Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-26
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Norwich. Monday, Dec. 26, 1910.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Nobody complained of the welcome rain.
 The sale of Red Cross seals will con- tinue until New Years.
 All the classes at Miller's Dancing Academy will be omitted this week. adv.
 There was enough snow left to ap- pease those who fear a green Christ mas.
 There will be the celebration of Holy Communion in the Episcopal churches today, St. Stephens day.
 Mail and express employees agree that Christmas parcels in the main were shipped earlier this year than ev- CT before
 A number of local poultry fanciers will go to New York for the big poul- try show which opens Tuesday and closes Saturday.
 Horace Johnson made correct pre- diction when he declared that there would be a disturbance from Decem- Der 24 to the 25th.'
 Saturdays New London Globe print ed some verses ITO Returning Prodigar' sent from the Quail Trap at North Woodstock by Calvin L. Raw son.
 The quiet comfort of the Otis library reading room attracted a number of visitors on Sunday afternoon and Lii brarian Jonathan Trumbull was in charge.
 The Stonington Mirror announces of land asked for by the Mystic Valley Water company will be held today (Monday) at Norwich.
 Answering a recent Topic in the New York Times, Frederick K Moves, now of Washington, had an interesting letter in Saturdays Times on how the deaf are taught to speak.
 Charles Booth. son of William Booth of the Millstone quarries, is in New York hospital, where he recently un- derwent an operation for the removal of a trouble not of a serious nature.
 The report of the department of ag- riculture shows that the number 7f farms reported in Connecticut in 191C was 6,431, as compared with 26948 in 1909, a decrease of 517, or two per cent.
 The two young ladies in the post office sub-station at the Boston Store
 
 kept good natured. patient and deft through the trying rush of holiday work.
 Deputy State Secretary Richard j. Dwyer and his assistants in the sec- retary's office in the capitol. are dis tributing the preliminary roll of men. bers of both houses of the incoming general assembly.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles H. Cooley of No. 162 Capitol avenue, Hartford, eel ebrated their golden wedding Friday evening. Mrs. Cooley, who was Jen- nie Kimbau Burdick, was born in Dan ielson June 8, 1S40.
 A few patrons of the trolley ines followed their annual ChristEa> GUS ing Sunday with car crews whose affability they wished to recognize even in a small way.
 The leading Connecticut automobile manufacturers have sent appeals to the uring them to support the Cocks bill which provides for the federal regis tration of automobiles.
 Women in Norwich and vicinity who earn pin money doing needlework and making novelties for Christmas gifts state that they have had the busiest season in their experiences, many profitable orders going out of town.
 The Christmas concert that was to have been given Saturday night at the Preston City Congregational church was postponed on account of the storm, until Tuesday night, when the programme will be carried out as pre- viously planned.
 In the current issue of the TeIe- phone Bulletin, J. C. Darby, chief op- orator, of Norwich, has two interest ing articles one on Some Qualities Of an Operator" and the second on Relations of the Traffic, Commercial and Plant, to the Public"
 Connecticut lodges of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, at con- ference at Hartford December 29, will consider a bill introduced in the last legislature, concerning the number of men to be employed on trains anti providing for a specified number to be employed on all passenger and freight trains which are run in this state.