Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-17
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Special safes in advance of Thanks giving are attracting many shoppers | to the stores.
 Dealers in holiday greens are al- l ready taking orders for their delivery 1 Some fine ones are obtained from Mo- . ] hogan
 l The school officers of Colchester 1 have reported to the state comptrol- | ler's office the towns school enumer ! ation as 5s7.
 | walks and lawns indicate that the l Thanksgiving barrel collectors have 1 begun their work.
 1 The deer interest in the Spencer I trial at Springfield is indica/ed by the | many local inquiries and speculations l as to it's outcome.
 The planet Jupiter will not be in I view this month, being behinl the sun l with which it will be in conjunction 1 tomorrow, November IS. Old soldiers remembered that on November Is, in '64, Sherman destroyed Atlanta, and then began his march | through Georgia to Savannah. 4 NoanlS correspondent writes: J. Davis has taken a contract to build 26-foot power boat with hunting cab
 
 Metthew Tinker of Chesterfield with his threshing machine is employed threshing a ten-acre lot of oats for Julius Mass of Mantle hill. Again announcements are coming in to Connecticut from Hamburg of the famous gift scheme which the postal authorities consider violation of the postal laws.
 
 Thursday evening William P. Cramm, M.D.. and Miss Blanche Whitehouse of Mansfield were united in marriage by Rev. B. c. Bugbee. At the recent 4. M. E. Zion mission ary convention in Derby, it was stated that the children's department of mis- sionary work, The Buds of Promise, has made excellent progress during tn : year.
 The Storrs college Lookout notes that six acres of alfalfa at the college have been sown and although neees- sarily late on account of the drought it will go into the winter in gooo shape.
 Mrs. Frank w. Nichols of Mystic, formerly of this city, who made ar effort to end her life recently at her Mystic home. has been brought to the Norwich Satte hospital and there is being treated
 The Boynton farm in Flanders. Gov entry, has again changed hands, the present owner, Theresa M Reilly of Brooklyn, N. r., having bought it of Charles Edw&r6s- The place has had four different owners since March l.
 Maj F. M. Shinkle and Maj John E. Weston, both of the U. s. ordnance department at Springfield, began their ae-nliie riding test at Fort H. G. .sr~E,% -tzL> @-Tc lxx.. .7--. They covered 30 miles during the day.
 Martin E. Jensen of Norwich spoke before St. James Mems club of St. James Episcopal church, New London, Thursday evening, on Psychotherapy, or Mind Cure. The meeting was held in the parish house. corner F1e l. eral ard Meridian streets.
 The hens are taking a vacation and eggs are selling in state towns at prices varying from 45 10 66 cents per dozen. X Norwich visitor "Wednesday who had just come from Massachu-' setts, found the price there 40 cents, out the supply was short.
 Engineer Elwen of the public utili- ties commission has just finished an inspection of the physical condition of the Central Vermont railway and says he was pleased to find it in such good shape He made the remark that the Central Vermont was certainly picking up.
 On Wednesday the Meriden Journal said: Quite a number of Meriden people will attend the dedication of the new Uhiversalist church in Nor wich The services will take place in day evening of next week, at four o'clock.
 Clarence Watson. 25, living in Mys- t,< two weeks ago last Wednesday. lie was thrown out of his wagon and landed on his head in the road. He was operated On at the Baekus hos pital end pieces of the fractured skull were removed.
 Episcopal clergymen who feared that the new amendment to the sanitary code might affect the use of the single cap or chalice in their communion services. have been notified that the new enactment which does away with the common drinking cup applies only to cups used for water
 A New York specialist has been ad- i7ising farmers across the Rhode Is land border to keep more bees. Ac- cording to leading Connecticut granger, Norwich has beekeeper, Al len Latham, who knows so much about the busy little insects that he almost understands their language.
 Frank F. Barker, formerly teller of the New London City National bank. is seriously i'll at his home with heart trouble He has been ailing several days but during Wednesday night his condition became alarming. There was some Improvement later, but on Thursday he suffered another attack.
 Boards of trade and other commer- cial organizations are being urged to attend hearing in New York Nov ber 22 to protest against the r-larccs to be put into effect by the railroads for trunks and other articles of baggage which exceed certain spe- ciGed dimensions 6f length and width ENGINEER DUN:IAM SEES
 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE