Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-28

Bushnell chapel, places Tn the new show were assigned.
 Alumnae in this vicinity are pre- pairing to work for the Mt. Holyoke College ss,0e0.o00 fund the campaign for which will officially open Monday.
 A swindler operating about the state Is presenting worthless packages on which amounts are due, claiming to be an expressman and pocketing what he collects.
 Local residents who were out early T f.sday morning and had to make their way over the glare ice felt qual- fled for tight-rope walking, after reaching their destinations.
 At New London, St. MarY's Star of. the Sea Total Abstinence Society of- ficers will be installed Sunday even ing, Feb. 8, by County Director Will liam H. McGuinness of Norwich.
 There are now in Rockville K. of c. council some forty-five or more car1- didates to take the third degree soon. Rockville Council has grown rapidly during the last few months, and has more than 200 members.
 The increase in the assets of Con necticut banks and trust companies for three months was s9,o73, ,se5.71. The increase in all banks under the jurls- diction of the commissioner for three months was s21, 5S5,S1S.12.
 County Farm Agent John H. Fay was busy the past week distributing s2 head of sheep among the farmers in MiddIesex county, the wool bearing animals having come from the state agricultural college at Storrs.
 The. only remaining public hack in Norwich. that owned and driven by James Burke, has been put out of business for several weeks by the deep snow, for the first time in about 54 years, as Mr Burke computes.
 At meeting of the board of assist ants of the Connecticut Society of Mayf1ower Descendants held with the governor, Colonel Charles E. Thomp- son, in Hartford, Saturday afternoon, four new members were admitted.
 Warning of car shortage during the next two months was issued to shippers Monday by Director General Hines of the railroad administration, with request for continued co-oper- ation to make the best of the situa- tion.
 Establishment Of an embargo on the New Haven Railroad for certain eastbound classes of freight is a re- fection of the recent storms and diff . cult operating conditions which have caused congestion of freight at the gateways.
 Word has been received by Miss Lucy Geer, 35 Park street, Norwich, from Saint Augustine, Fla, of the sudden death of her cousin, Lucy Ann, wife of the late Robert Nelson Gere of Syracuse, E. r., who was in her sSrd year.
 Judge George E. Hinman of Willi- mantle has been presiding in a short calendar session of the Middlesex county superior court at Middletown. The short calendar contained 21 cases which included six uncontested di- yorce suits.
 Tor the past year the ". c. T. U. of Holland county, Ellington, Stafford Hebron and Wilmington unions have reported social meetings. l Red Let ter Day. lawn social, 2 observed r. E.. W. N. D.. 20 pages of literature were distributed.
 The United States civil service commission announces for Jan. q an examination for topographic and sub surface draftsman for vacancies in the field service of the navy department, flor duty throughout the United States, at s5.2o to $7.2e per diem.
 Mrs. Margaret Way. 73, wife of George Way died suddenly after a shock at her home on the Boston Post road, Saybrook, Saturday. She was born in New London, Aug. '. 1S46. She leaves her husband and three sons. The funeral was held Monday
 Residents of Waterford on the rural mail route supplied from the carrier out of Jordan post office had a hard time last week, being almost entirely cut off from the outside world so far as mail was concerned. They were l without service from Monday until Friday.
 Invitations have been received in Norwich for the dinner of democratic ] women to be held at Hotel Taft, Feb Mrs. George Bass. of the national ] democratic committee, and Mayor ] Fitzgerald, of New Haven, will be the | speakers.
 The annual Backus hospital visita- ! tion period for the women of Park church will be from Feb. 15th to 2sth Members Of the congregation have | been solicited to leave donations of old linen, etc. either with members of tht visiting committee or at the hospita | during that period.
 l News received in Norwich TueSday afternoon from Mrs. James Levi. l Smith. from the home of her sister l Miss Carrie E. Rogers. in Washington | stated. that MT. Smith, i'll with hear trouble followed by hiccoughs sine, Jan. 2oth, had overcome the forme, trouble, but Is very weak.
 An all-day session of the executiv and advisory committees of the Con ] necticut section of the Interchurcl
 world movement of North Americ,
 was held Mondaysat the Hotel Garde New Haven, to consider the rural an, city survey and the promotiona
 programme for Connecticut.
 Many people in Vernon have becom
 indignant because a driver of tn
 state motor snow blow says that h I was stopped from using the blew ol
 the streets in Rockville and was in
 formed by the public works superin
 tendent that if he wanted him to plos
 the streets there he would ask him t
 de it.
 James J. Casey. president Thoma
 P. Burns. vice president, and John F
 Corcoran, financial secretary, repre-
 sented the parish Holy Name Societ
 at the months mind mass for Rev
 Hugh Treanor, requested by the or
 ganization and sung in St Patrick
 church Tuesday at o'clock by Rev
 John Fl. Brpderick,