Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-15
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Norwich. Friday, Jan. IS, 1909.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Ice creepers are in demand.
The shovel brigade put in a busy
day.
This will delay the coming Of the
bluebirds.
Blacksmiths are having their har-
vest season.
Corporations are fling their annual
reports with town clerks.
The just as well as the wicked stood
in slippery places on Thursday.
So many days of cloudy weather are
the despair of photographers and for
lists.
High winds and rough seas drove
craft to shelter in the shore ports on
Thursday.
Storms like Thursdays delight the
rubber men, who have had a dull sea-
son so far.
Best play yet, The Man From Mon
tana, at Spiritual academy tonight;
only rs cents.-adv.
A few walks are sanded; but the
negligent property owner, like the
poor, we have always with us.
The picture on the cover page Of
the the January Connecticut Citizen IS
that Of Editor H. II. Spooner of Ken
sington.
The annual meeting Of the Connecti-
cut Temperance union is to be held at
426 Asylum street. Hartford. on Tues
day, January 10.
Thursday, Jan. 2s, annual military
ball Of 3D. Co.. formerly Co. A. Salem
Cadet band. Tickets on sale at Stei-
uer's pharmacy.-adv.
Where local residents have adobted
the southern custom Of banking piaz-
zas and porches with cedar trees, the
effect is very CHEEKY after a snowfall.
Many Norwich friends will read with
sadness the death notice in the Jew
EFT City news of Mrs. Josiah Brown,
a former efficient matron Of the county
home.
TbursdarySo "a fboTfn ~
(Hartford) stated that a cablegram
had been received from Cardinal Mer-
ry del Val expressing the gratitude Of
Poe Leo for the contributions Of the
Catholics Of the Connecticut diocese
for the Italian sufferers, a total of 49,
473.53.
A Waterbury exchange claims that
the New Haven road plans to do prac-
tically all Of its car repair work in
the state Of Connecticut here in Wa
terbury. which means that the 500
skilled mechanics and their families
will be added to the city's growing
population.
The new Scent stamps have been
received. These are also green and
closely resemble tho new 2-cent
stamps barring an engraving Of George
Washington instead Of Martha Wash
ington as formerly. The stamps were
formerly steel colored with very diff
ferent design.
A Torrington cores ondent writes:
During the year 1908 there were 1875
marriages in Torrington. OF this num-
Der, sixtyfour, nearly one-haIf, were
performed by Catholic clergymen. The
Rev. Father Joseph King, one Of the
assistants at St. Francis church, led
all the others with thirty-six.
A meeting in memory Of the late F.
c. stedman, poet and critic, was held
in Carnegie lyceum, New York, We'd
nesday afternoon and was attended by
$50 persons. The platform was ar
ranged to represent the poets study
and his laureled portrait was conspicu-
Gus. r. W. Glider the poet, presided.
The fish and game commissioners
have between two hundred and three
hundred pairs Of Hungarian partridg-
es on the way across the Atlantic and
expect that the birds will be received
in the state next week. They will be
liberated all over the statRsin groups
of about twenty pairs. Fatorable re-
ports have been received of the birds
liberated earlier.