Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-21
UIlzk KIniigts. Norwich. saturday, Feb. 2t, 1920.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Y161ungr rei2UVeS III -NoLWFSh' The banks will be closed Monday to observe Washington's birthday. The freight steamer Whitney IS caught in the ice off Fishers Island.
 Physicians in surrounding towns are having calls to treat numerous cases of frosted feet.
 The collection in all the Catholic churches of this diocese Sunday VIII | be for missions.
 The Monday celebration of Wash 1 ington's birthday will mean week | end holiday for many. 1 mittee to revise the church manual and present such revision to lne church for consideration.
 In a number of churches tomorrow the services will be patriotic, in refer ence to Washington's birthday. Miss Delcie M. Bibeault of Moosup 1 is visiting at the home of an aunI' Mrs. Octave Caron, in Norwich. No trolley freight cars have been running on the Shore Line electric railway since the last of November. One Ekonk man has been feeding his hens with flour and oats because he has been showed in for two weeks. Psychic messages by Mir Whitney. Spiritual Academy Sunday.-adv. The United church voted at the re- cent annual meeting that the pastor. Deacons Allen and Gallup be com John Teeton, now of New York, has sold his farm in Holland, known as the Carlos TiIden placei to Adolph, Stella end Marie Sweizy from New York. Frank Emerson has resigned as agent of the American woolen mills at Moosup and is to locate elsewhere. The new agent has not been announced. The spinning room at the big Law ton mill in Plainfield was closed one day recently, as about half the opera tives were out on account of illness. Connecticut men are interested in the 18th annual national motor boat, ship and engine show in New York from the 20th to the 18th of this month.
 Tomorrow is Communion Sunday for i the Holy Name society of St. Patrick's ! parish and for all parishioners in re- 1 sponse to the request of the bishops council.
 Mrs. Edwin Rathbun and daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Rogue, of Norwich, | were in Central Village to attend the funeral of Stephen Allan Lewis, their relative.
 Mrs. John L. Chapman of Central | Village was g. recent guest of Mrs. l Charles Barber of that place, who is | at the Wauregan house in Norwich for the winter.
 l Miss Mary c. Browne of New Lon | don will sail for home from 1darsei1les, France, next month, after more than Q year and half overseas in Y. M. c. A. work.
 The Lenten appointments of Arch | deacon J. Eldred Brown of Trinity Episcopal church, Norwich. take him to St. Paurs church, Wi1limantic, and St. Marks. Mystic.
 Above the Lords Point oyster beds the ice is over two feet thick Under these conditions there is danger of the ice pressing the oysters into the mud, Ca;sing them to smother.
 Relatives and friends attended a months mind high mass of requiem l for Mrs. Margaret Quinn, sung in St. Patrick's church Friday at o'clock by Rev. James 4. Broderick of Terry vile.
 It is stated by experts of the United States Indian bureau that the Indian population in the country showed a total of 933, TOP, a matter of interest to the Mohegan Indian descendants in Norwich.
 There is a scarcity of eggs in a number of towns. caused by the in ability of farmers to bring them to market owing to the traveling condi- tions. and very few eggs have come in
 hy freight.
 Since the armistice was signed the war department has turned over to the department of agriculture 24.000 army
 motor trucks to be used by the states In road building, the state of Connecti-
 cut receiving its share.
 There is huge drift across the road in front of the house of Mason Partelo
 in North Stonington. This bank of
 snow is 10 feet deep. made in two : parts, with a deep hollow between, like : the waves Of the sea.
 Cornfield lightship was carried from : her moorings late Wednesday by an
 ice foe which swept o4t of the Con-
 necticut river. The vessel was taker
 in tow Thursday by the lighthouse
 tender Tulip and taken to New London
 for repairs.
 By the will of Floyd Cranska oi Moosup, brother of Frank Cranska oi ! Norwich. a document Drobated by
 Judge Smith. s2.000 is left in trust tc the Baptist church of Moosup, the in- k tcrest due annually. All the rest oi
 me property goes to the family. A geod Samaritan at Ekonk. c , Howard Gallup, has plodded througf 2 fields and over walls to Sterlinq witl
 inc milk with a pair of horses anf
 sled taking 90 cans some days dotns
 errands along the route, acconmodat. '' Ing neighbors with grain, groceries
 etc. At the fourth quarterly conferenc Of the ee Methodist church, Holland
 Rev William H. Bath, the distric
 superintendent. of Norwich was in
 structed to confer with Rev. Sherro,
 Soule as to the best method of fed
 erating the two Holland churches.
 The war departments eassy contest
 open to 200o0 0oG school children
 started Friday. Secretary Baker Ma,
 vii award medals to the three hes
 essayists on the benefits of enl;stu1kc
 in the army. The winners win h
 brought to Washington at goverrren
 expense.
 A Plainfeld correspondent notes tha
 Mr. and Mrs. Martyr FushneIl of Can
 terbI1ry are at Mrs. Elizabeth Sru;th's
 They went to Lebanon to spend sNev
 Years and were snuwbcund there
 Then they went to Baltic and later f.
 Plainfeld and are hopirg to reac,
 home this week
 III For immediate aid in the work q
 saving tho hundreds of thousands q
 destitute Armenian refugees, $500 00
 was cabled to Coustantiunple, accord
 ing to a report given n:st Thursdax- h
 Hamilton Holt, Woodstock sllnme
 resident. chairman of the Near Fas