Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-02
VARIOUS MATTERS.

The schools of the city open today.
 Trolley traffic was heavy on the holi- day.
 The weather man made it a Happy New Year for everyone.
 Students at Brown university must be back Friday morning.
 This time last year icemen were preparing for their harvest.
 The best moonlight nights in Jan- uary will be from the goth to the 25th. and f1nery. will begin to appear on the ash carts today.
 The State Music Supervisors, asso- ciation's nid-year convention is to be held in Hartford
 Boys from this state have been re- called to the battleship Connecticut. whichsis at the Brooklyn navy yard.
 As far as possible, the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad freight office was closed all day We'd nesday.
 Governor Baldwin has approved the requisition of the adjutant general on the controller for $s.000 for the state armory at Wtllimantic.
 Local visitors to Florida write home that the first strawberries of the sea- son have been shipped north from Plant City. near Tampa
 Having grown quite feeble this win ter. T Y. Winship. who is 92, was not well enough to receive friends who called on New Years day.
 It is. expected that between 500 and 700 delegates will be in New London Jan. 14-16, for the three days of the State Grange convention.
 The next holiday is Lincoln day, Feb. 12th, which this year falls on Wednesday. Washinetons birthday, Feb 22d, comes on Saturday.
 Sarah silinsky of Waterford. licens- ed to sell milk Tn New London, was yesterday fined s10 in the police court there for distributing watered milk to her customers.
 Judge Gardiner Greene of Norwich will be presiding judge of the Feb ruary term of the criminal superior court at Bridgeport It will be his first appearance in that city.
 The state chronological bureau is waging a strenuous campaign against the brown-tailed moth. Unlike most insects, this is the season of the year when they can best be exterminated.
 Of interest to Eastern Point cot ragers, new postoffice box rates went into effect in Groton January 1st, when the call boxes were increased from 20 to 20 cents and the lock boxes from 35 to 45 cents.
 Stated convocation Franklin chapter. No. 4, R. A. M, at Masonic Temple this evening. Work in the NJ M. de- gree. A full attendance is desired, as grand officers will be present. Banquet at close of work.-adv
 The distribution of the estate of Dr. Horace S. Fuller, late of Hartford. was recorded in the probate court there R. Harman and Mary Fairfield each received s3,264.3s. matter of local interest.
 It is noted in Washington society news that Mrs H. F. Dimocl1 of South Coventry is beginning to entertain at her home in I street, planning an. aft ernoon reception Jan. Sth for Mir and Mrs. Ernest Schelling of New York, who are her guests.
 A New York man who owns proper ty in Lyme, but not on the main street, has had a petition circulated, signed by several artists, to prevent the troll
 
 The people in general want it to go by the stores and churches.
 For the first three months of 1913 the planets Venus and Saturn will be visible Then for a period of about two months star gazers will see no bright planets at all, until about June first Jupiter will enter the evening sky in the east, and remain visible until December.
 Norwich friends of the Hanlin fam fly learn that since her mothers death Miss Lizzie Hamlin has given up the family apartment and is making her home with the two daughters of her the late Helen Atwill Bryce and their father at 27 Nahant place, Lynn, Mass.
 The o'clock mass in St Patricks church New Years morning was said by Rev. Thomas A. Grumbly, and that at ' by Rev. J. H. Broderick The high mass at was celebrated by Rev. Will liam A. Cavanaugh, who was assisted in giving Holy Communion and in the Benediction following the mass by Rev.