Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-14
VARIOUS MATTERS


 VARIOUS MAT TIERS
 Yesterday was Kristian day among
 the swedish people.
 The full moon made the night beau
 tiful Thursday, and many were ou
 to enjoy it.
 Singers claim that the recent sud den weather changes have been par
 uculafay hard on throats. Manager E. J. Hunt and R. H. Gray 1 are in New Haven attending the con ference of telephone officials. Miss Grace D. Wheeler has returned to Stonington from Norwich, where
 she has been the guest of friends. Members of Fidelity chapter, o. E 1 S, attended a huslzing bee at the home of MT. and Mrs. Owen Williams il 1 Waterford Wednesday. If it swims. we have it at Powers 1 Bros. adv.
 1 A former Norwich man, Alexander J l Campbell of Waterbury, has been re l elected a director of the Rockville Willimantic Lighting company. Churches have been asked to remem- Der that next week has been appointed by the federal council of churches o1 America as home mission week. The state board of education has published a pamphlet giving the laws 1 relating to schools passed at the re- l cent session of the general. assembly. A library is being established in the town of Lyme at Hamburg Center. Two hundred dollars is being raised, for which sum the state gives an equal sum.
 Choice long clams today at Powers Bros.-adv.
 At the Congregational conference in Waterbury Rev. H. J. Wyckof of Nor wich was appointed a member of the committee on religious education for three years.
 A Holland correspondent notes that District Superintendent G. G. Scrivener of Norwich has been in town and held his third quarterly conference at the Methodist church
 It is stated by dealers that the na- tive chestnut season ended unusually early this year, the nuts appearing to dry up. Plenty of French and Italian chestnuts are in market
 Senator Frederick A. Johnson of Un- casville, who returned from New Brunswick Tuesday, where he has been for several weeks on a hunting trip, brought back a big bag of game
 Ernest G. Champlin and Clarence Maynard, who are engaged in railroad surveying near Chapleau, Ontario, write home of severe rainstorms and a big blizzard since November began.
 The auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which has local members, was entertained by Mrs. D, w Brown at her home on Williams street. New London, Wednesday after noon.
 The second quarterly conference of the Old Mystic Methodist Episcopal church was held Thursday evening in the parish house and was conducted by District Superintendent G. G. Scrivener of Norwich.
 New arrival of choice scallops at Powers Bros today.-adY
 State Highway Commissioner Charles J. Bennett has awarded a contract for state road work to Frank Arrigoni x Brother Middletown, for a section of HalING SLOHS In3cdOaIn III the town or Brooklyn, at $9,424.09.
 Over 300 women, including a num- Der from eastern Connecticut, have been in Springfield, Mass, attending the 46th annual meeting of the woIh- ems board of missions of the Congre- gationaI denominations
 Builders from New London have se- cured the contract for a combination caddy house and shop to be built in connection with the new $50,000 golf club house at Eastern Point This building is to be 26x50 feet
 Funeral services for Marion G. Holmes, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holmes, were held at the home of Mrs Holmes parents, MT and Mrs Israel Darrow, in Mantle, Thursday afternoon at ? o'clock
 Camp Iveagh, Salem, the summer home of MT. and Mrs. T. Hunt Sterry caught fire early Wednesday The fire started in the chimney and spread under the roof. Neighbors formed a bucket brigade and extinguished the blaze. :
 Miss Abby G. Willard of Colchester was elected to the state committee on missionary work and Addison Kings bury of Coventry to the home mission ary committee for three years at the Congregational convention in Water bury Wednesday.
 It is mentioned in Wallingford news that Rev. William F. Newton formerly of Norwich. state colporter of the Con- necticut Baptist convention, has been invited by the local Baptist church to assist the pastor, Rev. w T. Thayer for few weeks.
 A couple of weeks more of good weather and the new state highway in Holland county will be completed. It is all done in Stafford, Holland and Ellington, but there is a short unfin- ished strip in Wilmington. This work has been in progress about 13 months
 Mrs. Diana Sweet, just across the Plainfeld line from South Killingly, was born in 1911, making her 102 years old Mrs Sweet is able to care for herself, her son and daughter, who live with her She must be the oldest per- son in Windham county, if not in Con- necticut
 The Progressive Missionary club of the Central Baptist church met Thurs day afternoon with Mrs. George A. Stanton of Church street, g attending. The vice president, Mrs. Franklin H Brown. presided. At the close of the work light refreshments were served.
 Hartford has a city ordinance which prohibits the transfer of prisoners in public conveyances in which there are A of4 IL.