the matter of pear production.
 The Connecticut Optonetric Associa- l ton at it's quarterly meeting in Hart ! the national convention of optometrists to be held in St. Louis in June. License your dogs at the town clerks but after May first one dollar extra adv.
 Alumni in this city hear that the l helf-million mark has been passed in Wesleyan Univefsity's drive for a 'S3,- 100000 endowment fund To date the sum of s556s49.00 has been raised 1 At the United Church Thursday ev- ening at the mid-week service Rev. A H. Abbot gave an interesting talk on Bunyan's Holy War@-a work not as welI-known as Pilgrims Progress ; Correspondents in the shore towns comment on the passage of the caravan trucks of 100 in line of the Goodyear Tire company, running. all night on their route from Goodyear to Akron, O
 The United States. civil service an nounces an examination for statistical agent May 1s Vacancies in the bureau of fisheries. Washington, D. G. at $100O a year will be filled fro mthis examina- tion.
 Snakes will crawl at State Arnory 1 Saturday evening. Per order Charles N Burdick, G. G., Culebra Lair, No. 2, M 0. S.-adv.
 At the recent convention of the Uni versalist Y. P. U., held in Bridgeport l the trustees elected were Miss Georgia Fillmore, Norwich Miss Ruth Downing Meriden and Miss Bessie Maynard, New London.
 A district speaking contest is to be held at Willimantic Normal school April 30 by prize winning pupils coming from Marlborough, Colchester, Columbia Hampton. Mansfield. Coventry, Hebron, Lebanon and Scotland. Irving Allen. who has been at the home of his mother, Mrs Edgar Pen dleton in Mystic. after a four months trip to the Orient, has left for New York l and will take his ship to Philadelphia where it will be unloaded. The American Railway Express special arrived in Rockville Wednesday arter- noon for the first time in ten days ant received a large shipment of express | which has heen eccrmulatfng while. the railroad strike was in progress
 It was mentioned by the Danbur5 News that Rev. Elliott .. Barber had been in Norwich on account of the se rious illness of his mother Mrs. John E NBarber, who lives with her other son | M Angelo Barber, 25s Laurel Hill sv | enue.
 Woman suffrage supporters are fr, ing a new tack. They have induced some Hartford folks to start a ren l protest and the combined force is nov asking Governor Holcomb to call a gen eral assembly session to deal with tn situation.
 At Thursdays fur sale in New York | ho faof IL a1I
 ing. About 33O,0o0 were offered, in
 cluding nearly 71,00o blacks Anothe
 feature was the offering of about 1,212,
 900 moleskins. Badger, lynx and wild
 cat also were sold.
 Hopeful tidings came to Norwich drue gists Thursday that prices of certai
 imported supplies are lower. Japanes
 camphor. which month ago brougt $3.50, is quoted at S2 On the othe
 hand the railway strike has cause
 shortage in many lines
 Each one of the 1o,66 churches of tH
 Northern Baptist convention is organi:
 ed and ready to start the canvass fe ls100. 100000 set as the goal of the Ne : World Movement campaign, April 25 i
 May 2. Today April 23 is the day s
 for the opening supper for campaig teams.
 Tuesday afternoon fire destroyed u
 home of Mrs. William Daggart in Bo
 ton, causing loss of $4000. MT Daggart was at work and her childre
 were at school. How the fire started
 a mystery The husband and fath,
 has mot lived with the family in son
 months.
 There has been published in pamphi form the full text of the address d
 livered by Allen B. Lincoln of Hartfol and Ashford at the jubilee banquet