Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-21
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Norwich, Monday, Feb. 21, 1910.
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 washington.s birthday gives the banks and rural carriers a whole holi- day.
 The motor boat show will attract a number from this city to New York this week.
 For these mornings the mercury has averaged from 10 degrees to If de- grees above zero.
 There will be a rush for books at the library today in anticipation of the holiday tomorrow
 
 Fishers island hotels are sending out notices of their early opening this sea- son. the middle of June
 Colonial costumes will be brought from closets and attics to figure in Washington tea parties.
 Thursday has been set aside by the Council of Women for Home Missions as the day. of prayer for missions.
 At Mantle Fred J Brainard has pur- chased the farm of Mary A. Stone at Black Point, known as the Fox farm.
 Saturdays Waterbury American had a sketch and cut of Judge Gardiner Greene of Norwich, the newest arrival upon the superior court bench.
 Frederick s. Simpson of Quaker Hill has bought the Ratigan farm of 15 acres with house and barn near the Jerome farm in North Waterford.
 The Connecticut Association of Mon- ument Dealers, which was organized last fall, held it's first annual dinner at the Hotel Garde, in Hartford, on Friday.
 The annual meeting of the Connecti- cut brigade, IT. R., K F., is to be held Thursday afternoon in c. A. R. hall. Meriden. Only the officers of the uni form rank may attend
 Edwin M. Hurlbut of Hartford died suddenly Friday morriing of heart trouble He was native of Holland and was born March 24, 184a, the son of Chauncey and Mary Warner Hurl- but.
 Norwich is one of the towns listed F II Fruit guild, whose object is to bring a little sunshine into the hospitals and the poorer tenement houses of New York
 A state farmers institute will be held by the Enfield grange on Wash ington's birthday. Prof. J. M. True man, Prof. L. A. Clinton and Mrs. c. 4. Wheeler all of Connecticut agri- cultural college. Storrs. will be the speakers.
 Of interest to Norwich travellers is the announcement by the passenger of the New Haven rail- road that on and after February 21 the Colonial express will make reg ular stop at Bridgeport at HIS D. m. and at Harlem River at 2.37 D. m.
 But 400 of the 5000 corporations in Rhode Island and Connecticut have made their returns to the internal rev. enue collector as required by the new excise law and unless they are filed before midnight on March 1 the cor porations will be subject to a fine of l at least s1,000.
 It Is the belief of Roman Catholic pastors of Connecticut that the con secration of Bishop -elect Milan will take place in the cathedral in Hart ford within two months, in view of the fact that there are many important matters in the diocese awaiting the action of a bishop.
 z Numbered among the s A. R. off, cials to assemble in Bridgeport on Tuesday for the annual banquet are Jonathan Tru1nbulI of the board of managers; Henry F. Parker, secre- tary of the local branch; Leonard B. Amy, DID,, of the medal list of mem bers, and Berfah H. Rathbun, whose father fought in the Revolution.
 Old Wesleyan grads will watch with interest the outcome of the annual Washington's birthday cannon scrap, when the freshmen will endeavor to rush the historic Douglas cannon on to the front campus, and the sopho- mores will do all in their power to prevent it. One year the cannon was brought to Norwich and hidden in Dr J. H. Aliens barn.
 WEDDINGS.