Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-26
Ole Rmlleti1l,
Norwich, Wednesday, Oct. rs, 1910.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
/ The cooler weather. it is said, is in
1 creasIng the demand. for oysters.
| The new personal tax must be coll
| lected as soon after November 1 as
\ possible.
| Hear Rabbi Wise in Y. NJ. c. A.
| course, Central Baptist, next Monday
! night.-adv.
! Owners of woodland complain that
quite as many forest fires are set by
| chestnutting parties as by hunters.
The thirty-sixth annual meeting of
| the Wonan's Board of Missions will
| be held at Cromwell today CWednes-
day).
The state cattle commissioner re-
ports the total number of glanders
| cases or farcy reported during the
year. 49,.
Mortgages recorded in Norwich last
week amounted to $S,175. as against
$3.50 during the corresponding week
| last year
Three petitions in bankruptcy were
filed in Connecticut last week. The
assets are given as $3,493 and liabili
ties as S5,140
1t is said that at many farmhouses
milk is being drunk as a substitute
for water, which is so scarce now that
wells have gone dry.
What rain has fallen has been of
great benefit to the state roads, where
the surface had become rough, due to
the action of sun and drying winds.
Th- assessors will be at their office
III City hall on Monday and Friday
evenings this week from to 9 o'clock.
adv.
The next meeting of the general con-
ference of the Congregational churches
gregational church at Putnam Nov. Is
to II.
In its genealogical department the
NGrwalk Hour has the note: Wanted,
parents names of Leander Stafford
with dates. Was he of Colchester or
Salem, Conn?
j. +. Saxton, who was room clerk
a the Griswold, is to be the new man
ager OF the hotel, which viii also mean
the managershiD of the Belleview at
Belaire, Fla.
In the city court Tuesday morning
the continued cases of breach of the
peace against two citizens were nolled
upon payment of actual costs. One
paid S4.51 and the other 1921.
So many weeks of dust have had
their effect in causing eye troubles,
as the result of flying particles more
or less poisonous and irritating, and
oculists have had extra business there
by.
The executive committee Of the
State Police association is to meet in
Middletown this "wednesday after
noon They will be the guests of Chief
Of Police InElis, a member Of the com
mittee.
There was fire drill at the West
Thames street school Tuesday after
noon and the 140 pupils We're out in
less than a minute. The boys used the
fire extinguishers to put the fire out
which had been started in the gutter.
Application has been made through
the New London custom house TO
change the name of steamer Yuma of
the Norwich and New York Propeller
company The name for the Yuma will
be the Thames.
Reports of the banks of Connect
cut show them in very satisfactory
condition. There are in the state a
total of 200 banks, including 70 ma
tiona1, Z state and 81 savings banks,
and q trust companies.
The family of Joseph Hines. captain
of the barge Blue Mountain of New
Fork. which is engaged in the trans
portation of coal to Allyns Point ar
rived last week to spend the winter
months at Ichabod cottage, Gales
Ferry.
At the convention of the Connecti-
cut State Federation of Womens clubs
TO be held at Danielson today and
Thursday, Gen. William A. Aiken of
this city will make an address on the
civil service law during the morning
session.
The fourth biennial Connecticut En-
deavor convention will be held in the
Second Congregational church, Water
bury, Friday and Saturday and will
close Sunday evening. There will be
morning. afternoon and evening ses-
sions on the three days.
A Rocky Hill correspondent writes
Judge E. NJ. Warner of Putnam who
was delegate al the International
Prison convention. recently held in
Washington, gave an interesting talk
on prison reform at the Congrega-
tional church Sunday morning.
Those interested in the woman s
state college state that no site has been
selected by those in charge though
several towns are urging their claims
for recognition. Both New London
and Norwich are anxious to secure the
new college, but it is said that the
site at New London has not been seen
Francis j. Brennan, known to local
railroad men during his four years
service for the New Haven road as
station agent at South Worcester has
resigned to travel for New York
firm. He is succeeded by Frank F.
Moulton. chief train dispatcher for
, the road at Providence.
The October Crop Reporter shows
the following: Farm value of import
ant Connecticut products. October /:
/ Corn. seventy-fivc cents a bushel; oats,
ffty-three cents; potatoes, seventy
five cents; hay Qoose). SIS per ton:
rye, ninety cents bushel: butter -
cents a pound; eggs, 81 cents a dozen:
chickens 11.5 cents q pound.
Negotiations are under way for the
esta biishmeut of = cloak industry In
the village Of Turnerville. which was
sold several months ago to l. Esen-
stein e. Co, of Newark ~ j. who
operated the mills there for time as
a silk throwing factory until dis
astrous fire of last March, when the
main mill was burned
The October issue of the Connect
c1Jf Cth1Irphr11an r7oaOtioOs