Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-31
Utle Bulletin.
VARIOUS MATTERS,

 Dec S1st Is St. Sylvester's day in the church calendar.
 A number of the college boys and girls left town Monday.
 Rural delivery carriers will have a holiday New Years day.
 St. Patrick's parish school opens Thursday for the winter term
 Morris Katzman of the Chesterfield road. East Lyme. has enlisted in the army.
 The mailmen are resting up after two of the busiest weeks in their ex- perience.
 W. B. Cox of Salmon Falls, N. H., has been in Montville trying to hire mill help.
 It is expected that navigation on the Connecticut river will cease about January 1.
 Sunrise prayer meetings are to be held by some of the churches on New Years day.
 It is expected by many that the com ing legislature will revise the present automobile laws.
 During Mondays rainstOrm mer- chants were busy taking inventory for later clearance sales.
 Wednesday the feast of the circum- cision will be observed by special ser vices in the Episcopal churches.
 The big poultry show in New York, with it's 5000 exhibits. will attract number of fanciers from this vicinity.
 School children think it hard luck to have vacation yet no opportunity to use either Christmas skates or sleds.
 Connecticut members of the Turn Verein are already preparing for the national funniest, to be held in Den yer in June.
 Bank depositors and bank employees will be busy today, in advance of legal holiday and the first of the year and quarter.
 Miss Martha A. Ward was in charge at the Otis library Sunday afternoon. There were forty-nine visitors to the reading room.
 A new schedule became effective on the Groton and Stonington division of the Norwich and Westerly Traction company Saturday.
 At Scotland, this (Tuesday) evening the marriage of Miss Florence Martin daughter of Mrs. Davis Martin and Raymond J. Faux of >Newark. \. J., takes place,
 The first shipment If the newly is sued Panama Exposition stamps has arrived in Connecticut And will be used in the regular stamp sale com [ mencing on Jan. l.
 It is claimed that extra mileage fer state legislators is to be gained by the simple process of amending the statute governing this payment by the state to it's lawmakers. Several from Norwich are making pldns to be in Hartford Wednesday. Jan. 8, when Simeon E. Baldwin will be inaugurated governor of Connect ' icut for the second time. The campaign of the Connecticut l . over a period of ten weeks, will start January IS and Wallingford has been selected as the opening stand.
 This is the last day for duck hunt ing and Norwich sportsmen say there are hundreds of ducks in POquetanuck cove, but they are very wary and it is hard to get shot at them.
 bA Years calls has been given up in gen. eral, in Norwich, although a very few continue to convey New Year good wishes in person on the holiday
 The biggest hotel in the world. the new History McAlpin with it's more 1 than 1,500 rooms. which was opened : in New York Sunday, is equipped with i Thermos products Made in Norwich '
 There are to be nine new officers at Fort Wright and four at Fort Terry ! Three new seconG lieutenants arrived at Fort Wright Sunday and two cap tains will reach there today Clues day).
 E. Hart Geer of Hadlyme and Frank Davis of Pomfret, fish and game con- | missioners, met in Groton at the home Of pr. F. W. hewes, president of tht board, Saturday, for the transaction oI l business.
 Victor Johnson of Oakdale has se- cured SS muskrats and mink; Wal lace Potter of Uncasville has trapped seven skunks and Ed. Edwards of Pal. mertown has captured 16 skunks sC far this season.
 This state has the largest number of miles of road in proportion to it. area of any state in the union. Tn, total number of miles including trunl lines, highways between towns anC auxiliary lines foots up 14,0OO miles.
 MT. and Mrs. W. Frank Greenmar of Westerly entertained at their homt Thursday evening for Roscoe c. A Beckwith. who is soon to leave Wes terly. Among those present was Su. perintendent E. 0. Rodier of Norwich
 One of the speakers Sunday evening at the Shepard memorial service il the Episcopal church. Clinton, attend ed by Miss Helen NJ. Gould and Finley J. Shepard was Rev. Percy Barnes, o Essex, formerly of Yantic, who spok of Rev. MT. Shepard's career as