Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-07
Otle Bulletin,
VARIOUS MATTERS

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BY tomorrow the day will be ten
hours and a quarter long.
number of churches will lebserve
February ii as Lincoln Sunday
The sales of valentines and Liz coin
birthday favors are helping trade.
Unprotected water pipes have been
faring hard during the cold snap.
Representative Higgins was a caller
at the White house Monday afternoon.
Have you secured your tickets at
adv
This is good weather to see that the
lunch counters" for the birds are well
supplied.
Today the Dickens centenary will
be noted by the schools and literary
societies.
Those who have been digging say
that there is about two feet of frost
in the ground.
State authorities are looking sharp
after truants. who try to get into
moving picture shows.
Examinations of applicants for reg
istration were held Tuesday at the
capitol by the state pharmacy COM
mission.
Members of the Graduate Nurses
association of Connecticut will attend
the quarterly meeting at the Water
bur hospital today.
Fourteen new corporations, having
a total authorized capital stock of
ing the past week.
A Bulletin reader whose birthday
comes on February 20 is anxious to
know who else in town has a birth
day once in four years.
The government transport Gen. J.
NJ. Brannan which was hauled off duty
Sunday for repairs, resumed trips to
the island forts Tuesday.
of local interest was the fact that
February was the 18th birthday of
DR.. Edward M. Gallaudet and the 72d
of Gov Simeon E. Baldwin.
Fishermen in the shore towns are
busy now, building lobster pots for the
coming season. Each man gets about
200 pots ready for the work,
1t is expected that over 100 will at
end the dinner of the Connecticut
I Lumber Dealers association at the
Hotel Taft, New Haven, Friday.
| Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Feb
ruary %, "a and rs, are the days p
/ pointed for New London Men and Re
/ ligion Forward movement campaign.
! Rev. William f. Newton, the Bap-
! tist state colporteur, formerly of
| Greeneville, has been conducting sue
| Cessful services at Union City, Naug-
| atuck.
A Noank correspondent notes that
| Mrs. Lizzie Ellis visited her husband
| in the Norwich State asylum Monday
Mr. Ellis is failing and no hope is
entertained of his recovery.
The pride and glory Of the southern
star field. Campus, is at its nearest
point for observation from the lower
ATTITUDES in the northern hemisphere
during February's evening skies.
In memory of William H. Chapman.
founder of the school. pupils of the
Manual training and industrial school
at New London will erect a bronze
tablet in the vestibule of the school
building.
Tuesday was the first anniversary
of the death of Albert A Sparks, for
upwards Of forty years with The Bull
| letin, for the last IS as night editor:
an able man, a faithful employee and
a loyal friend
Referring to the fact that Bristol
! has purchased an island for a public
/ playground, The Press says: Nor
| witch also has an association that is
| planning good things in this line for
the children of that city.
| Marietta Gerganza, six years old, fell
/ through the ice in Winthrop cove, New
/ London, Tuesday afternoon. The Ill
| tie girl remained in the water several
| minutes before she was rescued. The
| child received no more serious damage
| than a fright and a wetting,
It is announced that a former Nor
| wich boy Henry ]. Spaulding, Wall
| iuSfOrd manager Of the Southern New
England Telephone company, has been
| granted a leave of absence for a month
| or longer and will leave Wallingford
| March 1 for rest, on account of i'll
| health, due to nervous trouble.
Apple growers have been notified
! that fruit from this section is keeping
much better than that received in New
York markets this year from western
New York. Some attribute the defect
| in New York apples to excessive fer
| tilizing, while others hold improper
methods Of cultivation responsible for
it.
Connecticut authorities have receiv-
| ed a circular from the PiHkerton de-
| tective agency describing G. w. Con
/ Gladding, an elderly and affable gen
| tleman" who is wanted by the police
! of Los Angeles for Fleeing a number
| of Californians with the aid Of a gold
| brick scheme. A reward of S3,500 is
| offered for his capture.
The Boston Advertiser praises the
l pictures Of Director George Albert
| Thompson of the Norwich Art school.
| winch are to remain on exhibition at
I Dol g. Richards gallery until Satur-
/ Gay, the 10th. Mr.. Thompson also
/ has picture, "Nocturne: Bridgeport
| Harbor," at the Pennsylvania Acad-
envy Of Fine Arts. Philadelphia.
| The preliminary report of the pub
/ lie utilities commission. just issued
/ in pamphlet form, contains references
| to the death November Is, 1911, of
/ trolley road employee at New London
| by reason of the being telephone wire
I being crossed by an electric light wire
! from Norwich. protectors being rec