Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-15
VARIOUS MATTERS
It is daybreak today at 5.2e.


 large smelts, 2oc fb.-adv.
 Miss Loretta filling of Kensington is now teacher in the Willimantic schools.
 Farmers are taking advantage of the snow for sledding and hauling logs and ties.
 This term at Norwich Free Acad emy, there are upwards of 590 pupils and about 2s teachers.
 A new outside stairway Is being erected at the Warner corset factory branch, on Chestnut street. Norwich.
 Friday last the Coventry district schools were inspected by the health inspector, Rev. Leonard Smith of Mansfield.
 The fishermen of the shore towns lobsteis tc New York, where they are in great demand.
 Placards in French, Italian and Spanish have been placed in a num- Der of places warning foreign resi- dents of their duty in the taking of the 1920 census.
 Water Dept. office will be open until s p. m., on January 2oth.-adv.
 Census supervisors have been mo- tified that men have canVasSed sonie Connecticut cities, representing them selves as enumerators and have ask ed 50 cents per family.
 At Park church, Friday afternoon, in the parlors of the Parish House at the January meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, Miss Crocker is to give talk on Arneri- canization.
 Bank clearings in the Connecticut district as finally reported indicate that the holiday trade was easily the greatest on record. It excelled that in ordinary times by something like thir- ty-three per cent.
 A Noank correspondent mentions that F. P. VialL for several years resident of Groton Long Point, has moved his household goods to Taft vide. He will be joined in a few days by his family.
 There was keen, cutting wind all day Wednesday and the mercury did not rise above 24 degrees. Outdoor workers found the cold very trying al- though the dry clear air and the sun light were appreciated.
 Are you going to Crescents' dance, Parish hall, Taftville, Friday night ?- adv.
 The trustees of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane held their quarterly meeting at Middletown on Wednesday at the hospital, at which time matters relating to the farm house fire were taken up.
 When the Past Grand association is entertained Friday by Mystic Rebe- lzah lodge. No. 5S. at an an-day ses- sion in Odd Fellows hall Guests will be present from Norwich, Groton, New London and Jewett Ci1y.
 Meeting Wednesday afternoon with the vice-leader, Mrs. J. H. Alen, 76 Church street, eleven members of Comfort Circle of the Kings Daugh- ters devoted the time to sewing. The leader, Mrs. Albert T. Utley- presided.
 Additions will be made to your wa ter bill if it is not paid by January 20th.-adv.
 The new state road at Amston. from the grain store to the railroad track, has been given generous dressing of trap rock. under the su- pervision of H. c. Porter, and makes one of the best pieces of road in the town.
 The local freight trains on both di visions at Saybrook are running very heavy and the crews are making con- siderable overtime, covAring the route between Saybrook Point and Hartford, New Haven and New Lon don.
 Reports from Hartford show that more new corporations were formed in the closing weeks of 1919 than in any 1! similar period for the past five years. while failures reached the lowest fig ure, with the lowest loss in many years.
 Pay your water bill now, and avoid additions after January 20th. Office open a. m- until , D. m. daily. Open until D. m. January 20th.-adv.
 Supervisor of Schools Allen was in old Lyme the other day, and instruct ed the district nurse to visit and spend 15 minutes in each class room every day during sessions until lilr- ther notice to look after the health of the children.
 It is noted by a Hartford paper that former Norwich man, Robert M. Brewster, president of the Luke HorsfaH Company, is spending the week in Chicago. attending the con- Vention of the National Retaoil Cloth iers' Association.
 The speaker at the lunch of the Danbury Boosters club at the Hotel Green Wednesday noon was H. O Clough, of the state board of educa- ton, former Holland county super- visor, whose subject was Looking Forward in Education,
 By request of the Knights of O. iumbus, months mind high mass of requiem for John P. King wa sung in St. Patricks church Wednesday at s o'clock by the rector, Rev John IT Brocerick, relatives and family friends attending the services.
 Norwich Building and Loan Asso- clatlon meets in Chamber of Com merce building, Main street, Tuesday january 2Oth, D. m. Everybody in. Vlted to attend and subscribe for shares In 10th series now open.-adv.
 At Canton Center the extension school at the parish house opened m Iuesday morning with a good attend ance of both men and women. This sehool IS conducted by the Hartford county Farm Bureau and the Connec- tlcut Agricultural College, Storrs.
 There are about 1.2OO blind persons In Connecticut according to informa Llon gwen at the office of the state department Of education for the blind. ana many of these are self-support- Ing. put lew Of them are in state in- ents. 0epelo-
 On recent duck hunting trjp to Mantle Principal Henry A. TirreH of lhe tree Academy and Dr. W. W Leonard had excellent luck, the for ner getting nine and the latter five. Among the birds were several rad head ducks, especially prized bv