Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-25
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Norwich, Thursday, Dec. 25, 1913.
VARIOUS MATTERS

 Merry Christmas to Bulletin readers Swedish residents noted Eva day W edhesuay.
 The florists put in g. record day for 1 business yesterday. The Otis library force put in rush day Wednesday because of the holiday today.
 The newsboys, postmen and trolley crews are ready for Christmas remem- brances today. Fifty printed calling cards for 25 cents at The Bulletin Of1ce.-adv. Turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens were plentiful for the Christmas trade and at average prices.
 The rain late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning was some of the heaviest of the season.
 Norwich people in Denver write home of another big snowstorm. At one place the drifts piled up IS feet
 In Shelton Dec 1T John Howard William married Miss Clara Main of shelton MT. Williams formerly lived in Woodstock.
 Many of the travellers who have gone down from northern points this week have been holiday eXcurs1onlsts to Washing ton
 Street department men gave Union square an extra cleanup Wednesday,, so as to have it ready for the Christ mas tree crowds.
 According to the Old Farmers alma nae, the sun gives everybody a Christ mas present today by showing himself one minute longer
 A Danbury boy, Squire Bernard Romans, who is a student at the Con necticut Agricultural college. Storrs, is spending the Christmas vacation at his home
 Many of the foreign farmers in the suburbs have adopted the custom of their countries and decorated their horses brides with red tassels for Christmas.
 zotique Napoleon LeClair, 57, died in his home in Worcester, Mass, Monday night, from general debility. MT. Lc- Clair was brother of Marcel LeClair of Putnam
 The funeral of Rev. William A. Forbes, 86. of Worcester. Mass, a for
  church, was held Wednesday, with burial at Oakham.
 The operators in the telephone ex- changes are not saying Number, please?" because it is Christmas. They are following new regulations which went into effect this week
 While railroad travel was not so noticeably heavy Wednesday, most of Inc i've l,nJ C.. accommodating parcel post and large amount of baggage was handled.
 More than ever the custom prevails of decorating cemetery lots with ever green and laurel and hundreds have cry to the local cemeteries during the week.
 Some of the oldest inhabitants are reminding their friends that the weather is mild now. during the short days of the year. but that the old saw goes AS the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen
 With Christmas tokens to Norwich friends from Mrs. Frances Robinson Sibley of Rialto, Cal, comes the en- couraging news that the season there has been most favorable and that eY- erything points tAa big fruit crop
 Hartford papers state that Charles Edw. Prior, Jrs has resigned as tenor soloist at the Center church because of ill health. and will be succeeded by Frank N. Kelly of WalHngford, a mat ter of eastern Connecticut interest
 Local people who are watching the career of Charles $. Whitman are in- terested in the statement of Theodore Douglas Robinson, progressive state chairman, that the Sprague boy will not be nominated for governor of New y Ork state.