Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-18
VARIOUS MATTERS

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March IS is the feast day Of st.
Gabriel. the archangel.
Carolina shad was in market for the
st. Patrick's day dinner.
Henry Brooks is soon to erect a
cottage at Pleasure beach.
New Spring millinery at Mrs. G. p.
Stanton's.-adv.
Invitations have been issued for the
silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. David
A. Brown of Tolland.
Sunday being the Feast of Lots, will
be commemorated in connection with
the Jewish feast of Purim.
The recent report OF the tariff
board shows that the total capacity
133,745 tons.
Yesterday was a beautiful st. Pat
ricks day, in marked contrast to the
date in 1910, when there was a snow
storm and in many places the tenn
perature was below zero.
Remember the military ball to be
given by the Fifth Co., April 19.-adv.
The Rockville Bugle and Drum band
is arranging for big carnival on
July 4, to which all Connecticut and
a number of Massachusetts drum
corps are to be invited.
The Waterbury woman's club has
appointed a general committee to ar
range for the meeting of the State
Federation of Woman's Clubs, to be
held in Waterbury May II and Is.
The law prohibiting the lighting of
brush fires or burning rubbish without
a permit from the fire warden, went
into effect March is. Persons violating
this law are liable to be prosecuted.
Recent reports show that the aver
age value of improved farm land in
Connecticut an acre was $63 in 1910,
compared with $42 an acre in 1900, go
increase Of so per cent. during the
decade.
In the city court on Friday morning
August Simko, charged with embez-
zling $35, was allowed to settle his
case by paying 81 and giving to the
men he employed the amount which
is due them. This he did and ended
his trouble.
Smelt fishermen are sitting on the
river banks and in boats daily scooping
for smelt, but their luck has not ap-
when the little fish will go up the river
to spawn and the fishermen want to
get the early ones.
Enlisting in the United States navy
during the past week were William A.
of New Haven, John Suba of Bethany
and Joseph Maiorano Of New Haven
as apprentice seamen. They were sent
to the training station at Newport,
r. I.
The New York and Eastern COM
pany, controlling the sales of news
papers on the New Haven system has
ordered stamped on each paper carried
by the newsboys the maximum price
of the paper. PAY no more" advises
the stamp. The order was in effect
Thursday.
Sunday evening at the Central Bap-
list church, Rev. p, G. Wright will be-
gin series of addresses upon The
topics will be: Forgiving Our Enc
mics; Paradise Promised to a Thief;
Alone; The Victory of Defeat; Dark
ness and Dawn.-adv.
At the service in .commemora ton of
the semi-centennial of st. Luke's chap,
ell, Buckley divinity school. Middle
town, on Thursday. the anniversary
sermon was by Rev. S. O. Seymour,
ID, 81, Of st. Michaeps church,
Litchfield, formerly rector of Trinity
Episcopal church, Norwich.
Rial s. Peck, one Of Hartford's well
known business men, died at st. Au-
gustine, Fla, Thursday. He was a
32d degree Mason, enrolled in the Nor
wich consistory, past commander of
Washington commandery, K. T., of
RI NJ "a ~
Sphinx temple, A. 0. N. M. S.
Higher wages were paid to farm
laborers during 1910 than at any time
in the last As years, according to sta
tistics Just made public by the de-
partment of agriculture. The average
wage for the country was $3.50 per
month during 1910. while twenty
years ago they were only 1883.
On Friday Deacon G. R. Sanders,
who is in charge of the Mohegan
church improvements, received a sub
scription of SIS from Henry P. Bond
Jr., and his mother, Mrs. Mary P.
Bond of New London, SO from the
First church, Norwich Town, and 81
and s25 from G. H. Osgood of Nor
witch.
Thursdays Worcester Gazette said:
Misconduct on the part OF her huS-
band is the ground on which Isabella
M. Wolcot+ of Worcester sought d.
vorce from Edgar J. Wolcott. Mr.
and Mrs. Wolcott were married in
Worcester in 1893 and have three chill
dren. Decree nisi granted for mis-
conduct and custody of children. Dom
aid G. Perkins of Norwich for libel
liant.
A large congregation assisted at the
ST. Patrick's day solemn high mass in
st. Patricks church at 8 o'clock Fri
day morning, when the rector, Rev.
Hugh Treanor, was celebrant, Rev.
Thomas A. Grumbly deacon and Rev.
William F. Cavanaugh sub deacon. Or
ganist F. L. Farrell played a magnifi-
cent medley of Irish airs-his own ar
rangenent. At the offertory, Miss
Greeley sang the hymn to st. Pat
rick, Hail, Glorious Apostle.
SOUTHERN JUBILEE SINGERS