Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-01
VARIOUS MATTERS
The shortest month.

VARIOUS MATTERS The shortest month.
 Ante-Lenten gayeties must be crowded into the next six days. Plans for St. Patrick's day celebra- tions are already being formulated
 The best moonlight nights in Febru- ary will be from the 20th to the 18th.
 St. James lodge, No. 2s, F. and A. M., work the B. A. degree this evening" adv.
 The unusual number of guIs in the river would indicate that the storm is not yet ended.
 The feast of the Purifcation will be observed in the Episcopal churches on Wednesday morning.
 Owners of small ponds. which are now oyerflowing, would like another freeze to complete the ice harvest.
 A recent gift to the Otis library is Mrs. Matte l.. Griswo1d's Tracy Gene aIogy: Ancestors and Descendants Of Thomas Tracy of Lenox, Mass
 
 All members of Gardner lodge, No 46, K of P, are cordially invited to attend the meeting of Wauregan lodge, No. 6. K. of P, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 1. Grand lodge officers will be present.-adv-
 Postofffce clerks all over the coun- trv are looking forward with interest to the action of congress with regard to a bill regulating the number of hours each week a clerk will be re- quired to work.
 Wednesday is known in the Cath olic church as the feast of the Puri- fication, also called Candlemas day, be- couse upon that day the supply of candles used upon the aftars and dur ing the services are blessed
 Harry B. Hampstead and Miss Annie Calvin were united in marriage Sun day night at 7.3o o'clock at the rec tory of St. Joseph's church, New Lon don. Rev. w. c. Fitzsimmons of11ciat- ing The attendants were Joseph Rog- CTS and Margaret Ryan
 Governor Weeks of Connecticut has written a letter to the society for the suppression of noise, of which Mrs. Isaac L. Rice of New York is the pres ident promising to co-operate in a campaign of that society for a safe and sane Fourth of July.
 A warning has been posted at the state postof11ces in relation to the amount of postage due on second class mail matter. Papers are mailed with insufficient postage and find their way to the waste basket when the person addressed refuses to forward postage.
 For some days several hair seals dave been seen in Fishers Island sound One of good size has sported near the Latimer reef lighthouse and is fre- uuently seen by keepers. The animals 1 come in very severe weather and have been known to stay for a month or | more.
 The annual convention of the Con- | necticut Germ an- American alliance i was held in Bridgeport Sunday. There | were about dfty delegates present from 1 New Haven, Hartford. Rockville. Will liInantic. Norwich. Bristol, New Brit ain. Ansonia, Bridgeport, South Nor walk and Danbury.
 Notices are being sent out that an arbitration and peace congress for the | six New England states will be held at Hartford and New Britain on the | 3th, 9th. 10th, and 11th of May, 1910, under the auspices of the American Peace society and the Connecticut State Peace society.
 The two children of Mrs. William Cripps of Groton, who were last week Monday committed to the county home at Preston, have been returned to the Spicer home near Noank, i'll with mea- sles. The day after they were com mitted to the county home they were 1 stricken with the disease and were sent back so as not to spread an epi- ,g,4I ]