Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-11
OI1e RullFtin,
VARIOUS MATTERS

court on Wednesday.
 The spring meeting of the execu- tive board of the Connecticut State Federation of Womens Clubs will be held Friday at New Haven.
 See that your dog is licensed today; $1.Oo extra after May first.-adv.
 William J. Townsend, who conduct ed a grocery store on Broadway filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court at Hartford Tuesday.
 Of a former Uncasville pastor, an Ellington correspondent writes; Rev. J. N. Geigler has returned another year much to the satisfaction of the peo- pie.
 A new form of amusement will be ready for the summer colony on Ma sons Island, off Noank, this summer, as skating rink is to be built there immediately.
 Clysmic Water-A sure win
 Dummy says nothing-but Clysmic.- adv.
 Wednesday was the forty seventh anniversary of the surrender of Lee 10 Grant at AppomattOx on the tenth of April, 1865. marking the practical close of the civil war.
 The board of trustees of the Connec- ticut agricultural college, Storrs, met with Governor Baldwin at the capitol Tuesday. Plans for new buildings at the college were discussed.
 Whist and dance, l. o. o. F. hall, Friday, April 12th. Admission 25c.- adv
 The Connecticut State Register and Manual for 1912 will be ready about April r. The principal change in the book this year win be the use of smaller and plainer faced type.
 Members of the prohibitionist party in thIs city have received the official call for the state convention of the party, to be held in Hartford, Tues day and Wednesday, May 21 and 22.
 A public hearing is to be given by the state commission on industrial insurance at the county courthouse in Bridgeport, Monday. April 15. John Eccles of Norwich is a member of this commission
 The Connecticut Schoolmasters club is to'hold its annual meeting and ban quet at Hartford on April 20. Attend ance at the meeting constitutes mem bership and every male teacher of the state is eligible,
 Regular assembly of Franklin coun- cil, No. 8, R. and $. M, at Masonic temple, this evening, for work in all the degrees. As grand officers will be present. 9 full attendance is desired. Banquet at close of work.-adv
 Waterbury papers state that St. Josephs Total Abstinence society has decided to give silver cups as prizes for the parade and athletic events of the state field day of the C. T. A II, there, on June 15.
 Rev. H. A. Blake. a former pastor of the Stafford Springs Congregational church, who has lately been residing at East Hartford, has accepted a cal from the Colchester Congregational church and will begin his new duties May 1
 The feast of the Passover closed on Tuesday evening. This feast of eight days is elaborated by the Jews al over tte world in commemoration ot the liberation of the first born of Is- real from the judgment wrought or the Egyptians
 The grand lodge of the Brotherhood of railroad signalmen of America is to meet in Pittsburgh June 10. There will be present delegates from Massa- chusetts, Connecticut. New York. New Jersey Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana, Michigan and Ontario. Don't forget to attend the whist, "45' and social given by the Ladies Char. itable society of St Mary's parish a Olympic hall tonight Entertainmen furnished between the card numbers 1 Proceeds 10 poor of parish. Ticket! 35c,-adv.
 Notices are being sent out by tn | Connecticut Prison association to al probation officers in the state, request | ing their presence at a conference t, be held in Waterbury next Tuesday | in connection with the conference ol | state charities and corrections. | A number of local ministers ar, | planning to attend the convocation a 1 Yale divinity school next week to hea | the Beecher lectures on preaching b, ! Dr. JOwett, the Taylor lectures ol 1 Christian ethics by Prof. G. E. Smitl ] of Chicago, and other addresses. A former Norwich resident. Edwin l Perkins Clarke, who went to Bristo l to join. the staff of a newspaper. ha
 been elected one of the five Connec l ticut delegates to 80 to the nationa ! convention of the socialist party t | be held next month in Indianapolis ! Seventeen democratic town chair men out of the 23 in the county hay perfected an organization to be know
 as the Fairfield county democratic committee and selected w. w. Bent now of Bridgeport, the local demo cratic town chairman. as chairman.
 A copy of the will of Prof. William ] ~ Robinson of the Catholic unfversit and a native of Norwich which ha
 been probated at Washington, wal filed in the probate court of New Ha ven Tuesday because he owned prop
 erty here. The estate IS estimate
 at S250.O00.
 When George M. Curtis. treasure of the International Silver company read d paper on Early Silver of Con necticut, in St Andrews parish house l Meriden, Tuesday evening, he praise the work of John Grignon of Nor
 wich, one of the great silversmiths O colonial days.
 A Chicago despatch says that il, late Elisha W. Case, during his Ior, | illness, found consolation in texts O many card notices hung in his room The favorite one was Christ is tn
 head of the house, the unseen host a
 every meal; the silent listener at ey cry conversation"
 Papers have been mace out confirm ing Capt. and Mrs. Charles T. Potte of Spruce street, as guardians c ] Gladys McMullen the 15 year ol daughter of the late Robert McMulleI
 She has made her home with Cap