Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-13

= Sergeant D. J. Twomey has been acting captain at police headquarters for the past two nights, Captain Lin- ton being nome with grip cold
 c. A. R. Posts and Sons of Veterans in several Connecticut towns are to commemorate the anniversary of the surrender of the confederate general Lee.
 Holland county growers are inter- ested in bill before the legislature to prevent the labelling of tobacco grown outside the state as Connecticut tobacco.
 The formal opening of navigation on the Connecticut river has been set for tomorrow, March 14, when the Hartford and New York boats begin their season.
 In St. Patrick,s church this morn ing relatives and friends will attend an anniversary requiem high mass for Mrs. Patrick Connor, who for many years resided in Thamesville.
 The next meeting of the Connecticut Society of Colonial Danes is to be held at the home of Mrs. Bruce Tenn in Whitney avenue, New Haven, on Wednesday afternoon, April 5.
 MT. and Mrs George Kimban of Hampton are to celebrate their twen- ty-fifth wedding anniversary on March 18th, not the twenty fifth of March, as stated on Saturday in the Rawson news.
 Friends of Mrs. c. H. Peckham, wid- ow of a. former pastor at Leffingwell, will regret to learn that owing to nervous breakdown she has been oblig- ed to. enter a sanitarium for a course of treatment.
 Morton F. Plant has consented to woman's college for which a fund of $13l,000 was recently raised at New London. There will be twenty five other trustees.
 An Essex correspondent writes: Trinity church, Norwich gave an in- teresting sermon to a large audience at St. Johns Memorial church on Thursday evening.
 The annual banquet Of the New London County Alumni association will be held at New London, March. 25. Prof. W. l.. Phelps of Yale, Colonel N. c. Osborn and George F. Day will be among the speakers.
 
 Henry c. O'Su1livan, political and legislative writer on the. New Haven Register, who was known to many To- cal democrats. died Friday at his home in New Haven. The funeral takes place there this morning.
 Mrs. George Edwards of Palmertown has been brought to the Backus hos pital for treatment. Mrs. Edwards has been under severe nervous strain ever since the sad death of her two boys by drowning several weeks ago.
 Very Low Co1onist Rates wis. Nickel Plate Road-To California, Washing ton, Oregon and far west, daily, March 10th to April 10th. Finest tourist sleepers. Write l.. F. Burgess. N. E. F. A., 312 Old South bldg. Boston, Mass.-adv.
 New York, New Haven & Hartford trainmen were notified Saturday morn ing that beginning March 20 they will be required to have a thorough knowI- edge of the manual of train rules, on which they will be examined at fre- quent intervals.
 Mrs. Samuel Rogers of Stafford Springs, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. w. H. Bush of Mantle enter tained a party of friends at her moth CTS home Friday evening. Whist and other games were played and refresh- ments were served.
 Announcement is made of the en- gagement of Charles c. Gardner to Miss Mildred Collar of Newport. MT. Gardner is a son of Mrs. Stephen A. Gardner of New London, and is agent of the New England Navigation com pany and New Haven railroad at New port.
 Sunday in the Catholic church was the feast of St. Gregory the Great, the fourth doctor of the Latin church; the first pope to send missionaries to England; the reformer of the church services and founder of the Gregorian style of church music; the, last pope to be canonized.
 Formerly the postoffice men were re- quired to do Sunday work on demand without extra pay, but by new rul- off the required eight hours daily ser- vice. If man does two hours extra Sunday work he will only have to put in six hours some week day.
 The Alvin E. Golf property in Mont vile, recently destroyed by fire, may be rebuilt during the summer In the meantime it is reported that MT. Golf will put up temporary structure of bungalow style. so that he can h1ave a home and be at hand to care for his poultry and other livestock.
 Yesterday, the second Sunday in Lent, Rev William F. Cavanaugh preached in St. Patricl1's church on the third commandment, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The offertory solo was by Miss Gree ley. At the evening service the ser mon was by Rev. Thomas A. Grum- bly.
 So long as the property owners cut away the wood, so long will there be a scarcity of game, hunters claim. The cutting away of brush covers, they ar- gue, is needless. Even though the trees are cut down 1t is possible to leave a certain amount of undergrowth to- insure home for the quail and partridge.
 Senator Brandegee's automobile caught fire in Washington last week while he was riding with Senator Car ter. MT. Brandegee smothered the flames with sand before the fire depart ment arrived. The machine was dam- aged to. the extent of $150- Senator Brandegee left Friday for New Yorl and Couueeffc11f