Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-14
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Norwich. Friday. Feb. A. 1913.
VARIOUS MATTERS.

 Tides will be low today. Even sharpened horses find travel hard on the fey hills Thursday Hon. George F. Tinker of New London was 79. A number of skating parties were out Thursday evening. Mrs. Lucius P Burch of Westerly is entertaining Mrs. John l.. Allen of ManvilIe.
 Norwich friends have been enter taining Mrs. Frank Q. Grandy or Stonington.
 Camps of Sons of Veterans are pre- pairing to celebrate Union Defenders day, Feb. 21st.
 Walter Damrosch and his syrnphony this (Friday) evening
 It thawed sufficiently Thursday to leave walks on the sunny side of the streets free from ice.
 Two patients who strayed away from the State hospital Wednesday were found in and around Ledyard.
 The meeting of. the State Horticul- tural society this (Friday) evening at
 
 At his farm in Waterford John NJ Reardon has a hen and flock of 13 chickens, matched out two days ago, 13 chickens out of 14 eggs.
 The Connecticut association of elas- have it's 22d annual meeting Saturday at New Haven High school
 Railroad men tell of bitter cold in F. f fl degrees below zero at midnight Sunday and 26 degrees below Monday morn ing.
 Mrs. Fred c. Crowell of Norwich was a caller upon relatives in West erly Thursday on her way to visit her father, George H. Spicer ,at Asha- way
 When the finance committee of the Wilbrahan, Mass, academy board of trustees met Wednesday one of the board present was Lucius E. Whiton of New London
 Twenty-nine postmasters from vari- ous parts of the state are expected to be in attendance at the annual con yention of carriers and postal clerks in Waterbury Feb. 22.
 Friends and relatives were in St Patrick's church Thursday morning to
  mass celebrated by Rev J. H. Broder- fck, memorial to MT and Mrs. James Rohan.
 The Connecticut association of held it's annual meeting in the state agricultural experiment station in New Haven Wednesday, electing T. E. Boroughs of Deep River president.
 Westerly music lovers, to the mum Der of twenty -four, came to Norwich evening to attend the New York Symphony orchestra. The party returned on a special car arriving in Westerly at 11.30.
 At some of the farmers institutes this winter Mrs. Carrie B. Healey, wife of L. H. Healey, of South Woodstock, secretary of the state board of agri- culture, has lectured on A Trip Through the Scenic Northwest.
 By an order issued by Postmaster General Hitchcock that all the horses and wagons used in the transportation of the U. $. mail be inspected, at once, the inspection must include even such small articles as whips, lamps and harness.
 One of the big new Pacific model To- comotives of the New Haven road, which rolled into New London We'd neSOay, haS driving wheels seven feet in diameter and can pull 1 400 tons at an average rate of 45 miles an hour, on level or grades.
 Miss Frances Beatty, a teacher in one of the mountain white schools in the south, has been assigned to Con necticut for February by the Ameri- can Missionary association and is to speak at Ellington Congregational church Sunday evening"
 
 At the annual meeting of the State Agricultural society at Berlin Wed nesday James B. Palmer of Norwich was elected a vice president for this county. President Jarvis reported the total receipts over s17,000, $9,000 of which was from the gates
 A Groton young man who attends Norwich Free academy was elected to membership in a secret society of the school and Wednesday night made a special trip to Norwich to be inftiat- ed. He was paraded about the streets in a kifnona and made to do various stunts.
 Music Vale seminary, on the site in Salem just bought by Bella Lyon Pratt the sculptor, was built by his grand father, Oramel Whittlesey and in war times was the fashionable music school for wealthy girls north and south An aunt of Bella Pratt born there is Charlotte Maconda, the famous singer
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