Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-07
VARIOUS MATTERS.

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VARIOUS MATTERS.
Venus viii be morning star until
April 20.
wednesday was an advance sample
Of spring day.
Social tonight at Armory; Cd Co.
formerly Co. A. Come.-adv.
The promised cold wave arrived
promptly Wednesday evening.
Drivers on country roads are con-
WINGED that the January thaw has be-
gun.
Court sessions always increase the
patronage Of local hotels and restau-
rants
Wesleyan was the last OF the col
leges to open, sessions beginning We'd
nesday.
southwesterly winds and a full
moon caused high tides Wednesday
morning.
The remarkably open winter has
favored those who are engaged in out
door work.
There will be four ecnpses in 1909;
two of the sun, and two OF the moon.
All come after June.
The body of Horace D. Standish was
brought from Noank to Preston City
this week for burial.
The poultry show at Middletown
| this week has attracted chicken fan
! ciers from eastern Connecticut towns.
Supper, lawn party and play, Yum
| YUM" at Spiritual academy tonight,
15c THE Man from Montana" next
weekday.
The Greek Catholic Christmas falls
on January 7, just fourteen days after,
the feast of the other Christian
churches.
Franklin chapter, No. 4, R. A. NJ,
works the r. A degree this evening. A
full attendance is desired. Grand Of
flcers will be present.-adv.
Postcards from Canadian tourists
hint at no fears for the ice crop, since
In some places the mercury has fallen
to 80 degrees below zero.
Local people who have interest in /
the boys on the battleship Connecticut |
are gratifed that that ship will be !
the first OF the feet to reach Messina.
The total number Of insane persons
under restraint in Connecticut is
about 1900, and the ratio in 1908 Is
SO to the thousand Of population, a
decided increase in recent years.
After an Illness Of several weeks,
Mrs. MahaIa Potter, widow Of John S.
Potter, died Tuesday at the residence
Of her son-in-law, Horace P. Ian
phere, in Waterford. She was 50 years
Of age.
Clark Coon is substituting as teach
er in the school on Pendleton Hill be-
cause of the illness of the teacher,
Miss Mary Chapman, who has been
confined to the house for over three
weeks with pneumonia.
The Federal express from Washing
ton, due in New London at 4,0S a. m,
did not reach there Wednesday morn
ing until about 1890, owing to the
dense fog that overhlng Harlem river,
delaying transportation.
A stonington correspondent writes:
The extra local freight train, known
as the Boston Peddler, was discontin-
III, I
viii do all the delivering of freight
by the Norwich line to this point
By the new towing regulations, haw-
gers are limited in length to rs faith
oms, measured from the stern Of one
vessel to the bow of the following
vessel; and should in all cases be as
much shorter as the weather or sea
will permit.
Landlord ]. H. segar Of the Dixon
house is to serve a supper the latter
part Of this month to one hundred
and fifty young people from Norwich.
The party is to come to Westerly by
trolley for the banquet, and a recep-
ton and dance will follow.-Westerly
Sun.
A returning sportsman, who has
been in northern Vermont, states that
no handsomer English pheasants are !
to be found in the games preserves
on Fishers island than are those on
Juniper island, Lake Champlain, plac-
ed there few months ago by the
government, and which are wintering
well.
Director Ozias Dodge of the Art
school has placed on exhibition in one
of the small galleries in the Converse
Art building rs or 30 sketches and
which he made when in
Sicily two years ago. There are views
)n the straits Of Messina, Of Mt.
Aetna 20 miles away, and other scenes
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