Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-10
Otrf Bullrtim. Norwich. Saturday, Dec. 10, 1910.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Merchants are looking for n big days trade.
 ThawIng snow has left many Ieaky roofs thls week.
 The Christmas display windows are unusually attractive. Few houschoders are liberal with sand on their ley walks. An occasional letter to santa. Clans finds It's way Into tho mails Friday morning was the coIdest of tho season, l2 degrees and under. The deep snow In the fields has hIn- dered Ehtherers of ground pine for holiday wreaths.
 on many of tho country roads drifts have left travelling unfit for either sleigh or wagon.
 Fifty name cards for zb cents. dur Ing the holidays, at The Bulletin printing office adv.
 Tho libraries have had numerous calls this week for books relating to the llfo of EIhu Burritt
 In some of tho rural districts schools closed yesterday. but the majority will close next Friday, the 18th.
 number of housewives have solved tho problem of scarcity of water by melting snow for domestic uses.
 Al the annual meeting of tho New London Horticultural society Thursday evening, George $. Palmer was elect cd first vice president.
 Henry Lunier, G5, died fin New Lon- don Thursday. After funeral services there this morning. the body is to be taken to West Stafford for burial.
 The office of highway superintendent or tho town of Groton. to which Mer- ton Chapman was appointed this week carries with it n salary of s1,000 a year.
 C E. Colver of the navy yard fs having Groton borough electric power connected with his house and has dis- continued the use of the dynamo which he has used heretofore
 The first playground institute ever held opened in Holyoke, Mass, on Thursday. and the papers praise the welcoming speech of Mayor Nathan r. Avery native of Norwich.
 ". Waldo Kennedy. formerly of tfls rart of Connecticut has been given the Royal Purple degree in Patriarchal Odd Fellowship at Muscatlne. Iowa, Prairie cncampment, No. I. doing the work.
 Friday was without doubt the cold est day of the winter thus far. Reports from different sectionB vary HE to the thermometer readings, but reports of zero and six above were heard among tafe low ones. At 9 o'clock this morn ing at Trading Cove it was zero. Permission was granted by Judge of Probate Anderson of Groton for the removal of Thomas Burrows 10 the Norwich state hospital, and he was brought there in charge of Constable Henry Sparks.
 The body of Frank F. Peckham, whose death occurred in Deep River, Monday. was taken to Mantle for bur ial in Union cemetery. Members of Pythagoras lodge, F and A. M, of Lyme, conducted ths services at the grave.
 The Olneyville correspondent of Fri days Providence Journal said: A rep resentative from a mill at Stafford Springs, Conn, spent yesterday in this section, endeavoring to get about 2s sewers and some dresser tenders to return with him to that town. Sunday at the Central Ba ptist church Rev. P. c. Wright will speak in the H1of1HnR upon The Cnr1Stian EEperl- ence. In the evening he will give an address upon The Life of Paul, illus trated by more than 30 fine stereopti- con views 1t will be interesting and instructive.-adv.
 Senator Thomas J. Spellacy will en certain the democratic members of the state senate at dinner at the Allyn house Hartford. January 3, together with Governor r-elect Simeon F. Bald win, Charles w. Comstock. After the i dinner & caucus of the democratic sen- ! ators will be held. | Leave the cities and settle on ! farms," is what the members of the Baron Hirsch colonies were instructed to advise their friends and kin, at | the recent national convention in New 1 York. All about Connecticut farms have been bought up this fall by Jew ish purchasers from the cities.