Norwich bulletin., 1909-04-09
Che 6alletitr.
VARIOUS MATTERS.

4 dSI 06Ss
The days length has increased four
hours.
All the merchants report good East
err trade.
Occasional thefts Of flowers are re-
ported this early.
The boys will improve the opportun-
ity for ball games today.
There was a rush for books at the
Otis library all day Thursday.
Many of the weekend trippers left
town Thursday night to spend the hol-
iday.
Florida strawberries are reaching
northern markets by the thousand
quarts.
Food sale. baked beans. bread, cake,
etc. Universalist vestrN Saturday 3
to 6.-adv.
Norwich got few reminders of the
western gale in the shape OF gusts OF
raw, keen wind on Thursday.
A number from Norwich attended
the auction at the Alvah Morgan farm
in Salem on Wednesday.
The ofice and shop Of the Robert
Brown Est will be closed all day to-
day GOOD Friday. adv.
The four-masted schooner Ella NJ.
Wiley, with lumber for Fort Point,
was towed up the river Thursday by
the tugs Alert and Harriet.
The offertory in the Catholic
churches Of the diocese on Easter will
be as usual for the education of the
hundred or more students preparing
for the priesthood.
Wednesday night John A. Palmer Of
80 Spalding street slipped while go
ing downstairs at his home and broke
two of his right ribs. He viii be laid
up for three OF four weeks.
1t will interest former Norwich par
ishioners to learn that there Is pro-
ject 10 establish q permanent memo
rial Of some character to the Rev. Mr..
Selleck, who is buried in st. Paurs
churchyard. at Norwalk.
The American Humane Educational
society," of which the late George T.
Angel was the founder and lifelong
president, is arranging with the SUI
perintendents Of schools for the gen
eral observance OF April Is as Band of
Mercy day.
At Eastern Point over 200 men are
employed on the various properties
getting them in readiness for the sum-
mer. over $50 men are engaged at
work on the Morton F. Plant estate,
while the remainder are busy fitting
up cottages for occupancy.
Concerning e. grange meeting We'd
nesday the Springfield, Mass, News
stock, master of the Connecticut state
grange, delivered an interesting and
instructive address on the work of the
grange throughout the country.
The WiIlimantic Chronicle says: The
first OF the Holy week services at the
Congregational church, held Tuesday
evening. was well attended The Rev.
DIR. West OF Norwich was the speaker
Of the evening, his topic being The
Authority Of Jesus.
There were sent to The Bulletin on
Thursday samples Of chestnuts fresh
and sound, which Willis, Charles and
Estella May Bennett of Canterbury
picked up from under the leaves on
Tuesday, April 6. The children gath
cred about four quarts.
A Deep River correspondent writes:
A. F. Glover received word Monday
Of the death OF his aunt, Mrs. Abbie
Draper, at Norwich, late on Sunday.
She was a cousin of Mrs. Olive Snow,
Mrs. Ezra Hams and Mrs. Jane An
drews, all of Deep River.
President Charles w. Eliot Of Har-
ward university, who lectured on The
Progress Of Municipal Reform at the
Lyceum theater, New London, Thurs
day evening, was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. z. C. Hammond of Great Neck,
Waterford, Thursday night
The Jewish Agricultural & Indus
trial Aid society grants loans to wor-
thy Jewish farmers. Since its organ
ization, ten years ago, the society has
made 2S3 loans in Connecticut,
amounting to $1S0,9s6.2s, to SO1 farm
ers, who occupy 249 farms. The
amount OF the loans outstanding De-
cember 81, 1908, is s72,991.12.
Charles H. Sheriff. recently ap-
pointed American minister to the Ar
gentine Republic, sailed Tuesday from
New York on the steamer Kaiser Viii
helm II. for Bremen. on the way to
his post. Mr.. Sheriff., who succeeds
Spencer f. Eddy as minister to Argen-
tina, Mr.. Eddy having been appoint
ed minister to Rumania and Servia.
was accompanied by his wife and her
mother, the latter Mrs. z. N. Gibbs,
formerly OF Norwich
WOULD HURT NORWICH ROAD.
Mayor LlpPitt Opposes Public Utilities
Bill.