Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-23
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Norwich, Thursday, Oct. g, 1915.
VARIOUS MATTERS

\ 1 prayer meeting in Preston chapel We'd
 nesday evening.
 Motorists from distant points who
 came to town Wednesday were muf- l fled in winter furs.
 The harvest moon is waning. and 1 those planning husling bees will not
 long enjoy it's light
 Roadmakers painters and other out
 door workers Were pleased to have a
 pleasant day yesterday.
 Men have been removing the big tree
 near Uncasyine schooIhouse which was
 blown down Monday night
 The Connecticut schoolmasters' 1 club will hold it's annual autumn ban 1 quet at Hartford this evening at 1 o'clock.
 The ladies of the Central Baptist
 church are busy preparing for the 1 pageant at the coming Sunday school l convention.
 l About 5 o'clock Wednesday morning ] boys stole the iron gate at the Steiner l residence which had been smashed
 when struck by a tree limb.
 At Winsted G. M. Merwin and Mrs. Frank Tiffany have been elected dele 1 gates to the state Sunday school con- | vention in Norwich Nov. 3. and 5.
 John N Harvey. yard clerk for the 1 Central Vermont railway in New Lon | don, has been promoted to assistant | night yard master for the company. 1 The old Bush grist mill at Mantle l which supplied not only the neighbor- 1 hood but the New London market long 1 before the Revolution. is still grinding.
 Captain Wilbur of the Salvation Army is in need of a crib for a boy of three in a worthy family He is now located at 61 Otis street and has a telephone
 Andros Johnson and Charles John- son of Oakdale went coon hunting the other night and came home with coon weighing IT pounds. It was shot in the woods near the OxOboXo pond.
 It is the intention of the working mems compensation board to send to all town clerks blank forms to be used so that officials and. others inter ested may become familiar with them.
 Mrs Emma Shaw Colcleugh, the fa- nous traveller and lecturer, who has spoken before the Norwich D. A. R. chapter, is suffering from the effects of a bad fall at her summer home in Thompson.
 T. F. Williams of Ansonia is in Washington, D. C., attending the con- vention of the National BottIers 'asso- citation in session there MT. Williams was chosen delegate from the state association.
 Tuesdays Woonsocket Evening Call said: A marriage license has been is- sued to Frank H. Williamson of Nor Wich Conn, and Miss Rose Anna Young of this city. at the office of City Clerk William o. Park
 The new switchboard being installed 1 at the Groton power house by the | Westinghouse people is nearly ready 1 for use. It is an up-to-dat seven | panel board and the old one has been | done away with entirely.
 Mr. and Mrs. Leon c. Buzzen gave l the second and last of their at homes | at their residence in East Lyme Tues | day from to o'clock. About 50 | friends motored out to tender felicita- 1 tions to MT. and Mrs. Buzzeu.
 The New London society of the | WOmanS' auxiliary to the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Engineers, which has | several Norwich members, has accept | ed an invitation to attend a union 1 meeting in Providence Nov. II.
 Some of the state delegates who are 1
  vention in Brooklyn, N. Y.. beginning | today, the 23d, plan to go on to Asbury Park to attend the national w. c. T. U. | convention, which begins Oct. 29.
 Mrs. Antoinette J. (Baker) Weston, 91, widow of Orrin H. Weston, died l Monday al her home in Springfield, Mass. from pneumonia. She was born in Stafford Springs the daughter of John and. Betsy (Converse) Baker.
 On Wednesday Leroy Osborne and assistant took down the elm on Dr. J. J. DOnohues Church street property which suffered so badly in Monday | by Polish residents of the West Side.
 Antoine Roger Brazos, S7. president of A. Brazos x Sons, Inc, one of the largest general contracting firms in the state, died Monday at his home in MiddletOWn. He is survived by eleven l children. MT. Brazos had done much road building in eastern Connecticut.
 The seaIer of weights and measures is having forms prepared to be sent to county SealerS for information. ! When these forms are filled and re- turned to the state sealer the latter will have @ complete list of all the local sealers of weights and measures in the state.
 Mrs. Addie C. BIaczmer, Il, widow of Edwin BlaQkmer, died at BelchertoWn, Mass, Monday evening after long ill., ness. Mrs. Blackmer was born in Connecticut. One daughter Mrs. Wal ter D. Morse with whom Mrs. Black mer made her home. survives. There is also a brother, Luther Abbey, of New London.
 Postmasters are receiving postcards from the department of information in Washington for distribution among ru- ral dwellers. By filling out one of the cards and mailing it to Washington a foreigner will have the assistance of the officials there in finding work in the agricultural line.
 In the Little Church Around the Corner a memorial window to Richard Mansfield was unveiled Tuesday The window was placed in the church by his widow He died in New London Aug. 30, 1907. The Mansfelds spent their honeymoon at Pinehurst Nor Wich then the E. N Gibbs estate