Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-03
Ul1e Rullgttn Norwich. Wednesday, March 3, 1920.
VARIOUS MATTERS

.GNeW 4OEh WOCA. l Some towns. of Connecticut face a hay, famine. Hartford has not sul- ficient on hand to last week.
 The Norwich stores appear to be well supplied with special benten delicacies. for which there is always a cali.
 Second K.-C. Smoker. Thursday ev- ening, March {. Good boxing exhlbl- tions.-adv.
 There are some good clam tides in the lower part of the Mantle river. The upper part is still nearly frozen solid.
 Commercial men who are coming to. Norwich these days describe travellng conditions as the most disagreeable In their experience.
 The Otis Library has grouped it's books and magazines which deal with the general topic of efficiency in the industrial world.
 The Connecticut Fair Price com mittee has announced that charge of more than twenty cents pound Tor sugar Is excessive.
 Choirs are rehearsing cantatas and anthems for Easter, which is four weeks from the coming Sunday, the first Sunday in April.
 E. A. Raymond, of Hebron, was among Eastern Connecticut residents who had a birthday, Feb. Tsth, the first time in four years. An anniversary requiem high mass for Miss Louise B. Quinn was sung in St. Patrick's church Tuesday at s o'clock by Rev. Peter J. Cuny. Don't miss the K.-C. Smoker, Thurs day evening, March 4, Barney Keenan, Austin Rice and Sailor Jack to box adv.
 The women's prayer meeting at Trinity Methodist church. Tuesday afternoon, was led in an interesting manner by Mrs. Eugene D. Boyens. Capt. Allen Ashby of Noank; al- | though 6S years of age. celebrated his | 1fth birthday Sunday. having been | born On the 29th day of February, 1852. The former Amos D. Allen house on | Church street, long occupied by the Anderson family, is to be altered in | to modern apartments by William H. | Allen.
 Conditions at Backus hospital are coming back to normal. Nearly ev- cry employe in the service building at the hospital has been i'll with the prevailing maladies.
 Charles Raymond of the Golden Spur has started to cut down num- Der of large chestnut trees in Cedar Grove cemetery, New London, whicf have died from blight.
 A four-day agricultural extension | school was conducted in Brookfield last week under the auspices of the Storrs Agricultural college and tht Fairfield county farm bureau.
 The current issue of the Norwich Free Academy Journal contains ; memorial minute to two members O the Class of 1921, James E. Murph. and Miss Natalie A. Macpherson.
 Because the cell in the Grotol borough lookup is surfaced by fiv inches of ice, over which is coatin! of water, prisoners have to be place. in the personad care of the sheriff.
 Tie old farmhouse near the trolle! at Noank, formerly called the San Morgan homestead. and now occupied by w. Wheeler, is to be remodeleC and 1t is stated 1t will be used as hotel. When the Foreign Missionary SO ciety of Park church meets in the par lorse of the. Hugh Henry Osgood Me morial Friday, Miss Alice w. Cogs well will have the paper for the after noon. la, --
 It is almost time for Town Ger | Charles S. Holbrook to get his ship ment of dog tags from Hartford i preparation for the annual tag day fo dogs About 1900 will be the Norwic apportionment.
 Half of the s4Ooo 900 quota of tn Smith College endowment fund ha been reached according to news receiv ed from Mrs. Hannah Dunlop An drews of Northampton, general chair man of the campaign.
 Supper at Uniyersalist churc Wednesday at 6 o'clock. Tickets cents. Concert by Melod.c Trio an Rose Tyler, soprano; upstairs at o clock. Tickets for concert 75 cen P for sale at door-ady.
 The Quonochontaug mail carrier, ] l.. Kenyon, has walked the route sey eral times in order that patrons migl get some service. Not in the recollet ton of the oldest inhabitant has thel been a winter like this
 Tuesdays thaw did not do much improve the condition of Broadwa near Union Square, which has bee cut up into war trenches of solid it and snow for weeks. and Is popular referred to as No Mans Land.
 The state highway department h; kept 800 men and 100 motor trucl busy much of the time since the stor IT of Feb. 4 in an effort to keep the trur highways open for traffic. The cost Q this work has been about $125,000
 Dealers here learn that by way
 celebrating its twentieth anniversar the Millinery Jobbers' Association " hold what 1t Is said will be the grea est convention of millinery jobbers
 history In New York, May 6, ' and 8. Postmaster John P. Murphy, of t Norwich office, has received one sa
 of government seeds, about 300 pac
 ages. Any person really intending
 plant such seeds will receive a pac
 age by notifying the carrier on l
 route.
 Hugh Wise Bradley, son of MT. a
 Mrs. J. Edmund Bradley of Rockvil
 who has been in China for eight yea
 in the customs service, is expected e leave China on May for his hon O He has travelled from 16,000 to 1s,C
 miles in China.
 Men who had travelled in relay alo
 the state road from Providence VI
 eight horses for the former Aldri
 stock farm in North Stonington {
 other night reported 39 automobi > stalled along the state road at int, vais over Nooseneck Hill.
 Six hundred voices from New YC
 public schools vii be heard in Ed,
 Stillman Kelleys 'Hrhe Pfhgrii
 Progress in the music festival, AT = g, to II, in the Fist Regiment Armo
 The composer Is cousin of Nj
 Helen M. Kelley, of DayviIle, a forn