Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-06
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Norwich, "Wednesday. March 6, 1912.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Tuesdays light SNOW was to the fox
hunters taste.
At $50 this morning it was four
above zero at Trading Cove,
Several froia here are attending the
automobile show in Boston.
Humane officers about the state are
starting on their periodical roundup
| Of unfit horses.
Somerset lodge works the Entered
Apprentice degree this evening.-adv.
The Swedish National federation is
| advocating a general observance of
| the John Ericsson festival date, March
| 9.
New London members of the D. A.
| K. are TO boom their regent Mrs c.
! NJ. Miner Of Waterford for a vice pres
| ident general of the national society.
The Proebe Griffin N,yes Library
corporation of Old Lyme has filed a
! certificate charging is name to the
Paoebe Griffin Noyes Trust corpora
ton.
The quarantine has been raised at
the home Of Rev l. Aldrich, the
Metl> dist parsonage, Uncasville, his
infant son having rec0N cred from
| scarlet fever.
When Division No. l, A. o. H. has a
,pecial meeting next Sunday. with a
literary evening to follow the business,
! the programme will include a Robert
Emmett observance.
An expert forester writes: 1t is
not too late yet to remove straggly
branches and dead wood out of that
elm, but don't touch your naples or
they viii bleed all spring
The Greek club at Smith college is
! to present Iphigenia at Aulis, in
| Greek, May p. A member of the com
mtttee in charge is Miss Gertrude II.
| Durham, 1912, OF New London.
Sunny days send the rent hunters
on the search for new houses A line
| or two in the Want Column of The
Bulletin would end the tiresome
search, ana save time and trouble.
The New London Ship and Engine
1 company has adopted a profit sharing
! plan by which employees may acquire
| stock in the company through weekly
l payments deducted from their wages.
: Lecture on the Passion Of Our Sa~
/ viour. to be delivered at st. Johns
/ church, Montville, Wednesday evening
at o'clock by Professor Drake of
Boston. Admission ticket, adults Csc,
children 15c.-adv.
/ Relatives and friends assembled in
| st. Patrick's church at O'clock on
I Tuesday morning, to attend an ami
/ versary requiem high mass for Mrs.
John J. Toomey, celebrated by Rev.
! Hugh TreanoT.
I The preliminary work for the three
days campaign Of the Men and Relig-
ion Forward movement at Walliugford
IS well under way. Organization has
been effected by the election of Rev.
w. T. Thayer, formerly Of Norwich,
as chairman.
/ The beautiful painting, Norwich
/ Harbor,' by Director George Albert
| Thompson Of the Norwich Art school,
has been accepted at the National
| Academy of Design, New York, for the
| eighty-seventh annual exhibition which
opens Saturday next, March 9.
/ The following item appears in the
March White Ribbon Banner: To
date, offerings Of So for the Willard
Memorial fund from each OF the fol-
4 lowing Unions have oeen received:
Stonington. Ashford, Thomaston,- New
London, Mystic and Brool1field Cen
| ter.
! The New England agricultural con-
! ference at Boston will attract a few
/ from this section. On the evening of
/ March Z, the Boston chamber of COM
MERGE will give a New England din
ner, complimentary to the members
! Of the conference, at the American
/ house.
Very Low Rates Pacific Coast via
! Nickel Plato Road. Colonist fares to
California, Washington. Oregon and
| far west. daily, March I'd to April 14th.
Finest tourist sleepers daily. Write l..
2. Burgess, NE.P.A., 312 Old South
| Bldg, Boston. Mass.-adv.
1t is stated by the New Britain Rec
| ord that Robert George Clark of East
| Hartford and Miss Bertha Augusta
| Litz of Rockville called at the town
clerks Office Saturday afternoon and
took out a marriage license. They
were married by Justice Of the Peace
"A. L. Thompson.
The members of the state BARRIERS
commission say there are in the neigh
boThoOd Of 2,400 BARRIERS in the state
and that the revenue from licenses is
about $4,000 The shops of the state
are in greatly improved condition
from what they were before the organ
ization of the commission.
The work being done by pupils Of
tho Cent! al district schools in connec-
ton with drawing and manual train
ing is varied and practical, and par
ents are pleased and proud of the
| many little household articles and or
| naments made by their children, I'M
der direction Of Miss Henderson.
A hundred and twenty thousand
mich cows grazed on Connecticut
farms last year They were valued
| at $500 each or IS, g04 900 all together
| Besides these. other cattle 10 the num-
| Der Of T.00A were on Connecticut
farms. Their average value was s2l,
| the aggregate value being S1,491,O geo.
Michael Flannery, recently employ
| ed on the estate of Julian T. Davies of
| New York, has been appointed game
| keeper on the Morton F. Plant pre-
| serves at East Lyme He has had a
| large experience in this country and
| in England. Supt Henry Fielding
| will have general charge Of the pre-
| serves.
| Vba FAMILY of ASrs w n, C.nv- -