Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-26

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Norwich. Friday Feb. 20, 1909.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Almanac day for March.
The snow shovel may DO duty yet
The days length has increased two
hours.
Milliners for the new season are ar
/ irving in town.
March appears to have arrived ahead
Of schedule time.
Every farmer with low land now has
his own reservoir.
A lively caterpillar was noticed on
Church street Thursday.
Yesterday was tedious for those
obliged to drive any distance.
Most Of the whist clubs have sus-
| pended meetings during Lent.
Hens are beginning to lay and the
price Of eggs is slightly lower
Poultry raisers have begun to stock
up the incubators for the steam hatch.
The pastors conference Of the do
oese of Hartford viii be held next
Tuesday,
Colonial supper and entertainment
tonight, 6.15, at Central Baptist church
25c.-adv.
Foresters are advising early spray
ing Of elms to make up for last falls
neglect to combat the beetles.
The annual sessions Of the Eastern
Swedish Methodist conference viii be
held in Worcester April Is to Is, in
elusive.
II you enjoy good music and desire
good time, attend the ball in the
Armory, st. Patricks night, to be held
by Div 2, A. o. H.-adv,
The boat which the Fsrgusons are
building at GrotoR for Charles L.
Hubbard Of Norwich is sailboat Of
ordinary dimensions. for summer use.
The twenty-nrst annual social and
ball of Div. NO. 2. A. 0. H.. on st.
Patrick's night, in the Armory viii be
the grandest ever given by that soci-
ety.-adv.
Charles McMoran, 81. Tor years an
engineer on the Central Vermont rail-
road. died at his home Thursday in
New London. He had been in poor
health for some time
To be had free at The Bulletin
business office: Report Of special
commission appointed to investigate
tuberculosis. Every citizen interested
should call and get one.
Congregational churches IN several
Connecticut cities participated on
Tuesday in the joint missionary cam
paign, held in 200 other Congregation
al csnters throughout the world.
There are q few cases Of measles
among local children but the city has
Jared better than many others in
which schools have had to be closed
because Of the prevalence Of the NAL
ady.
Copies Of the reports of the thirty
eighth annual reunion of the Connec-
ticut Masonic Veterans association
have been received. BY the report the
total membership Of the association is
about 900.
Tuesday afternoon in the library Of
Berkeley divinity school, Middletown.
Gardiner Greene Of Norwich. a trus-
tee of the school, gave an interesting
and instructive lecture to the student
body on Legal Enactments.
Owing to dullness in the freight de-
partment Of the New Haven road in
New London, two yard brakemen
have been laid off temporarily. In
great degree this condition is brought
about by the Norwich line steamers |
running out Of stonington.
Fifty New London teachers met on
Wednesday and by a unanimous vote |
expressed approval Of the bill before
the legislature at Hartford. which |
provides for the pensioning OF teach |
ers who have seen 80 years Of serv-
ice, the last Is Of which were spent in
this state.
Thursday was the birthday of Rev.
Micah Jones Talbot now Of Provi- |
dence, who was born February %. /
1921, in East Machias. Me. He is the |
Oldest living member Of the New Eng /
land Southern conference Of the Meth /
odist Episcopal church and has been
presiding elder OF the New Bedford |
and Providence districts for u years
at intervals.
UNDER $500 BONDS.
8. n. Thrsshsr Has Case Continued !
Until Monday.
S. H. Thresher Of Norwich was ar