Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-26
Uhe. BullRtin.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Tides will be high today.

Tides will be high today.
 Blacksmiths are busy sharpening horses.
 The holiday oyster trade in the state has been excellent.
 Dealers in rubber goods are willing to call it beautiful snow.
 Wednesday was Juldagen day among Swedish speaking people.
 Fifty printed calling cards for 25 cents at The Bulletin office.-adv.
 Plans are being made for sleighing parties if the snow continues good.
 Although the walks are fairly well sanded, there have been several bad falls on neglected streets.
 Today, St. Stephens day, there will be the celebration of holy communion ir the Episcopal churches.
 Mir. and Mrs. James c. Macpherson have moved from Laurel Hill avenue to their new home on Stetson street. The latest candidate for the place of messenger in the coming general assembly Is John w. Spooler of Shell J ton.
 Norwich friends lear nthat Mrs. John Morgan of Groton is critically ill with heart trouble at her home on School street.
 The sale of stamps, especially of the one cent denomination, has been es- pecially large at the postoffice sub stations.
 There are some pretty tired opera tives in the telephone exchange, as calls have been incessant for the past three days. , A shortage in the coal supply has hampered the railroads on some of the I divisions, adding to the trouble caused | by the snow.
 1 It was an unexpected treat for vis- 1 itors from southern cities to have an old fashioned New England sleighride | Christmas day.
 On Tuesday Miss Mary Porteous and Mrs. Howard L. Stanton visited the | almshouse and distributed gifts and l furit to the inmates.
 Farmers were not surprised at We'd needay's low temperature, as they al- ! ways look for cold weather when the days kegin to lengthen.
 There was an enjoyable reunion of the Haglund family Christmas day at the home of MT. and Mrs. Frederick Haglund, below Everett street. |
 As anly five days remain of the duck shooting season, hunters are numerous about Old Saybrook, but the sport has not been particularly good this week.
 John Spaulding of Norwich has beer obliged on account of i'll health to giw up a run on the Norwich and Worces. ter branch of the New Haven road.
 Writing up yachts in Shaw's Cove for winter quarters, the New Londor Day mentions the Norwich stean yacht Narwhal. built in 1894 and val ued at over $4O,000
 The .windham County Observer states that 1t Is reported that Wallace Taylor who has lived on the Congdor farm in Hampton, has disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown.
 Business men about town have beel interested this week in the rumoret sale of the Cardwell property, on Wa ter street to a. Norwich man who ha! been doing business in Willimantic. Mrs. Lucy E. Eldridge. 72, widow 0 James Eldridge and mother of Rev. Nil Eldridge, of East Lyme, died suddenl, Tuesday morning at her home in Eas Lyme. She had been i'll for some time
 Three, among the oldest inhabitant of Lyme, have died within two weeks r Charles Moves, S3, Hiram Beckwith 7S 1 and Mrs. James Huntley S3. The thre were born and always lived in tba , town.
 Strawberries were by far the mos important of small fruits grown f Connecticut, with raspberries rankin next, according to the last census re port. The value of the strawberry cro in 1909 was $235,64S. Getting home Christmas proved tedious process for many visitors, som of the travellers who left New Tor
 tuesday afternoon being delayed S that they did not reach Norwich unt ] Wednesday morning.
 c. c. Elwell, engineer and inspecto of the public utilities commission, o | Tuesday inspected the construction (
 the New London and East Lyme rail = road, which is building from a poir
 in East Lyme to the Connecticut rive
 A. Bronstein, New London chaut
 feur, has been notified to appear befor
 the secretary of state for several acc
 dents during the summer and fall, cu ! minating in his running down Willial ! Prescott, Jr., on motorcycle Septem
 Der 24.
 An attempt is to be made by the ne n state association to have all the moI
 ey taken in from hunting licenses use 7 towards the protection of game and ifs a Last year about s12.000 was taken
 this way, but only about $5,000 W. Q appropriated for protection. Shore town people are interested
 President Mellen's statement that III ,o less the interstate commerce commi
 sion found some way to authorize u e road to hold It's steamship lines evel
 steamer now in the possession of u
 road would be sold within year.
 A Christmas dinner party at pr. D. H. Aliens on Church street include , besides members of the househol ~ their cousins, MT. and Mrs. Frank
 Comstock and Mrs. Aliens brothe
 Christopher G. Newberry, of New Lol
 dnr and Horare IT Allen was home f