Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-03
Qlllf R1lllftin.
Norwich, Friday. Jan. 3, 1913.
VARIOUS MATTERS.


 have left town. after the holiday re-
 cess
 See today's notice of book of poems by Mrs. Starkw eather of Norwich Adv.
 Good weather and the annual Janu- ary sales attracted many shoppers to town Thursday.
 MT. and Mrs. James Durigan of Qua ker Hill celebrated their 55th anniver- sary at their home Monday.
 4 large elm which has been held together by large iron bands for a number of years is being removed in Grove street
 The last visit of the year to the Old Mystic Methodist church was made Sunday by District Superintendent J. H. Newland of Norwich
 Eastern Connecticut students at Mount Hermon returned for the winter term which began Thursday with an enrolment of over 500.
 Palmer Brothers quilt mill in Pal mertown shut down Tuesday night for the rest of the week, while the annual inventory is being taken
 Painters and decorators are putting the finishing touches to the interior ot John E. Earnings remodeled "Thermos cottage, on lower Cliff street.
 Owing to the rush and increase in orders at the Mantle Manufacturing company ali the departments had to be open to work on New Years day.
 French residents always make near ly as much of New Years as they do of Christmas. and have been holding their family celebrations this week
 While it Is not certain just how many Red Cross seals have been sold here, it is expected that the number will exceed that of last year. S5,00o,
 It is expected that the delivery of auto markers will be completed by the last of this week, after which there will be no excuse for anyone operating with 1912 markers
 Oranges and agricultural societies are planning their farmers institutes for the coming two months, while there is a let-up of farm rush and more time for social life and study
 Most of the local Ch1namen cele- brated the Occidental New Years day, as did their neighbors, on Jan, 1st, in stead of Feb. 5th. as they did under
 Prof. c. D. Jarvis of the Connect cut Agricultural college is to give a stereopticon lecture in the North Can ton church, Collinsville, this evening on The Preservation of Neglected Ap- pie Trees.
 State Vice President James L. Case of the Connecticut Sunday school as- sociation was a speaker Thursday evening in New London at a meeting fer the formation of a teacher train ng class
 At Fishers Island 8 large duck house $ being erected at the poultry plant ! ,f E. M 6 w. Ferguson It will be bout 80 feet long by IS wide. and will ! 10 away with crowding by the in i .reasing stock
 The New London Gas and Electric ! company has definitely decided to ex- end it's electric lighting service to ! aontvilles and expects to light the own within three months. provided here is no opposition
 The railroad clerks along the New Haven road system have asked for 9 minimum wage of $2.25 a day: and for
 raise for those getting over that sum t present. They are also asking for n eight hour day and Saturday half oliday.
 Rev. Herbert J. Wyckoff of the Sec nd Congregational church has sent ut New Years folders to his congre- ation which are attractive both as to he sentiment expressed and the 
 Tuesday closed the duck hunting eason, and it closed bad for the large umber of sports who were at Say rock Point to gather all they could, ut were disappointed. Not a duck Tas shot at or even made it's presence noWa.
 At meeting of the advertising com littee of the New England Hotel as ociation. held at Springfield Monday, ae committee arranged to give three utomobile tours of different sections New England, with maps showing lese routes.
 Our local market opens the new year ith luscious strawberries, Hamburg rapes, mushrooms, tomatoes, cauli- over, lettuce, string beans, eggplant, ew potatoes, new peppers, new pears, atawba grapes, endixes, CamenbeFt heese- Somers.-ady-
 Mrs. August Ho1gerson of Central illage while the guest of her sister flaw, Mrs. Victor Holgerson. in Put am, was choked with a morsel of ,od- A physician was called, but was nable to aid her, so she was taken to le Day Kimban hospital
 Railway mail clerks are not so en- iusfastic over the parcels post, as no revision has been made for extra zen to handle the packages, and the sgulars have been ordered when on leir day-of days to be ready for calls at any time. Lucy Abigail CWoodO Cowles S1, who led at the home of her son, Dr. Fred lick W. Cowles, in West Brookfeld, VVodnnG6oU o cp hess, was born at Mansfield, Ct, July !. 1881, the daughter of Jonathan Alderman Wood and Laura (Benson) food.