Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-03-08
Norwich. wednesday. March 5. 1924.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light Venlcle lamps at 6.l3 O'Clock this
evening.
Visitors to the suburbs are bringing
back many prigs Of pussy willow.
st. Thomas Aquinas, learned doctor was
comm emorated in the church calendar
Tuesday.
The recent snow falls were much need
ed in BallouwNe, to help fill the springs
and reservoirs.
Special meeting, B'nai Birth l. o. B.
B., Thursday evening, at o'clock.-adv
Holding an umbrella required strength
as well as skill during Tuesday even
ing's torrents.
Inns and gift shops along the country
roads are getting stocked hp to catch the
early automobile trade.
E. A. Bowens book, Lineage of the
Bowens of Woodstock, Conn, is q new
book at the Otis library.
The sun crosses the equator, marking the
beginning OF spring. March 81, at 4.5s a
m, eastern standard time,
The sudden shower Tuesday afternoon
came in gusts which might have been the
end of the southern tornado.
Although conditions continue winHry,
| local real estate men are receiving the
ts7ua1 inquiries about farm property.
The usual line OF strictly fresh caught
| fish, oysters and scallops for today at
Powers Bros.-adY.
The receipts for the Aldrich Free Ii
brary at Moosup from a recent carnival,
about 500 are to be spent for outside re-
pairs.
| A Canterbury man, Carleton Lowell is
ticket agent at the Plain1eld station. sue
ceeding Charles Jerome, recently ap
l1ointed postmaster of Plainfield.
! The family of Fred Weis of Westches-
ter has been Ill for two weeks or more
with Influenza. The family includes the
mother and seven young children.
Star gazers here are hoping for GEAR skies
,on the 18th when Mercury will be most
kayorsbly situated for being seen, in the
east, Just before sunrise, as morning star,
There is a suggestion that former
| Chief Justice Samuel O. Prentice be
made the republican candidate for may
or of Hartford. He is native of North
Stonington.
| Two dollars and five cents was collected
in grades and G of Sterling grammar
school for the Red Cross. The names of
the contributors will he inscribed on the
Red Cross honor roll.
Connecticut fishermen were notified
! that at Boston the receipts of fresh
ground fish for the past week totaled
4,460.000 pounds, the largest amount
for any week since Sept. 2, 1919.
i The recent strike of milk producers
! started Jan. 20 and affected those from
Jewett City north who send to Boston. The
price now received is 20 cents a can an
certain distasteful conditions have been
reme1ied.
i The charity committee appointed by
Worthy Master Byron w. Hill of Coventry
Grange, No. rs, P of H., comprises Mrs
Emil ]. Koehler, Mrs. c. Irving Loomis
Miss Camilla NJ Nelson, Emil ], Koehlel
and George Vinton.
The Rockville mills have been pur
chasing a large amount of coal and a
many as a score of cars come in at ;
time. This is taken as an indication
that industrial conditions in that tow
will soon be bettered.
Some Noank fishermen are now bus
with their lobster gear. The lobste
i feet this season will be the largest il
the history of the business. Two o.
three of the Noank fishermen have beer
in this branch Of the fishing all winter
Rupert Pendleton, ex-service man an
one of the FIVE sons of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Pendleton of Potter Hill, VIII
served in the e. S. army, three of WHOM
were overseas. is very i'll and is again
to enter federal hoapital for treat
ment.
The number Of freight trains passin
through Saybrook Junction last wee
In all directions showed that the traff
was the heaviest in a long period. The
were going night and day. and continn
GUS The passenger traffic has pickle
10 some.
Brooklyn's distinguished summer resi-
dent. William H BishdJ?Sthe novelist, re
Gently lectured in Waterbury before tn
Mattatuok Historical Society and til
Waterbury group of L'Alliance Franchise
An unusually large audience listened t
Mr.. Bishop.
Samples of work done in the Norwicl
Art school are to be shown, when Mrs
Guy Warner Eastman speaks on Ar
Training in Relation TO Industry befor
the Woman's Federation and Paris
House Department of Park church, Fri
day afternoon.
At Noank, Mr. and Mrs ]. Forces
Hammond of Boston have hired the Wood
J worth place and will spend the summer il
, the village. Mr.. Hammond has charge Q
, a lobster and fish agency on the nortl
dock. Mr.. and Mrs. Hammond are ex
! pected In May.
II Inc March WHITE EtIiADOn BanHeT CpIIl
mAnds Federal Prohibition Director Har
~ E. Mackenzie, whose recent rulini
struck body blow to promoters of prush
room drug houses sprinsing up all owe
the state for the underlying purpose Of dis
pensing liquor.
Several children between and joine
the Beginners Glass of the Junior Leaeu
Of Trinity Methodist church at a nleetim
held Monday afternoon in charge Of Mrs
Albert Boardman. Already Il ere wer
Junior and intermediate classes, Mrs
Roger Woleett being superintendent G
the league.
Through the cooperation Of the Coz
nectieut State Park commission 1t
possible that the development of wilco
Island park dn Middletown may soc
! Ion. planned to make it a recreation;
spot not only for local residents, b
: visitors from about the state.
t More than $50, geo persons named Wi
: son are being urged by the Woodrow Wi
: son Foundation to subscribe to the $1,000
4 600 fund to establish a series of annus
prizes as a tribute to the ideals OF tn
. former president. Hamilton Holt of Ne
: York and Woodstock, executive directe
Of the movement, has proposed a Wilso
club,
At tbs Connsctseut Business Educ;
tors convention at New Haven, in IL
state typewriting contest Miss Cecil
B. Mtsbach Of New Haven was the VIII
ner, also being the first in the commel
cial school tests. She wrote a net t,