Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-12
Otle Bullfti1l.
VARIOUS MATTERS

This is legal holiday
Flags out for Lincoln day!
Neosha whist tonight at Foresters'
hall-adv.
Auto lamps should be lighted this
| evening at 5.45.
This is Union Defenders day with
the patriotic organizations.
Saturday was Eugenia day dnd
Sunday Yngve day with Swedish resi&
! dents.
Dafrodns in the florists windows IN
Saturday did not look like 4 degrees
below zero,
The channel in the Thames was
| open Saturday so that a barge was
lowed down from Allyns Point.
In the Springfield Sunday Republi-
can, John Troland of Norwich has a
poem cleverly worked out, The Per
feet Man"
The New Haven road has more than
100 cars. equipped with brilliant cleo
trio lights and has been running them
for about a week
At the Center NJ. f. church, East
Hartford. the preacher Sunday evening
was Rev. J. II. Newland of Norwich.
district superintendent.
Some of the colored societies noted
Saturday as the anniversary of the
death, in 1906. of Paul Lawrence Dun
bar, the poet. who was born in 1872.
Yesterday was the second of the
Twilight Sundays" Sexagesima, so
days, in round numbers, before Easter
1t is also the feast of st. Saturninus.
! Ralph H. Dimmock of Waterford and
Miss Edith Avery of Cohanzie were
married Sunday afternoon at the
! home Of the bride. They went to New
York for a short trip.
In the Hartford Times of Saturday
/ the notice Of the Incorporation of the
Norwich Industrial Improvement cor
( poration was headed: NO wich
Takes Steps to Encourage Enter
prises."
Social workers have been notified
that the New England Reel cation H.
stitute of the Playground and Recrea-
ton Association of America will be
held in the Brookline municipal gym
nasium on February Is, 16 and II.
Saturday the steamer Chelsea made
an attempt to come up the river, but
found the ice too stir a proposition,
and gave up the job after reaching
, MOntville, where she stopped at the
Thames River Specialties company.
Contributions to the fund for a mil
| lion dollar addition to the endowment
I OF Brown university include Charles H.
| and Lucius Brown of Norwich, who
| gave 81, 900. They were in the class
| Of IS. Rev. c. NJ. Gallup, SO, contrib
utes $40,
! On Sunday mornings since last Sep
! TENDER, Prof. ]. Herbert George "
! Norwich has been singing in the choir
| of the Second Congregational church,
| New London, his work as tenor solo
| list and with the chorus proving very
| pleasing to the congregation.
Charles II. Preston, Jr., of Water
| bury, formerly of this city. has pre-
| pared a diagram showing the popula-
ton of Waterbury city and town from
the year 1870 to 1912 and the posi-
| Bile population in 1925 with the in
| crease continuing at the same rate.
John E. Post of West Thames street
has bought the James n. Clark house,
formerly the AlbuFtus Peckham place.
on West Thames street, adjoining the
property of Mrs. Posts brother, Frank
A. Bill, Mr.. and Mrs. Post are to
move to their new home about April
LIST.
The new membership campaign al
~ hn
new member per day so far this month,
and the number of regular privilege
users at the Association is steadily in
| creasing. A father and two sons was
one of the accessions to the member
ship last week.
Charles Champlin of Oakdale was
| taken to the Memorial hospital New
| London, Saturday morning about one
o'clock with a split upper lip as the
| result of being thrown from a wagon
when the horse which he was driving
| ran away. Several stitches were taken
to close the wound.
Thomas F. Egan, superintendent of
state police, as state fire marshal, has
made an annual report to the insur-
| ance commissioner, to the effect that
2025 fires were reported by chief en-
| gineers, local fire. marshals and first
| selectmen of towns. The fire losses
| amounted to SS55,951S2.
The body of Mrs. Ella Blackstone
Huntington arrived from France on
the steamer La Provence, which reach
ed New York at 1915 Saturday morn.
ing William II. Allen of Henry Allen
& Son went TO New York to meet the
body the funeral party reaching Nor
witch at $40 Saturday evening.
DR. Patrick Cassidy has purchased
the property adjoining that at the
| corner Of Little Water and Market
streets, which he recently sold to tic
city. This was secured from Theodore
N. Church and the present tenant Of
DR. Cassidy's corner property Will
probably occupy the new purchase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander J. Camp
bell Of New London, formerly Of Nor
wich, soon to make their home in
Waterbury, gave a dance and recep-
ton at the Croker house, New Lon
don, Friday night, as a farewell to
their many friends The reception
was from to ~. followed by d sup
per.
The directors of the Connecticut
Automobile association met in Bridge
port Saturday President Frederick S.
Staples of Bridgeport presided. In
executive session the directors dis
cussed freely the provisions of the
proposed federal registration law,
and the sentiment Of the board was
almost unanimously against it.
The high mass in St. Patricks
church Sunday was celebrated by Rev.
Father Cavanaugh, "a professor from