Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-25
Qllle Bullftir1,
Norwich, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1913.
VARIOUS MATTERS
7ov, 25 is st. catherine's day

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 Nov 25 is Ut. Catherine's day
 Sales of Thanksgiving table supplies
 VIII constitute big proportion of this
 weeks trade.
 At present there are 52 patients at
 the Backus hospital, which is about the
 average number.
 Bakers and caterers are complaining { that the high price of eggs is leaving
 no profit in their business
 Preparations are being made for 1 dedicatory exercises to be held in the l new schoolhouse in Poquonoc. Next Sunday will be the first Sunday l of the present church year, and like
 wise the first Sunday of Advent. 1 Order bread, cake, pie and plum pud- ding at Woman's Exchange. Contributions of late, including a K. l of C. subscription of $10 have increas- 1 cd the fund for St. Agnes home to 1 $171, ,521. 34.
 Restaurants and hotels are making preparations for entertaining the cus- tomary number of holiday dinner par 1 ties on Thursday.
 Poquonnoc growers are keeping back their cranberries for the Christmas trade only sending portion of the crop to market this week A painting by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson entitled Old Lyme, has been sold at a New York gallery for $50 to ex- Mayor James D. Phelan of San Francisco.
 So far the express offices find no particular rush of holiday business, but the employees are advising early despatching of Christmas packages
 Morton F. Plant of Eastern Point has started from Liverpool for America on the steamer Rronprinzessin Cecilia. He has been abroad since September.
 The work of painting the synagogue on High street and laying a new ce- ment walk is completed, greatly inn proving the appearance of the proper ty.
 Mrs. Julia A Crumb and c. F. Hay ward are moving from AshaWay. R. T., to the Winfield Eccleston farm, near Cossaduck Hill, on the line of the Norwich Westerly trolley.
 Sunday was Bishop Thomas F. Davies day to visit the Massachusetts colleges, and he preached at Mt. Hol- yoke in the morning and at Smith college Sunday afternoon.
 The railroads are directing freight agents not to accept livestock or per- ishable freight for local stations on Nov. 26th, unless it can reach it's des- tination befose the holiday.
 Miss Charlotte M Holloway of New London, special investigator of the state bureau of labor statistics, has completed her research in Hartford and will be stationed in New Haven for month.
 It is stated at New Britain that school formerly of Norwich Free Academy faculty. has been compelled to cancel all engagements to speak un- til after Christmas.
 Patrick E. O'SuIIivan, corporation counsel of Derby, announced Saturday that he is a candidate for the place of secretary and treasurer of the demo- cratic state central committee to suc- ceed Judge E. $. Thomas
 Some of the history classes recalled the fact Monday that on No 24th in 1929, New England began the custom l of observing the last Thursday in No 1 vember as a day of Thanksgiving. Up 1 to that time no definite date had been l fixed.
 Since a recent order from the depart l ment at Washington, postofffce clerks i are engaged in committing to memory some four or five hundred poStoffices l in the first and second parcel post l zones, to facilitate the handling of | Christmas mail.