Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-06
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VARIOUS MATTERS

| NorWiSh, wednesday, rPin =, -
| VARIOUS MATTERS
Yesterday was Baby Carriage day
| in the parks.
Paper hangers and their men are
| working early and late.
/ Owners of vacuum cleaners are in
| the height of their busy season
Somerset lodge works the Fellow
| Craft degree this evening-adv.
| Schools are preparing to observe
| Arbor and Bird day on April %.
! MANY pansies and pretty mountain
| daisies are being set in vases or
| borders.
/ 1t is said that arbutus is earlier than
| it has been any season since 1902 when
! it was. in bloom in March.
| Hartford papers note among those
| at the ball of the Ladies of Charity
| Monday evening, Miss Isabel Crawford
| of Norwich, who wore princess lace
| over pink.
| Sale at Spiritual Academy today and
| tomorrow. aprons, fancy articles, cake,
| candy. Supper tonight, 15c. Special
| Thursday 25c.-adv-
| The state convention of the Young
| Peoples societies of the Universalist
churches is to be held in Danbury Uni
versalist church on Friday and Satur-
day of this week
The maple sugar makers waited a
Fa,. 111o in
on account of the continued warm
weather and absence of freezing nights
the season is over.
Old soldiers are recalling the fact
that forty-five years ago this week
was a time of excitement, following
the news of General Robert e. Lees
surrender, on April g.
Horace Johnson is out with the fol-
lowing warming: Farmers should dig,
making catch basins along the small
streams flowing through their lands
for stock and irrigation. Water should
not be allowed to go to waste.
OF local interest is the announce
ment that, following the Tsethodist
conference, Rev. Albert E. Legg of
Providence, who declined to continue
at st. Paurs church, in that city. is
succeeded by Rev. Frederick c. Baker
from Fairhaven.
Low rates to California, Arizona,
New Mexico, Mexico. Tourist sleeper
without change, berth $500. Wash
ington- Sunset route. 17022S Wash.
St, Boston.-adv.
Prominent lawyers are receiving
of
Bridgeport invitations for a reception
at his home April IA in honor of Chief
Justice Frederick b Hall, Judge AL
berto Roraback and Judge Silas Rob-
inson.
Look for Halley's comet tomorrow,
April 7, at 4.32 a. m. To find the
comet before dawn, look just above the
spot where the sun is to rise and the
the tail is at present away from the
earth. Use opera glasses.
Capt. George r. Case of Hartford
had a 1la1f-page illustrated article in
The Post of that city, upon 1.-The rs
year journey of Haliey's comet with
a good portrait of the author. which
will be priced by his friends and am
ateur astronomers in all parts of the
state.
State deputy revenue collectors have
been notified that the considerable in
creases made in the tax on tobacco
and cigarettes by the act of August
5. 1909, will go into effect on July 1
in this district. The increase in to-
bacco and snuff is from six to eight
cents pound.
The w. c. T. U. convention calendar
includes: Worlds convention, G1as-
gov, Scotland, June iii; national con-
vention. Baltimore, 12-17; the state
convention in Danbury the third week
in October, by invitation of the DAN
bury union; Windham county silver
anniversary in Putnam, some time in
May.
Tourists returning from Florida
state that the winter has been a cold
one, and many people who visited there
because of the supposed hot climate
came north to get warm. Last week
there were two heavy frosts, which
killed string beans and nipped potato
tops. The season has been a very I'M