Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-05

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PERSONS TALKED ABOUT.
Miss Laura .Knarr died of consurnp-
4 tion in Thevorton, Pa, making the
fourth member of Joseph knarr's ran-
lily to expire from tuberculosis within
eighteen days.
Mrs. Catherine Lent Stevenson, pres
ident of the Worlds Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union, is touring IN
| China, where her work is SAID 10 pc
highly approved. .
Charles Siegler, better known as
Father" Siegler, and Familiarity REFER
red to as the best man in NasnVile,
Ill.," has retired from active service
as locksmith after fifty years appn-
cation at his trade.
Mrs. Joseph Nowalski, who lives
near Vincennes, Ind, drove reaper al
night and completed the cutting OF ten
acres of wheat which she had begun IN
the afternoon. Her husband had be-
come suddenly ill and had to leave. on
the work.
Former Governor Folk of Missouri
| has returned to st. Louis from lee
ture tour of three months, during
which he covered more than 25,OoO
miles. delivered 80 lectures and made
more than 10000. He acted as ms
own manager.
Elizabeth Diefendorf, a wealthy
spinster of good family, died at her
home, Fort Plain, N. Y. at the age of
n years. Fifty years ago she closed
her house to her many friends and up
to the time of her death was seldom
seen even by her neighbors. j.
Because the selectmen of Stock
bridge, Mass, refuse to stop the ring-
ing of the chimes every evening at 6
o'clock. and disturbed her meditations.
Miss Emily Tuckerman, wealthy
Washington woman, there for the
summer, has gone to Europe.
Mrs. Ann E. Gridley has resigned her
place in the general land office after
service of nearly thirty years. Mrs.
Gridley has just completed her eighty
third year. She gave valuable service
during the last year of the Civil war,
in which two of her sons served.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg of Fond du
Lac is the only surviving general of
the Iron brigade" which received it's
title from General Grant for its abb
solute fearlessness in time of battle
in the civil war. He will be in Mill
waukee during homecoming week.
Believing that it is the duty of every
unattached and sensible woman of 30
years to select d young husband and
bring him up and mold him to her
ideals. Mrs. Myra YerXa, a comely Bay
State widow, has gone to Cleveland to
become the bride of 22 year old Herbert
Fowler.
Grant NJ. Overton, a young news
paper man, shipped as an ordinary
seaman aboard the British ship Way
farer, which sailed on Saturday from
San Francisco for England. The trip
will take five months, and Overton eX-
poets to learn lot of things about
sailors life.
Viscount Portman has finished his
fifty-first season as master of the pack
of hounds which bears his name. Lord
Portman is very rich and his magnifi-
cent seat of Bryanston, in Dorset, was
entirely rebuilt on such scale that
there are said to be sitting rooms even
for the scullery maids
William +. Willoughby, who recently
accepted the post of assistant director
of the census. has arrived in New YORK
from Porto Rico, where he has been
since 1901, first as treasurer, then as
secretary of state. Since 1907 he had
been president of the executive council
in the legislative assembly.
Mrs. Louise Alters, class of '8S, We'll
lesley college, has been chosen general
Of Ia
association. The Office is a new one,
being rendered necessary by the large
membership of the association. Mrs.
Ahlers has been for the last year or so
connected with the college administra-
ton.
Private ]. NJ. Dalzel of Ohio, who
has had an extensive. correspondence
during his long life with presidents,
etc. finds it desirable to dispose of his
highly valuable collection of auto
graphs. The autographs are not
merely signatures, but in many cases
letters of greater or less length.
1t is said that the son and name
sake of Rev. Samuel Francis Smith,
author of the national hymn, "Ameriz |
ca" has been for five years serving a
charges involving various degrees of |
as trustee of several es-
tate. His pardon has. now been rec |
to Governor Carroll by the |
board of pardons.
Eugene Clarke long known as a |
leading tenor with Clara Louise Kei-
lOgg. died in New York from diabetes |
He was 81 years old. Mr. Clarke ap-
peared in the original production of |
"Pinafore" as the Captain. with Thorn
as Whiffen as the Admiral under the
of William Henderson,. At |
the time of his death he was connect
ed with the tenement house commits /
sion.
Phe will of Josefa Jabat de Santos |
Suarez, otherwise known as Josefa |
Jabat Magallon. Marchioness of |
of Spain. who died at |
Madrid on Nov. IS. 1908, leaving a |
large estate, was filed in the surro. |
gates Office in New York city The |
reason for filing the will there was |
that the marchioness left personal |
in that state valued at about |
$165,0O0.
BOARDMAN REQUEST.