Norwich bulletin., 1910-11-24
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MAI iEkS Travel was heavy by train and troll f Icy.
 ] Sales of Thanksgiving finery have i helped business this week. ! Social affairs of this week will keep ! musicians and caterers busy. I On many golf links Thanksgiving | day play will officially end the sea- son.
 The Central district schools closed at one o'clock yesterday for the holi- days.
 At Hebron the men have stopped work on the state road for the season of 1910.
 In general the churches see to it that their poor are we'll provided for on the holiday.
 Yesterday was so mild and pleas ant that the wise ones pronounced it a weather breeder.
 into Wednesday evening. Trade has been excellent this year.
 Farmers who have windmills on their premises have the advantage of their neighbors just now.
 The streets were filled with a holi- day crowd Wednesday evening and in the stores the buying was brisk.
 The Otis library, as usual. closes for Thanksgiving, closing Wednesday evening with 45S books issued for the day.
 
 town left for various points yester- day afternoon to spend the holiday re- cess.
 Building permits granted last week in the leaGing cities of the state num- bered 7s. the total cost of buildings being S35s 495.
 The board of veterinary examiners Is 70 hold 2 meeting at the capitol the first Tuesday in December to examine five or six candidates.
 There was a Christian Science ser vice Wednesday evening in their rooms, when the lesson sermon for Thanksgiving was read.
 Much interest was manifested in the turkey rallies last night and those who took home nice gobbler for quarter were well pleased.
 Tn police circles there has been very little business the past week and on Wednesday night there were only about a. half-dozen lodgers in the travellers quarters.
 A turkey dinner will be served to the household at the Odd Fellows home in F'airview. About thirty vii! partake of a good, old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner.
 Thomas Hallam. septuageneraian and more than 50 years an inmate of the New London alsmohuse, lies at the point of death at that institution, following a stroke of paralysis.
 The steamer Manhanset of the Mon tauk Steamboat company was back on that line again yesterday for the first time since she broke her shaft on the passage over from the island last week.
 Peleg Albert Sission of Westerly and Miss Martha Adeline Palmer of Vol untown were united in marriage Tues day at D. m. at the Christian par Westerly, by the Rev. John G. Dutton.
 The offertory in the Catholic church es on Sunday will be for the Catholic Washington, D. C. There is special local interest in that edu- cational institution, as it's president is Mgr. Thomas J. Shahan,
 The union Thanksgiving service in Wallinsford was held at the Congre- gational church Wednesday evening. and Rev. w. T. Thayer of the Baptist church was complimented by being in- vited to deliver the sermon.
 Several candidates for barbers' cer- tiGnatGc H1ad thoir an11irafi vrritI the state board of barbers' examiners at the state capitol Tuesday. The ex- aminers met again Wednesday to pass upon additional applications.
 As far as possible freight agents were instructed to accept no perisha- ble freight or livestock which could not be delivered by Wednesday night, the object being to make Thanksgiv- ing as much of a holiday as it could be for employees.
 Thames Rebekah Past Noble Grands' association will hold it's next meeting on Dec. 13 with Osprey lodge at New London. The session will take place in the afternoon and in the evening the past noble grands will be entertained at the meeting of Osprey lodge.
 The Central Vermont road has just ordered tele phone equipment to cover It's northern diVlSlon from St. AlDanS to Windsor. On this stretch of 150 miles there will be 3S telephone sta- tions, which will be equipped with tele- phone arms and circular loom cable
 Isaac r. Wilcox died in Groton Tues day night after a long illness. He was a briclSlayer and for a time lived in Westerly. He served in Company C, Twenty Conn ecticut Volunteers lIe leaves two sons and two daughters He was I5 years of age and a native of Charlestown, R. I.
 George A. Mcqueen, a well known builder and contractor, was found dead in bed at his home in New London Wednesday morning. MT. Mcqueen was 47 years of age and is survived by 9 wife and two children. Robert and Jeanette. He had been suffering from a cold and heart trouble.
 The remains of Miss Airline Kins- man, niece of Elmer D. Kinsman of this city. were taken to Gardner. Mass. for burial Wednesday, The fune ral was held Tuesday at Atlantic Citv. Rev. Dr. M. E. Snider of the Methodist church officiating. E. D. kinsman was in attendance at the funeral.
 Wednesday evening an auto being driven at 8 fast rate up Broadway killed q dog in front of Poli's theater. Those who saw the bulldog run over