Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-09
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 The numerous gardeners of New London are preparing to organize horticultural society.
 Fishermen in and about, wequete- quock find silver hake and smelts run ming in large schools the entire length of the cove.
 The rain which began Monday eve- ming may mean the long-delayed fill- ing up of brooks and ponds, and the, advent of cooler weather.
 In Tuesdays election Fishers is- land went democratic. Only 20 votes were cast, nine democratic votes and seven republican. the other four scat tering.
 Employees of the street department were about Monday morning burning the leaves in the streets. In the last day or two the leaves have fallen in showers.
 The Italians of Connecticut will hold their state gathering on Columbus day in Waterbury in 1910. The Meriden sons of Italy expected the celebration would be held there.
 Dr. Frank E. Card, son of E. A. Card of Groton, died Sunday at his home, 15 Pike street, Providence. Dr. Card was 4S years of age, and leaves widow and two children. He was born in Sterling.
 Members of Robert Emmet clubs in Connecticut will celebrate on Monday evening, November 20. the fortyssec- ond anniversary of the execution of the Manchester martyrs, Allen, Lar kin and O'Brien.
 In some Connecticut towns the au- thorities have stopped the burning of leaves in the gutters, declaring that the heat cracked the curbing and that the smoke was unhealthful for people passing on the walks.
 Governor Weeks has received an in- vitation from the Boston chamber of commerce to take a trip to Chicago with the other governors of New Eng land, December to 5. Governor Weeks will accept but the staff will not be included in the junlxet.
 The lobster season, which has prac- tically closed, was above the average. The shore fishermen are now catching blackfish. nearly all of which are be- ing kept alive, that they may be taken n.,r k1 t,, time for the Jewish holidays. Z
 The Rev. w. T. Thayer of Norwich delivered an address at the meeting of the Mems Social union in the lec- ture rooms of the First Baptist church at Waterbury, at 7.3o o'clock Monday evening. The committee had arranged a special musical programme.
 A New London paper says: Daniel s. Marsh, Jr, Ira S. Comstock and Charles Hurlbut of this city are camp ed on the banks of Cedar lake, near Norwich, where they are subsisting on the merits of their good craftsmanship and their skill as disciples of Isaac Walton.
 As the evangelistic praise service in the Central fBaptist church was beginning Monday evening. local minister inquired of small boy who was on the steps, Don't you want to come in?" The reply came like flash: Moo! I ain't got my best clothes on!"
 The White Ribbon Banner states that the international Sunday school temperance committee has issued dou- ble pledge cards against the liquor and cigarette habits, and announce that during the year temperance Sundays will be held, when work specially de- voted to the reform against the paper pipe will be leading topics.
 Eben Learned, tenor and director of the church quartette, sang Long fellows Silent Land arranged by A. Clarke Lippitt of this city, at the evening service in the Second church Sunday. The artistic work of Mr. Learned indicated that the composer had turned out an exceptionally pleas ing medium for the stanzas of the poet.-NeW London Telegraph.
 A vendor of shoestrings gathered in many a nickel on Monday by gravely declaring to merchants that he was Dr. Cook, that his Esquimaux were down the Thames and had lost their only spoon through the ice, and that the lacings were being sold to buy new spoon. The fakir's nerve and glib ness won him many customers who smiled at the audacity of his story.
 From the state the Storrs college trustees at present receive for the col lege proper s25,0oo and for Storrs experiment station $1,S00 a year. From the national government it has the following fixed income annually: Un- der the land-grant act of 1862, $6,750; under the Morrill, and Nelson acts, $35,000, an amount to be increased $5,000 year until payable at the rate of $50,000 per annum; and under the Hatch act of 1887, providing for agri-