Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-25
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Norwich. Friday. Feb. s5. 1921.
VARIOUS MATTERS

 Mrs. Laura Fox of West Woodstock noted her soth birthday last week. See Submarine Flotilla MinstreIs, mat inee and evening, at Davis theater Fri day.-adv.
 After a dull morning the sun came out Thursday, the maximum temperature | being S4 degrees.
 i Rural carriers from the Norwich post | office have had some hard and tedious l trips during the week. In the country districts the horse is way ahead of the automobile fo rpcp- | ularity since the big drifts formed.
 Rev. R. T. Elliott of Hartford has been | engaged as pastor of the Abingdon Con. | gregational church and will move there | soon.
 | The new book by A. Hyatt yerriH. of | New Haven, entitled Isles of Spice and Palm. is among recent accessions at the Otis library.
 l It is claiOed that 1921's is. the earliest | Easter in 27 years with one exception | 1913. March 22nd is the earliest the feast day can come.
 There was conference of Connecticut zionists in Hartford tn eother day and 1 1t is proposed to join in raising funds i for the national order
 | A majority of thoughtful property owners have sanded walks which were | inclined to be icy but other household CTS ignore the law in ti is respect
 A special corner in a show window of the Talking Machine Shon featuring "His | Masters Voice. has cen interesting | grown-ups as well as scores of children. Secure tickets at Engler's for subma- rine Flotilla Minstrels at Davis theater. 1-adv.
 1 Franklin Chapter, No 4, R. A. M, works the Royal Arch degree at Masonic Temple tonight at and S.5O o'clock adv.
 The complaint is made at Hartford by State Tax Commissioner Blodgett that millil ns of security holdings are not re- ported to the state fs the law requires.
 William F. N1urdock who has been in the aviation service in Florida was in Pamfret Center at the home of his fath- CT John Murdock last week and now has | gone to Webster.
 The United States, civil service com mission announces for March an ex- | animation for matron-interprete in the immigration service. Ellis Island, New York, at s960 a year.
 | The White Ribbon Banner is urging V Ns.. L.. O.. to help The Seamen's Friend Society in ! New York, also. to send comfort bags and letters to old sailors and soldiers.
 The work committee, Mrs G. Everett Hall. chairman. of the Parish Aid so- ciety of Trinity Episcopal church. has completed and delivered to the William
 W. Backus hospital sixteen baby gowns f Every year the people of the United
 States lose more than S200,000,000 di
 rectly. and no one knows how much in
 directly. through diseases of farm ani
 mals, according to an announcement
 made Thursday.
 Mirth and melody by Submarine Flotil la Minstrels at Davis theater Friday adv
 The cost of clearing the state high ways of the present snow to exten
 sufficient to permit automobile traffic i
 estimated at s40O00 About 800 mel and seventy-five motor trucks have beel ssI engaged in the work
 I Norwich teachers are receiving notic { that at a recent, meeting of Yale Corp t !2or4tion it was voted to open the sum !, mer school from July 5 to August E un s der the joint auspices of the state boar a of education and the university.
 Across the state line, the complaint i . made ty Massachusetts farm burea N n embers who advocate daylight sayin s that the project is defeated. not by tn farmers themselves but by their hire } mel, who refuse to rise an hour earlier Fl. Concerning the successors of the Shor Lipe Electric Railway company. report h at NSaybrook indicate there will b \ something big doing in the car barns b 4 the J. G. Van Loan Company ne2
 month, which will mean the hiring. ( E many men.
 K Austin Bradshaw, son e. Mrs. Geore H Potter of -Noank, retrIrneN recently frol
 Panama where he aerveI two e:lIis
 ments, four years in all, in the enF- neer \ corps in the United States army. A
 the time he has been stationed in tn \ Canal Zone.
 Don't miss seeing and hearing the sl1i
 marine Flotilla Minstrels at Davis theate H-adv.
 \ The campaign for Silk Week, to be he from Feb. 2S to March has been Q.
 tended to include stores throughout u
 country as well as the large city .esta1
 lishments,, with the result that sna
 dealers have become very much interes
 ed in the plan
 Not in the history of Connecticut ri CT navigation recor Is for the last tive
 ty years has the Connecticut river be,
 
 est date fclosing in recent years beil . that of the seAson of 1916-1917, whi ran until February 5th.
 Connecticut merchants hear that e |: OTIS to be included. in the Fall, 1921. ca
 of the Textile Color Card Association the United States will be shown tod;
 (Friday) at its headquarters, 315 Four Avenue, New York. The showing will restricted to members of the associ ton.
 g At the request of Presiding Bish f Daniel S. Futile and Bishop Thomas
 Gailor, President of the National Cou }. Gil, there is to be said in all Protesta
 Episcopal churches next Sunday, the I; LII before MT. Harding takes office as pr, idenf, a prayer for peace and civic rig eousness.
 d N In a letter to Rep. Robert c. Eat
 of the Appropriations committee of general assembly Df E9i7abeshs Er
 once on the Norwich State hospital st and later superintendent of the st = farm for women at East Lyme says u < an investigation should be made of institution. & At the recent social conference of
 Connecticut Federation of Churches
 New Haven 1t was announced that
 federation had in no way changed it's
 titude toward "the commercialization the Sabbath" although it was admit UT that moving pictures to a proper ext Ie were not objectionable.
 At the new silk mill of Max Poll
 and Co, at Poquonnoc the main but Y ing is 200 feet long and 65 wide; the ~ zine house is 50x50 and two sto,
 high. The plant will have it's own wa s, supply. A tank will be erected on IA high hill in the rear and water :