Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-29

VARIOUS MATTERS
 School bells will ring again thi' morning.
 Thieves are footing garages, public and private, throughout the state. Harvest social of Third Co.,, at Ar. mory, Thursday evening, Dec. 2.-adv Ponds and brooks were skinned over with ice, Saturday and Sunday mornings.
 Holiday stamps are beginning to ap- pear on letters and parcels coming through the mail.
 Roofs of freight cars coming from the north have been covered with snow for a day or two.
 Large and attractive line of Christ mas novelties at Miss Clapp,s sale to- day at Woman's Exchange.-adv.
 A book recently added to the Otis library shelves is 'In Starland with a Three-Inch Telescope" by W. Tyler Olcott of Norwich.
 The dredging plant which has beer at work at Allyns Point has finished and has been lowed down the river The dredge will go to Providence.
 The seventh meeting of the Connec- ticut Association of Public School Su- perintendents will be held in Merider Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4.
 Over 300 Sunday school workers from all about the state attended the third annual Sunday school convention oi the Episcopal diocese of Connecticut held at St. Johns church, Waterbury on Saturday.
 Miss Mary Snow. daughter of Mir and Mrs. James P. Snow of New Lon- don, and Charles Edwards of Fishers island were married at the home of the brides parents Saturday afternoon at 2.3O o'clock by Rev. Joseph A. FL der of the Huntington Street Baptist church.
 
 An order was issued Saturday morn ing to New York, New Haven & Hart ford trainmen at the Worcester end to be more careful about the display of signals during the day on theil trains. complaints having been re- ceived from trainmen that such sig nals were not properly displayed.
 James Jones of Hebron was found guilty of selling watered milk on six counts in justices court in Hebron The dairy commissioner had samples from seven cans of milk analysed ant found that six of the cans contained watered milk. Jones was fined $2 or each count and costs, which amounted to s20.25.
 The annual collection for the Catho- lie university of America at Washing ton was taken up in all the Roman Catholic churches of the diocese Sun day. It is twenty years since the uni. versity was opened and there is loca interest in it's progress and success since its chancellor is Mgr. Thoma! J. Shahan.
 
 Harvest social of Third Go. at Ar. mory. Thursday evening, Dec. 9.-adv
 The report of the Red Cross state treasurer, Richard IT. Cole. shows re- ceipts for the year amounting to $43,- 993.s0. Of this $39,563.O2 was sub- scribed for the Italian fund; $90 fol the Asia Minor fund and s11.5O fol the Mexican fund. The expenditure. amounted to s42,747.S2, leaving bal. ance of $1.246.4S.
 By a new statute saloons must bt closed on Christmas day, which thi' year falls on Saturday. Druggists anC grocers claim that the law exempt. them, since, according to chapter 194 at all places where liquor is sold ir unopened bottles or packages, not tC be consumed at the place of buying the sale on election day and Christ mas day is legal.
 Connecticut friends are receiving tht printed address delivered by Charles Hitchcock Sheriff. Yale, 's9, United States minister to Argentina, before the university of Buenos Ayres, Octo- Der ,, on the Pan-Americanism ot Henry Clay, Sarmiento and ElihJ Root" It is translation into Eng. fish of the address which was deliv- cred in Spanish. Minister Sheril married George Barker Gibbs, former. ly of Norwich.
 A class of little girls, who for i'll. ness or other reason, failed to joir the regular class at an earlier date received first Holy Communion at tho 7.30 o'clock mass in St. Patrick's church Sunday. They were daintily dressed in white and were directed by their teachers, the Sisters of Mercy Preceding his brief sermon from Luke xxi:25-33, Rev. Father Treanor ex- pressed the hope that they might per severe in the innocence and sweetness of fheir- first communion dav