Norwich bulletin., 1909-04-05
VARIOUS MATTERS.

bHbllSOS W.T.
Full moon tonight.
Easter sale at Spiritual academy
wednesday and Thursday; bargains
adv.
Grand Army men remembered that
Saturday was the fourth anniversary
of the fall of Richmond.
The bark Ladysmith, which was
ashore on Fishers island, left for New
York Saturday morning in tow.
The Meriden Record inquiries; How
can Norwich have a sane Fourth with
the president there? The town VIII
go crazy.
Governor Lilley has approved the
bill of Heman o. Averin, commission
er on domestic animals, for assistance
during March, for $175.49.
Deaths from falls led as the cause
of the fatalities in Connecticut during
March. There twenty suicides during
the month and three homicides.
The ninth annual convention OF the
Connecticut Congress Of Mothers Is to
be held in Hartford on Wednesday
and Thursday, April rs and 20.
In Holy week each day has Its spe-
cial significance; today (Monday) be-
inq the day on which the barren fig
tree was cursed and the temple puri-
fed.
This CMonday) evening the Pesach,
or Jewish Passover will be celebrated
nv all who confess Judaism as their
faith. The festival Is also called "the
feast Of unleavened bread"
Cant. Samuel Crocker has succeed
ed H. H. Weber as master of the
steamer Pequonnock and that steam
er has taken the place Of the Mohegan
which has gone to Newport for re-
pairs.
Timothy Sheehan has purchased the
property on Croker street, New Lon
don. in the Pequot colony known IS
the Buckley place. of which property
William H. Shields Of Norwich was a
partial owner.
The Connecticut Horticultural soci-
ETY.. at Hartford last week, voted to
correspond with the New Haven and
New London county societies, asking
them 10 join in an excursion to Am
herst college next fall.
Mrs. Catherine Brennan, formerly OF
the Falls. died Saturday at the home
Of her daughter Mrs. P. H. Cosgroye,
in New Haven. After a requiem mass
in st. Johns church there this (Mon-
day. morning. the body will be brought
to Norwich for burial.
Connecticut has the third largest
| Jewish farming population in the
/ United States. Connecticut has 461
/ farmers. occupying 400 farms; New
Jersey, 500 farmers with 462 farms;
/ New York leads with 6s4 farmers dis
tributed over 500 farms.
Railroad Commissioner Andrew T
Gates Of windham county is in Wash
ington on business before the inter
| state commerce commission. Friday
/ dlLEIuUOH lG AlAdlO aAA al AAANAAh O~-
! fore the commission in relation to the
advance in freight rates on the south
eastern lines.
In a few days the Connecticut Troll
| ley company will inaugurate. al
! through the state, a parcel express
business whereby all bundles and
packages, up to twenty-five pound!
will be carried any and all distances
OF proportional rates by a system o
duplicate tags or stickers.
Excitement was caused in Brooklyn
N. Y, Friday by the killing Of Arthu
Sandberg, aged 7, by Theodore June
%, a chauffeur for Mrs. Joseph
Hendrix of Carroll street. formerl.
| Miss Mary Rathbone Of East Grea
Plain. The chauffeur had been told I,
take the automobile to the garage, bu
instead went for a Joy ride.
DR.. John g. Stanton, at a meeting
Of the trustees Of All Souls church
New London, Friday evening, announc
ed that Mrs. Edward c. Hammond
daughter of the late J. A. Rumril
Of Springfield, for many years a res
\ ident Of Waterford, win place at he
Aaxpense an organ in the new churcl
building as a memorial 10 her father
The steamer city of Fail River
which with the freight steamer Pequo
has been temporarily leased by tn
Central Vermont railway to assist tn
regular line steamers Mohawk an
Mohegan, arrived In New London o
Saturday with a capacity cargo com
posed largely Of sugar. The road ra
several extra freight trains Sunda
to transport the freight to its desti