Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
VARIOUS MATTERS

Tides will be hightoday.
 Thin ice formed early Sunday morn- ing.
 Light vehicle lamps at TOP o'clock this evening.
 Governor M. H. Holcomb has appoint ed May 7th Arbor and Bird Day.
 The rain held up long enough Satur- day to permit afternoon and evening shopping.
 Many city people are seeking property nthis state, due to rent conditions in New York.
 Small boys in school will recite Paul Revere's Ride with new gusto today, April 18th.
 Connecticut cities are receiving from the National Security League proposal to have American Day parades May 1st. License your dogs at the town clerks office now. Same old price this month, but after May first one dollar ex- tra.-adv.
 During Sunday afternoon the Otis Lii brary reading room was in charge ot Miss Virginia E. Hall. The visitors num- | bered fifty-four.
 At the Home-Time Sunday night at the Community House, Rev. Alexander H. Abbott read & number of interesting selections of prose and poetry. William wynlings, who has been care taker of Hyde Park, at Stafford Springs, | for seven years, has left to become landscape gardener in Keyser, W. Va. New London bod carriers have adopt ed a wage scale of 80 cents an hour, dating from May 1st. Under the same scale common laborers are to rective 70 | cents.
 Rambler Troop, Girl Scouts. Miss 1 Mary Grove, scout leader, held a rum mage sale Saturday in the vacant store, l 22 Bath street, clearing S57 for the | club-room fund.
 Sunday evening at Trinity Methodist church, at the meeting of the Epworth | League, the topic was the parable of "The Mustard Seed" The leader was Miss Ada Bushey
 Relatives have requested a memorial mass at St. Patrick's church today | (Monday), on the sixth anniversary of the death of Margaret McCloud, wife of Dr. Patrick Cassidy.
 The festivities of Junior prom week at Mount Holyoke began Saturday. Con- necticut girls who are juniors at Mount Holyoke include Ruth c. Child, Putnam, and Alice Hyde, of Ellington.
 It was announced from St. Patrick's pulpit Sunday that there will be no change in the time of services for next Sunday at least, the three masses and vespers beginning on standard time.
 Two carloads of coal consigned to New London, have been seized by the New Haven road and are being held to await 7 further development in the strike situ ation. The road is facing a seriou: shortage for fuel
 The graduate nurses of Connection are taking much interest in the plan! for the observance of the anniversary May 18th, of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the most famous member of their profession.
 Hedging their support to help reduce the high cost of living male employe! of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford railroad in a number of places hav ? agreed to wear khaki trousers and shirt while employed daily.
 Candy in interstate commerce. tn United States Department of Agricultur tells the manufacturers, must be pur { and must carry a label that tells the E truth, on every box or container tha goes to the consumer.
 The Forum of the United Congrega \ tional church convened immediately a the conclusion of the Sunday mornir worship. The men took up again som
 of the sayings of Isiah in the light D the times in which he lived. A meeting of the Holland County Ba E association was held Friday morning t draw up resolutions on the death o Ex-Lieutenant Governor Lyman I Tingier, a member of the association
 Judge Charles Phelps presided A notice. has been issued that recruit may be accepted for the coast artiller \ corps for one-year enlistments. Thi F corps has been closed to recruits fo
 several months, the required nu1nbe
 of men having been obtained. The decrease in the Hartford count
 jail prisoners during the past year va from 202 to 5S; New Haven, from 26 10 1o3; New London, so to 37 Windhal
 from AT to 12; Litcnfeld, 20 to 10; Mic
 dleseX, 13 to 6, and Holland, 9 to 2. \ The state civil service commission al
 nounces for Saturday, April 24, an e;
 animation for statictical clerk, and cal
 didates must have had one years e1
 perience in actual statistical work,
 have taken special course in stati \ tics.
 At the thirty-fourth annual grar
 council session of the Royal Arcanur
 to be held in New Haven, Wednesda
 gain of PIT in membership in u
 state during the year and a substanti
 increase in funds will be reported l h the officers
 Some of the papers are suggestir = Colonel J. Moss Ives of Danbury, as r
 publican nominee for governor of Co
 necticut in the coming state electio
 Col. Ives was in Norwich to attend u
 funeral of John Averill, a long-tin
 family friend.
 At a parish meeting held in Reddil
 at Christ's church, Sunday to consid
 the mission extension plan which h
 been under discussion by the vestry,
 speaker in favor was Fred D. Mabre
 formerly of Norwich and Mrs Mabr
 was named on the new committee.
 At a quarterly conference session
 the Advent Christian churches of Co \ necticut and Western Massachuset held in the Foot Guard Place church
 Hartford last week, the conferen
 elected six delegates to the general co
 ference in Aurora, H., next June. Fl Alice D. Charter was given a divor
 from Alfred Ross Charter of EIlingtc
 at Rockville last week by Judge Jan
 H. Webb on the grounds of desertic or She is now a governess in New York a hn formerly taught school at Crystal I.al tm She was also given custody of the chi on Machinery for making toys has be of placed in the remodeled building he Coventry, the old site of Wrights Mi ck More will be installed shortly. It V AL originally planned to use this buildi lse for a shirtwaist factory, but the n
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