Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-28
PERSONS TALKED ABOUT

PERSONS TALKED AbUUl
 pr. Daniel K. Parsons, who has all ready given away $4,000,000 has de- cided to part with his last million be- fore the 14th of April next when he expects to celebrate his 90th birthday anniversary. He will keep only suf- ficient money to pay his frugal way for the few years longer that he ex- poets to live.
 Announcement iss made that Lawyer Sherman L. Whipple of Boston has given $30,000 to the erection of new dormitory for girls at Colby acade my, New London, N. H., and Mrs. Su- san Colby Colgate, widow of the head of the well known soap factory, has donated s60,000 for new academy building.
 J.F. Boarcher of Lawrenceburg, Ind, expects his guests to be careful in re- spect to table manners The other day he invited T. F. Ritzie to dine at his home. Ritze accidentally turned over a cup of coffee, and when he resented reproval by his host the latter shot him five times. He was taken to a hospital and Boarcher escaped.
 Miss Mary Harriman will be the greatest woman farmer in the United States, as it is understood. by fam fly arrangement, she is to take charge of Arden and all the improvements going on. She has already taken up the task. The Arden farms include 14,900 acres, while altogether she will have supervision of 3s.000 acres.
 
 Thomas Harmer. famed as the old est stagedriver in the United States, who on July l retired from driving stage at Pierce Corners, Macomb, has again been seized with a desire to continue his old occupation. and says that he is going to again take up the business of driving stage, says The Canton (N. Y.) Plain Dealer.
 Benjamin F. Shaw, fine old gen. tleman who died at Dixon. H., recent ly. was one of the delegates to the Bloomington convention which brought the republican party into being in the state of Abraham Lincoln. He set tied In Dixon in 1851 and had been editor of The Daily Telegraph there since 1871. He had been a member of the state canal commission since 1870.
  active part in the meeting in Wash ington this month to promote plans for the building of a clubhouse for working women. Miss Anne Morgan. daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, is one of the chief movers in the enterprise, working in company with Mrs Long worth and Mrs. Richard Wainwright.
 Henry Savage Landor, the English explorer who will soon make an at tempt to reach the South Pole, is of the opinion that Lieut.. Shackleton failed through having a cumbersome and unnecessarily large expedition. Mir Landor's theory is that a small lightly equipped, like his expedition through Asia and Africa. is best.
 Thomas Acheson of Pittsburg, for mer Canadian soldier. who fought with the Jerth Rifles during the Fenian raids and Indian wars in Canara. from 1865 to 1870, claims 130 acres of land or ice surrounding the north pole. Acheson declares that he received his grant from the Canadian government in recognition of his services as a bug Ter.
 Professor Gierke of the department of law of the University of Berlin has arrived in New York on his way to Cam bridge, where he will represent his university at the induction of Prof A. Lawrence Lowell as president of Harvard university Dr. Gierke will deliver several lectures at Harvard and later will lecture at Columbia univer- sity.