Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-02
Otle RullRtim.
Norwich, Friday, Feb. 2, 1912.
VARIOUS MATTERS

The best moonlight nights in Febru- ary are from the lst to the 5th.
 A number of churches will observe Sunday as Christian Bndeavor day.
 The old saw is. 'If Candlemas day is fair and clear, There'n be two win ters in the year.
 The 2Sth annual meeting of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers will be held in New Haven Feb. 1S and IA.
 Warnings have been posted by the Connecticut company telling the con- duct0rs to be on the lookout for bogus one-dollar bills.
 Children were trying the coasting on the smaller hills Thursday night, although the snow Is too dry to make sliding satisfactory.
 The Montville board of relief met at the town hall, Montville, Thursday. The board is composed of Charles D. Osborne, Frank A. Rogers and Lyman B. Smith.
 Wulf's comet of 1911 is the only one of the periodic comets that will re- turn to the perihelion in 1912 It has been sighted and will reach perihelion some time in February
 Unable to attend to her duty as cook at the home of J. B. Shannon, Mrs. Florence Swails is confined to her home from bad fall on the ice, need Ing the attention of a physician. Best service to California; standard or tourist, Latter personally conducted five times weekly without change. Berth $S. Washington Sunset Route, F Milk and 362 Wash. Boston.-adv.
 The keepers house at Fort Griswold is being papered and painted and put in order for the occupancy of it's new tenants, Sergt. Major and Mrs. Wes- sell, who will move in about February
 Yale graduates of the class of '79 are receiving cards from Julian w. Curtiss of New York announcing the class dinner which will be held at the University club, Friday. February g, at 7.SO.
 Directors of the New England Fair association, at a meeting in Worces-
  premium appropriation from S8,000 to SlO,O0O. In 1911 $S,565 was paid out in premiums.
 MT Henry Bond, business man of Brattleboro, Vt., will address the Mems Bible class of the Central Baptist church at 12 o'clock on Sunday. A double male ouartette will sing at the evening service.-adv.
 In addition to the First Friday de- votions in the Catholic churches to- day there will be special Candlemas day masses, at which the candles for use during the ceremonies of the com ing year will be blessed. There were three hearings before the public utilities commission Thurs day, on petitions regarding the talk ing of land in Manchester and Groton, and for the approval of alterations by the railroad in the latter town
 Superintendent Anderson of the New London trolley lines of the Connecticut company and Charles c. Elwell of the public utility commission were in New London Thursday attending to matters pertaining to the trolley company. Weather sharps predict that the month of February, judging from it's ! observation day" will be raw and { chilly with the sky overcast and cloudy most of the time. Towards the end of the month there will be storms of rain and sleet.
 A Norwich motorist, posted on state automobile laws, takes exception to an 1 item copied from an exchange that a machine cannot be left standing in a ] public street more than 20 minutes. : He claims that is only a local traffic 1 law, not state ordinance. Two small boys ran away from their | home on the upper Preston side on Thursday evening and were detained near the state hospital Constable i Palmer had them in custody until they | were brought to the city and turned over to their guardian. Both were bareheaded.
 William H. Chapman. for years pres | ident of the Union bank and the Saw ! ings bank of New London, died at his | home there Thursday morning, aged 93. 1 Mr. Chapman gave to the city the manual training and industrial school. He was a deacon of the Second church ] and a native of East Haddam. | D. A. R. chapters learn that Mrs. John T. Sterling of Bridgeport will go to Washington next Monday on busi- ness connected with the Daughters of ! the American Revolution, intending to ascertain what President Taft will do regarding the book, The Guida, issued ! by the state Daughters, on Italian inn migra tion.
 The national president of the Cath olic Total Abstinence society, Rev. P. J. O'Callaghan, C.SP., who is to de- liver temperance lecture in St. Pat rick's church Sunday evening for St Ann's Temperance society. addressed a great assemblage at St. Roses church Meriden, Tuesday evening, on Total Abstinence
 In the letter of 8 local traveller in
 California is the timely statement: "One of our greatest comforts is the Thermos bottle. Filled with hot cof- fee at convenient stations it was al ways dependable for lunch or wher thirsty and made us quite independ- ent of the expensive dining cars, oi train delays, etc.
 At the fellowship meeting in Nortf
 Stonington Wednesday. Fred Davis ot Pawcatuck was moderator. The prin-
 cipal address was by Rev. W. F. White
 of Ledyard. The subject for discus
 sion was Responsibility of Laymen O,
 the Church, twelve prominent laymeI participating. The ladies of the Nortl
 Stonington church served dinner
 The topic, Agricultural Training il
 Our Schools. will be discussed at {
 public meeting under the auspices O
 the school committee at the LedyarC
 Congregational church, Thursday
 February 8, by Rev. William F. White
 Rev. c. Wilson Harrison, W. w. Ev
 ans, Charles D. Geer and L. A. Clin 1 etnn nf Stnrrs A musical nrngramm