Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Light vehicle lamps at 4.55 o'clock this evening.
 This is Exchange day for rnisfit Christ mas gifts.
 Pre-inventory sales will occupy the at tention of the shoppers this week.
 Hotels and restaurants had the GUS tomafy dinner parties on Christmas day.
 During Sunday afternoon the reading room at the Otis library was in charge of Miss Sadie J.. Dawson. Sunday was the coldest day of the sea son 80 far, the temperature ranging from degrees to 2s degrees. The Sunday school Christmas social of Trinity Methodist church is to be held Wednesday evening at 7.30. Fifty name cards for fifty cents at The Bulletin Co.-adv.
 There was little profteering in Christ I mas trees in Norwich, handsome speci- mems selling a. from 50 cents up. Up in windham county, at the saw mills, woodehoppers and loggets are more numerous than they were last year. While the majority of Christmas buyers sought the useful in gifts, the purely or nanasfitaI sold well also, dealers declare. 1 Yesterday, the first Sunday after Christmas, and st. Stephens day, special Services were held in the Episcopal churches.
 Street Commissioner George F. Fellows | has had the D. A. R. memorial bubble I fountain on the Little Plain covered for I the winter.
 The recent holiday sale of St. Mar gzret's guild of Trinity Episcopal church, held at the Community house. has netted upwards of s1Oo.
 At the Central Baptist church Sunday 1 at e3O D. m. the B. Y. P. U. leader was 1 Miss Elizabeth Smith. Topic, The Price of National Unity John IT: 1926. Friends received the pleasant tidings Christmas day that Mrs. Charles W. Gale, for weeks seriously ill at her home. Pine hurst, Washington street, is able to sit 1 up.
 Third Company dance New Years
 Eve, State Armory Dancing s.S0 to 2 Humphreys orchestra.-adv.
 D. E. Mills has been in charge of the
 Noank railroad station the past week
 substituting for Station Master Russell
 Potter, who has been on a several days
 vacation.
 News comes to merchants from New
 York that prospects for better business in crease. large influx of store representa- | tives being counted on after the first o1 the year.
 From Cen tral Village Rev. Mary Ma l comber Miss Helen w. Tillnghast anc
 Miss Ruth Mathewson came to Norwich
 to purchase gifts for the Christmas tree at the Congregational church.
 Not in months have the Norwich
 streets been so deserted as they seemed
 Saturday evening, due to the intense colt
 and the fact that home gatherings oi
 Christmas guests kept people indoors.
 Members are still being enrolled by tn,
 GToton Red Cross at the home of tn : chairman, Mrs. Frederick P. Latimer O
 at the home of Mrs. Cornelius G. Heffer nan, chairman of the drive committee. The United States civil service commis 1 sion announces an examination for lock maker age above 20, in the equpmen : shops of the postoffice department, a
 S3.T5 per diem. plus increase granted b,
 congress of $1.O4 per diem. Fishers Island sound will be well pro , tected in the future by the largest piece o ordnance ever built in this country, a Is
 inch disappearing rifle for coast defense which was given its first operating test recently at the Watervliet arsenal - The enulng Tn New 1Ork friday Of tn strike of the fur workers, after abou
 seven months war with their employers
 caused a general brightenpg of the out
 look for the raw fur trade a matter c . Interest to many Connecticut trappers an T hunters.
 Sunday was the S3d birthday of a ma A known to number in Norwich, Morga
 G. Bulkeley, of Hartford, who was born a East Haddam, and is a Civil war vet .ral ' was mayor of Hartford 1SS0-S, governc ' of Connecticut 1S91-3, and U. S. senate 1 le05-11.
 0 It was stated by the Hartford Sunda # Courant that w. Tyler Olcott, secretar 2 of the American Association of Variab .- Star Observers, has offered the site fC 2 an observatory at the rear of his res
 dence on Church street, Norwich the al
 cestral Tyler homestead.
 Visitors to Mohegan park, Norwich, a.
 convinced that Jack. the monkey, do | not believe in the rights of the fema 1e of the species. If a visitor throws ie goodies to the monkeys Jack will take h el own share, seize the cake meant for Ma It, and sit on it. then eat it after he has d IS voured his own.
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