Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-09
VARIOUS MATTERS

10 plan Leap Year parL1eS. The planet Uranus is not favorably placed for, observation this month, be- ing too near the sun.
 Noted ballot medium, Mrs. Bradley Spiritual Academy, Sunday.-adv.
 Contributions for the White Ribbon Banner include: South Manchester to Banner Fund $3. Gifts from friends $S.
 West Point has given Connecticut Agricultural college the date of NOV. $ at the military reservation for a football game.
 During the January term Judge Gardiner Greene. of Norwich, is pre- at. New Haven.
 | In the absence in Maine of the pastor, Rev. A. H. Abbot, the United evening was led by Rev. J. H. Selden.
 The body of Orlando Dart, for many years resident of SomerS. was taken there from Suf1eld for burial in the family lot in the West cemetery, l Wednesday.
 The office Of pr. W. Tyler Browne i will be closed until further notice- adv.
 The icy. condition of the country roads has been making it anything | but a joy for the rural mail carriers | to cover their routes, but conditions arc improving.
 The Boy Scouts of Ellington. scored a success with their entertainment and masquerade dance last Saturday evening, as over $S0 was cleared for the Scouts treasury.
 The public utilities commission has decided to hold a. hearing at the cap | itol Monday next. on the trolley zone system when representatives of the Connecticut State Grange will be heard.
 Special meeting. White Cross coun- | cil, Sunlight building, tonight, at g o'clock.-adv.
 Connecticut men are among the sev- eral hundred engineers who are in New York from many parts of the country attending the annual confer ence of the Society of Automotive En- gineers.
 service at 7.20 in Park Congregational chapel for the week of prayer was led by the pastor. Rev. Dr.. s. H. Howe. The pianist was Miss Annie B. Vaughn.
 R. o. Fletcher post, No. 4, A. L., meets tonight at Army and Navy rooms, Main street. Business of im- portance.-adv.
 A memorial mass for Mrs. Patrick Mccall, a months mind, was celebrat- ed in St. Patrick's church, Saturday, by the rector, Rev. John H. Broderick, relatives and friends assisting at the services.
 As the first spool of thread made in the United States was made tn Wilmington, the towns voters have adopted as the corporate seal of the town design with a spool of thread ] in the center.
 l Don't fail to attend the Poultry show fin the county courthouse. New Lon don, this week.-adv.
 Local members of the MayfloweI Society have been. notified that the ltercentenary celebration will begin or May 1 in England, and will continue until late in July, when the delegates i will visit Holland.
 The United States civil service con- mission announces for Jan. 20 an ex- animation for textile expert, for a va- cancy in the purchase. storage, and traffic division, general staff, war de- partment, at $S,500 a year. ! lyu, N. Y, will head a combination o1 a number of the largest boxboard manufacturers in the east, absorbing among others, the Thames River Spe- cialties company of Montville.
 According to advices received b, Norwich friends, Mir. and Mrs Loui. Mabrey have reached DeIand on theil motor journey to St. Petersburg. ] frost there the other night was so un usual as to cause great excitement. Schwartz Bros, Inc. are preparin, for great January Bedding sale } starting this Saturday at o'clock Great bargains will be announced il this paper. Wait for the sale.-adv Jack Rose, former baseball playe in this city. is still engaged in re form work, which he entered after h got out of his entanglement in the ia nous Rosenthal murder case in Nev 7 York a few years ago. He spoke il
 Hartford Sunday.
 Dr. T. Eben Reeks, director of tn bureau of communicable diseases 0 the state board of health, has resign
 ed to resume private practice in Ney
 Britain, turning down an offer of Ih
 office of health officer for his own cit,
 which pays s4,O00 a year.
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 notes that Inspector J. J. Mooney 0
 the Connecticut Company of Water ? bury is moving his furniture to tn Brass City. He was for seven year chief despatcher for the Shore Lin r Trolley Company at Saybrook. Norwich dealers who had anticipat
 ed the customary shading of prices 0
 stocks as spring neared, learned o l Thursday that all Canadian furs ar !, to be kept in Canada, and this, wit
 the big export trade, means advanc, II rather than lowering of prices. 6 Roller skating Wednesday, Frida
 and Saturday evenings at 7.30. Privat '. Thursdays. Closed Monday and Tues , day during alterations and repair n Russelrs. at the foot of Laurel EIi1l.- IA adv.
 An Extension School of Agricultur
 and Country Life, is to be held in tn Parish House at Canton Center, Jan
 uary 13, 1, Is and 16, conducted by th Hartford County Farm Bureau an
 the extension service of the Connec
 ticut Agricultural College, Storrs.
 Merchants here learn that the list
 speakers at the convention of the Ma
 tional Garment Retailers Associatio
 to be held on February at the Wa S dorf-Astoria, New York, has been dc
 signed to furnish. expert merchandis
 ing counsel for the members who al
 tend.
 News comes to Connecticut rnilitar
 authorities that there are on the gov
 ernment piers at Hoboken 75,000 { S0,000 pieces of unclaimed baggag
 belonging to the men of the America . Expeditionary Forces. Among tt