Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

vAkIUUS MAIIEhS Sunday was the feast of St. Paul. the first hermit.
 Several Norwich young people are in New Haven for the social events of Prom. week.
 The Otis library reading room att tracted a good number Sunday after noon Miss Weldon was in charge. The libraries are having calls for lit- erature pertaining to Horace Greeley, whose centenary will be observed on February 8.
 The annual meeting and banquet of the Connecticut Editorial association Is to be held in New Haven on Mon- day, January 30.
 Richard Lamont, the Middletown weather prophet, predicts that the lat ter part of the month will be marked by big cold wave.
 The usual afternoon tea at the Halle club on Sunday had a large attend ance of the members. An informal musical programme was given during the afternoon.
 Orient Rebekah lodge of New Lon don, which is to entertain the Thames Past Grands' association for the Jan uary meeting, has named next Thurs day for the date.
 The regimental associations of this state will have an annual meeting of their presidents and secretaries Jan uary 25 at the headquarters of Rob ert o. Tyler post, G. A. R.. in Hart ford.
 In the Catholic churches Sunday the congregations pledged themselves to refrain from all obscene language and from an improper use of the name of God and of His Divine Son for the coming year.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie NJ Bigelow were held at her home on the Black Point road Saturday morn ing at II o'clock. Rev. H. A. Goering officiated. Burial was in Jordan cem- etery. Waterford.
 All ministers are ex-officio mem bers of the Connecticut Temperance union, and two delegates Oaymen) may be sent to the annual meeting by any cooperating church or temper ance organization.
 New York, New Haven & Hartford trainmen have received an order to more closely observe the rules and reg ulations. The order calls attention to reports that in some instances rules are not being closely followed.
 At a meeting in Boston of the ex- ecutive committee of the American In- stitute of Instruction it was voted to hold this years meeting in Providence June 29, 30 and 31, a decision which interests Connecticut teachers.
 Alumni of Yale in Norwich have re- ceived copies of the twentieth annual report of the board of directors of the Yale alumni fund. The net receipts for the year ended June 30, 1910. were s143,750.4S. The total principal to July 1, 1910, was s454, ,4O3.s7.
 The postoffice department is calling attention to the fact that the only British colonies to which letters are mailable at the rate of cents an ounce are the Dominion of Canada and the colony of Newfoundland. All oth- CT British colonies the rate Is cents.
 There has been placed in Palmer hall, Fitchville, by the public library committee of Hartford. a small trav- cling library for the use of the people of the town of Bozrah. Books may be obtained on Wednesday afternoon from to o'clock. The library is entirely free
  citation is arranging for memorable evening next Saturday, when a spe- cial meeting will be held in F'oresters' hall for the installation of its officers The associations in New London, Will limantic and Westerly are to be in- vited.
 Dr. P. H. Hartman has accepted the invitation of the Carpenters union to be the speaker at it's 25th anniversary, which is to be celebrated this evening in T. A. B. hall. On the musical pro- gramme are to be tenor solos by Ar thur R. Blackledge. and also orchestral numbers
 It was announced in St. Patrick's church Sunday that prospects are fa- vorable for the consecration of that handsome edifice this spring, perhaps by May. This means that during the rectorship of the Rev. Hugh Treanor the church has been cleared of over $30.000 debt.
 The Worcester Post notes that AL fred l.. Aiken, president of the Wor- cester county institution for savings, has been secured to speak at a meet ing in the Worcester boys club rboms Friday night on how to save money and the advantage of beginning to do so in early youth.
 The census of the Catholic diocese of Hartford, according to the Catholic Transcript, shows that the number of secular priests is 27O. the number of religious orders s, with 46 priests; that the orders for women number 26 with 1912 nuns and the 75 parochial schools have 33,000 pupils.
 The case against Seneca H. Thresh- CT of Norwich, in which larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses are charged, was continued Saturday at New London until January 23, and the bond continued. The case will probably be settled before the time of adjournment is reached.
 United States Marshal E. s. Bishop is on his way to the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga, with Otto Vogt, the Hart ford barber, who sent objectionable letters through the mails and was sen fenced to three years Imprisonment