Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-12
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VARIOUS MATTERS

Greatest medium in the world, May
Pepper Vanderbilt, at Spiritual Acad-
envy, Sunday, at IL and 7.30.-adv.
Sportsmen are looking out for the
regular feeding Of game birds, whose
SUPPLIES have been cut off since the
stSms began.
There is a movement among Swed-
ish Lutheran churches to insure the
return To the old-fashioned custom of
family prayer.
In spite of the cold, there is the
consolins reflection that the short
winter days are past, the days length
having already incI eased sixteen min
utes
In looking up The records. one cit
izen 1inds that % years ago, in jan
uary. 1887. the total depth of tie
several falls of snow was 81 inches on
a level.
Winter necessaries, heavy clothing,
footwear, furs blankets, etc. are SELL
ing Wen. and merchants are grateful
to the cold snap for moving their
winter stocks.
The Greeks, Russians, Bulgarians,
Aibanians, Servians and others from
me Balkan states residing in this city
are making preparations to celebrate
their New Years on Sunday, the 14th.
The district superintendent Rev. J.
II. Newland, of Norwich, is holding
the closing quarterly conferences in
the Methodist churches in anticipa-
. ton of the end Of the conference year
/ in April.
Since only u few members of the
Connecticut Creamery association at
tended the short meeting in room 6S
at the capitol, the election Of officers
was postponed until the quarterly
meeting in April.
Rev J, H. Newland, district super
intendeBt win preach in the Baltic
Methodist Episcopal church SUNDAY
morning and he win hold the fourth
quarterly conference with that church
on Monday evening,
Prominent business men and politi-
cal workers are receiving invitations
10 attend the annual banquet of the
New Haven chamber of commerce
I which will be held in that city in the
7 new Hotel Taft on January 10
I Ernest Lamb of Ledyard. with a
I friend, has killed II foxes up to the
| present. Wednesday he secured an
| especially large ono which he had
/ wounded the day before. He eonsid-
I cred the pelt worth at least SO.
! Mrs. Alice Phillips Tracy observed
/ the S5th anniversary of her birth on
J Wednesday in the home of her son.
| Myron d. Tracy, in Webster, Mass.
I one OF her four children is Mrs. Emma
/ 4. Fairbanks of New Boston. Wind
ham county.
During 1911 the total receipts of
st. Joseph's Polish parish, Rev, ]. ].
( Ambot, pastor. was $7,064.2S and the
total disbursements about s3.476. the
year ending with q balance Of $5SS.61
! The only debt Of the parish is a mort
gage Of $1,000
IA charitable worker said Thursday
! that there was a warm future awaiting
| those Wno are boarding blankets and
clothing in attics and closets for
\ moths to consume while many poor
Z helghbor is shivering,. through cold
nights and days.
William Hall Agard, a former res
ldent of yolland, was killed by a train
IN Pittsburgh Sunday. The body was
brought to Tolland Wednesday to the
home of his parents. The funeral was
held Thursday afternoon with burial
IN the North cemetery at Rockville.
| According to a notice issued by the
ipostoffice department a postmaster
must in accordance with one of tbs
postal laws notify senders of pack
| ages which have been detained owing
to insufficient postage and for which
the sender has pledged himself to
pay
| Fire of unknown origin completely
destroyed the residence of Henry Car.
( diner, proprietor Of the Miuston,
I quarries, at Waterford, Wednesda,
! night The residence, a two-story
frame building, was leveled to thu
ground. The loss is estimated at abou
$4,000.
Members Of womens clubs are re.
ceiVing notification that the Fedora
/ ton Of Womens Clubs of the New
, England states will be the guests o
. the Connecticut Federation of Wo.
mems Clubs in New Haven, Januar,
80 and 81. The topics to be consid
; cred will be child labor, conservation
and pure milk.
May 2, 1911. on the first anniversar,
Of his conservation, Bishop J.. ]. Nilal
preached to a congregational of abou
, 1000 men in st. Joseph's cathedral
Hartford. At that time the Holy Nam
societies in the state had total mem
bership Of about 10000. Now the mem
Dership is estimated as at least 35, 90
, "a marvellous growth for a period q
eight months.
Former Representative Michael F
Skelly. superintendent of the stat
capitol died Tuesday evening at hi
home in Woodbury.. after a short i'll
ness. He leaves his wife, four son
and three daughters. ono of the daugh
ters being Mrs. Joseph Wedge OF Haz
elton, Pa, formerly of Norwich Nj
and Mrs. Shelly celebrated their gold
en- wedding October 8, 1910.