Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-13
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
The superstititous win note the COM
bination today, Friday and the 18th!
Noted medium. May Pepper Wander
bilt at Spiritual Academy, Sunday
adv. .y
Wellesley a1umnae have received the
new catalogue which shows that the
college has graduated 3.S49.
One of the district schools in the
town of Ledyard is being taught by
Edward S. Law1er of Norwich.
John Main has purchased the Ma
thewson Mills property on the line OF
the Norwich Westerly electric road.
The weather sharps think that the
rains are over for a time. as the
moon will be full tomorrow, the 14th.
The demand for wash goods has be-
gun unusually. early in the store, and
some dressmakers are already busted
with summer orders.
A Western Union electric clock has
been placed in the Boston store just
inside the Shetucket street entrance.
1t is corrected hourly.
The new demurrage rules on all the
railroads have been modified to per-
NIT 81 hours in unloading coal and
timber from cars without extra charge.
s. Alpheus Gilbert has qualified as
executor of the will of Nathan S. Gill
bert, and Walter E. and Stowell Gill
bert have been named as appraisers of
the estate.
Carleton p. Browning leaves Satur-
day for Arizona, going by way OF
Florida and Mobile. He will be en-
gagged in civil engineering there for an
indefinite period.
Earl Park White of Waterford
aged 81, died Wednesday morning of
tuberculosis. Mr.. White conducted q
farm on the Norwich road. He is sur
vived by his wife and one child.
Members of the Order of Railway
Conductors plan to attend the annual
banquet of the New England division
of the order in the United States hotel
in Boston, January e..
Thirty eight new recruits for Fort
Wright, Fishers island arrived We'd
nesday over the Central Vermont
road. The men came in charge of a
sergeant from Columbus, Ohio.
Harry B. Morton, a grocer of Man
tic, has fallen heir to $4,000 through
the death of an uncle, Reuben Thorn
as Morton of Minneapolis, Mimi, a
broker, who died December IL. aged 81.
Clayton Smith of New London, who
read law in Judge Belchers office and
attended Columbia law school, regis
tered himself in the office Of Attorney
w. H. Shields at Norwich, rs years
ago.
There were twenty tramps sheltered
at the quarters at police station on
Thursday night. On Wednesday night
there were twelve. Norwich seems to
be the objective point for all the tran
sients.
Groton friends are particularly in
terested in the fact that Rev, G. F.
Bailey has resigned after fifteen years
pastorate at Westbrook, to accept a
call to the Congregational church at
Collinsville.
A New Haven paper says. DR.. ]. ]
Cohane of Fair Haven led the physi-
clans of the city last year in the num-
Der of birth cases at which he was in
attendance, according to the annual re-
port Of Registrar Lee.
The continued case of Mrs. William
III. Hicks VS.. James Lewis, a suit for
money LOANED, which was to have been
resumed in the court of common pleas
at New London Thursday. was con-
tinued, the court not sitting.
After being boolelkeeper for A. N.
Carpenter for eleven years Alfred Mof-
fit left on Thursday for Boston, where
he has accepted a position in a Boston
commission house. His departure from
tOUp will ha p~reatlV raQraftad
One of the honor guests at the fif-
tieth anniversary of the Hartford City
guard this week was Gen. William A.
Aiken of Norwich, who was quarter
master general on the staff of War
Governor William A. Buckingham.
United States collier Brutus, which
has been at the naval station discharg-
ing soft coal to be stored under water
down the river Thursday afternoon by
tug Miles Standish. The collier will
sail south.
Gustaf Neumann, gardener at Alfred
Mitchelrs Pequot avenue place, New
London, sailed Thursday from New
York on the steamer Almiranta for
Port Antonio. Mr.. Neumann is making
the trip at the request of Mr.. Mitchell,
who is in jamaica.
OF local interest is the announce
ment that f. #. Moulton has been
appointed station agent at the South
Worcester station to succeed Frank
r. Burns, who is to be transferred to
Providence. The change will go in
effect in a few days.
Coroner Franklin H. Brown Thurs
day morning viewed the body of Tony
Colacci of New London who was killed
Wednesday afternoon on the track of
the New Haven road about 500 feet
north OF the Groton station. Accident
tai death was the verdict rendered.
Students in business colleges in
eastern Connecticut have been notified
that the typewriting contest for the
Brown trophy and the Stone medal,
which will take place at the Connec-
ticut Business Educators association
meeting in Bridgeport on January 2S.
DR.. Clara Michigan, superintendent
of the Mystic Oral school, has returned
to her home. in Philadelphia after
starting the winter term in the school.
Mrs. McGuigan stated that the school
was full. The new addition to the
buildings is being pushed as fast as
possible.
a leak in the pipe line which car
ries water from the reservoir to the
paper mill was responsible for tenn
pOrary shutdown at the Thames River
Specialties company's plant early in
the week. The leak was located and
repairs made in time for RESUMPTION
of work on the fun 24-hour schedule