Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-15
VARIOUS MATTERS

Lawns are SnOWlnS green WnSIe lAC ice and snow have melted.
 The busy season is beginning for Norwich painters and paper-hangers.
 Norwich streets were crowded Sat urday night, until the snow squan started.
 It is estimated that the ice on the lake at Mohegan park, NorWlch, IS three feet thick.
 Local physicians are treating the customary number of grip cases due to the sudden weather changes.
 The reading room at the Otis h- brany was in charge of Miss Martha A. Ward during Sunday afternoon.
 Mrs. Caroline B. Buell., for fifteen years president of the State W. c. T. U.. is i'll at her home in East Hamp- ton.
 When the Girl Scouts meet in Bush nell chapel Wednesday evening, they will be given drill by Major Charles A. Hagberg.
 Word comes to Brooklyn residents that Ex- President F. s. Luther of Trinity college and Mrs. Luther are in Los Angeles.
 Owners of apple trees in come Connecticut towns are finding that mice and rabbits are girling the trees, causing much damage. Saturday at o'clock, a months mind requiem high mass for Mrs. Nel- lie Martin was sung in St. Patrick's church by Rev. Myles P. Calvin. The snow squan of Saturday even ing served to cover up the remain ing ice, resulting in exceedingly treacherous walking Sunday morn ing.
 April 7th is the date chosen by the committee in charge for the House Warming at the Community House. the former Second Congregational | church.
 At Trinity Methodist church Sun | day evening, at the meeting of the Ep- worth League at 6.3o, the topic yves | "China's Leadership in Medicine" The leader was William Grove. | It is stated at Plainfield that, at St. Pauls Episcopal church. the special preacher for Wednesday evening, 1 March 17th, is the Ven. J. Eldred Brown, archdeason, of Norwich. Mrs. Lillian Gilman has sold her farm, known as the RidderF property at Holland, to Gerasim Riss and Mike Sulima of New Britain. MT. and Mrs. Gilman and family will move to Hart ford.
 | again to bt put into use and will be a big boom to the industrial life of Rockville. Plans are under way for the establishing of the Stafford Lace company there.
 | Sunday afternoon at o'clock, fu- neral services for Justice Charles Newhall Taintor. 79, were hedd at his home, Al West 18th street, New York Burial is to be in Colchester, where he had summer home.
 Miss Elizabeth Burns, of Saybrool died Thursday morning at 5 o'clock at St. Francis hospital, Hartford where she underwent an operation las month. She was a sister of Postmas- , ter Robert D. Burns, of Old Say brook.
 The offertory at Park Congregation al church Sunday was a new trio by no, alto and tenor, sung in pleasing harmony by Mrs. Arthur F. Story Miss Whitford, and Chorister Eber { Learned.
 George F. Kibbe native of Filing. , ton. has been engaged by the Hart. ford county commissioners as super tntendent of the county farm at New | ington as successor of John Patter son, whose resignation takes effecr April l.
 Fifty representatives from twenty six Salvation Army corps of Connec ticut Western Massachusetts an
 Vermont will confer in Hartford to
 morrow (Tuesday), concerning a pla-
 to raise funds for the Home Servic , Programme for 1920"
 At the forum of the United Congre gational church the men of the con | finra
 on the subject, "Old Messages an
 Modern Problems" This series vii
 particularly deal with some of tn
 messages of Amos, Hosea and Isiaf i The Stonington Mirror remarks:
 Norwich woman has brought SUI
 against the express company Nor tn
 value of mirror lost in transit. W
 will watch the outcome of this SUI l with interest. having in mind innu merabie Mirrors lost during the pas
 fifty years.
 In the will of Frank E. Mason. la1
 of Hartford, admitted to probate la: ,. week. after the death of Mrs. Masol the residue of the estate Is to be dis tributed including bequests to
 nephew, Dr. Louis I. Mason, of Will
 mantle, $500 to Alice Hull, a niece,
 South Covenry, s200.
 Thomas F. McAulffie of Hartfor has been notified of his appointner 'A to take charge of enforcing the proh d bition laws in Connecticut and to sI
 pervise the general policing of u
 state in connection with the pro
 hibition act He will be aided in h
 work by fourteen inspectors.
 Quahaugs are now exposed on Il
 bar near the Lords Point railros |. bridge. At low tide the gulls tai ?, them in their claws. fly to conside
 able height, and drop the clam
 the ice or frozen ground The hal
 shell is broken by the fall and u
 birds eats gFeedily the luscious mef - Gardiner's Island, southeast of Pm "a Island, has been leased by Clarence S Mackay for a 2o-year term. MT. Ma W kay will turn the property into a gar H preserve. The island for near three centuries has been the home
 the Gardiner family and the lessor
 Lion Gardiner, the thirteenth whi
 owner.
 The United States Civil Servi
 Commission announces an examin
 ton for unskilled laborer, men on
 citizens of the United States 20
 30 years of age, to be held at NJ York city to establish register f H appointments to all branches in t
 federal service in New Yorw city a M Brooklyn.
 H In announcing at the 7.30 o'clo, mass in St. Patrick's church Sund " that Wednesday, the 17th, feast of t = patronal saint of the parish. wol
 be observed with masses at and
 o'clock, the latter a high mass, R
 Peter J. Cuny suggested that his hea