Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-06
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 December sth is St. Nicholas day. Light vehicle lamps at 4.4S o'clock this evening.
 The flowers on the desk at the United church Sunday were in memory of MT and Mrs. Benjamin Cross
 Third Company dance Frida yevening, l Dec 10th, state armory. Rowlands Jazz Band. Popular prices.-aov.
 Capt. Alvin Rathbun has resigned on the sound boats and will return to No- ank village for the winter. Norwich has sweet tooth. In two weeks a local candy maker is using up his fifteenth barrel of sugar. ] A large boiler has been moved from the Greton station to the new mill De ing built on the Poquonnoc road
 This weeks meeting of Fidelis class of | the Central Baptist church, will be with Mrs. Harrison c. Moves, 70 Williams | street The reading room at the Otis library was in charge of Miss Sadie J. Dawson during Sunday afternoon. There were | 1S4 visitors, K Following hail. thunder, lightning and | sone< of the hardest rain of the year, | the Sun appeared about noon Sunday and the mercury rose to 54 degrees. "A new chemical fire auto truck has arrived for tlse Brigs Mfg. Co., of Vol untown Up to this, the fire apparatus of the village has been very limited
 The Bulletin readers are advised to call on The Plaut-Cadder Cempany, 1Ss- JAS Main street. when in need of piano or Vctrola.-adv.
 Burglars at Old Saybrook broke into the store of John Aver Friday evening and helped themselves to nearly S1o0 worth of clothing and merchandise.
 The Bulletins Mantle correspondent notes that Mrs. Elizabeth Chase of Putnam has sold her cottage at Crescent Beach, to William H. Allen, of Nor wich.
 At Ballouvilie, a Boy Scout orchestra has been organized with Mrs. Ozmun piano. James Watson violin, Frank Wat son cornet and Nathan W. Cook, saxa- phone
 At a meeting of the Hockanum Child Welfare club of East Hartford, Miss E. c. Buckley of the Connecticut Agri- cultural college, Storrs. gave an inter- esting lecture on Child Feeding.
 A new book at Peck library, Norwich Free Academy, is Have We Far East ern Policy? by Charles H. Sherill. of New York, whose wife was Miss George | Barker tTlDDS, IOTu1eTiy Ol ANOi " itSh
 Universalist sals and supper tomorrow afternoon and evening. Christmas gifts, candy, cake, ice cream. Admission free, supper 50 cents, 5.3o and 6.30-adv.
 Following an absence of several weeks, during which she underwent surgical operation, Miss Helen Whitford, of New London. was welcomed back Sunday to her place as contralo of Park Church quartet.
 Sunday morning at Park church, a new composition, a duet by Wooler, for so- prano and tenor, Jesus, I Thee Adore, was sung in most pleasing harmony by Mrs. Arthur E. Story and Chorister Ehen Learned.
 The state civil service commission will hold an examina ton at the capitol Hart : ford, for firemen on December 21 to se- cure, list of eligibles for places in nor nal schools. armories, and other state . institutions.
 A preliminary survey of the Groton Heirhts school for the additions to be pls med later has been made by several | architects. The first district school committee has not yet selected an ar ch.tect for the work.
 .The state dental commission. which includes Dr. George $. B. Leonard of Mystic. has announced the successful { candidates at the recent state dental ex- . aminations, who were thirteen in num- I Der, but none from Norwich or vicin- ? ity.
 Sale of hand dressed dolls and an ltiquss suitable for Christmas gifts, al tho home of Miss Ethel May Sevin, IT Broad street, on Monday afternoon, Dec S. and Tuesday afterncon and evening Dec. 7.-ady.
 
 mission announces the postponement tt December~7 of the close of receipt o applications for the axamiRat ton for mas ter ship filter. male, ago above 30, a the naval station, New Orleans, La-, 8 SIP per diem.
 Mrs Wallace Brown of Noank wa. = notified Thursday of the death in Jer sey City, N. J., of her cousin, Mrs. Mar. Elizabeth Wright, a former resident O i Noank. The body was brought to Mys tic at lao Friday afternoon. Burial wa! in the Fishtown cemetery.
 The city of Rockville will ask fo S11s.3S2.5O to cover municipal expense for the fiscal year ending November Is, 1921, and the common council ha nrepared estimates of the amount to b. i presented to the annual city meeting today (Monday), election day.
 Alumni here learn that the annual re port of the Yale Self-Help Bureau show that s1s0.e0o has been earned by s0 men who have taken 5000 positions dur ing the last year There are forty diff ferent lines of work, including seven teen classes of summer work.
 Certain blue prints of the original lay out of Mansfield street (Pond place) als of the village 100 years later an, again in 1878. which were recently pre- sented Mansfield Center Library by F. ( q Bissell of Hartford, have been frame
 and are on exhibition st the library. In accord with the K of c. idea O | public service, White Cross council, o Norwich, is cnsideFing a project to foo , the fine grounds at the rear of the K 5 of c. Home on Broadway, providing
 skating pond. which, children will be per N n1itted to use during the afterpoons. 6 Weather bureau officials announce tha the month just closed was the darkest ;, November for 26 years During the las
 half of the. month the records shoy ! there was sunshine only on four days an during the entire mouth there wer
 only two days when the sun shone a
 day.
 Mrs. Ethel Kelsey Evans, 50, who die
 Thursday from pneumonia at her res
 dence, 336 West Eighty-sixth stree
 New York, was editor of The Silve
 Cross, the organ of the Kings Daughter
 society, of which she was formerly
 president. The funeral was held Sa
 urday.
 George Merritt. rural mail carrier fro