Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-06
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Norwich. Saturday, Dec. 6, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 The mercury registered 04 degrees i ia the shade Friday noon.
 With good weather today, merchants are looking for brisk holiday trade. A number of the churches will ob- 1 serve Dec. 21st as Christmas Sunday. Rabbit hunters would welcome enough snow for tracking their game.
 Several from here have attended the poultry and cat shows in New York this week,
 Members of the bird clubs are nnd- ing strells both pleasant and profit able just now,
 Showing of latest embroideries for Christmas Mrs. s. Comstock, Is Union street-Adv,
 The collection for the United Work CTS at the union Thanksgiving service amounted to S15,T2,
 Agents claim that the mild season is delaying Eastern Connecticut peo- pie in making visits south
 Some of the church organizations have already started fund to provide for the attendance of members at Northfield conference next season
 Off Block Island Aug 8, 1913, the battieship Rhode Island lost a big an chor and the government will give a reward of S250 to anybody who finds it.
 The December White Ribbon Ban- ner states that the Scotland w. c. T. union is to hold a series of social meetings to which each member will bring her work
 Telephone service links the country into one community of communication. Are you in the chain ?-Adv.
 Mrs. Edmund Gilbert of Jewett City who is very ill wishes information as to where her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie St. John Is living. She is thought to be in achusetts-AdV.,
 The current issue of the Catholic Transcript states that the building fund for St. Agnes Home for Found lings, to which local people have con- tributed, now amounts to $113,512-
 The papers refer to Rev. Samuel W. Dyke, a native of Thompson, whose death was announced Friday morning, as largely responsible for the for1na- ton of the Divorce Reform league, in 1881.
 One pioneer Norwich cottage owner It WintergFeen Point finds pleasure even during these December days in visits down to Quaker Hill for the dig ging of the excellent clans and oy- sters which abound there.
 Those who have been confidently predicting a hard winter, may be right but it certainly cannot be an early winter now and the fall has been the latest and most open known in the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
 After Jan. I, 1914, no more trading stamps will be given at P. H. Ethier's grocery store in Greeneville.-adv.
 A certificate of incorporation has been filed in the office of the secretary of the state by the Mystic Motor com pany of Groton. The incorporators are Harry M. Hoxie, J. D. Miller and George McDowell, all of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 At the Lotos club, New York. this week are shown eighty one pictures from the collection of Dr. Alexander c. Humphreys, all by American art ists, including The Messenger Boy and A Winter Morning by Childe Hassam, one of the Lyme artists.
 Announcement is made by General Manager c. L. Bardo, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford rail- road, of the appointment of W. s. Swain as contract agent with offices at New Haven. MT Swain was for managers office.
 Walter Holden slasher tender at the Plainheld mill. left a week ago Saturday and has not been heard from since. Before leaving he went to the local bank and drew out all his de- posits amounting to $1,200 and it is reported that he also drew money from banks in Norwich and Daniel son
 Supper was served at 6.15, with a meeting afterwards at which Supt. J. D. Haviland presided and an instruc- tive talk was given by Mrs. A. M Brown of the Jewett City Baptist church Sunday school. She spoke par ticularly of grading the school, the equipment, teacher training and graded lessons.
 General supplies in the form of clothing, tentage, hospital supplies and signal corps property have been re- ceived for distribution at the state ar mOry in Hartford upon the requis1tion of the governor under date of Novem- Der 1, from the stores of the quar- termaster of the United States army at Philadelphia
 Members of the petit jury in Judge Thomas court in Hartford include: George H. Allen, Mansfield: W. B. Bal lard, H. J. Barnes, Thompson; Joseph Bryant, Griswold; Cary D. Carpenter, Bolton; F. W. Colburn, Wfllington; w. F. Cranm, Mansfield; M A Elliott, Thompson Charles Frederick, Colum-. bia: H. J. Jackson, Coventry; Charles S. Marshall, Columbia