Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-03
VARIOUS MATTERS

January Srd is St. Genevieve's day - Light vehicle lamps at 4.59 o'clock this evening.
 At the annual meeting of the Sec ond Baptist church at Shunoc. Frank Miner was elected trustee of the Vose fund.
 The Otis Library has continued its list of Books on the Great War. which have been grouped for ready refer ence.
 Western Union linemen have com pleted the new cable from Chester to Saybrook, and moved this week to Canaan.
 medium, Spiritual Academy Sunday adv.
 Tn a number of churches Sunday. references will be made to the first anniversary of the death of Theodore Roosevelt.
 In the town of Holland. Alfred Lud- wig and Edwin Crandall. have both commenced cutting ice, about nine inches thick.
 At Ashford David Mathewson of Warrenville is the first to get his ice house filled. He secured good 9-inch ice last week.
 Local druggists were advised Fri day that camphor and quicksilver are lower this week. and quin.ne has de- clined 10 cents an ounce.
 At the holiday exercises at the Con- gregat.onal church, Somersville, Fri day evening, the pastor Rev. David L. Kebbe, was presented $200 by his parishioners.
 At present, the state department of institutions and agencies is giving aid to 220 widows, under the law enact ed at the last sess.on of the legisla- ture, and which went into effect on July 1.
 The old political slogan "The Empty Dinner-pail" has been superseded hereabouts by that of "The Empty families alike are feeling the pinch of the sugar shortage. =.
 The United States civil service com mission announces for Jan. 19 an eX animation for checker at New York Vacancies in the navy yard service at New York at $3.52 per diem will be filled from this examination. r Choice live and boiled shrimp at Powers Bros Let us quote you prices. adv.
 Judge William M. Maltbie, who was to have held court last week at Rock vile number of cases having been assigned for trial, and which were postponed because of his illness, ar ranged for a short calendar session there Friday. @
 Special meeting. K. of C.. Sunday af- ternoon at ? 90. Sunlight building; second degree.-adv.
 The National Methodist board will expend $T5,000 this year in it's schools in the south and $35,000 in pioneer schools. The education committee will spend $12,000 and the board of home missions and church extension $30,000 in their. work,
 The state board of agriculture, at a meeting at the capitol this week, vot- ed to issue another book telling of Connecticut farms that are for sale, their location, and other facts. The 1919 legislature appropriated money for this work.
 News comes to Connecticut teach CTS from New York that there is ur- gent need for additional substitutes in the elementary schools. Many who qualify may obtain continuous em- ployment. The salary is S4.50 per day for actual service.
 The list of books from the state grant has come to Bolton, and the books will begin to arrive in time for winter reading. Some of the school children there are reading five books in order to get the certificate from the board of education.
 According to an estimate given by the motor vehicle department of Con necticut only about one-fourth of the owners of jitneys or public service in Inc c%1 tn faly eenses under the conditions of bonds required by the law. The National Aniline and Chemical Company. Inc has informed mill men of a new basic yellow known as phospaine G. N. This color can be used in dyeing leather. as t forms a part of many basic mixtures for browns and tans on leather.
 Alumni here learn that Dean Frank ". Nicolson of Wesleyan faculty is preparing the fifth edition of the Wesleyan Alumni record which will contain the names of all the gradu- ates and non graduates of the uni versity, a book of about 1900 pages.
 Burton Mansfield, state insurance commissioner, has compiled list of fire, and fire and marine insurance companies, admitted to Connecticut up to Dec. olSu, TOT use III making up the re-insurance schedule referred to in the tax return blank enclosed with the list.
 The Connecticut Association of Members of the American Society of Civil Engineers will hold an informal luncheon at noon today Saturday, at the Graduates Club, New Haven. 4 second luncheon meeting will be held Monday, Jan. 5, at the University Club in Hartford.
 A native of Sprague, Charles S. Whitman, former governor of New York, has accepted membership on the executive committce of the Law Alumni Division, which will take part in the campaign for a s6.450, 900 en- dowment fund that New York Uniyer. sity will launch in February.