Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-08
Oile 9u(lfti,l. Norwich, Monday, Nov. 8, 1909,
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich, Monuay, NOV. Q, iSoS' VARIOUS MATTERS Christmas is less than seven weeks away. =
 Neosha club whist, F'oresters' hail. tonight.-adv.
 An addition with veranda. has been
 biult to the Hilton house on Union street. Beginning tonight, the evangelistic meetings are changed from the armory to the Central Baptist church,-adv.
 Many of the holiday toys have ref erence to the polar discoveries and Arctic conditions.
 Yesterday was a beautiful day for Communion Sunday and the church services were largely attended. Schooner Irene weservey has been lowed down the river from Norwich, where she has been loading cord wood for E. 1T. Card. She will finish load ing at his dock in Groton.
 Rev Frank Palmer of Norwich oc- cupied the Congregational pulpit at Scotland last week Sunday in the absence of the pastor, who was in New Britain to deliver a lecture there Sunday evening.
 Come and hear pr. Slough at the Central Baptist church on Card Play ing.-adv.
 At the preachers meeting in Moos- up Methodist church Tuesday, Rev. J. H. Newland of Norwich, will speak on Iowa. at the dinner at noon. Mrs. Newland will read paper on Citizen ship for Women"
 There is local interest in the an- nouncement that Saturday was the 6Sth birthday of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich fRhode Island. Senator AL drich, married a daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Francis Chapman of Preston.
 The winter street Car schedule for Ocean beach will go into effect today (Monday). The first car will leave at 715. The other cars through to Nep- tune park during the day will be at 1915 a. m., 2.15, 4.15, 7.15, and the last car at 11.15.-adv. Men were elected into three secret societies at Trinity college, Hartford, at the annual fall initiation, Friday night. One of the students honored by election to Psi Upsilon is Thomas c. Brown, son Of the Rev. and Mrs. J. Eldred Brown of Norwich. About twenty of the monument dealers of the state met in. Hartford Saturday and perfected organization ! of an association to be known as the | Retail Monument Dealers association of Connecticut. Herbert D. Burnham of Hartford was elected president. -
 Highway Commissioner James H.
 Macdonald and his private secretary, | Clinton C.. Nichols, are confined to
 their homes by severe colds. The
 commissioner is at his home in New
 Haven and Mr. Nichols at his in South
 Manchester. Mr. Nichols cold has de- veloped into tonsilitis.
 Saturdays New London Telegraph said: At the Second Congregational church Sunday morning Eben Learned, director of the qnartette, will sing as tenor solo one of the compositions of A. Clarke Lippitt of Norwich. Mir. Learned, whose home is in Norwich, is a friend of the composer. Tvt-opoa1futio r,aaaffyorc Fro,,,
 the armory to the Central Baptist
 church tonight.-adv. N
 The Connecticut local assembly of | the Brotherhood of StAndrew will hold l it's annual convention in Hartford,
 Saturday and Sunday, November 13
 and IA. Headquarters will be at tChrist church, but meetings will be held also at Trinity church and the
 Church of the Good Shepherd. | William Torry Harris, former Unit ed States commissioner of education, died in Providence Friday in the 74th year of his age. He was born in North
 Kiliingly, Conn, where in 1858 he mar
 ried Miss Sarah T. Bugbee of North | Killingly. Two children, Theodore and
 Edith D., and the widow survive him.
 Foresters advise watching out. for | the maple tree borer now. The borer | leaves a hole as big as a lead pencil at the upper part of the trunk. The insect may be easily destroyed by in- sert in the hole wire or filling it
 with kerosene oil, after which it should
 be plugged with putty or some other substance.
 The members of the Art school gave
 an enjoyable dance in the Converse
 art gallery Saturday evening. One of the pleasant features of the evening
 was the auctioning of the gaily trim med baskets containing the luncheons l which the different members had | brought, each basket containing | enough for two.
 Mme. Lillian Eordica lost in her
 suit. to break the will of the late Airs. 1 Allen, widow of John Allen, a former 1 principal of Broadway school. Mme. | Nordico tho other 4.