Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-27
Qltle Bllllett1l.
Norwich, Friday, Dec. 27, 1912.
VARIOUS MATTERS.

Today is calendar day for January. A number of the holiday guests are remaining in town over Sunday.
 Fifty printed calling cards for 20 cents at The Bulletin office.-adv.
 Deep snow has made travelling hard for the rural carriers during the past two days.
 Coasting is good enough on the smaller hills to keep the rust off the Christmas sleds
 The Christmas festivals following the holiday keep the children liberally supplied with sweets.
 Cobwebs have been brushed from the rural sleighs and a number were used in trips to town Thursday.
 Many shoppers were out Thursday, taking advantage of the after Christ mas clearaway of holiday stocks.
 Icemen are beginning to sit up and take notice now that the temperature is getting nearer the zero point.
 The moon was hidden in a snow haze Thursday night and sleigh own CTS grew hopeful of another snowfall.
 The street departments men were busy with snow blows Thursday, clearing out gutters and leveling the drifts.
 Christian Endeavor societies in a number of places took care that flow ct hIYt Yt.al tn hllf ins Christmas day.
 Lumberjacks who are clearing tim berland in surrounding towns, relish the snowfall. which expedites the moving of wood by easy sledding.
 Prowlers have been annoying resi- 1 dents near the armory end of Chest nut street and it is said tried to break into the Flint home one night recently. Travellers coming down from Yer mont say that only a few inches of snow fell in Brattleboro Tuesday and are astonished to find foot of white ness here.
 Norwich tourists write home of cold weather in Los Angeles. the need of steam heated rooms every morning and the fact that ladies require their furs when on the street.
 New York-born residents Of Nor wich are interested in the project to arrange next fa;l for the celebration | of the three hundredth anniversary of l the settlement of Manhattan Island.
 The funeral of Samuel W. Swift was | held Thursday afternoon at o'clock aYa 1f It hi street, Springfield. Rev, R. G. Rollins l off1ciated. Burial was in Oak Grove cemetery.
 The will of Mrs. Harriet N. Barrows who died in New London last week was probated Tuesday. There are l. heirs and an equal division, persona property, Is made among the nieces and nephews.
 Dr. T. R. Parker. who was recently | operated on at a hospital, in Hart ford, for a growth on his left arm has returned to his home in Williman, | tic, but will not be able to resume hi practice for a while.
 Prominent colored people are beinl notified that there is to be held a Park Street church in Boston on tn, evening of January l celebration O the fiftieth anniversary of the eman cipation proclamation.
 l Dec. 27th the Apostleship of Praye members in the Catholic churche study the life of St. John the Evangei ist, brother of James the Greater, ex fled to the Isle of Patience, wher he wrote the Apocalypse l William C. Dole. who is visitin state towns in the interests of tn Connecticut Game and Fish Protec tive association, has had much sue cess in securing members who are in terested in the conservation of game
 Mrs. Ellen Morgan Frisbie of Groto has presented the new Sacred Hear chapel a sanctuary bell. It was hear for the first time Wednesday at s Mary's Star of the Sea church in Ne7 London, at the Christmas day service!
 Noting that about 100 men and wo men had feast and gift at the stat Masonic home, Wallingford, Christina : Meriden papers mention among don ors to the Christmas fund. Arthur I Brewer and Vine $. Stetson of NoI wich.
 The examination of drugs by tt state experiment station shows man
 instances of inferior strength due {
 ignorance or carelessness and some 1T
 stances of fraud, asafoetida and SUI
 phur containing 50 per cent. of plas
 ter and spirits of turpentine, 80 p,
 cent. of mineral oil.
 The fact that tomorrow is Ho' | IunOPpnts' dax- rapalIc rfoi fin Ia.
 in local church when a teacher hs
 a particularly active and mischievol
 group of boys called the Holy InnC f cents class. One Sunday, after son
 especially irritating pranks, he pr,
 posed to the rector calling them u
 Holy Terrors.