Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-24
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps at 4.53 o'clock tnls evening.
 The holiday trade in candy and fiow- CTS has. been excellent this week.
 Some of the choirs have already begun the rehearsal of Christmas cantatas.
 Open all day Big cargo fresh fish and oysters at Osgood's Wharf.-adv,
 Bakers in Norwich sold scores of spe- cially made cakes and pies for the holi- day.
 At Lyme, J. R. Sterling is having a cottage erected on his let at White Sand Beach.
 There will be the customary home gatherings and holiday dinner parties to- day, the 24th
 Local merchants have had a very sat isfactory trade in a.iansAsssIylng delica- cies and dainties.
 Basketball tonight, Parish hall, Atlas of So. Manchester vs. ArmyNavy.-adv Banks, schools and libraries, as well as | the stores and factories will observe this, the New England holiday. | Guests arriving Wednesday afternoon to spend the holiday found the first real snow of the season falling. Ledyard and North Stonington farmers who brought turkeys to town Wednes- day got 65c pound for them.
 Remember St. Patrick's parish rum mage and cake sale, Saturday, Nov. 26, 80 Main street,-adv. | Specials Thanksgiving exercises were held in the kindergartens and primary de- partments of the schools Wednesday. Admirers of Father 'Tabh's poems will find interest in a new book at the Otis n- brary Father Tabb; His Life and Work. 5 At Mystic a mock trial was success fully given by Father Murphy council. Knights of Columbus in Columbus hall Wednesday evening.
 Early risers Wednesday found the mer- cury very near the freezing point and it
 did not get far above SS degrees through out the day.
 Start your dinner right. Blue points
 on the half shell for today. Full line oi
 fresh fish for Friday. Phone early 114
 or TIT, Powers Bros.-adv.
 The toast which The Bulletin will pro- pose to all it's readers today is the old
 but ever apt one, May good digestion
 wait on appetite!"
 Members of benevolent organizations
 were busy Wednesday seeing to it thar
 holiday cheer reached the homes of th, needy and the afflicted.
 The pastor of the Central Baptist church, Rev. Dr. Pitt and Mrs Pitt
 have asked the congregation to keep ire, the evening of December End. One of the state police, who is learning to ride his motorcycle, collided with load of wood in making the turn near tn. Guild at Old Lyme this week. Car Inspector Lucien M. Sheffield hal returned to his duties at Saybrook June tion after sven weeks leave of absenc, relieving Charles Chapman, who has beei doing the work.
 { A Norwich man returning from tn 4 west declares that even yet there is Yer, < little real prosperity there and that hi own state of Connecticut is quite as wei off industriously as any place he ha visited.
 This is the third week of the Perfec 4 Package campaign, and both the Ameri can Railway Express and the New Ha ven road are able to report marked i'm provements in shipments from Connect \ cut concerns.
 It is mentioned by a Colchester core
 spondent that the flags were at half sta on the school house and the children ha half day from school as tribute t Miss Lillie McDermott, whose funers t. ok place in Norwich. Up to Wednesday night the trolle tracks were not slippery enough to caus the car crews any special trouble Whe
 real winter comes, the Greeneville ca
 house is prepared to send out four snov \ blows, two double truck and two singl, H truck.
 Thanksgiving day is not U go unnotice \ for the 52 ex-service men who are recei ! ing treatment at the Connecticut Sta \ hospital in Middletown, according to plal K made to remember them by the home SC, \ vice section of the American Red Cross s that city.
 Local alumni learn that Brown la, . claim to having the oldest graduate
 any American college, John Hunt
 Springfield. O., 99 years old on Oct. 1 n was graduated from Brown in 1S42, nea
 ly two decades before the Civil war b
 gan. He was born in Lowell, Mass From Dec. to 10 has been selected the National Education association to observed as school week throughout Il country. The expectation is that a lar, number of patrons of public schools W visit them and secure first hand kno,
 ledge of how they are conducted and t results.
 At Trinitys Episcopal church, the cor crate communion fer men and boys fo.30 a. m. next Sunday will be he at the request of Bishops Brewster al | Acheson. It is being held throughout t \ Episcopal church. Last Advent Sund; \ 66,000 men and boys were in attendant 4 This year it is expected the number V