Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-02-13

VARIOUS MATTERS

Light vehicle lamps At 5.47 ocloch
this evening.
Yesterday was septuagesima Sunday,
about seventy days before Easter.
The boys found Sundays snow just
the proper consistency for snowballing.
AS this is TO be observed as Lincoln
day. fiaks Will be displayed about town
The flowers for the altar at Trinity
Episcopal church Sunday were gwen by
Miss Alice Wolfe
Don't forget the. Maccabee whist In
Germania han. INiessSay- night, Feb. a.
door prize and ,retfeshments adv.
Samuel ehesebro has force of men
busy cutting eight-ineh Ice on hfs new
pond In Fishtown, near Noank
The public schools. as we'll as the
banks and Otis Library viii be closed
today Monday for the holiday.
The flowers at the United church on
Sunday were given by the Sodalltas in
memory Of MISS Gladys Francis.
Unfavorable weather Saturday and the
snow OF Sunday prevented number Of
shore weekend parties for the holiday.
Shopping for valentines Saturday az
ternoon and evening was nearly asebrisk
as is< the annual buying OF Christina
cards.
At North stonington last week, at the
auction Of Herbert Coon there was a
large crowd in attendance and the ar
ticles brought good prices.
Parks Popular Science which deals
with the evolution OF the solar system
was the picture Shown at Park church
Sunday school session Sunday.
Residents of Old Mystic are pleased
that the Mystic Wooden company Is able
to keep It's mill running and has added
more looms during the winter.
Warren s. Hastings has sold his dairy
and tobacco farm at Somers to A. E
Howard and son, Raymond, Of Suffield
who will take possession about March
The Knights of Columbus have re-
quested a memorial mas. at St. Patrick's
church today CMondayo for Capt
Charles ]. Connell, of the Norwich Are
department.
Sunday mornings snow began in {
most formidable manner, but ended with
furry about noon. The Temperature
rose to SO degrees and the Ice on tht
walks soon melted.
An Old Lyme man, Frank Maynard
! has been discharged from the govern
| ment sanitarium, where he took treat
| ment for tuberculosis, which he con
| tracted while in the army service.
At Mystic the Mystic Manufacturing
| company is busy and the Rosie velve
mill is now working full time, after sew
eral months Of short time. The Robin
| Son silk mill has also taken on extrt
help.
ut meeting of the board of mana
gers of \the Founders OF Norwich, it wa
voted to give IS to the State p. A. R
! toward the preservation of the old mile
stone on the Boston post road at Say
brook
/ In an art exhibit at the new schoc
building in Stafford Springs the NOR
than two hundred reproductions consis
OF large carbon photographers. engrsy
ings copper plate and carbon colo
paintings.
At the meeting Of Mashapaug LAX
grange Of Union Friday evening, a va
entine party will be In charge of Mr.. an
Mrs. Nelson Horton. Mr.. ana Mrs. Ray
mond Hathaway Mrs George Kostu
and Paul Riznea.
/ The young people of the Central Bar
t:st church plan a straw ride to til
Smith cottage. AIlyn,s Point This (Mor
Adams and Miss Bessie Grimes wi
ohaperon the party.
The annual report of the commission
er of pensions discleses on its rolls II
names of 81 widows of the War of 1s1
100 soldiers and 2f56 widows of IL
Mexican war and 1884 soldiers and 25t
widows OF Indian outbreaks prior ~
1891.
One Of the pleasing selections a
ranged for Sunday mornings service +.
Trinity Episcopal church by the orgar
lst Miss Mildred Wightman was Ben
dictus, by Ernest Felix Potter, a TO
mer skilled organist at Christ churc
Norwich.
Continuing the annual cuxtom, Il
more than one hundred members of Cit
No. 2, Of the Social Corner remembers
the birthday Sunday of the late A. Waltz
Pearson, editor of The Bulletin, by sen.
/ ing Mrs Pear son a rot Of beautiful bloom
ing tulips.
The superintendent, trainmasters, t
chief train desoatchers accountin
building signal and road depart1nen
with their clerks made a thorough 1
spection recently of the New Haven {
. Vision stations, towers freight hous
: and roads between Devon and New Lo
. don.
I A former Baltic curate, Rev. Jose
valdambrini, now pastor of Our La
OF Lourdes church, Waterbury and
accomplished italian scholar, knows t
pope personally, having met him last
1905 when Pope Plus was librarian
1 Milan, their acquaintance being brodg
about through mutual friends in Ron
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