Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-01-22

Otle Du(leGirr.
Norwich, Friday. Jan. p, 1909.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Wells are filling up.
Time for daffodil sales.
Yesterday was St. Agnes day.
The new moon was due Thursday,
the 21st.
Frank E. Thompson, "a, who died
at Central Village, Thursday. has a
number of relatives in Norwich.
Special Blue Mouse" matinee for
ladies and children at the Broadway,
this Saturday. Prices 25c to $1.-adv.
Carpenters are making progress
erecting the new cottage for A. c. Full
Ter of Post Hill place at Best View.
In some places, pleasure seekers who
were out on runners had their JOY ride
ended by the thaw, on Thursday, and
were glad to return to wheels.
I'll,
has been occupying the handsome
Knowles cottage at Best View, Quaker
Hill, has gone to New York city for
two months.
The second annual dinner Of the
Connecticut hat statesmen who sell felt
or straw hats from the factory direct
to the retail trade. was held in New
York Wednesday evening.
Old soldiers remembered that Tues
day was not only the birthday Of Poe,
of the birth Of Robert z. Lee, the ia
nous confederate general
Choice Mystic split cells, also fresh
fish, received today at Powers Bros.
Prompt delivery. Your dinner on time
if you give US your order.-adv.
The ministers conference of the
New England district Of the Missouri
synod of the German Lutheran church
has been in session this week at the
German Lutheran church In Danbury.
Members Of Trinity Episcopal church
ment in the Putnam news that Mrs.
Welcome H. Browning Of Packerville,
has made a bequest to the Norwich
church.
Comptroller Bradstreet sent to Gov
ernor Lilley this week an abstract Of
the reports of treasurers Of savings
banks as to unclaimed deposits of 20
years standing, the amount of such
deposits being s125,111.ss.
At the annual meeting of the state
temperance union in Hartford this
week. It was recommended that the
clergy of the Roman Catholic church
should be ex-oficio members of the
union, If they were not already in
cluded in the term ministers"
A singular feature about the Chi
nese New Year is the fact that it is
everybody's birthday. the Chinese dat
ing their ages from that day. Though
a child be born twenty-four hours be-
fore New Years, it is considered after
that day to be IN its second year.
To commemorate the one hundredth
anniversary Of the birth Of Lincoln
one hundred new two-cent postage
stamps will be issued on or before
February IL next. The new issue was
provided for by joint resolution Of con-
gress. The design comprises the por-
trait OF Lincoln.
II the government engineers carry
out the recommendations Of their last
report, the following sums will be used
by them In Connecticut: For New
London harbor $4,000; Thames river,
$500; Connecticut river below Hart
ford, $40, 900; Branford harbor. $4,000:
New Haven, $4,000; Milford, $1,000;
Bridgeport $4,000; Norwalk, $4,000.
OF the state commission on sculp-
ture, Henry Farnam, Charles Noel
F1agg, Arthur L. Shipman, Burton
Mansfield and 3. Perrin. the terms of
Messrs. Farnam and Mansfield expire
July 1, 1909, necessitating appoint
ments by the legislature. and the va
cancy caused by the death Of Kirk H
Leavens Of Norwich, whose term was
to July l, 1913, must be filled.