Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-14
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Norysich. saturday, Jan. f4, 1sf1
VARIOUS MATTERS

was necessary.
 Arrangements are being made for addresses on St. Patrick's day, which comes on Friday this year. A large elm on the property of C.. Fred Moves, Laurel Hill avenue, which had been killed by the beetles, was cut down on Friday by Henry Davis. Five carloads of steel framework for the machine shop and the office build ings arrived Thursday at the Ship and Engine company's yard in Groton. The new arc light recently voted by the common council for Little Water street has been placed in position and makes a big improvement to the street at night.
 The annual meeting of the Connec- ticut Temperance union is to be held
 Tuesday, January 24. 1911, at the Con-
 gregationaI house, 426 Asylum street. Hartford.
 Among the directors elected at the
 meeting of the Connecticut Creamery
 association in Hartford were A. w.
 Annis of Vernon and s. T. Stockwell
 of Lebnan.
 The curate at Baltic, Rev. Father
 Dufresne has been assisting this week
 
 Father Grenier. is critically i'll with
 tuberculosis.
 Seventeen petitions in bankruptcy
 were filed in this state during Decem-
 Der, against IS in 1909 and 26 in 1908.
 The total assets were s22,337 and lia-
 bi1ities $57,474.
 Literature Day. tomorrow at Trin-
 ity Methodist church. 10.30 a. m., ser
 mon on "Elevating vs. Pernicious Lit
 erature.' 7.30 p. m.. special music;
 pastors subject Burning Books
 adv.
 The state board of equalization met this week in the state tax commits sioners office, to discuss the matter of bank taxations. There will be meet ing concerning insurance buildings later.
 Postmaster Caruthers wishes to call attention to two lace collars which were dropped in a street letter box during the month of December, and no inquiry having been made concerning the same.
 At the fourth quarterly conference of the Vernon Methodist church, Mon day evening. District Supt. J. H. New land presided. A unanimous vote was taken to, request the return of Rev. s. M. Beale for another year. Rev. P c. Wright will speak in tine Central Baptist church Sunday morn ing on the subject The Value of Right Decision. His evening theme will be A Man Whose Little Finger Was Big ger Than His Fathers Loin.-adv. The latest notice to mariners, is- sued by the bureau of lighthouses, contains the following: New London harbor entrance-Stella OCallahan wreck gas buoy, HIS, discontinued De- cember 2S. the wreck having been re-
 moved.
 A total of nearly forty-two millions loaned on real estate in Connecticut during 1910 shows, on the one hand, a good volume of new building, and,
 on the other, how we'll regarded are real estate mortgages as a form of in vestment.
 The state Spiritualists, through President A. A. Gustine of Meriden, are to make a big fight for the be- quest of s25,000 left them last summer nephew, E. w. Rowley, seeks to break the will.
 In the city court on Friday morning the young woman charged with being incorrigible was placed in care of the probation officer until the first of Feb ruary. Her mother told of her way ward inclinations and the girl prom ised to do better.
 In Connecticut there are 1.50o. 900 acres of land. About one-half of this ! land is estimated to be woodland or 150,000 acres Of this woodland 3S,- | 00G acres were burned over in the first | half of 1910, or about per cent. of the whole amount of 750,000 acres. I The statistics for the Episcopal l diocese of Connecticut show: Clergy 211; parishes and missions 226 lay readers 62; candidates for orders g; | postulants 20; families 25,360; bap- tims 2,132: confirmed 2,046; communi- cants 40,1S6.
 | If for any reason a. male resident of
 the town between the ages of 21 and 60 | Is incapacitated, he should see Dr. | Higgins, the examiner, before Jan. 31 | to get his certificate to that effect else he will have to pay the personal tax | of $2. Bremen and militiamen are l exempt.
 Colby D. Kennerson died from old | age Thursday in Montville. aged 82 years and months. He had lived In l Palmertown for several years, going | there with his two sons, by whom he l is survived, Freeman and William J | Kennerson, employed in Palmer Bros ! Co.'s quilt mill
 1 There was an extra bit of comedy at Polfs Friday evening, when a woman wearing her hat obstructed the view I of the man in back. The hat came 1 off, but was somewhat damaged in | the fracas, and there was fIourishing | of an umbrella and loud talk, all o1 | which amused the crowd. l A movement was started at the An ti-saloon league conference in Novem- Der for the general observance of Feb
 ruarY 12, Lincoln's day, which this year comes on Sunday. as a day for | a special effort in the Sunday schools | of the country to secure total absti- hence pledges among pupils. The weight of sentiment expressed I by the New London business men wae l in favor of the proposed annexation
 of the town of Waterford, despite ths 1 opposition of several well known men l The opposition in most cases was