Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-25

I HIS 4S ots SA4oPAAA o0St Re-eA~A~ VA shoemakers.
 Dead leaves on wet walks make a bad combination.
 Farmers are raking up leaves for winter bedding for their stock.
 There were numerous weekend parties to shore cottages and bunga- lows.
 There is unmistakable evidence that l the American polecat is abroad every | night, on his prowl for chickens. Many visitors improved the advan- tages of the Otis library reading room Sunday afternoon. Miss Weldon was i in charge.
 The ride to Boston, either by train or trolley to Putnam, is most enjoy able now, as the foliage of the oaks was never finer.
 The office of the board of assessors l will be open from 9.15 to p. rn., Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday, and No- vember 1.-adv.
 l. The little granite block, to make an extra step for small children, has been set at the D. A. R. memorial fountain in the Little Plain.
 A number interested in the woman's suffrage movement in this city will go to Hartford this week to see and hear Mrs. Pankhurst, recently a martyr for the cause in England.
 The twenty seventh annual meeting of the Connecticut Valley Kindergar- ten association is to be held at the Henry Barnard school, Hartford, on Saturday, November 6.
 The state board of education is to hold examinations for candidates wishing to qualify for state teachers certificates next Friday and Saturday in the state capitol at Hartford.
 The Block Island steamer New Shoreham is now on winter schedule, leaving the island Mondays Wednes- days and Fridays, and sailing from Providence Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
 Of local interest is the announce ment that from October 27 to 31 the South Baptist church, Hartford, will celebrate it's seventy-fifth anniversary. Rev. Dr. E. S. Holloway is pastor of this church.
 The Shetucket river between Nor wich and Jewett City is positively desolate, so low is the water. Sun day mornings rain did not do much more than wash off the exposed rocks of the river bed.
 During the absence of Governor Weeks and Executive Secretary Charles A. Goodwin on the trip down the Mississippi river with President Taft and party, Hon. Isaac W. Brooks, president pro tempore of the senate, is acting governor.
 The collection of the military tax is to be made a special thing throughout the state, and every one will be in- cluded in the military tax. This tax will become payable in October. Here tofore'no one but property owners had | been assessed the military tax.
 When the business meeting of the | State Teachers association was held | in Meriden, resolutions were adopted | on the death of Supt. N. L. Bishop. l The new president, George H. Tracy | of Danbury, will name a committee 1 of three to continue the work of the | Teachers Annuity guild.
 At meeting of the State School | masters club, Thursday evening, at | the Hartford club, Supt. w. H. Hall of | the West Hartford schools gave a short eulogy of N. L. Bishop, super ] intendent of schools in Norwich and | one of the honored members of the | club at the time of his death.
  Yesterday, the twenty first Sunday | after Pentecost, the preacher at the | high mass in St. Patricks church was the Rev. F. l.. FitzPatrick, who, from | the days gospel, Matt xviii: 23-35, the l parable of the unjust steward, de- | duced salutary and convincing lessons on the topic of forgiveness of ene- mics. The offertory was an Ave Maria | sung by Roderick F. Sullivan.
 Red Cross Christmas stanrs will be delivered before the end of Novem- her. The society hopes to have 50,- 100000 stamps on sale by December IS. The design used on the stamp was selected from 1,200 samples submitted in contest conducted last May. Per- mission has been obtained by the Red Cross to sell these stamps in all of the postoffices of the United States.
 The funeral of Miss Myra J. Davis ", was held Saturday at Stamford When the Fitch home for soldiers or phans, now the soldiers home was established at Noroton during the civil war. she was it's principal anl matron. During a period when funds for the support of the home were slow in com ing, or not available, she used her own means, amounting to several thou sand dollars. to keep it going.