Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-27

The benches have been taken from the parks and stored in the city barn for the winter.
 Manager Jackson's Clara Turner Go. is playing to good business in Mid dletown this week.
 Thursday, St. Simon and St. Jude's day, there will be special services in the Episcopal churches.
 Merchants state that there is al- ready considerable shopping with ref erence to the holidays.
 Friends of the Maine hunters are enjoying game dinners, as the first venison of the season reaches town.
 Owners of kitchen gardens have harvested their small crops, and are putting their yards in condition for the winter.
 The office of the board of assessors will be open from s.15 to p. m., Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday, and No- vember 1.-adv.
 The Baptist state evangelist, Rev. c. K. Flanders, is now in Bridgeport, conducting special meetings at the Memorial Baptist church.
 AS All Hallows' cen. October 31, comes this year on Sunday, the social events will have to be arranged for the previous Saturday evening.
 There has just been published for the state the special acts of the 1909 session and the copies are now in the hands of the secretary of the state.
 Miss Virginia Leveque and Paul De- mars of Uncasville, who have been seriously ill with typhoid fever, are now recovering slowly. No more cases have developed.
 The state reformatory commission is seeking a suitable site for that in- stitution, requiring from 25O to 1000 acres of land, accessible, and with good water supply.
 Washington- Sunset route to Cali fornia-Tourist sleeping car four times weekly without change. Per sonally conducted. Berth, $S.5o. 17o- 22S Washington street, Boston.-adv.
 Sheriff William B. Sprague of Tol- land county took Joseph Labach to the state prison at Wethersfield Mon day. Labach is sentenced to between one and three years, having been con- victed of theft from the person.
 Hunters in western Connecticut agree that the scarcity of game is as great as last year. Rarely is there a covey of quail found and partridge are wild and also exceedingly scarce. Squirrels and rabbits are plentiful.
 Today October 27, is the Ssth birth day of Rev. Joseph P. Brown, the Baptist clergyman of New London who for many years was pastor in Moosup. and represented the town of Plainfeld in the legislature in 1865.
 The work which has been going on at Fairview Odd Fellows home for several months is almost completed by the contractors. Two tanks have been put into place, a large building has been erected and minor improve ments made.
 At Holland. there were no services in either of the churches Sunday and the Hicks Memorial school is closed for week on account of the scarlet | fever scare. There are four houses quarantined at present, with one pa tient in each.
 Highway Commissioner James H. l Macdonald. has gone to Columbus, O., | to attend a good roads convention | there. He will make an address on | Connecticut Highways. Clinton G. Nichols of the highway commissioners | office accompanied him.
 The New England Hotel Mems | association will have meeting and | dinner at the Allyn house, Hartford, | Friday, as the guests of Manager John J. Dahill. It is expected that twenty | or twenty-five hotel men from vari- | ous New England cities will be pres ent.
 Among the latest publications is the autumn list of books printed in the | NeW 1OFh Times reVleW, mention IS made of a novel by Jessie H. Childs, | "The Sea of Matrimony" Mrs. | Childs was formerly of Norwich and | local friends will be interested in her first attempt as an author.
 At the state bricklayers and masons' | convention in Meriden, Monday and Tuesday, it was stated that there is no difficulty between the unions and employers in any part of the state as regards wages or hours and the af- fairs of the state conference are in excellent condition. Local No. 132, Norwich, was represented by Henry Gee, and No. 26 by James Kellas.
 Winifred Madeline Lytle, a chorus girl who appeared in this city in "A Stubborn Cinderella" a fortnight ago, has brought suit for divorce from her husband. a theatrical man, alleging that he was married when he welded her. The girl was Winnifred Brennan of New Haven. She was married three years ago, when she was en- gagged at a trolley park at Danbury. Lytle deserted both wives.
 
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