Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-05
.EWETT CITY

Postmaster D. F. Finn has received a letter from the postmaster general for the people of Jewett City in which he calls attention to the big job ahead for the department in handling the Christmas ! mail. He asks every boy arh girl to help in seeing that the great Christmas mail is mailed early, tied securely and | addressed plainly, and asks that the peO- ! pie bear in mind that every letter and package of the many millions must be 1 handled by skilled mail distributors standing in post offices and u2 swayins postal cars of Q rnile-a-1ninute trains, often under poor light. He also points out the delay and confusion that is caus- 1 cd when there must be speed and &C., curacy by careiessness On the part of
 those that use the mails.
 Friday evening. December 2, there
 was an electric storm in this section Of
 sufficient severity to put the electric lighting system outof commission for IS minutes, the trouble was not in the local board
 Christmas committees were tpptsnted
 at the Congregational Sunday school Sunday morning. There will be Christ mas party Tn the vestry Friday evening, December 23 at o'clock. The committee are: Tree superintendent, William Me- lNicof; decorating tree, Mrs. E. II. Ils- lcox's class with Miss Ethel Thompson, chairman purchasing gifts, the teachers of the junior classes; refreshments, Mrs.
 William McNicol, who selects her com lr1ittee; exercises, Mrs. Eisoox and Mrs.
 F. E. Robinson.
 Roast fresh ham supper, Cong. yes
 try, Tues, ?. rl. Admission 35 and 25 t--adv.
 Mrs. George Gutneckt is visiting reIa- lives in Lowell. Mass.
 Miss Helen Hull is spending several days in Boston.
 The sale of Christmas seals will be uni
 der the direction of Dorcas Circle Of the
 Kings Daughters. The committee are:
 Miss M. A. Burdick, s. K. Adams. Helen
 Hull, Ruth Miner, Mrs. E. B. Cheney an6
 Mrs. E. II. Hiscox. The school chil.
 dren under the direction Of the teachers
 will sell the seals. The slogan is: 4
 Seal on Each Letter. Help Many to Get
 Better.
 This annual health period when tat , governor of the state appoints a Tuber-
 cufois Sunday in the churches and 2
 Tubercuioss Day in the schools, occur in Connecticut with the Christmas Sea
 sale and has two objects: To raise mon
 ey in every community to defray expens es of its tuberculosis work for the ner year and to bring home to the public through the educational features Of tht campaign. knowledge o2 avoiding ana healing the disease. The fifteen per cent
 which the state tuberculosis commission uses to carry tut the state programme i. the smallest retained by any state in tht United States. In ten states from 50t to 100 per cent. ie kept in the stats offices, in 23 between 35 and 50 pe' cent. In Jewett City the S5 per cent. i turned over to the anti-tuberculosis com : rnittee Of the town. and is used to defra! tho expense Of tubercuiar patients iron : the town at the various sanatoriuns I, 1911 at the call of Dr. c. H. Jennings . & public meeting was held in the tow hall to gee what action might De take, to raise funds to defray expenses of pa tients who might be sent to the stat sanatoriun, then soon to be erectet . A committee of Eugene J. Carroll. Loui ] Tetreauie, 4. c. BurdiGk, J. F. Phillip < and A. W. Harris was appointed. Tn :" last named two since then resigned, an . Mir. Tetrea1it has moved from town. Tn } remaining two with pr. Jennings hay - continued the work. Dorcas circle ha l. had charge of the sale of Christina : Seals every year which, ir the mail - have provided the larger part Of th - funds used by the committee.