Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-27

Springs are filing UP since the rain.
but wells show little signs of improve
ment.
Horsemen from this vicinity will be
at Great harrington this week. for the
big fair.
At Waterbury, on the line Of the
Montville trolley, the barberry bushes
hang heavy with scarlet berries.
Fall time tables covering the New
| Haven roads changes will be placed
in the hands of agents October l.
Neosha club whist tonight at For
| esters' halliday.
YESTERDAY. the seventeenth Sunday
after Pentecost, was the fest of ST.
| Cyprian and st. Justina of Antioch.
Connecticut lodges of the Order of
vasa are taking action upon the death
| of Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota.
Amateur astronomers, who had
| hoped to get view OF the big spot
on the sun. were disappointed by Sun
days cloudy weather.
Owners of old prints Of the Cler-
| mont. or OF maps and views in and
about old New Amsterdam, are bring
ing them proudly to the front just
| now.
Hudson Fulton celebration. Take
steamer Chelsea to New York. Fare
| $1.O0.-adv.
John Cox, who was injured several
| weeks ago by rall of about 20 feet
| down the shaft of the new Shannon
building, is able to be on the street
again.
The equinoctial storm seems to come
within the limits OF Horace Johnson's
| prediction Of serious disturbance"
some time between the 22d and 9th
\ of the month.
New York visitors, writing home,
express the wish that the weather dur
ing the Hudson Fulton celebration
| were as fine as during the recent Nor
witch anniversary.
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sing tonight at the Hudson Fulton cell
ebration and at Broadway theatef De-
tober 6 for Mrs. Merrill's benefit con-
| cert.-adv.
Mrs. Simon Bailey, aged Y, died
Saturday morning at o'clock at her
home in Gales Ferry. Mrs. Bailey
had been in III health for some time.
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Visitors to New London during the
fortnight have noticed fine portrait
in oil of Waterman r. Burnham on
view in a State street show window.
The portrait is by a Norwich artist.
Joseph Francis Wicks, for many
years a leading manufacturer of Wor-
cester, died Saturday in his home, %
Benefit street, aged SO. The funeral
was private, and burial was in Rock
vile.
At the Groton Baptist church Sun
day evening there was a special meet
ing of the Temperance union. The
principal speaker was e. A. Smith of
Norwich, who delivered an address en-
titled The Price Of Victory.
The New York Sunday World gave
a list Of forty Greenwich women who
on Saturday were sworn in as elee-
tors for the coming school election.
In the list was Mrs. Florence Bill
Selden, formerly Of Norwich.
A Moosup correspondent writes:
Hon. Floyd Cranska received pleas
ant surprise Sept. 10th on his sixtieth
birthday when his overseers and en-
ployes presented him a beautiful mar
BILE clock in testimony of their good
will
The state library has received a
copy Of new genealogy of the Hook
err family, called "The Descendants Of
Rev. Thomas Hooker, 15s6-190S" by
Commander Edward Hooker, u. S. N,
edited by Margaret Huntington Hook
er of Rochester, N. Y.
Saturday, at Wallingfofd, Grand
Masters day at the Masonic home, was
also the fourteenth anniversary of
the home. The committees for the day
included: General, Justin Holden, of
Norwich; reception, George L. Chat
fee, New London; Harold G. Wig
gins, Willimantic.
To keep game birds from starvation
this winter there Is a project to place
in different locations a bundle Of rye
straw which is secured In en- upright
position in districts freduented by
quail and containing grain buckwheat,
oats, millet and cracked corn. The
bundle is so placed that the birds can
find the feed in all kinds Of weather
In a number of the larger cities of
the state. it is the intention of the Of
ficers of the Tierney guards to instruct
the companies in new parade forma-
lions before october IL, Columbus day.
on which day the cadets will appear in
the great Knights of Columbus pa
rade in honor Of the first commence
ration Of Columbus day in Connecti-
cut.
The education committee of the
General Federation Of wonen's Clubs
has offered scholarship ST $500, to
be held at either oxford Cambridge or
London university for the year be-
ginning October, 1910, to be awarded
to an American woman by the Gener-
al Federation. The scholar is to be
selected among the graduates Of Am
erican colleges Of good Standing.
To Commence on Macadam.
The first step towards building the