Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-16

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 Norwich. s.turd. April 1e. 1910:
 
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 Supplies for making May baskets are selling.
 Country homes are being made ready for the coming of city owners
 A brush fire near Allyns Point burn ed over many acres Thursday night.
 A day of summer heat Friday re- suited in hurry calls for the iceman-
 Sunday in the Catholic church will be the feast of the Patronage of St. Joseph.
 Scrap book classes are spending pleasant hours in some of the suburb an towns
 Several star gazers were up early Friday morning to see Haliey's comet, with it's 11,O00, ,OOO-mi1e tail.
 Some handsome tulips at the home of Archibald E. Mitchell on School street, attract the attention of pas sersby.
 
 H. Isabella Bourne, 6s, formerly of Greene, R. I.died Thursday in Lake wood. R. l. The family has relatives in Windham county.
 License your dogs in the town clerks office this week. One dollar added to regular fee after May l. Office open daily from g a. m. to p. m.--adv. A +ba onnz,ol r,oeetfnr of tfe Con- gregational club of Connecticut, held in Middletown Tuesday night, Gov. Frank B. Weeks was elected president The last of the series of organ re- citals at Christ church will be given this afternoon at five o'clock by w. F. Habekotte. assisted by Dr. Charles D. Geer. baritone. All are invited.-adv.
 Prof. Thomas Crosby, Jr., English department, Brown university, will read ''The Rivals" in the Y. M. c. A. hall, Tuesday, April 19, at p. m-, un- der the auspices of the Principals club. Tickets 35 cents.-adv.
 It will interest musical friends who enjoyed herwvisits to Norwich to know that Miss Estelle Newham finished successful series of parlor musicales in Bridgeport this week. The governor has approved requisi- tions of the executive committee Of the Soldiers Hospital board on the comp troller for $10,000. and the bill of the Day-Kimba1l hospital for $750. A big hit at Spotlight dance at Cad- lilac hall Saturday night. Private dancing lessons any hour. Prof. Ken nedy, instructor. Phone 6S3-5.-adv. At meeting of the state s. A. R. board of managers in Bridgeport on Thursday, arrangements were made for a special car to take the Connec- ticut delegation from Springfield, Mass, to the National congress in Toledo, O., May 1.
 At the annual meeting of the Tax Collectors association of Connecticut, held at Hartford Thursday, a fegisla- tive committee was appointed to look into all proposed legislation which has to do with taxation or the collection of taxes and report to the association.
 Rev. P. C. Wright will speak in the Central Baptist church both morning and evening, Sunday. c. B. Ordway of Worcester, who will please as 'cel- list, will play in the evening.-adv. Miss Gladys Healy, daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Healy of Eastern Point, became the bride of Richard Morgan Chapman of Groton, at her l home Thursday afternoon The cere- mony was performed by Rev. George R. Atha, pastor of the Groton Heights Baptist church.
 | The New York. New Haven & Hart | ford railroad has inaugurated a new | system in recording the running times | of trains. The OK and signature of i the train despatcher will be required l in the future on all time slips Elm l ployes will also be required to keep l an accurate record of the time they | worked on each division of the road. | One of the projects attacked by | Senator Burton in his minority report on the river and harbor bill, filed on l Thursday, as unworthy of adoption, is i that for the improvement of Great i Salt pond, Block Island, R. T., for i which the bill appropriates $30.0O0. A senate amendment requires that $70,- 1 900 be spent on the channel of the 1 inner harbor.
 i The house committee on invalid pensions Friday reported favorably two Connecticut pension bills: In be- | half of Henry J. Mongovan Of New 1 Haven, Company M, First Massachu- setts Volunteery Heavy artillery, at 1 SPA per month; and in behalf of James Harvey of Norwich, Company A, Sec | ond New York Heavy artillery, at $24 N per month. The former bill was in
 troduced by Representative Sperry and
 the latter by Representative Higgins.