Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-02
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Norwich. Wednesday, March 2, 1870
VARIOUS MATTERS

| VARIOUS MATTERS
| Mud is nearly axle-high on some of
| the country roads.
Societies in rural churches are in
creasing their funds by giving Lenten
suppers-
Warming is being sent out that there
are numerous sales of bob-veal about
| the state.
On Tuesday the close season of fish
ing for pickerel began, continuing I'M
til after April.
Papers in the western part of the
state are still making references to
sleighing parties.
Third annual social of Lonsomehurst
club at T. A. B. hall Friday night,
March 4. at 9 p. m.-adv.
Today, March 2, is devoted in the
church calendar to St. Chad, founder
of see of Litchfeld, England.
Cottage owners are consulting with
architects and builders preparatory to
spring changes and renovatfons.
K of G. councils are beginning to
select delegates to attend the national
convention at Quebec in August.
The planet Venus is now a morning
star. rising before the sun On March
IS, it attains its greatest brilliancy.
Historians noted March 1 as the date
when, in 1887. the independence of
Texas was recognized by the United
States
The factories in Forestville have re-
Gently been inspected by Miss Julia
Corcoran of Norwich, state deputy fac
tory inspector.
Eastern Connecticut priests were in
Hartford on Tuesday, to attend the
semi conference of the Catho-
lie rectOrs of the diocese.
Groton residents, Frederick Atwood
and family. will soon move to Mont
vile. where Mr.. Atwood has been
transferred by his company.
Low rates to California, Arizona,
New Mexico, Mexico. Tourist sleeper
without change, berth $780, Wash
ington-Sunset route, 170-22S Wash.
St, Boston.-adv.
A Plymouth correspondent writes:
1t is expected that the Rev. Marcus
]. Simpson, the new rector of the Epis-
copal church, will have charge of the
services at the church Wednesday
night
HalIey's comet viii be visible to the
naked eye during the first few eve
nings of this month. It will not be
conspicuous. but can be seen as a hazy
object in the southwest as soon as it |
is dark enough.
The Bulletins Geographic reference
Tuesday to the death at Williamsburg,
Mas. of Daniel Collins Graves. SO, |
started the search in Libraries for John |
Boyle O'Reilly's famous poem, The |
Ride of Collins Graves.
March L was the time limit in which |
corporations were required to make |
returns to the government under the |
law imposing a tax of one per cent. |
on their net incomes over $4,000 dur /
ing the calendar year of 1909.
The lighter Captain Jack has been |
engaged in taking off the cars four
large boilers for the Bigelow- Harri- |
man company of Montville. The boil |
ers, which will be installed in the new |
pa per mill, weighed about 20 tons each. |
Writing from Adams, Mass, a cor |
respondent notes: Max Fox of Nor |
witch. Conn, is in town to visit his |
father. Rudolph Fox, 81 years. The |
latter, who is probably the oldest |
German resident in town. Is seriously |
i'll at his home.
According to Tuesdays Springfield |
Republican, Prof. A E. Dolbear, the |
eminent physicist and biologist of |
Tufts college, a native of Norwich, |
who died last week, recently complet- |
ed researches on which he based the |
opinion that vital forces were one and |
the same thing as chemical and physi- |
cal processes
Uncle Horace Johnson's latest: !
There will be generally fair weather |
for the coming few days up to about |
the Sth- From the Sth to the 18th of |
prepare for a general disturb
ance which will cross the ocean from |
continent to continent and be of very |
great force. Earthquake and tidal /
wave will be in order.
The pure-food laws are probably re-
sponsible for the absence of much of |
the maple sugar that used to be seen |
in the markets long time before the |
farmers had begun sugarmaking in |
the spring. Under the law, the adu1- |
terated article, compounded in part |
with graduated sugar from the gro
Gerry, has to be marked plainly just |
what it is.
The crusade against offensive St |
Patrick's day post cards recalls the |
fact that last year during the Jew
ish holiday season offensive photo |
graphs and postal cards of a like char
7cter began TO find their way into
the mails. Steps We're taken by the |
of the Jewish people
to prevent the distribution of those
cards through the postoffices with |
very successful results.
There Is being circulated in Connec- |