Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 Sunday had many Of the marks of an April day.
 Neosha whist club tonight at For esters' hall.-adv-
 canvassers for the 1910 directory are working in town.
 Tomorrow. March 1. is St. David's day, dear to every Welshman.
 The commemoration of the birthday of Robert Emmet on Friday, March 4, will be general this year.
 The Baptist state evangelist. Rev. c. K Flanders. has been holding suc- cessful services in Shelton.
 Connecticut will be well represented at the worlds Sunday school conven- ton to be held in Washington, D. C., May 19.
 Special Lenten services are held on Sunday evening in St. Patrick s church. Last evening the sermon was preached by the Rev F. L. FitzPat- rick.
 Yesterday, February 27. was the birthday of Henry w. Longfellow, born in 1907. Some of the schools and literary clubs will note the anniversary today.
 Newton, who have conducted services at the Mantle Baptist church for the past two weeks, closed their labors on Sunday evening
 The mercury dropped several de- grees below zero in a number of Con necticut towns, Saturday morning, and ice dealers were preparing to harvest the third crop of the season.
 At the meeting of the Wesleyan alumni at Hartford. Friday night. Principal Marcus White of the New Britain normal school, formerly of the Norwich Free Academy faculty, was elected president.
 One of the seven candidates select ed by the Providence school board for superintendent of schools in that city is Supt- Frank H. Beede of New Ha- ven, formerly of WilIimantic. The choice will be made this week.
 The steamer Maine is to have new boilers and has been withdrawn from the Norwich line between New Lon don and New York for that purpose. Captain Pettigrew has been relieved of command of the steamer and is succeeded by F. B. Watson.
 All answers for the coming census are to have reference solely to the Census day, which is April IS. Per sons living on that day, but who died after 1t and before the enumerators call, are to be counted, but persons born after April 15 are not to be in cluded in the count.
 The Business Mems association of Bridgeport last night went on record as in favor of a public utilities measure and also as in favor of the Bridgeport association taking the lead in the matter and devising a bill which will be submitted to the other associations of the state and to the next session of the legislature.
 It is not possible to take any more prisoners in the state prison at pres ent. we have 597 cells" Warden Garvin says, "of which 445 are oc- cupied by regular men prisoners. The rest are occupied by women and in sane convicts We can't take in any more prisoners until we have released some of those who are here now"
 Jane Armstrong Painter, widow of William R. Painter, died Friday eve ming at her home, 221 Washington avenue, Bridgeport. Mrs. Painter was Miss Packer, a member of the Packer family of Groton, and a relative of the late Asa Packer, the coal magnate of Pennsylvania Burial was in Trin- ity cemetery, New York, on Saturday afternoon.
 Preceding his sermon at St. Pat rick's church, Sunday, Rev. Hugh Treanor announced that this week, for the first time in three years, Sisters of the Good Shepherd from Hartford would visit Norwich in the interest of their work. This order is devoted to the .reclaiming of fallen women, and unfortunates irrespective of creed or nationality are cared for in their in dustrial homes and put in the way of leading honest lives