Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-23
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Norwich. Monday, Feb. as. 1s2o.
VARIOUS MATTERS

l of C., home on Broadway, at 5 Q = clock, tonight-adv.
 Yesterday was the first Sunday in Lent, the season beginning two weeks 1 earlier this year than last. i The quarterly conference at Trin- lty Methodist church has been ap- pointed for Thursday evening, March At Hampton, Sheriff John Fitts has been moving frim his farm to his new home formerly known as the Durkee place.
 Sunday at 8 p. m. there was a well attended session of the Sunday school 1 in Preston chapel. Percy Billings IS superintendent.
 A generous offering for Negro and Indian Missions was made in all the Catholic churches of the diocese of Hartford Sunday.
 The slow moving of freight has begun to affect grain dealers. Nearly all the dealers in Eastern Copnecti- cut are short of certain kinds. Clergymen from this vicinity will attend today {ATonday), Tuesday and Wednesday, the Interchurch World 1 Movement conference at Hartford.
 A new book at Peck library is the late Jonahan Trurnbull's biograph 1 of his renowned ancestor and name- sake Governor of Connecticut 1769- VISA
 Chinese residents of Norwich have been celebrating with rejoicing and i feasting-after paying all bills, the 1 Chinese New Year. which began Fri day night.
 At the Lenten evening services at Grace Episcopal church, Stafford Springs, the preacher Thursday next will be Rev. Walter F. Borchert of Willimantic.
 Mir. and Mrs. Wilbur Holmes of Somers, have announced the engage nent of their daughter, Hazel Harriet, | to Joseph Lyman Thompson o{ Thompsonville.
 The two days of homage to the Father of His Country began with the display of flags and bunting in Nor wich store windows Sunday. Addition al colors will be shown today. The United States Civil Service ination to be held in Thompsonville. | February 2S, to fill a vanancy for fourth class postmaster at Somers.
 Magazines, books and papers in the Otis library reading room provided a pleasant form of quiet enjoyment for a large number of visitors Sunday aft eraoon. Miss Harriet G. Cross was in charge.
 The quota assigned Bolton in the campaign for the restoration of Pal estine is s10o. It comes in the quota of s1o00 for Manchester. Miss Esther Horwitz is collecting in the Birch Mountain district.
 Connecticut manufacturers are on
 the alert because on, a steamer dne tc arrive during the latter part of this
 week there are forty-one casks of Hydron blue German vat, dyes from reparation sources.
 Commercial men here learn that
 plans have been completed for a s5,-
 000,000 clubhouse to be erected in the
 Times Square section, New York, by the National Council of Traveling Salesmen's associations.
 Norwich Free Academy will be closed for the holiday today, the 23rd The public and parochial schools vii : not close, because of so much time
 lost. due to illness of pupils and un-
 favorable weather conditions. The United States Civil Service
 Commission announces for March B
 an examination for oiler, male, over Il , years of age, with six months expe Hl Dept, Washington, D. C., at $900 ; s year.
 When the ocowasin, Tatapochol s and Peuuot Camp Fire Girls hold 4 public grand council fire in the lee s ture room of the United church. Fri s day evening, Miss Helen M. Kemp taorn, Qational field secretary, will D d the speaker.
 His fourth Leap Year birthday vii be celebrated February 18th by Harol a Naples Billings, apprentice in Th s Bulletin composing room. son of MI and Mrs. Samuel Maynard Billings. 0 | Cornell street. He was born. Feb s ruary 29, 1904
 B. ". Ellis, county agent leader, 0 E the Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs. has been in Danbury, con
 ferring with L. 4. BeVan, county agen
 of the Fairfield County Farm Bureau
 in regard to farm bureau work il Fairfield county.
 A Norwich citizen declared Sunda-
 that if residents here had the righ - kind of pep they would hold a mas :. meeting as those on Staten Island di
 Friday and offer to pay a 10-cent fare
 in order to keep the trolley lines il
 operation and prosperous. s The congestion of traffic in Ney York city owing to the snow, an c the difficulty the express drivers ar experiencing in collecting expres
 matter, especially on the side streets II is one cause of the large increase i parcel post service just now. ? Sundays New York papers note -i that at the Mich Galleries one room
 filled with water colors of high qual = ity by Matilda Brown. the celebrate n Lyme painter of cattle, whose can E vases have so frequently pictured tn
 prize animals on the Plant farm. E Former Norwich residents, captai and Mrs. Richerison Jewell. of tn
 Salvation Army who have been i at their home for several weeks wit influenza, are able to be out and hay H l resumed their work in connection wit
 the Danbury branch of the organiza ton.
 \ A Norwich young lady, Miss c1em entine Jordan, daughter of Mir. an Mrs. Alexander Jordan, prize-winne
 at Connecticut college and at preser of the faculty of Bulkeley Hig
 School, has nearly 900 pupils in Span
 ish there. and in night classes in Nor
 wich and New London. Si On account of the hard travelin,
 which makes it impossible to 20 bac
 and forth each day, Robert Vinton 1
 Clayton Carver and Percy H. Car I yer, of Coventry have hired a cottaa 4 at Columbia Lake, where they vii camp to be near their saWmiI1 mt
 better travelling exists.
 In Catholic churches throughout th
 limited States Sunday tbero xzoS raa