Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-31
VARIOUS MATTERS
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 This is almanac day for January. Good resolutions are being framed.
 1909 goes out with a record for Arc tic weather.
 Fifty printed visiting cards for 25 cents at Bulletin office.--adv-
 Most of the churches will repeat their Christmas music next Sunday.
 The City Mission has urgent need of warm quilts and blankets. Telephone S79.
 Eeling through the ice on the coves on both sides of the river is said to be good
 Some of the rural carriers have made the change from wheels to run ners with good results. Bitter cold like that of Thursday | multiplies the demands upon the char itable societies funds and supplies. l As far as possible, stores are clos | ing up the years business and getting rid of their remaining holiday stock.
 Dancing at Broadway dancing acad- emy New Years afternoon and eve- ming; Norwich Concert orchestral | adv.
 . Pupils from the Norwich Business college had a sleighing party to Jew cit City Wednesday evening, chaper- oned by Principal and Mrs. w. E. Can field.
 The men who have been putting lightning arresters on the 75,00O tele-' phones of the S. N. F.. Telephone com pany in Connecticut, have reached AIiddletown in their rounds. | The New York. New Haven & Hart | ford railroad reports the loss of four quarterly passes numbered 501S, 6029, S444 and 15505. Conductors have been ordered not to accept these passes for transportation.
 Take your laundry to O. K. George, AS Franklin street. if you want to get good work. All done by hand; nothing used to ruin clothes.-adv. Select Templars are busy preparing for the entertainment of the Select | Templars of the state at Temple of Honor hall. in Portland, Conn.,. New Years day. About forty are expected from out of town.
 Local people who attended the North A T bration learn that not only are all bills paid, but the town finds itself with a balance of $L5Oo, and believes it has made a record in this respect. Horace Johnson of Haddam sends word that the snow storm of Satur- day night last is the heaviest booked for this winter There will be a few other scorms, but the coming snow falls will be light compared with the recent near blizzard. Some of the most cheery and hope ful messages for the New Year are found in the writings of the late Dan- iel Colt Gilman, honored president of Johns Hopkins university. and several of these, on daintily Illuminated cards aAS 5ESdlAF PIlzIu Dg tAoSc Nho IG- ceive them.
 The Fishers island station, of which Capt. Edward P. Sisson is in command, reports that in the past year there have been ten cases where the aid of the station was required The first was on February 4. In all forty-three lives were imperilled and none of them was lost. The prospect of more snow is caus- ing the railroad officials some worry They now have the situation caused by the last storm well under control and they fear that a storm even ap- preaching the last in severity would undo all their work and make condi- tions worse than they were early in the week.
 The American School Peace league offers two sets of prizes on matters touching peace, to be known as the Seabury prizes, the first set open to seniors in the normal schools of the United States and the second to seniors in the preparatory schools in the United Sattes. Three prizes of $75. $50 and $25 will be given for the three best essays in each set.
 Of interest to Thompson friends is the following from Thursdays Prov idence Journal: Mrs. William W. Flint will accompany Mrs Emma Shaw Colcleugh on cruise to South America, sailing from New York on the Butcher on January 22, and visit ing the West Indies, Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine republic and Chili. as far south as the straits of Magellan, with a probable trip across the An des to Santiago.
 Taking Bar Examinations.