Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-03
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Norwich, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1912.
VARIOUS MATTERS

sRtttSOS VIA LILO
Sharpening horses keeps blacksmiths
working overtime.
Owls ball at sImory changed from
Feb q to Feb. 16-adv.
Motor boat owners are still on the
river, unusually late for such trips.
Temperature as low as six or seven
dgrees above zero were recocded on
Tuesday morning.
Ladies, have your hair dressed for
the w. G. c. ball by Mrs. L. w. Pratt,
lO5 Williams street. Tel. 1116.-adv.
Mr.. AID Mrs. Am:s CHAPMAN OF
evening, the 25th anniversary Of their
wedding.
Business, which had been quiet for
a few days after Christmas, revived
Tuesday. crowds attending the Janu-
ary sales.
Most of the college boys and girls
left town Tuesday after III. i.ohday
recess. Yale students must be in New
Haven Thursday.
Boxes and box seats for the Knights
Of Columbus ball in the Armory next
Friday night can be procured from
John P. CorcOran at Discos Bros.-adv,
In a recent issue of the Boston
Transcript, j. Olin Howe, formerly If
Norwich, had a bright and breezy Geld
glass survey of New London and its
mayor.
There Is heavy ice in the Connect
cut river. which is closed to naviga-
uCn for the season, Steamer Hartford
made her last trip down Tuesday aft
erncon.
Fifteen nonresident physicians have
been added 70 the medical stan Of the
Memorial hospital, New London. in
Guiding DR. NJ. E. Fox and DR.. +. A.
Taylor OF Montville.
The moon will be at its nearest
point TO the earth tomorrow, January
T. and ar it's farthest point on Janu-
ary is. The difference between these
two positions is 81 400 miles.
An unusually big business was done
in the money order department of the
pcstotfice Tuesday, paying of quarter
" accounts, annual subscriptions to
magazines, etc, causing the rush.
At o'clock Tuesday morning, in St.
Paricks church, Rev Hugh Treanor
celebrated an anniversary requiem
nigh mass for Miss Julia Holland, rel
atives and friends being in attend
ance.
Deaths in Connecticut due to vio-
lence during December numbered rs
as against SO FOR the month Of No
vember There were So accidental
deaths, lS suicides and three homi-
cides.
Residents of the rural districts are
hoping that sleignrides may soon re-
place the strawrides, with which they
have had to be content so far this
winter as the best moonlight nights
this month come between the Sd and
tho 18th,
The work of repairing the broken
government cable which carries the
telegraph and telephone lines to Block
Island had not been begun up to
Tuesday, and Tire islanders are still cut
of from ali wire communication with
the mainland
A New Haven exchange says: Rev
Charles II. Paquetts Of the French
Roman Catholic church, in his sermon
Sunday, attacked the moving picture
houses Of the city and warned par
ents to keep their children away from
houses where details of crime and OBJ
scenity are shown.
Judge Walter c. Moves Of Lyme be-
came n judge Of the circuit court Of
appeals on January 1, when the law
went into effect abolishing the circuit
court. Four judges in New York will
either take places in the circuit court
Of appeals or sit IN the district courts.
Judge Noyes is one Of these four.
The funeral of Peter Gilbert, A, a
native og Baltic and former baseball
pitcher with the Baltimore team, was
held Tuesday morning st st. Josephs
church, Springfield. Mass, with burial
in st. Michaers cemetery. Mr.. Gilbert
was found dead in his tobacco store,
sunday morning, death being due to
rheumatism and heart trouble.
The marriage of Miss Harriet Hull,
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. William
HUI Of New London and Ward Alling,
New London manager of the AlIing
Rubber company, is to take place on
Wednesday, January "a at the home
Of the brides grandmother Mrs.
Thomas A. Scott, New London, Rev.
J. Romeyn Danforth officiating.
A series of parents receptions or
Thursday. Friday and Saturday eve
nings is being held by the manual
training department of the Uncasville
school, the pupils who have received
Instruction through the generosity OF
Mrs. Frederick A. Johnson serving
lunches Of their own cooking to their
guests, and presenting them articles
which they have made.
A Norwich business man who was
surprised and pleased at the big total
Of business done in MOI witch last year,
as demonstrated by the figures in The
Bulletins New Years edition, has cut
out the block TO show to inquiring
commercial men. Total manufacturing
III siness, Norwich $22,145,291, New
London S1S.22s,7Oo; jobbilNg business,
Norwich Sl0.700,0o0, New London ST.
100000, seems to tell the tale pretty
convincingly!
Frederick Kinney Noyes, editor of
The Volta Review, Washington, does
not always sign his articles; but in
the January number he is credited
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