Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-01
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VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS The sudden freexsnx of the ma ha. made rough traveline. March is the feast of st. David patron saint of Wales.
 Postcards from Mardi Gras tourist, are reaching local friends.
 Pound social at Spiritual Academy Thursday night lc cents
 Hezekiah Perkins is critically i'll !, his home at ThamesviIle, havine suf. fered shock on Monday.
 The parish mass in St. Patricks church during Lent will be celebrated at o'clock; generally in the base
 On Tuesday George w. Rouse left here for Meriden with the Chimoleskj boy, who will remain there until he Is 21 years of age.
 There is local interest in the death of Sam Walter Foss of Somsrville, as resident of Norwich.
 The Aero Club of Connecticut now numbers Al members. Among those who have joined recently Is Charles D. White of Norwich.
 Somerset lodge works the Entered Apprentice degree this evening. Re- reshments.-adv.
 District Supt. J. H. Newland goes to Holland to hold the fourth quarterly conference in Lee Methodist church this Wednesday, evening.
 Dakota. farmers find that the prices of certain seeds have advanced, timo- thy and peas noticeably so.
 The first of the united Lenten serv- ices will be held this evening at Trim vries of Saybrook will be the preach er
 Ice still covers the coves along the Thames, but the river ia open. River men are looking forward to the ice breaking up in the Connecticut at any time.
 Weather prophets who predicted q severe season because of the way the oak leaves were found clinging to their branches, are declaring this a sign which never fails.
 Although this is the first day of spring. there is said to bo no less than a foot of frost in tho ground, and the temperature has been below 20 degrees for the past two mornings.
 At Polls theater, Bostonia Ladies' orchestra, 12 pieces. Hon. J. Frank Hanly. former governor of Indiana For men only. Sunday at 3.ao. under au- spices of Y. M. c. A.-adv.
 Governor Baldwin has invited the members of the general assembly to a reception in Memorial hall, Supreme Court and Library building. Hartford, on Tuesday evening. March T. at eight o'clock.
 The great forest fires of last fall cost the government $1,050,000 for the total expenses of fighting the flames, according to statements made by Sec retary Wilson of the department of agriculture.
 Very Low Colonist Rates via Nickel Plate Road-To California, Washing ton. Oregon and far west, daily. March 10th to April 10th; Finest tourist P. A, s12 old South bldg. Boston. Mass.--advs
 Boston papers refer to the Lenten recitals. four in number, to be given in the Tuilleries,. by Wilhelm Hein- rich, formerly of Norwich, annual events attended by many music Ioy- CTS and society women
 The New York, New Haven 6 Hart ford Railroad Co. has declared a reg ular quarterly dividend of ? per cent. and 1 1-2 per cent. on the three-fourths n n IVY Y1o1 va n1n rr1 <r stock of record March 15.
 Strangers in town notice that win dows in private houses. hotels and of- Aces display water bottles out to cool. and westerner, who knew nothing of the recent famine, inquired if every body drank mineral water.
 Although the past year has been record one for the International Silver company. its ofiicials declare that ex- penses were much higher than in the previous year, and prices lower on certain lines of silverware.
 Joseph Peters and John McNamara caught handsome string of 31 pick fish were on exhibition at an East Side business house on Tuesday and att tracted considerable attention.
 There was arrested on Tuesday young girl who is liable to fall into bad ways. Her case will come up this morning and she may be turned over to Captain Douglass to be taken to a rescue mission of the Salvation army
 Judge w. S. Case, David Mackenzie. A. O. Buzzell and Charles R. Hanscorn. the last three of New London, who went to Bermuda fortnight ago, have returned in fine health and in good spirits, having enjoyed the trip i'm mensely.
 Carpenters were at work tearing up the floor in the lower hall of the city hall Tuesday preparatory to laying some new flooring there. The floor toists. 3x12. are laid in cement, show ing how firmly the building was con- structed.
 The flags on the steamers of the Norwich line have been at half-mast in memory of Capt. Edward Wilcox. who died suddenly Saturday in Prov idence. Captain Wilcox was connect- cd with the United States steamboat inspectors oflce.
 Physical Director Leasing Bandlow of the Y. M. c. A. was unable to take his classes on Tuesday, being sick with stomach trouble: MT. Bandiow's classes
 
 thusiastic and well qualified member of the association.
 Tuesday, February 2s. was the day on which all motor vehicle operators licenses expired The secretary of states office reports that up to the present time only $500 of these liz censes have been renewed out of total of about 16,o0o.