Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-26
Ol1eD1llgtin Norwich, Thursday, Feb. 25, 1920.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Farther Lights was held in Bushnell chael.
 It will interest you! United church, Friday night, o'clock. Camp Fire Girls.-adv.
 One who has counted claims that Wednesdays was the thirty first snowstorn of the winter so far.
 Humanity enjoyed the rarity. of a pleasant day Wednesday and the al- manacs promise sunshine today, also.
 The city departments men who had to shovel it, referred scornfully to Wednesdays two-inch snowfall as top dressing.
 Farmers in number of suburban places are preparing to act on the governments advice and begin tap ping naples soon.
 Snow continues to cost the city of Norwich good money, as men from the street department are kept-busy work ing on gutters, roadways and walks.
 An exchange notes that in the past days when teams met. in the country roads the only thing to do was to, sit there until a thaw, or else start to shovel
 Of local interest is the metropolitan news that MT. and Mrs. Poultney Big elow will return totheir home at Nal den- on- Hudson early in March from California.
 Mystic council, No. 29, R. & S. M.. has received an invitation from Franklin council of Norwich to be its guest this (Thursday) evening, Feb ruary 18th.
 Work for the Rockville Hospital fund is in progress in Holland. Dr. Samuel Simpson is chairman, of the finance committee and he is appoint ing solicitors.
 The Cornfield Light ship has been replaced at her anchorage off Say brook after making her escape Wed nesday of last week in the floating. ice on the sound.
 The Red Cross has established a new diet kitchen in the rear end of the Jennings school, New London. oc- cupying two rooms which have been for long time abandoned.
 Members of library staffs from Eastern Connecticut will be in Mid dletown Friday to attend the annu- al meeting of the Connecticut Library association in, the Russell library. Norwich florists welcome a sunny day. since the blossoms have had to grow almost without sun for so much of the winter. There is a big demand for flowers for funerals, in particu- lar.
 The Lenten topic of Rev. Dr. s. H. Howe's address at the mid-week ser vice at Park Congregational church this (Thursday) evening( will be Temptation. Miss Beatrice Eastwood is to be pianist.
 Saturday the ice in the bay off Watch Hill was found to be IS inches thick. but with the thaw that has set in since that time it is probable it will start breaking up within the next two or three weeks.
 Bad travelling and cases of illness compelled the postDonenent for two | weeks of the birthday party planned | for Wednesday at the home of Mrs. William H. Geer by Comfort circle of the Kings Daughters.
 Robert O. Fletcher Post. No. {, American Legion meets Friday night, 8 o'clock, at the State armory.-adv.
 A prominent and active resident of Norwich, Charles Bard. who is spend ing the winter at Mrs Kelley's. at Norwich Town, continues in excellent health, while preparing to celebrate his 93rd birthday in May. i Over four hundred loaded cars re-
 main at SaTbrool1 Junction for Provi- dence terminal, notwithstanding the l demands of consigners for them and can't be moved until that point is 1 cleared up to receive them.
 At Trinity Methodist church the l pastor, Rev. A. D. Leeg. has asked five or six members to discuss the follow l ing tonic this (Thursday) evening: ] Should the prayer meeting be giv- en up or something substituted in it's placer
 It is announced from Hartford that 1 the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial as- l sociation is about to launch drive Alsop of Avon is to be editor of Roose- welt bulletin soon to be issued for Connecticut.
 Buying of skunk believed to be for German account was one of the fea- i lures of the eighth day of the fur auc- 1 tion in New York Tuesday. Prices were generally good fo rthis fur. Gray I fox went up 10 per cent, the best | skins bringing s6.60.
 l Seven new supernumerary police
 officers were sworn in by Mayor F. 1 Frank Morgan at New London. Tues 1 day, Thomas E. Moffitt, w. A Taylor, Thomas J. Lyden, John ]. | Sheridan. Dennis A. Doyle. H. A. lick,
 and W. T. Babcock.
 With no trolleys running the winter
 residents at Watch Hill find them selves relying upon automobiles en- 1 tirely for supplies, although one or two l have strapped on their skates and vis- | tied Westerly over the frozen surface | of the Pawcatuck river. Of the 136 patients at Norwich State 1 Tuberculosis Sanatorium this week. I leS are in the greatly appreciated in- l firn2ary. This institution has been | fortunate as Dr. Hugh B. Campbell, | the superintendent has not had a single case of influenza to report.
 Holders of both New Haven stock and bonds have noted that both ad- vanced materially in price on the New
 week. the stock closing at 35 as con- | pared with 2S a week ago. and the ] bonds 72 12 as compared with 6S.
 The United State Civil Service commission announces for March g an examination for automobile me | chanic, male, over twenty years of | of Public Roads, Department of Agri- culture. for dutyin the field, at $50 l to s175 a month.
 l Miss Myra Adelaide Post. daugh- 1 ter of MT. and Mrs. Frank R. Post of Hebron, and Ernest Bazinct of Hart 1 ford were married at St. Anne's rec i Rev. J. v. F. Belanger, Miss Dorothy Buck and Glen Dana of Burlington, | Vt, were the witnesses. 1 Warm, not far from Mohegan Park. l iod odo z