Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-11-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
The marketmen's busy week!
Neosha whist in Foresters' hall to-
| night.-adv.
Liverymen have profted by two
mild, sunny days.
Musicians will commemorate st. Ce-
elias day today.
Thanksgiving dairties are features
Of the window displays.
The laymen's missionary movement
convention opens Sunday, November
2S, in Hartford. and continues for four
days.
Tht two days sale held last week by
the Catholic Woman's club, for the
benefit of the poor of st. Patrick's
parish, netted over $3.50.
Missionary societies are already
sending off Christmas boxes, which
must be forwarded now in order to
reach missionaries under the super
vision of the Connecticut Indian as
ISOLATION.
The annual meeting of the Connecti-
cut branch of the National Red Cross
is to be held in Hartford on Wednes-
day. Delegates are to be elected to
the national Red Cross convention
in Washington in December.
Mrs f. Maria Woodwork Allison,
wife of Abel C. Allison, died Friday
at her home in Middletown. She was
born in Plainfeld. 72 years ago, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas 3.
Woodwork.
Governor Weeks has appointed Wal
lace S. Moylc of New Haven and Sam
uel b. Harvey of Willimantic to be
prosecuting officers of the Connect
cut Humane society for the term Of
two years from November 49, 1909.
OF local interest is the announce
ment that Hon. o. r. Fyler, railroad
commissioner and former chairman of
the state central committee of the
republican party, Is seriously i'll at his
residence in Torrington with a severe
intestinal trouble.
The blind poet, Father John Ban
mister Tabb, who died Friday at ST.
Charles college, Elliott City, was a
personal friend of John Troland Of
Norwich. He was born in Virginia in
1S45, and served in the confederate
navy during the civil war.
Sunday, the feast of the Presenta-
ton. the preacher in st. Patrick's
church was the Rev. F. L. Fitzpatrick,
whose theme, The General Judgment,
was suggested by the gospel for the
day, Matt XIV: 1876. An Ave, Maria
was beautifully sung by Mrs. F. L.
Farrell at the offertory.
The New Haven road has adopted
a new signal light for switches or
semaphores. The new light is known
as the Standard. These lamps are so
designed that they can be supplied
with either a long time or one day
burner. The long time burner can be
adjusted to burn eight days without
any care whatever.
Last year the Norwich branch of the
Red Cross sold stamps amounting to
$371.50. This year it is hoped to sell
$500 worth. Several corporations have
already engaged stamps, which go on
sale December 1. The Ponemah COM
pany has taken 1,400, and will use
them on their pay envelopes for the
two weeks preceding Christmas.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kibbe, "a, wife of
julius Parsons, died at her home in
Somers, Thursday night from pneu-
monia. She is survived by her hus-
band and two children, Clifford and
Roselle;' two sisters, Mrs. Caroline
Hurlburt and Mrs. Julia Pease, both
of Norwich, and a brother, Norris
Kibbe of Ellington.
Henry r. Bond, Jr, has been named
administrator of the estate of the late
Henry R. Bond, whose will has been
probated in New London. The en-
tire estate is bequeathed to his three
children, subject to the life interest
of his widow. The children are Henry
r. Bond, Mrs. Ruth Thorne of New
York and Mrs. Harriet Tyler of An
niston, Ala.
Moosup Man Gets Patent.
The following patents have been is
sued to residents of Connecticut for the
week ending Nov. IS: f. c. Blanchard
and e. B. Croker, Bridgeport frame