Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-22
VARIOUS MATTERS

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The almanac winter begins today.
the 22d.
Buy sunbeams to eat Simply de-
Hcious.-ady.
Chicken thieves are active evidently
in search of holiday poultry.
Makers Of home made candy and
fancy candy boxes are rushed
The December Ember days are SOL
emn seasons of prayer for those about
to be ordained.
fIousekeepers are remembering the
hospitals and other institutions with
Christmas daincies.
There is the usual exodus of eastern
Connecticut French residents to Can
ada for the holidays.
According to the census department
one out of every four farmers in Con-
necticut is of foreign birth.
Fifty printed calling cards for rs
cents at Bulletin office.-adv.
Although a postal savings bank has
been Officially established at Groton,
no business is to be transacted there
until after the holidays.
Work is soon to begin on alterations
and improvements at the Hotel Girls
void to have the house in readiness
for the opening of the new season.
Arcbdeacon j. Eldred Brown oficiat-
ed at the celebration of holy commun-
ION at Trinity Episcopal church on
Thursday, st. Thomas day.
AS a result of the new law, many a
child will find that Santa Claus has
dropped into his stocking a. drinking
cup to be used during the school year.
Friends hear that Jeptha c. Bill. who
Is SO, and who recently returned from
a visit in the west, is recovering from
a serious illness at the home of his
son in Rixtown.
In the town of Mansfield lives a
woman who, on Sunday, December II,
attained her 10Gth birthday. She is
Miss Annie Conant, a member of an
old Mansfield family.
John A. Hendrickson of Springfield
IS IN Mantle to make arrangements
for the building of another cottage at
Crescent beach on the site of one de-
stroyed by fire last fall.
On Christmas day. "A bayberry can
die burned to the socket Brings health
10 the home and gold to the pocket y
AT Lee & Osgood' S.-adv.
Thursday the sun was above the
and for the two following days this
Will be the length of the days. These
are the shortest in the year.
Most of the Christmas trees which
nave been coming Gown on the Cen
trail Vermont road are from Canada,
instead OF from Maine as formerly, the
Maine supply being nearly eXhaus ted
At the Christmas tree and exercises
in the Sunday school of the Mt Car
mel Congregational church, Hamden
next Thursday evening. Mrs Charles
c, ElwelL. formerly of Norwich, is to
, read for the children.
A prominent poultry raiser writes:
A bunch of early Laying pullets will
earn more net money during the
months IF October, November, Decem-
Der and January than a like number
| of -year-old hens will earn I'm
twelve months.
Said Thursdays Springfield Repub-
lican Bishop Davies hopes he will
| be able to have a downtown office
where he will keep regular office hours
organizations of the Episcopal diocese
| of western Massachusetts viii be able
| &c hold business sessions.
/ Regarding a Thompson sagnIne. res
| ideut the Providence Tribune says:
| Mrs. Emma Shaw Colcleugh gave the
| concluding lecture in her excellent
| course OIL South America in Froebe
| hall Wednesday. In her last lecture
| she gave an Instructive and interest
| ing talk on South American bibliogra.
ply.
Duck hunters claim that the season
| for black duck and shore BIRDS hai
! been poor about Mumford's Cove anC
| GrotOn Long Point, where they usual,
| hover around the salt water creeks
| cooking for halt. The season has beer
| SO mid that the fowl have remained
on the south side of Fishers island
whereas a good snow storm woulC
| have criven them to the mainland.
| This weeks meeting of Comfort cir
Gle of the Kings Daughters was tbs
| annual meeting and was held will
| Mrs Henry w. Branche of Whitakei
! avenue, sixteen members and one Wis.
/ itor being present Officers were re
| elected as follows: Leader, Mrs. A
| T. Utley; vice leader, Mrs. J. H. Allen
/ secretary, Mrs. L. L. Branche; treas
| urer, Mrs. A. G.. Allen; chairman O.
| work committee, Mrs. William Baker
! of the staff of the Vanderbilt clinic
and a specialist in chi1drcn's disea SEES
was buried Monday IN Stoningtcn. H
died at his lt'ne in the Melrose apart
! ntents, at Central Park West and 1851
street, New York, last ThJrsti2y, o
/ appendicitis. He was bort. in New
York thirty-nine years ago. DR.. YarC
was graduated from the College o
Physicians ard Surgeons in 1886. H
was a member of the American hedi
cal assccia tion and the New York Cit!