Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-22
VARIOUS MATTERS


 this evening.
 The continued cold snap is keeping the plumbers busy.
 On some of the ponds about Watch Hill the ice is found to be IA inches thick.
 Look for Powers Bros list of strict ly choice fish.-adv.
 Mir. and Mrs. Edwin Dimock of New London, are to spend the winter in Cuba.
 Wednesday was officially recogniz- d us Make-a-will- day in the series of Thrift week.
 Vargas Brothers have 6nished filling queei, with 12-inch ice of excellent quality.
 The Connecticut Editorial Associa- ton is to meet at the Garde hotel in New Haven next Saturday afternoon and evening.
 Mercury is in the morning sky this month, but is not visible, as it is so far south of the sun both rise about the same time.
 The hunters closed the duck hunt ing season along the Sound by mak- ing some good catches. at Saybrook Point and Fenwfck.
 Special. ton of large smelts at zoe ID. Osgood wharf.-adv.
 At Amston, Grange No. ,15s, P. of H., at it's recent. meeting had it's officers installed by Past Master E. B. Lynde and Mrs. Frank Syn1ner.
 The. week of April F to F has been designated by the kSA212an Hu- mane society as Kindness to Animals week, and April IS as Humane Sum day.
 A North Lyme patient. Mrs. Fred Miner. who is at the Backus hospital, Norwich. for treatment, is improving and is now able to be up and sit in a chair.
 Tuesday marked the end of the ice- fishing season in Connecticut, and un- til May 1 no fishing of any sort will be permitted by law on any ponds in the state.
 Owners of buildings on a number of Norwich street had icicles knocked from the caves Wednesday, as some of the dangerous big spikes were a foot or two in length.
 Dance in Yantic fire engine hall postponed from Jan. 22 to Jan. B. adv.
 At WIndham county jail, Brooklyn. Jailer Albert Fields has but nine pris- oners serving actual jail sentences. Only four are serving sentences at- tributed to the use of liquor. A neighborhood prayer meeting. with a good attendance, considering the unfavorabe weather, was held Wednesday morning at the home of Mrs. Wallace s. Al1is, s05 Broadway.
 Local merchants expressed satis- faction Wednesday at the surprising number Of shoppers who, indifferent to bad weather and bad walking, were out to take advantage of the special mid-winter sales. Garvey's coming with Danz Jazz Band. Friday, January 25d, at Elks Home.-adv.
 A community dinner was enjoyed in the vestry of the Congrega tional church at 12 o'clock Wednesday al North Stouingtcu- Each person at tending Ca-r' 7s7 o~- fributiou of food fo rthe common table. All the vor~.,si employed in Palmer S mill at Palp1ertown, got wage raise beginning with the new year. Now the men think it is not a fair deal to l leave them out so next pay day they are expecting one. also. The number of widows in this state receiving aid for themselves and | children is 233. and there are 79i children total of 1,020 all together Some of the widows have four or five children, but the average number is three.
 Meeting Sedgwick Camp. Sons oi Veterans, tonight, 7.45. Buckingham ! Memorial-adv. Grangers here learn that Frank H 1 Bailey, lecturer of the Fairfield Coun- | ty Pomona grange, has been awarded second prize in a statewide contes; i among grange lecturers for the besi i lecture programs arranged during the past year.
 Shore town lobsterrnen are interest ed in House Bill 4S71, which provides | that it shall be unlawful to import in- to the United States any Holsters less ] than 10 1-2 inches in length. The ! bill will be given a hearing in Wash . ington today (Thursday.) ". W. Perkins Woman's Relief i Corps of New London observed the i 33rd anniversary of the organization with a largely attended party Tues 1 day evening. The president of the Mystic 3eps and party Of a dozen or more members were guests.
 Third annual ball of Glasgo Fire Brigade will be held in Social Hall Glasgo, Friday eve. Jan. 2S. Music by Rowland Jazz Band.-adv. In decision believed the first of its sort in Connecticut, Compensation
 comnissioner George B. Chandler, oi Hartford, has ordered weekly pay
 ments to Mabel E. McKennett stopped i because she declines hospital treat
 ment- She was injured in a factory. l At the convention of the National Shoes Retailers association held in
 Boseton last week and which was at-
 tended by Connecticut dealers, if
 was estimated that there were over 5000 retailers present from every i state in the United States and Canada,
 Before the snow, a locomotive spark
 started very risky grass fire north of Quiambaug bridge, near Lords | Hill, endangering five large stacks ot hay and several of cor nbutts. James E. and John ". Lord after a while
 succeeded in getting the flames under control