Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-11

Gross earnings of New Haven in November gained on an average $17,- 900 per day, or total for the month of s51o,0oO, an increase of 9.5 per cent.
 At Andover. the A. B. Caldwell com pany of New Britain, has begun build ing operations on the new state road. About forty or fifty men are em- ployed.
 The Knights of Columbus will hold their annual ball in the armory Fri day evening, Jan. 10. The Cadillac orchestra of 12 pieces will furnish the 
 Prominent colored people are be- ing notified that fifty years of free dom for the negro race in America will be celebrated next October, the anniversary month.
 William T. Gooding, a former resi- dent of New London and Groton, died Tuesday at the Soldiers home at Nor oton. He was 7S years of age and a member of Perkins post, c. A. R.
 The marriage is announced of Ber- nard Fitch, son of Capt. and Mrs. Frank Fitch, of Noank, and Miss Rose Marley of Worcester. The marriage took place in that city Thanksgiving morning.
 Capt and Mrs. Frank NJ. Johnson of New Haven have purchased a cot tage at Bestview from Dr. J. c. Fay Tor. Captain Johnson intends to move the cottage off and erect a perman- ent house there.
 At the welcome to the new Y. M. c. A. secretary, c. A. Greene, at New London, Tuesday evening, James L. Case, president of the Norwich Y. M. c. A. spoke on Y. M. c. A. Support CTS in Norwich.
 The quarterly conference of the Rhode Island and. Eastern Connecticut conference of the Advent Christian church began a two days session Tuesday at the Allen Street church, Riverpoint, R. I.
 Don't forget the Japanese play giv- en by the girls of the Alpha Gamma Sigma in Y. M. c. A. hall Friday night at o'clock. Tickets 35 and 50 cents at Davis's store.-Adv.
 Tramps are overrunning some Con- necticut towns. although manufactur- CTS cannot begin to get help enough. Some of the hoboes pose as salesmen, offering court plaster for sale on the streets and at houses.
 One local dealer now controls the sale of most of the Sunday papers, and is endeavoring to keep them at a uniform this some buyers in the suburbs have had to pay eight or nine cents.
 Senator elect c. M. Landers, of New Britain, who is chairman of the steer ing committee appointed by the d%n- ocratic senator's elect, has called c meeting of the senators at the Hotel Taft, New Haven. on the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. F.
 Twenty-Five years ago Dec. 10, Lincoln H. Holloway and Miss Isa L. SiSson of Groton were united in mar riage by Rev. N. T. Allen at his res idence in Groton. MT. and Mrs. L. H. Holloway celebrated their silver we'd ding anniversary Tuesday.
 A new measure to be presented in the coming general assembly is a statute to prevent passengers from riding between the seats of open street cars and limiting the number of pas- sengers to be carried on cars in ex- cess of the seating capacity. All those who have not paid their personal tax should do so before De- cember 20 1912. After that date the delinquent list will be made uur and turned over to the prosecuting attor- ney as the law demands.@Adv. James E. Lord is constructing a res ervoir a little to the east of his res idence on Lords hill to be used for the accommodation of the cottagers at Lords Point. It will be of masonry about 50 feet square and will have capacity of 100000 gallons. State Labor Commissioner P. H | Connolley hoped at one time to bt able to make report at considerable ] length on occupational diseases anC ! to include it in his biennial report o1 | which he is at work, but physician: | are slow in reporting such cases. Steamer Connecticut, 23 years agt the Queen of the Sound, which cos 300, 900, was lately taken from SSpn | lngton 10 Newport and has now beer l lowed to East Boston, where she il
 to be burned for the metal She i 345 feet long and was built at Noank The new schedule of pay for tn conductors of all the eastern roads
 now in the hands of the New Havel road conductors. The schedule pro vides that on runs of 155 miles O
 over in the passenger service the con
 ductor shall receive 2.90 cents a mile l Publishers of cheap, pernicious lit l erature were characterized as "dia
 bolical in their meanness as dealer
 in the hideous white slave traffic" b
 Rev. M. s. \ Kaufman, pastor of S
 Paurs Methodist Episcopal churci
 Providence, at the morning servic
 Sunday
 The results of the order of the Con Inecticut Public Utilities commissio
 requiring stops at cross-overs on tn lines of the New York, New Have and Hartford railroad company sho-
 an average loss of time of three min
 utes at each of the cross-overs wher
 stops have been ordered.
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