Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-04
VARIOUS MATTERS.


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 Today the churches honor St Bar bara.
 Christmas comes three weeks from today. Shop early! | Monday was Beata day and Tuesday was Lydia day for the Swedish resi- dents.
 Rabbit hunters would like a little more light snow like that of Thanks giving.
 1 Somerset lodge works the Master 1 Mason degree this evening.-adv.
 St. James lodge, No. 2S, F. and A. M., worked the third degree Tuesday even ing at Masonic temple. New London papers state that Mrs. | Billings P. Learned left Monday for Lakewood, for her health. l towns the Thanksgiving recess did not end until Tuesday morning.
 The junior clergymen of the diocese | attended the semi annual conference at St. Joseph's cathedral, Hartford, Tues day.
 The Bridgeport Telegram says that William w. Bent will be backed by the Purity League for judge of the city court.
 Foresters of America, big smoker ] tonight in Foresters' hall-adv. 1 A meeting of the Graduate Nurses Association of Connecticut is to be held ! in Bridgeport this Wednesday, after noon.
 l Thers is a demand about the state for high grade COWS, and good prices are being paid for the right kind of stock.
 The flag at Buckingham Memorial was at half-staff until sunset Tuesday, because of the funeral of James B. Lamb,
 It Is expected that two inmates from Brookside home Waterbury, will be sent to the Norwich state hospital this week.
 1 Ice has been of sufficient thickness i already to permit skating on some of the smaller ponds in northern Connec- ticut towns.
 New England supper, Spiritual Acad- emy tonight, to ', 15 cents-adv.
 The White Ribbon Banner is already urging readers to prepare for the l worlds W. C. T. U. convention, to be held in Brooklyn, N. Y, in November, | 1913.
 The local staff of the Metropolitan Insurance company has done six months work in five months by having already completed it's assignment for I writing business. l Committees have been appainted at l Hartford for the inaugural ball of the | Governors Foot Guard to Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, the second Wednes- day of the new year. State central committeeman from eastern Connecticut towns were in New Haven Tuesday to attend the dinner given by Chairman George Forster of Rockville at the Hotel Taft.
 Governor Simeon D. Baldwin has left the state for Richmond, Va,. to attend the conference of governors opened there Tuesday. He made an address at the opening session on Modern Penology.
 The Daugters of the American Rev, olution in this state are assured that a Yiddish edition of John Foster Carr's Guide for Immigrants is greatly inter- esting the societies which aid Jewish immigrants. I Christmas sale in Buckingham Me- morial by ladies of Trinity Episcopal church, Wednesday, Dec. 4th, after noon and evening. Orchestra and male quartette in evening.--adv.
 Showing the vigilance required in hunting out gypsy moths, one scout found in a little squirrel house over the Massachusetts line about 40 moths and as many egg clusters, each con- taining fully 600 eggs.
 The case of the state against Joseph | H. Perkins and son, Harry Perkins, 1 charged with stealing chickens from | Alex Spolan, was tried before Justice Marion R, Davis at Mantle Saturday evening. The accused were acquitted.
 The body of Alexander G. Hackstaff, who died in New York Thursday, was taken to Greenfield, Mass, Monday for burial The funeral service was con- ducted in New York by Rt. Rev. Thom- as F. Davies of Springfield, Bishop Da- vies being relative.
 Rev. Percy E. Shoemaker of South ington was aroused Saturday shortly before midnight and at 11.55 MT. and Mrs. Erwin Griffith received a we'd ding certificate Mrs. Griffith was Miss Mary Tretus of Lyme, and MT. Griffith is a resident of Southington.
 A hymn board has been added to the new furnishings in the Bolton Meth odist church. New chairs for the chof1 tie Ellis gave $1O toward the chairs The district superintendent, Rev. J. H Newland, preached there Sunday even- ing.
 Miss Alice Brown of Pehin, China who spoke at the prayer meeting 1T the students building at Smith col lege Tuesday evening, is a graduate ot Mount Holyoke college and a co-work- CT with Miss Della Leavens of Nor wich. the Smith college missionary il China.
 A Congregational church is being or. ganized at Liberty Hill, in Lebanon about one mile from the Columbia town line Religious services have beer held there by the pastor of the Exete church and sometimes by the Colum bia pastor, but there has been no regu lar church organization. A New London gan1in who threw snowball, striking Frederick J. Hunt ington of Norwich in the face, wa caught by MT. Huntington's chauffeu and taken in the car to the police sta tton,. where Captain Havens gave hin a severe reprimand. MT. Huntington