Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
Late tomatoes Jared particularly
hard in this weeks frost.
A few. local auto drivers are dis
playing Norwich remnants.
Several from here attended the
Boston dahlia show Friday.
The FROST has moved Horace John
son to predict long, hard winter.
The Mt Holyoke college girls will
leave to begin the year on Tuesday
next.
lines to put on closed cars unusually
early.
A drizzly. chilly day like Friday
holds up the motor parties at the
country inns
Mrs. E. c. Phyall, owner of the
knickerbocker house, Mantle, has
closed the hotel for the winter.
Thursdays frost was as freaky as
lightning, leaving some gardens all
blackened and passing others with
out damage.
dl e llNS HuI SQdyS Ill 4NOtSul-
Der, but it has been officially decided
that the last, November 80, is to be
Thanksgiving day.
The season has been so poor that
the New London Horticultural society
has decided to give up holding a dah-
liza show this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. watrous of
Willimantic have taken a cottage at
Sandy Point, Mantle, where they will
stay several weeks.
The winter schedule of passenger
trains on the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad will go into effect
on Sunday, October 1. at 1901 a. m.
A former Norwich man. Berlin w.
Tinker, is superintendent of public
schools in Waterbury, where the en-
rolment this year is over 1900 pu-
pills.
The Central Baptist church is the
place to be Sunday evening. The music
is fine, the message is direct and frank.
Come and see.-adv.
Miss Christine Hovey Smith, direc-
tor of physical culture Y. W. C. A,
Akron, o.. with her sisters has been
conducting a physical culture camp in
Waterford, the season for which has
just ended.
Very Low Colonist Rates via Nickel
Plate ROad-To California, Washing
ton, Oregon and far west, daily, Sept.
14th tc Oct. l4th. Finest tourist sleep
ers daily. Write L. P. Burgess, 312
Old South Bldg. Boston, Mass.-adv.
A native of Colchester, Rev. DR.. M.
A Sullivan, rector of the Imma culate
Conception church. Hartford, returned
in Europe. He was formally welcomed
home by his parishioners and present.
ed purse of 500.
Edison B. Bishop formerly United
States marshal has been appointed
can Service union of New York. The
corporation contracts to pay the dues
and assessments of the members of
fraternal organizations.
New London has a school nurse. She
is Mrs. Frances Gait Smith, a local
nurse with New York training. In
connection with the introduction of a
school nurse it is the intention of the
board of education to inaugurate a
system of medical inspection of the
schools.
The Connecticut colony for epilep-
tics of Mansfield has petitioned the
public utilities commission for spur
track connecting with the Central
Vermont railroad in willimantic. The
commission will give hearing on
the petition at it's office in the capitol,
Tuesday, at 12.15.
1t was announced in Boston Thurs
day that arrangements are being made
whereby New York, New Haven s.
Hartford railroad mileage tickets will
be made good on all parts of the Bos-
ton and Albany system, and vice YER
sa. This arrangement does not in
clude the Boston & Maine and Maine
Central systems.
On Tuesday next the new city of
Bristol will elect a mayor for the first
time. Leading citizens there issued a
circular Thursday endorsing the can
didaoy of Charles L. Wooding. Mr..
Wooding was the college classmate
and intimate friend OF Rev. H: j.
Wyckoff, pastor of the Second Con-
grcgational church, Norwich.
One provision of the new anti-cig-
arctic law reads: Every person who
shall sell, give, or deliver to any mi
nor under sixteen years of age, to-
bacco in any form shall be fined not
more than twenty-five dollars for the
first offense. and not less than twenty
five dollars nor more than one hundred
for each subsequent offense.
Mrs Joseph Sandoro of Poquonnoc
road has discovered that jewelry to
the value, of $3.50 was stolen from her
home, probably during her attendance
at the Norwich fair last week. Among
the articles lost were a gold watch
and chain, rings and a small amount
of money in gold. 1t is believed they
We're taken by former boarder from
Quincy, Mass.
The engagement of Theodore r.
Smith, son of Edmond H. Smith of
Springfield, Mass, and Miss Maria
Vasquez of Havana, Cuba, has been
announced. Mr.. Smith. who has been
in Havana for the past three years
in the interests of his fathers firm,
Hinsdale Smith & Co, made a short
visit to his family at their summer
home in Westbrook, Conn. this week,
and to day Saturday will sail on his
return trip to Cuba.
OF eastern Connecticut interest was
a wedding in Bridgeport Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock, when, at Sa-
cred Heart church, Miss Mabel Agnes
Halsey became the bride of William
Broderick Prendergast, the officers in
the solemn nuptial high snass being
the three uncles of the groom, Rev.
F. ]. La1ly of Waterbury, celebrant;
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