Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-02
Che 8ullfti1r.
VARIOUS MATTERS.


Norwich, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1903.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Will the grounding see his shadow
today?
The boys are finding the coasting ex-
oellent.
The Jingle of sleighbells is becoming
a familiar sound.
Ice dealers hope that Jack Frost has
come to stay while.
After-inventory sales are attracting
many buyers to town
During February. Venus, Mars and
Uranus are all morning stars.
st. James lodge. No. %. works the
Nj. Nj. degree this evening.-adv.
The selectmen had many calls for
aid as a result of the storm and cold.
There are many tramps, during the
intense cold, and many calls for food.
The man with the diminishing coal
pile hopes that winter Is more than
half over.
Plans are being formulated for state
German day, which is to be held in
| New Haven on August is.
A peddler who would drive cart
load Of sand about the streets. during
this time of icy walks, ought to find
many customers.
Mercury at 5 degrees or 8 degrees,
as on Monday morning, makes the
farmers repeat the old saw, winter
never rots in the skyl"
The famous travelling canoe Of the
state Red Men was turned over to the
Naugatuck Red Men by Kehow tribe
of Winsted Saturday evening.
H. M. Newbury Of the navy yard,
! employed as chief engineer, was strick-
! en- suddenly with illness Saturday aft
| ernoon and was removed to his home.
Musical organizations will hold cell
| ebrations Wednesday in honor OF the
| one hundredth anniversary of the birth
| Of Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy, the
famous German composer.
Connecticut Railway & Lighting
| transfer books close on Saturday for
| the usual quarterly dividend of 1 per
| cent. payable on the common and pre-
| ferred stocks on February Is.
OF local interest is the following an
| nouncement in Mondays Bridgeport
| Telegram: Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Ken
Won announce the engagement of their
daughter. Arretta Ruth. to Frederick
| Charles Taylor.
The annual convention of the Stats
Verbund of the German alliance was
| held in Saengerbund hall in Meriden
on Sunday afternoon. The session was
attended by forty delegates from the
various societies in the state.
Detectives from New York city have
been and are still busy about parts
Of this state working on a series Of
! yeggmen visits paid to places in the
metropolis different parts of New York
state, and also several towns and cities
of Connecticut.
| Can you sleep comfortably, these cold
nights, remembering unused bedding,
old blankets, quilts. etc, which might
do good for the poor. Telephone. or
send postal card to United Workers.
They have calls. and urgent ones, for
supplies which you are keeping for
the moths.-adv.
A special train on the c. v. road
from Palmer Sunday afternoon brought
down 81 recruits from the United
States army barracks at Columbus
Ohio, bound for Fort Trumbull, to
join the 1920 company There are now
ITO men at Fort Trumbull.
A nationwide campaign to raise the
free-wir offering Of $1,5OOOO0 for mis-
sions, which the Northern Baptist con-
vention has set before the Baptist de-
nomination In the northern half OF the
country as the great work to be done
by the church this year, was inaugur-
ated in Providence on Sunday.
Jupiter continues throughout the
month to be conspicuous in the east
ern part Of the constellation Leo. He
rises about 8 p. m at the beginning oil
the month, and crosses the meridian
about 3 a. m. He is always a splen-
did telescope object, and his colored
belts and rapidly moving moons are
sources Of unending interest for the OBJ
| server.
Davis Petition Granted.
The petition Of Herbert S. Davis, the
/ former stock broker of this city for 9
| discharge from bankruptcy, has beer
granted by Amos A. Browning, referee