Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

Norwich, Tussday. Jan. 17, 1911.
 VARIOUS MATTERS
 A keen, cutting wind made yester- day trying for outdoor workers.
 w. c. T. U. food sale at II Broad way Wed, Jan. IS. from 3 to 6 p. m. adv.
 The mercury was below the zero mark in the suburbs early Monday morning.
 Total loans recorded in Norwich last year amounted to s595,470. In 1909 the total was $1,440,o15.
 Country visitors Monday found that the few mild days last week have started ptSssy willow buds.
 Eleven new corporations. with a total authorized capital stock of $456,- 000 were formed in this state during the past week.
 The White Ribbon Banner states that the Windham county convention has been invited to meet with the willimantic W. O. T. union in June.
 Friends and relatives of John Nee han will attend months mind re- quiem high mass for the repose of his soul, in St. Patrick's church this morn ing.
 A test was made on Monday of the artesian we'll at the Norwich Golf clubs new ground and it showed 12 gallons to the minute, which is satis- factory.
 The Episcopal diocese of Connecti- cut reported for 1910: Marriages 800; burials 1928: Sunday school teachers 2.23s: pupils 17,sss; contributions
 Halle club members social with cards Thursday evening in reading room. Friday dancing class meets Thursday evening this week and until further notice.-adv.
 January r in the Catholic church is the feast of St Anthony, exemplar of zeal for souls, chastity temperance pa tience, humility, tenderness to all helpless living things.
 Local people who witnessed the pretty Maypole dance at New London last year, given in the park by the public school children, will be inter- ested to know that it is to be repeated this spring.
 Prominent Jewish laymen and rab- bis are in New York at the Hotel As tor, attending the twenty second coun- cil of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which continues until Thursday night.
 The civil superior court will come in here this morning, when the first case on the docket for trial is that of Doscher ct als. vs. Dawley ct all. suit over lumber. Boynton's appeal from probate follows.
 News was received Monday of the death at Colchester on Sunday of Re- becca Goddard, widow of John M. Smith a native of East Lyme. Mrs Smith was 99 years old last June. She had number of friends in Norwich.
 The New Years observance of the Greek church ended Sunday. Accord ing to the Julian calendar, which the Greeks follow, Friday was the last day of 1910 Gifts are exchanged by the Greeks at New Years time even more than at Christmas.
 It Is twenty-one days since James Burke Jr son of Mrs. and Mrs. James Burke of Fitchville, was drowned in Little Narragansett bay. It is past time for the body to come to the sur face, and it is feared that it was car- -ied out by the Folly to sea.
 The late Ira W. Jacksons theater in Bridgeport has passed to the control )f the P. F. Shea company of New ork, which means the establishment of an affiliated circuit, Bridgeport, Worcester Manchester, N. H.. Taunton, and Holyoke, Mass.
 Mrs Martha Helen Chandler, widow of Hon. William Henry Chandler of Thompson. died suddenly Sunday from heart trouble, at her home in Thomp- ;on. She was S9 years old. She leaves i've children. including former Sena- or Randolph H. Chandler of Thomp- ,on
 Quarterly meeting Norwich City Un- on Kings Daughters & Sons, Broad way Cong. church. this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Miss Susan R. Brockenshire will speak on Kings Daughters Work In Other Lands" Silver offering for silver anniversary. Public invited ldv.
 According to the returns of the state probation officers, there were re- on probation at the close of the fiscal year s5S men, 59 women, 325 boys and 26 girls while the cases of
 
 girls were investigated and settled out of court.
 The forest fires in Connecticut from January to July, 1910, which were re- ported. numbered 600, twice as bad as the usual season. The fall of 1909 was very dry, the dry spell extending well into the winter. so that spring found the woods in the driest condi- tion for many years.
 Charged with keeping a house of assignation, Ethel Faber of New Lon don was fined s20 and costs in tha New London police court Monday. The ease against Alice Stone, charged with disorderly houses, was nolled on the promise that she would leave the city immediately.
 Sunday afternoon the patients at the Backus hospital were entertained by cliff Dwellers' circle Of The Kings Miss Clara Worth and Miss Gladys Fisl<e were the soloists. Miss Helen Hamilton and Mrs. Charles Fiske were accompanies. Miss Mar guerite Wuh played for the song ser vice.
 Statistics of real estate and mort sage loans recorded in 33 of the lead