Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-18
VARIOUS MATTERS

- - VARIOUS MATTERS The first new cocoanuts of the sea- son are reaching northern markets. Sunday ended the annual self denial
 week of the Salvation Army in several cities.
 Saturday mornings brief shower en- couraged the farmers to hope for the much needed rain.
 The governors Arbor and Bird day proclamation has been posted conspic- uousIy in public places.
 The tax collector will be at the store of H. S. Young. Norwich Town, today from Il a. m. to l p. m.-adv.
 The April directory of the Southern New England Telephone company went into effect, Sunday morning.
 Governor Weeks has authorized the admission of Annie Lewis of Groton to the Connecticut school for imbeciles.
 The New London Telegraph says: Yacht Narwhal was inspected at the Thames shipyard Friday afternoon by Messrs.' Withey and Stewart.
 License your dogs in the town clerks office this week. One dollar added to regular fee after May l. Office open daily from a. m. to D. m.-adv.
 Contracts for road work in the towns of Ledyard. Old Saybrook and Mansfield will be awarded on Friday next by Highway Commissioner James H. Mcdonald.
 Local historians have been looking up in the Noriwch Bulletin files ac- counts of the exciting times forty five years ago, following the assassination of Lincoln on April If. 1865.
 An important accession to the Otis library this month is the Life of St. Ignatius, by Francis Thompson, au- thors of the Life of Shelley. and the much quoted poem, The Hound of Heaven.
 A meeting of the state tuberculosis commission has been called for today Monday), at the state capitol at Hart ford. Dr. George H. Knight, the new commissioner. will meet with the com mission for the first time.
 The feature of the week at Yale will be the Bromley lectures, provided by the gift of fund to the university in 1900 from Mrs. Adelaide E. Bromley, in memory of her husband. Isaac H. Bromley of the class of 1858, formerly editor of The Bulletin.
 State Tax Commissioner William H. Corbin has gone to Mobile to attend the national conference of shel1fish commissioners, where he will appear as the special representative of this state. He will be in Mobile Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
 A Manchester correspondent states that Engineer Frank Kroner. from Norwich, with five other engineers, ar rived in Millstone Friday evening and on Saturday started for Love lane. East Hartford, to make the final sur vey at that end for the Norwich Col chester trolley line.
 For the first time since the founda- ton of the national organization, Mrs. Sara T. Kinney of Hartford, formerly state regent of Connecticut, will not attend the D. A. R. congress. Mrs. Kinney is not well enough to take the journey, and the Connecticut daugh- ters will miss her greatly.
 The postoffice department has issued an order that the prohibition against the sealing of parcels post packages for foreign countries does not apply to Italy. Consequently parcels for Italy must be accepted for mailing even though they are sealed and closed l a gainst inspection provided they con- form to the other conditions. 1
 The committee on pensions of the | Connecticut State Teachers associa- l tion met in the retiring room of the | state capitol Saturday. The committee ! 5 advocated the movement of teachers l pension at the last session of the leg l islature and the committee was con- l tinued to further advocate the matter l and bring it before the incoming leg | isI a