Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

Big drop in scallops today at Powers Bros.-adv.
 Spirited holiday buying was the rule in the local stores Wednesday
 The new warehouse of the Ellington Tobacco Growers, Inc, will open for work | Monday, Dec. 20
 The clerks in the stamp and parcel post departments of Norwich postoffice realize | that Christmas is nearing
 A number of social and fraternal or 1 ganizations in town have suspended meet l ings until after tie holidays.
 Fifty name cards for fifty cents at The Bulletin Company.-adv
 At Old Lyme, Frank Saunders cut wages 50 cents day on state road work. Some of his men did not accept it and ! quit
 Having a live Christmas tree is the latest fad in the cities, the evergreen trees being retained for later decorative pur- poses.
 Dec. 30 the annual nidwinter confer ence of the supervising agents of the state board of education will be held at the capitol
 A knife sharpener given with every purchase during this week. Powers Bros. adv.
 Farmers in suburban places are clean ing out their ieehouses and cartlng saw dust in preparation for harvesting the new crop of ice.
 Children from the rural sections are vending from house to house in Norwich good lookirE Christmas wreaths at the modest price of a quarter. Moss like green velvet, studded with bluets in bloom, was found Wednesday 9t the Childs place, Norwich Town, some thing unusual for Zee. 18th. Folk dances. tableaux, music fun, Community house this evening, 35 cents. adv.
 A Groton physician has offered to rent his car to the' visiting nurse association, that the visiting nurse may make her rounds more ea$Fly and attend to more cases.
 Following the tempest of Tuesday, an Otis street resident was busy Wednesday l raking in his garden, declaring that spring had come. The temperature, then was about A degrees.
 Going to the Variety Show by St. Mar | garets Guild Community house, this eV- ening? 35 cents.-ady. At the Congregational Sunday school in | Hebron, w. B. Chamberlain, Miss Edna Latham and Miss Bertha. Porter have been chosen as purchasing committee for l the Christmas tree gifts | Washington papers mention that Tues l day when Mrs. Bainbridge Colby enter- tained at luncheon her guests inclui-d Mrs. Henry F. Dimock. whose summer l estate is in South Coventry.
 The unusually early Easter in 12S1-- the feast falls on March 27th--seems to be one of the things which the retailers I haC fya 1alap orders have not taken into account
 Choice line of native smelts, live lob
 sters, filounders, Noank steak cod and
 oysters, at Powers Bros-adv.
 Wednesday could not pass without a sarnple of the variegated weather which has been the rule this month Following bright sunshine. there wa sa brief period
 of rain and a snow fluTT5y, after noon.
 The three handsome white horses re
 maining at the Norwich Central fire sta tion are give nan hours stiff exercise daily to keep them in condition. These horses are retained to draw the aerial ap , parhtus.
 Franklin chapter, No. f, R. A. NJ F works the F. M. and M. E. M. degrees a I Masonic Temple, tonight, at ' D. m- adv.
 o Dr. Witter Kinney Tingley of Norwich 6 who purchased one of the Luce cottage g at Crescent Beach last season, is hayinl
 alterations made to the exterior. The el has been raised and the sides of the cot tage are being shingled.
 The Kings Daughters met Wednesda
 evening at the Unitsd church parlors, sep' 2 | ing on children's clothes ior the publi health nursing department of the Unite | Workers. This circle has P members an | AE-s yN;lfiaro IT Dau-1hv iC the leader
 Order your Xmas cherries, plant l wreaths and cut flowers from the Maple | wood Nursery O., orders delivered ire q of charge.-adv. 2 The incoming secretary of state, Dor L. aid J. Warner has reappointed Richar 0 J. Dwyer, deputy state secretary. E. r g Lounsbury, chief clerk, and the ehti1 staff of the office is retained. Mir. Dwyc io has been connected with the office for h years.
 d The United States civil service comrni ', sion announces an examination for speci iitt field assistant m crop standardization, or 2, man or woman, 25 to 45 years of age, l. the bureau of plant industry. departmel W of agriculture, for duty in the field, |: " $2,04O to $2,400 year. d The. Bulletin readers are advised l- call on The laut-Cadden Company, 13 | IS or Victrola.-adv. ve Selden Manwaring of Waterford WI e struck by an automobile owned and o O. erated by Henry L. Warner of 46 Colemi V street Tuesday afternoon at the corner ly Washington and State streets, New Lo a don. Mir. Manwaring was not inJure n. Warner reported the accident to the p as lice.
 It is claimed that workingmen who I le, ceived their pay from the contractor the hore Lire electric road at Saybro ou are looking for the foreman who issu CT their salary in checks. The merchan ne where the men cashed the checks IS, goods are receiving them back as wort ea c less.
 ks The tax collectors office will be op by tonight and Friday night, until o'clo
 to receive personal taxes. After Frid
 the delinquent list will be made out a
 turned over to the prosecuting attorn
 as the law directs-adv.
 MT. and Mrs. John W Edgerton, ft merly of Holland, now of Vernon Cent al left Tuesday for St Petersburg, Fla, {
 companied by Mrs. L. G. MerFick of Br ec tol, sister of Mrs. Edgerton. In
 Petersburg they will be guests of Mrs. o- E. Willis, sister of Mrs. Edgerton a
 Mrs. Merrick
 4 A New York paper whic his seeking
 for the 100 neediest cases for Christm r. acknowledged Wedr esday a letter writ SS in pencil in large capital letters by ha ls rtng wnldn haa and neRly which % aaid For @ poor lit
 girl from Patricia Norfhup, 32 Pearl
 Mystic, Conn.,"
 The officers of Seaside council, K of
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