Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

By today passenger traffic on the railroads will be back to it's normal condition.
 Plans are being made for observing the Week of Prayer, the opening week in January
 Clerks were busy yesterday getting stocks in shape for the after Christ mas clearances.
 Children begging for 1911 calendars are becoming the plague of merchants and office people.
 In the Episcopal churches there will be services today in observance of Holy Iunocents' day
 A number of programmes of Christ mas music will be repeated by church choirs next Sunday.
 Carpenters and painters are making repairs on some of the school build ings during vacation.
 It has been an excellent season for the fruit trade. especially oranges grapes, figs, dates and grape fruit
 The doll and automobile at the Bos- ton Store are waiting for the holders of No. 7S5 and 761 to go and get them. adv.
 Visitors to Washington write home of extremely cold weather. with sleighing in and about the national capital
 The small boy who is an intermit- tent attendant at three or four Sunday schools, is reveling in the joy of Christmas festivals.
 Much clean money will be in cir culation for a week or two, owing to the custom of making Christmas gifts of crisp bills and bright coin.
 Mrs. William D. Fitch of Law renee street New La ldon. gave q sauce at the Lawn club Tuesday ega- ming for her son, Humphrey Bas5ert.
 The mild weather yesterday encour- aged the country folks to drive into town and their shopping did much to revive trade, which always lage after a holiday.
 The total value of farm land and buildings in Connecticut was given in 1910 as S136, 621 ,00, as against $97,425,- 900 in 1900, an increase of $39, ,196,0O0 or forty per cent.
 Dealers say that the cutting and storing of the ice crop before Christ mas, IS has been the case in many places this year, is the first time such a thing has happened in thirty years.
 Medical Examiner Dr. R. w. Kimbau found nothing new in the continua tion of his examination into the death of Amono Commilucci Sunday night and his decision is that death resulted from alcoholism.
 Much attention has been attracted to the sign on barrel in Water street for the past few days, in view of the fact that water is at a premium here. The sign reads: For SaiI!" At the last look it was high, dry and empty
 At Hartford there is no credit given the report that that city is looking at . Gardner lake and Pease brook as pos sible reservoir sites for that city The city already has plans for further ex- tension of their water system to Ne paug.
 The regular holiday dance given un- der the auspices of Prof. Maher took place in the Broadway dancing acad- emy Monday afternoon and evening and was attended by a large number. Music was furnished by the Academy orchestra.
 A hearing of the creditors of the bankrupt estate of r. A Raier of New London was held before Amos A. Browning referee in bankruptcy, Sat 1rday. No dividends werc paid, only ttcrity claims being ordered Laid by the referee.
 When the Eastern Connecticut Mt Holyoke Alumnae association meets on Saturday with Mrs. J. Holland Larra- bee of Spalding street. there will be an address on the Passion Play by Miss Fife smith, as she witnessed it last summer.
 Edward 5. Hardness, d young Yale graduate. and summer resident at Great Neck, Waterford. has contrib uted s1.30000O so that the Presbyter- ian hospital and the College of Physi- clans and Surgeons in New York may have such a new buildings as both have desired a long time.
 President A. R. Jones of the State Business Mems association has called a meeting of the directors at the Stratdeld hotel in Bridgeport this tWednesday) noon. It is expected that directors from nearly all of the thtrty-tive business mems associations in the state will be present.
 Mir. and Mrs. Theodore Beckwith en- tertained a Christmas party of over a dozen at their home. 217 Laurel Hfl avenue, Monday afternoon. A we'll filled Christmas tree was a feature of the festivities. Two of the happiest of the guests were Elisha P. Slocum, who is over 80. and Mrs. Slocum. who is 75.
 Tuesdays Providence Journal said: Frank Edward Johnson of Norwich. Conn, who has spent the greater part of the past decade in residence abroad, will open an exhibition of interesting paintings done by him in northern Africa, Provence and New England, this evening at o'clock at the Prov idence Art club.
 If the Springfield Republican cal endar were to appear with any new tangled features or embellishments it would prove as great a shock as though some town diguitary should suddenly turn cut-up. The 1911 cal en7er is staid. practical, clean. and in class by itself as is the paper which issues it. and both are desirable and dependable references for the New Year
 GREATLY EXAGGERATED