Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-05
VARIOUS MATTERS


Local coin collectors are watching out
for the appearance of the new Peace
Dollar"
was held in Preston chapel Wednesday
evening.
The mercury was in the 4o's during
Wednesday and late in the afternoon a
little light snow fell.
Horses not properly sharpened Jared
hard on the icy streets Wednesday and
more than one animal had a fall.
Franklin Chapter No. 4, R. A. M,
works the mark-master degree at Ma
sonic Temple tonight at 7.3o-adv.
The Junior Guild Of the United Con-
gregational church is to meet in Miss
Pullen's office this Thursday after
noon. ~
1t is expected that Bishop Edwin E.
Hughes viii preach in Trinity Methodist
church. Norwich, Sunday morning, jan
uary %.
The January term of the. superior
court opened at Litchfield, Tuesday,
with Judge Allyn l. Brown of Norwich,
presiding.
A Bolton man, Jesse Wood. who went
| to England about a year ago. is ex-
pected to return soon with health great
! ly improved.
The recently completed cement road
through Colchester is not safe one for
| fast driving in slippery travelling, as
| several motorists have discovered,
Orders issued at New London by City
| Manager Barlow will require monthly in
| spection of all city hydrants in the flu
ture in place of annual inspection.
An Essex correspondent mentions thai
Miss Charlotte Doane of Rockville Hill
school has been spending the holidays
with her parents at Parker's Corners.
During Wednesday, Di:trict Superin
tendent Rev. William H. Bath was a
South Griswold 20 hold the quarterl,
conference at the Methodist church.
All fresh caught stock, shad, roes an
bucks, native smelts Spanish mackere
fat, cod and haddeck, scaHops. clam
and oysters at Powers Bros.'-adv
The Taftville and Franklin Stree
plants of the ]. B. Martin Velvet Com
pany. which had been running tire
days, started on a four-dsy schedul
this week.
The trolley car of the Watch Hill di
vision which has been leaving Wester
ly at 2.20 p. m. for River Bend cemeter
and return at 2.34. was discontinue
Wednesday.
An Ekonk patient, Mrs. Charles Frinl
who has been at Bacltus hospital, Nor
witch, for treatment having broken
bone in her ankle in a fall returne
home Monday.
The papers note that Mrs. Lorett
Brown Green, 10, former teacher in tn
/ ioY1t -ho
home in Plsinfeld, was descended froi
: Revolutionary ancestry on both sides
The captains of the Noank fshin
: boats who have ventureG out throug
this weather received good prices *
their fattish, one receiving 81 a bush
= and another getting S2S a barrel, so
r the same morning,
The J. B. Martin CO. mill at Pequo
Montville, is being enlarged and ne
machinery set. In brisk times this mi
) | employees 125. Due to valuable wat,
power, all silk throwing now is doI
here, tinEtead of in Pennsylvania a
formerly.
In New York, Tuesday, Mrs Robe
P Waller of As East Sixty-second stree
f ! gave a dance at the Ritz-Carlton for h,
/, ! grandniece, Miss Mary ShefieIs., d.
r butante of the winter. daughter of Mr.
V Catherine Sanford Landers Farnun,
= the Pequot
:, Former Mansfield residents, Dr. al
n Mrs. E. p. 81 orrs, of Hartford, al
S nounce the engagement of their nice
Miss Amy L. Durham to Robert
lie Hibbard, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hi
ir bard, of Hartford. Mr.. Hibbard is
+. graduate of Wesleyan.
: The engagement is announced of Mi
n Katherine f. Potter, daughter of N
: and Mrs. c. Dan Potter of Sound Beac
Is to Harold Bridges, of Worcester, Mas
le Miss Potter is a senior at the Connect
a cut Agricultural college, Storrs.< fro
which Mr.. Bridges was graduated
n 1920.
- A dinner which Mr.. and Mrs Charl
: s. Bottomley of Rockville gave for the
= daughter Margaret, at the Hartfo
: Golf club, Saturday evening, was t
u largest holiday event given for an e
gagged girl Miss Bottomley is to ma
ry William Skinner. 3D. of HolyoI
Mass.
r F.. P. Lyman, executor of the will
- D t1ison Avery, has been notified
: the probate court for the Andover q
- trict that Mr.. Avery's daughter has fl
:, an appeal from the probate courts {
:. cisien, admitting the will to probate
n Is not known what the reasons for I
i. appeal are.
The United States civil service CO
mission announces an examination
operative, male, age 81 to 40; secret s
vice for vacancies in the treasury
partment at S. per diem, with allowaI
N for subsistence and actual necesss
at travelling expenses when away fir
s. post Of duty on official business.
al A green sharpe, half full of wa
n and containing a number Of stool due
r was picked UP Monday in Fishers
ne land sound by Captain Edward Tut
er Of Noank, who was fishing in his DO
k, the Liberty. It is feared some accid,
j. has happened to the occupants of
t sharpe, who were presumably out hu
X ing.
a. It is doubtful If more quiet Americs
II ization goes on anywhere in Norw
81 :, that at the rectory of ST. Mary's chur
n Rev. William A. Keefe and his asst
e ant, Rev. William H. Kennedy, hav
- been educated abroad, speak Italian,
lle emily and are consulted on temporal
~ well as spiritual matters by hundreds
e that nationality.