Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
NoANK
Conductor Baker sudbues Sudden BIaze-New London Five Defeated--s Blizzard Promised.

The quick action and presence o1 mind of Ira D. Baker prevented a pad fire at his home on Elm street Weo- nesday night. MT. Baker. who Is a conductor on the Groton and stoning- ton street railway, arrived home roy his supper hour and was at the table in an adjoining room when the cries of his daughter Dorothy brought him to where the fire had started. It was caused by a neighbours child lighting a match while hunting for a lost coin The match blazed up and set fire to q nearby couch. When Mir. Baker ran into the room the couch and side wal were in flames. Picking up rug fron4 the floor, he smothered the blaze and threw the snoldering couch out doora4
 Noank Wine from M. T. 8.
 The local consolidated basketball team took it's second victory from the Manual Training school team at the Y. M c. A. gymnasium in New LondoD Wednesday night. Score, Noank 27, M, T. $. 14. The game was clean and faa4 up to the second haif when Weeks was taken from the game and Manager Mitchell of the M. T. s. took his posf. tion. From that time to the sound of the whistle at the finish the game had more of an appearance of football than basketball. Fitch, Noank's center, was smashed in the nose by Mitchell, dis~ locating the member and infiicting cut of over an inch long. Mcsher, however, soon evened things up by handing the offender a bif in the eye that required the application of slice of beefsteak.
 Biizzad Predicted.
 Capt. John Burlington predicts e general disturbance with snow foitoWs ed by high winds about the 18th. Cap. tain John does not Lay claim to the class of Horace Johnson as A prorhet but he has method of hie own and ha seldom misses the mark in forecastinG the weather. In event Of the capta4mW T IfAttZ .aFznr tN h~. aA ting celebration of the twenty second anniversary of the blizzard of 1888.
 Fishing sIoop Ashore.
 The fishing sloop Maken wena aground on the mud flats east of the Noank light while making hsr way into the docks of the R. Palmer & Som shipyard Thursday morning. The cap- some motor boat and. having procured the help of Capt. W. Fl. Wiiccx, ths s1oop was hauled off at high tide and was lowed into the Palmer shipyard, where she was destined for repairs and the installation of a well.
 New shorehan Inspected.
 Capt. H. H. Rogers. superintenden4 of the New England Navigation conn pany's shops at Newport, was in the village Thursday to inspect the hull of the copnpany's steamer New Shore ham, which is hauled out at the R. Palmer & Son shipyard for repairs and painting. The steamer was found in excellent condition and will be used this summer as mail boat from ProVi- dence to Block Island.
 Local Briefs.
 The mast, booms and gaffs for ths barge in course of construction at the shipyard for the Lehigh Coal and Nave igation company have arrived and will be stepped as soon as the vessel i'd launched.
 Fishing schooner Ada Belle Capt, Harry Christopherson. arrived in port Thursday with a large fare of live cod. Mrs. w. P. Fitch has returned home after a lengthy visit with relatives in Otisville, N. Y. A. w. Thompson of Perth Amboy. N. Y, arrived in the village Thursday and will move his household goods to the Edward Young cottage on l. h street.