Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20
VARIOUS MATTERS

expected to visit the Wesleyan Can cdllpuS next week end for the annual Wash- l ington's birthday reunion
 pr. Munen's office will be closed until Feb. 24th.-adv.
 1 Druggists here learn that prlce | changes in drugs and fine chemicals were largely downward the past week, l although there were some advances | Several inches of slush added to 1 walks and roadways by Thursday l storm did not improve the temper or | those obliged to be out of doors. 1 Although this has been a hard win l ter in many ways, the plumbers report | that the number of freeze-ups has not I been as high as might be expected. Claud Cummings of North Coventry, who has been running milk route III | Manchester since last summer, has disposed of his business to a man from | Hartford.
 The two monkeys at Mohegan park appear to be wintering well Supt. F. ] A. Smith and his assistants managing to keep them comfortable in the mon key house.
 Miss Margery Beebe of Willimantic, urinary teacher in the Hicks Memo rial school. returned to her duties in l Holland Monday after being i'll from influenza for two weeks. John C. Ellis Americanization di- rector at New London. who has been III at his home on Sherman street from an attack of influenza, has re- ] covered and has resumed his duties. Old account books in use in Coven- trv in 1T53 and owned by Gilbert l Storrs, show that in those happy days mutton sold for 5c pound, beef and | lamb at 5c and F shad at 19c apiece. The state comptroller's department 1 is able to announce 3S2,556 as inc total i number of children of school age emu merated in Connecticut last year, an l increase of 7,o4S over the previous year.
 The second lecture in the Commu | nity House Course is Friday evening. Feb. goth, at p. m. Col. G. Edward Buxton of The Providence Journal l adv.
 The Groton and Stonineton division | of the Shore Line Street Railway com | pany has been able to improve it's ser i vice so that cars are running from l Westerly as far as Benham's corner in 1 Groton.
 1 Local merchants are getting dis 1 couraged about the slow delivery or stocks and feel that they are wasting much time during stormy days, which might kc devoted to unpacking and 1 sorting.
 Because a number of big loads of soft coal have been delivered at tho l Chestnut street plant of the Marlin 1 Rockwell company, residents in that neighlhorhcod are considering it hopeful sign.
 | The United States civil service com mission announces for March 1 an ex- animation for superintendent of build 1 ing. male. upward of 20 years of age, i for vacancy in the sub- treasury building. New York, at s1.S00 year.
 A Shamrock. R. l., correspondent meutio-s that Dr. H. E. Rouse has ar l rived in town from Norwich after an | absence cf several weeks. He was in
 time to be of service to the sick. during
 the worst of the storm and blockade. Norwich 3t yers who have. been in
 New York report that more than 200
 first assistants to Santa Claus, in the
 form of American manufacturers of
 toys have their 1920 lines on view at
 the annual toy fair being held Tn that
 "ity.
 |. At the county home on Smith ave-
 nue, Norwich. the T children under
 the care of Miss Gibson are all in school, and so, far have escapea so
 much as cold The children are
 about equally divided as to girls and
 D3y*.
 A Saybrook man, Charles W. White, has completed the erection of the storehouse at the railroad shops at
 Readville, Mass. where he has been for several months. He will return to
 Saybrook and make the trip daily to
 New Haven headquarters.
 The Connecticut police have received
 notice from State Motor Vehicle Com
 missioner Robins B. Stoeckel that ar
 extension of time until March 1 had
 been granted in New York state foI
 the 1920 registration of motor vehicles
 chauffeurs and operators. In the New Haven superior court z Joseph Carter. who severely wounded Hazel Elliott in Meriden Dec. Ii, was given a sentence of from 10 to 15 years by Judge Gardiner Greene of Norwich Carter had been attentive to the young j woman and was jealous. The State Federation of Women. l clubs is to meet Feb. 21 at the Hote
 Taft. New Haven. At the same. tim,
 al honorary luncheon will be give1
 for Miss Georgiana Bacon of Worces
 ter, Mass. a candidate for nationa
 president of the federation. T IL IS I1SHllODSu 3L MIQQIeuOWn Una.
 MT. and Mrs. Ii. C. Dunham of 5
 Brainerd avenue arrived home Tues
 day evening from Brooklyn. \. '.
 where they attended the wedding o their niece. Miss Edith Brewster, ant
 Victor Sharpe of Willimantfc.
 About $500 of tho books provided
 through the generosity of residents O
 Conrtcticut for tie army, navy ana
 marine corps during the war are bein:
 returned to this state by the American
 Library association, after having seer service in literally all parts of tn,
 world
 Twelve from Norwich, six iron
 Windham, one from Montville, thret
 from New London. one from Sprague two from Stonington, one each iron Andover and Ellington, two from Vii. lington, were among the 239 widow: and orphans who received $2,374,45 ir state pensions last week By a typographical error in the ex- | change of heads, the highly interestip
 story in The Bulletin Thursday relat-
 ing the surprising achievement O . Charles H. Brown of Warren street
 Norwich. in walking across the 18th
 nus of Panama between breakfast an6
 supper, lost some of it's point. A though suffering from broker
 shoulder hone, the result of a fall, or
 the icy pavements Monday, BishoT
 Chauncey B. Brewster of the Episco. pay diocese of Connecticut, foIIowine l a custom of years delivered tbo d