Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-08
VARIOUS MATTERS

Saturdays freeze turned number of Norwich lawns into private skat- ing ponds.
 Lords Point people report ice cakes in Fishers Island sound be- tween five and six feet in thickness. Norwich looked like a section of North Dakota during blizzard, while Saturday mornings storm last ed.
 In the will of the late Miss Helen Breed, of Stonington, the sum of $500 each is bequeathed the two churches in Canterbury.
 Although bad weather interfered with Silk Week in Norwich stores the trade was good and promised well for spring business.
 In many places the young and early variety of fruit trees have been in jured to a certain extent by the se- were cold of the winter. An Amston man. Ned Raymond, l was among those who had the privi- | lege of celebrating a Leap Year birthday on the 29th ult. Firms who have been handicapped | by poor freight and express service are receiving their goods by parcel | post through the postoffice.
 In. Franklin, Mass, at the funeral | of William J. Bourbeau Friday at St. | Mary's, chapel, one of the bearers was 1 James Colgan, of Willimantic.
 The American Legion is endorsing the suggestion~of the American For. estry association to plant tree as q memorial to each local doughboy who | fell.
 The Mystic Woolen Go. at Old Mys- l tic plans to rebuild their burned plant, putting up modern factory, much better equipped than the old plant.
 Relatives from Norwich will be in Groton this (Monday) afternoon, to attend the funeral of Frederick Bill, who died Tuesday at Winter Park, Florida.
 months mind high mass of re- quiem for William J. Collins was sung in St. Patrick's church by Rev. Peter J. Cuny, Saturday morning at s o'clock.
 At Trinity Methodist church Sun day, Rev. c. M. Gearhart conducted an interesting questionnaire before the mems classes, during the Sunday school hour.
 A social meeting of the Vineyard Workers is to be held with Miss Hell | The men friends of the members hay, been invited.
 By new health rule in Norwich, pupil returning to school after i'll. ness of five days or more must have certificate from the family physician [ or the school doctor.
 During Sunday afternoon Miss Sa die J. Dawson was in charge of tn . Otis Library Reading room, over on 7 hundred persons visiting the room be tween ? and 6 o'clock At the Forum at the United Con . gregational church Sunday, the me considered The Effect of Bolshevisn , This was the final discussion in tn interesting and profitable series.
 Another hundred cars or more C coal, oil, etc, were switched out dail! last week at Saybrook Junction, an are on their way to their destination Providence and connecting points.
 W. o. Lilly of New Haven, stat forester, will give a stereopticon lee ture, How and Why We Should Say 1 Trees, at Slater hall, March 10 at D. m., Norwich Art Associa tion. Ad mission 25 cents.-adv.
 Friday afternoon Miss Mirial Choate is to speak at Park church 0 1 Congregational Women and The New Responsibilities. All women the churches in the city and count have been invited to hear her.
 The beautiful offertery at Pal = church Sunday morning was Caes: Franck's 0 Lamb of God, the solo O, portunities being well improved h Mrs. Arthur E. Story. Chorister Ebt |. Learned and Eugene B. Seamans. Favorable reports come from Jam :, Lewis Smith. of Broad street, No wich, who has been i'll at the home
 his sister-in-law. Mss Carrie a Rogers, in Washington. He is able sit up and is regaining his strength. ,t Yale alumni eligible to vote for
 member of the university corporatio 3. have received blanks calling attenti, to the expiration of the term of He ry Bradford Sargent next June al asking for nominations to fill the VI
 cancy.
 1 Farm bureau leaders call attenti
 to the fact that apple trees shou
 be pruned during the early part
 this month. There is to be a lar
 demand for apples and careful pru
 ing, it is stated, will help to insu
 a good crop.
 At Westbrook men have been g
 ing over the trolley wires on {
 Shore Line electric road tighteni
 them and that fact started the I
 port that the road has been talk
 over by the Connecticut Compa Sc and is soon to be operated.
 A Central Village correspond,
 notes that a former Norwich reside
 Mortimer Stetson, who has been duty on account of illness, has rect
 cred Adelard Daignais of Nav I :.
 don has been assisting at the "a
 road station during MT. Stetson's ness.
 Miss M. E. Sprague of the Conn
 ticut Agricultural College, at Stol will spNk on The Future of Anne 5C can Womanhood at meeting of - associate members of Hartford Oh; 5c ter American Institute of Bank
 (the girls of the banks) Tuesday e
 ming.
 m C. N. Woodward general super IVY tendent of the lines east of New I
 ven on the New York. New Haver
 Hartford railroad, has been made Z5 sistant to General Manager c. L. B
 do. R. D. F1tzmaurice, formerly
 Norwich, is MT. Woodward's siSct n- sor with offices at Boston.
 A nation wide Baptist camps
 will be started April 25 and will c oo tinue until May ?, inclusive, to F UU fund of one hundred. million doll
 or this amount s2,255, 900 has b
 set as Connecticut's quota. Ju 2E E. K. Nicholson, of Bridgeport
 been elected state campaign direc
 A large number of members of
 Young Ladies Sodality received