Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-07
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at s.21 this even ing Day.
 Native dandelions are being sold in the Norwich stores.
 This week the moth scouts are working | 1 in and about Eastford. I Herbert Holmes of Hamburg is the 1 new R. F. D. carrier at Old Lyme. l The state shad fishermen are meeting with poor success thus far in the sea- | son.
 Judging by the buds on pear trees, there is to be big yield the. coming season. Gardens and yards about the city are gay with the yellow blooms of towering forsythia.
 Florists here are preparing their sup plies of carnations for Sunday next, Mothers Day.
 The ". C. T. U. has put out a spe- cial programme for Anti-Cigarette Sun day, May sth.
 In Norwich Thursday morning the temperature was exactly 32 degrees and thin ice had formed
 An anniversary requiem mass for Mar garet Horrigan was offered in St. Pat riclS's church Wednesday.
 The May White Ribbon Banner an- nounces among contributions to the Ban ner Fund: Willimantic $1 Stop-Look-L -Listen-Dance given by H. D.. B., Chamber of Commerce hall to- night, S.S0 to 12. Pep, jazzy dances.-adv.
 There is to be tractor demonstration on the farm of Ernest Lyon, at Wood stock Valley, next Monday afternoon.
 ". R Perkins Woman's Relief corps of New London has voted to present flags to the Polish and Hebrew troops of Boy Scouts
 The force of workmen improved Thurs days good weather in painting and re- pairing the Norwich court house roof, which has leaked badly since winter
 Connecticut branches learn that the annual meeting of the Universal Sun shine society is to be held Tuesday. May II, at the Hotel McAlpin, New York.
 2 It is recalled that May 5, 1919, was the hottest May fifth known since rec ords have been kept by the weather bu- reau The temperature reached S4 de- . grees.
 In Trinity Methodist church, at the prayer meeting Thursday at 7.30. the topic was, "The Temptation of Jesus, Rev. E. A. Legg, the pastor, leading the meeting.
 . Girls club dance. Milner hall. Moosup | Saturday evening, May 8. Rowland's original Jazz Band.-adv woodstock's distinguished summer res Idents. MT. and Mrs. Arthur S. Hardy l are to open their home. Casa de Campo 1 this week after spending the winter ir i, Boston.
 The engagement of John Muller. ot y Lyme, to Miss Marjorie Thayer of Dur ham Center, has been announced Miss f Thayer is one Of the teachers in the | graded school at Lyme.
 At 8 o'clock Thursday in St Patrick. church. relatives and friends attended al anniversary high mass of requiem fol Mrs. Catherine Good. sung by the rector s Rev. John H. Frederick
 Norwich druggists were appriset t Thursday that camphor and mentho have been steadily advancing from th' 1T low price which followed the recen slump in Japanese products f The United States Civil Service com
 mission announces for May 15 examina tions for foreman shoemaker and sho >, repairing, males. Vacancies in the ofic' of Camp Supply Officer Mitchell Field V Long Island.
 Regular meeting of White Cross Coun c cil at K. of c. Home, tonight, at O I C4OCh- T lEoI uc6EOc.-duN.
 With the opening of the Groton Lon, Point post office the summer season a the Point has officially opened. c. M Chester is again postmaster and Mis- Irene Doughty will be his assistant as i
 former seasons
 Colonel Robert O. Eaton, state agen Department of State Agencies and Insti tutions, has sent to judges of probate an selectmen letter stating that in the flu
 ture the cost will be,,$ a week for in
 digent persons in state institutions. When the semi-annual meeting of tn
 Diocesan Board of the Woman's Auxili
 ary. of the Eposcopal church. was hel
 in the parish house of Trinity churcf New Haven, Tuesday. every member c the board (25 in number), answered tn } roll call.
 At Amston Sunday, MT. and Mrs Jo
 Slater rounded cut 50 years of marie
 life and celebrated by giving a roast pi
 dinner. They were married in Ne
 Britain. a half century ago, and are tt
 parents of six children.
 This week at Middletown, the first tw V. of the lectures on the Mary Fitch Pae Foundation were delivered at Berkele it Divinity school by the Rev. c. L. Sla
 tery, D. D., rector of Grace church, Ne C. York. The late Mrs. Page was res
 dent of Norwich Town. IT, The machinists, four of them fro ,, Westerly. are busily engaged in loadir [ll the five cars onto flats at the Shore Lii
 Electric car barns in Saybrook The. ce cars were purchased by the Washingtc
 and Potomac Electric lines and will le forwarded to Charlestown, W. Va. L The Old Saybroob correspondent of u III Middletown Press mentions that Mi
 Beatrice Stillman, who has been emplo
 ed in the New Haven telephone exchans
 has left for Norwich to join her parent iA who moved here recently and will wo
 as operator in the Norwich exchange t. It was noted by New York pape Thursday that in the big $75O,O00 pu rh chase of the six-story office building Broadway, for occupancy by Block NJ ie ioney Co.,, bankers and brokers. fro
 Robert E. Bowling, the broker in t
 transaction was the Charles F. Noy
 Company.
 to One thousand. two hundred and if women and clergymen of this dioce nd attended the Archdeaconry mass mee
 ings held between April 15 and 30,
 Hartford, New Haven, MiddletoH
 Bridgeport New Milford and Norwich,
 put before church women and the cler
 the ideals and plans of the Church St
 vice League.
 " At the annual meeting of the Nation
 Travellers Aid society, Wednesday, in headquarters at q West Forty-Thi street, reports frcm many states shoHv
 last year to have been the best for the
 ganization. Plans were made to exte
 the work for the coming year. Norwj