Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-20
Ol1e Rmllgtim,
Norwich, Wednesday,, Nov. 20, 1912.
VARIOUS MATTERS.

VARIOUS MATTERS. The mercury dropped to A degrees Tuesday morning.
 Musical organizations will note St. Cecilia's day Friday.
 Look for a wet spell" the Old Farmers Almanac says. Dance given by Froehlichkeit Sing ing society, Friday, 22d, at p. m.-adv The state business mems associa- ton has been invited to hold its next annual meeting in Meriden. Judge Arthur B. Call1ins and Harry R. Bond of New London are on a short hunting trip in Montville. Mrs. Charles B. Jennings has closed her summer home at Gales Ferry and has returned to New London for the winter.
 number from Norwich will go to Stonington, Thursday, for the annual fall meeting of the Eastern Connec- ticut branch of the Womans Board of Missions.
 After January 1, the new law gov erning the sale of goods of both dry and liquid measure will go into effect and then no short measure is to be expected.
 Rev. Marcus J. Simpson, formerly of Yantic, is not only rector of the EptS- copal church at Cheshire, but is to act as chaplain at the Cheshire school for boys.
 Local Yale men will be in New Haven Saturday, when Wright Me- morial hall will be dedicated with cer- emonies on the college campus at 11.30 o'clock.
 Lee & Osgood have succeeded in Thanksgiving.-adv
 At present there are eleven women in the Johnson home, The Kings Daughters home at Norwich Town, this number being all that the house accommodates.
 Advent begins Sunday December 1. From that date until January ', 1913, the solemnization of marriages is for bidden in the Catholic churches unless
 
 The Knights of Columbus of Dan- bury are already making preparations for the annual state convention which will be held in Danbury during the second week of May next year.
 A strong effort is being made by leading business men of Uncasville to have the New London Gas and Elec- tp;n ala nfrin 1irb ing from Quaker Hill to Uncasville.
 The past councillors association of the Daughters of America of the state will be entertained this (Wed- nesday) evening in Junior Mechanics hall at Danbury, by America council. An automobile party including pr. and Mrs. D. P. Douglass and a friend and MT. and Mrs. Charles D. White came from Groton to Norwich in pr. Douglass car Tuesday. returning aft CT dinner
 New York papers note that MT and Mrs. Charles H. Sherrill George Bar ker Gibbs) of 20 East Sixty fifth street. who arrived on the Amerika, are at the Gotham. to remain until some time in December.
 This Wednesday, evening the Rock vile Boys club is to give the play, The Town Committee, written by John Mckinley of Norwich. In the vaude- vile, Arthur R. Blackledge, now of New London, will sing.
 By the will of Charles Dexter, who died November at Gilbertville, Mass. on the death of his widow the Con- gregational church in Dayville and the Congregational church of South Kill ingly will receive $200 each.
 Massachusetts border for the open find sportsmen wearing red caps and coats as protection against mistakes on the part of other hunters. Wallingford correspondents state that Principal James w. McGroty, formerly of Montville, has been at- tending the reunion of his class, Dart mouth, 1894. after witnessing the liar Dartmouth football game.
 The Worcester Civil Service Re- l tirement association. which is made up of carriers and clerks at the WOr- cester postoffice. is to be represented at the big national convention, which takes place in Washington next May. The 300th anniversary of the land | ing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth is to be celebrated in every hamlet, town | and city of New England on Novem- Der Il. 1920. if a movement inaug- urated by the Worcester board of trade | Is carried out.
 1 Democratic members of the next l general assembly are to introduce a bill abolishing the system of fees now in vogue in the probate courts of this state. As the bill is now proposed, the | judge of probate will receive a salary in place of fees which he now collects.
 In the superior court at New Ha- ven, Judge Gardiner Greene has granted a divorce, on the ground of cruelty. to Mrs. Peter McKelvey, whose mother, Mrs. Mabel Clair of Meriden, instituted the action for di- vorce because her daughter was only eighteen
 To date S74,120 has been contributed | by the churches of the diocese toward the building fund of St. Agnes home | Tor dependent infants. Already Cath ollie women's clubs throughout the state have begun to provide for the tiny garments to be needed for the little waifs.
 Steamer H. F. Dimock. named fol and owned by the late Henry F. Dim- ock of South Coventry, had another disaster at her Barclay street pier New York. Monday night, being bad ly damaged by fire in the lower for ward matches. The Dimock Is the steamer which in March, 1909, ram- med and sank the steamship HoratiC Hail1.
 Mrs. Katherine Hurley, SS. wht died Saturday night at the home O. her daughter, Mrs. John J Kidgell o Ware, Mass. of heart trouble, unti few years ago lived in New Lon don, when she went te Ware, Sht | leaves two daughterS Mrs Kidgel