Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-30
Otle l1u(leti,s. Norwich, Thursday, Dec. 30, 1909.
VARIOUS MATTERS

The hills are getting worn down for | coasting.
 Coal piles have diminished during the past two days.
 The high steppers are out on the snow-covered roads daily.
 Fifty printed visiting cards for 25 cents at Bulletin office.-adv.
 Saturday, the feast of the Circum- cision. will be observed in the church. l es.
 The postoffice and the express offices still feel little of the Christmas rush.
 There will be number of private and fraternal gatherings on New Years evening.
 New Years day, a legal holiday, means closed banks and public libra ry.
 The snow has helped to move rub Der footwear off the shelves, and deal- CTS rejoice thereat.
 The store and office of the estate of Robert Brown will be closed all day Saturday-New Year's.-adv.
 The moon is making its last quar- ter run. and will not be new until the eleventh day of the New Year.
 MT. and Mrs. James Gibb and fam fly have moved from Waterford to Norwich where MT. Gibb has secured employment.
 The toy horse and wagon at Reid & Hughes is waiting for the holder of No. SSS to go and get it.-adv.
 There are the usual stories of sleighing mishaps, passengers being thrown out into high drifts, etc.
 Workers starting off early Wednes- day morning found the mercury down to zero, and even below that point.
 Eastern Point fared hard in the recent storm, and trouble men are finding much damage to wires and poles there
 The libraries have had calls this week for books pertaining to William Ewart Gladstone, whose hundredth birthday will come on Tuesday. He died in his S9th year.
 Governor Weeks has confirmed the nomination of Albert A. May. of Meri- den, by the department commander of Connecticut c. A. R., to be a mem Der of the soldiers hospital board for two years, from December '12.
 The stone cutters at Booth Bros granite company, Millstone, are un- able to work on account of the snow. The quarry is covered with about six inches of snow and it may be two weeks before work is resumed.
 Rev. J. J. Fitzgerald of Chester is being mentioned as the next president of the Connecticut Total Abstinence union. The convention will not be held until next fall, but 1t is said that Father Fitzgerald will succeed Rev. M. A. Sullivan of Hartford. a native of Colchester, as head of the C. T. A. U. when the time comes.
 Notice is given by the lighthouse board as follows: Fishers Island sound: Winter buoyage. December 10 the following named buoys were withdrawn for the winter and replaced by spar buoys similarly colored and numbered: Middle Ground west, 6. a second class nun. Ram Island reef, IA, a second class nun.
 On Tuesday the death occurred in Newark, N. J., of Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, aged over 90 years. Mrs. Bennett had resided with a sister in Newark. She was the widow of Mi- chael Bennett, a civil war veteran. One son John Bennett, an inmate of the Norwich State hospital at Brews- ter Neck, survives. The body is to be sent to New London for burial
 Mrs. Cornelius Thornton McGee died Tuesday while being taken from her home to the Hartford hospital in the ambulance. Mrs. McGee, who was one of the prominent temperance wo- men in the state was taken sick with pneumonia last Thursday night. She was the daughter of Thompson Strick- land and Matilda (Dickenson) Strick- land, and was born in Gilead sixty three years ago. BARD UNION co. BUYS