Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-21
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Several residents who are engaged in | raising chickens complain that the ire quent heavy blasts of stone for use on | the new roads under construction have ruined recent matches, in some cases only i one or two chicks being matched Mrs. Junie Belle Squier Is at the home | of her parents. Mir. and Mrs. James A. i Utley, enjoying four days' vacation from 4 her duties at the Mansfield state training | school and hospital. k Lester J. Hutchins has bought the | home and the farm of the late Joseph | Hutehins.
 Raymond squier was expecting to be able to leave Thursday last the hospital where he has been under treatment for
 appendicitis, but Is not as well as had been hoped for. and will be obliged to re- main there for another week at least ls Horace Griggs, veteran of the Civil
 war, is ST, and is deaf and almost blind. If MT. and Mrs. Griggs live until June 18th they will celebrate the 6oth anni- versary of their wedding.
 Ali the children attending school on
 Chestnut Hill, with one exception, are Hebrews As the Jewish feast of Purim will be celebrated from April 22d to the S0th, they have been agitating an eight days holiday. This, one of the promi-
 nent Jewish residents there states, is not obligatory under the Jewish law, and that the children can go to school with | out disobeJing the regulations of the church. School Supervisor F. W. Porter
 states that 1t will be Impossible to allow them these holidays ir addition to the usual vacation at Easter. without keeping I the school open an additional week in June, which is not agreeable to them.
 Henry C. Isham read an item published in The Bulletin Monday last which states i that N w. Riddle of Potter Hill, R. l., gathered 5,024 eggs in February from 465 laying hens, which was 10 8-1o eggs per hen, and 1,S20 eggs in the first eight days in March, which was an average daily lproduction of AS s-10 per cent, claiming to exceed all known records excepting possibly those of Storrs college. Mir. Isham states that in February he gath cred 1869 eggs from 142 hens, or 13 S-1O
 each, and for the first i,ight days in
 March 660 eggs, or an average daily pro- duction of 5S.09 per cent, so claims to have beaten MT. Biddle's record.
 A very enoyable meeting of the grange
 was held at Grange hall Wednesday evening. There were A members present
 and nine visiting members from neigh
 boring granges. A memorial to Joseph Hutehins, charter member of the . grange, was presented by the committed appointed at a previous meeting. During : the lecturers period a play entitled Nc Trespassing, by Evelyn Gray Whiting was given by the grange dramatic club the cast including Il local amateurs o recognized ability. The play was enthu siastically received by the audience, aftei which there was dancing. It Is expected that the first and second degrees will b, : conferred at the next meeting of tn,
 grange.
 l Thursday last tho contractors of tn, 2 new roads began placing another layer o : crushed stone on the highway leadinl : jnortherly from the Center.
 3 The body of John August, who diet r last winter in Manchester and was place, T in receiving vault. was brought to Co
 lumbia Friday last for burial in the fam f fly plot in the cemetery at the Center.