Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-03
0ltlf EllIlfIIm.
Norwich, Monday, March 3, 1913.
VARIOUS MATTERS.

mated by President Taft for postmas- ter at Piainfield.
 The New England conference of the Swedish Lutheran Synod is to meet in New Britain April 16. The personal tax collectors on Sat urday sent out the personal tax bills for 1913 The bills are payable at once. The Royal Blue Steamship line of New London has announced that op- cations will be started in about one { month.
 Within a few days signs are to be posted in New Haven road stations
 bearing the inscription No Smoking Allowed"
 The Connecticut association opposed to woman suffrage is to give 6 lunch con in Hartford Tuesday, March Il, at ? o'clock.
 The ground is pretty clear here, but men excayating for graves in the Cen tral cemetery, Haddam, found 12 inches of frost.
 There is bill pending in the gen. eraI assembly providing tha. all eggs offered for sale shall be marbeted for just what they are.
 
 William Dean Howells, the author, and in consequence the libraries had extra demands for his works.
 gan is being installed at the Second Congregational church d piano is used to accompany the choir
 There was the unusually large num- Der of 13S visitors to the Otis library reading room Sunday afternoon. Miss Mildred Rogers was in charge.
 The last quarterly conference is to be held by District Supt- J. H. New land at the South Manchester Meth odise church this (Monday) evening.
 March came in lamblilze enough, but soon showed leonine tendencies in thunderstorm Saturday afternoon and in snow, rain, wind and intense cold Sunday.
 The printed list of town school com mittees, boards of school visitors, boards of education and library direc- tors is being distributed by the state board of education.
 Richard Lamont says that President elect Wilson may have good day for his inauguration. The 4th of March will be fair if not pleasant, up to or o'clock in the afternoon.
 The Catholic Wom8n's cub of St. Patrick's parish, through the rresident, Mrs. F. L. Farrell, has reported S60192 netted from the charity ball, the larg- est receipts ever cleared by the club on it's annual ball.
 Every Methodist pastor in the Unit ed States was aked to stop his church clock for ten minutes Sunday in hon Or of John Wesley, founder of Meth odism, the anniversary of whose foIIc 2
 Helen Adele. daughter of the late Captain Robert Harper and Helen Powers Griswold. died at Old Lyme The funeral was held at her home on Saturday afternoon at o'clock
 Friday the last day of the year on | which automobile operators licenses | could be renewed, the automobile de- partment at the capitol was worked l Dvei time, attending to the crowd which 1 always waits until the last minute.
 New Haven road station employees | are preparing to ask the road for more l pay and fewer hours. The men are the baggagemasters and their assist 1 to be at work organizing them into union.
 City Marshall Hart Talcoet of Hart ford has received from a friend copy of a history of Connecticut on which 1 is written the name of his grandfather, Sad Talcott, Hebron, Conn, 1798, in- dicating that he was the owner of the volume.
 The handsome cottage of George c. Preston of Norwich. on the seawall al Neptune Park, has been leased for the ,oming season by Mir. Ripley of Hart lord, son Of John C. Ripley, formerly If Norwich, who spent last summer at he Park.
 Ernest Allison Smith, for two years past working in the interests of pro- with headquarters at Nor yich, goes to Grove City, Pa, seventy niles north of Pittsburg March $. to assume the editorship of a prohibition weekly paper.
 Charles Rolfe of Somers. Holland county, was loading sawdust when a he lots and jumped into the wagon, where he was easily killed with a hoveI. MT Rolfe will claim the boun- y for the killing.
 The social service committee of the Conference of Congrega- ional churches, of which Rev. c. H. of Norwich is a member. met t New Haven Friday and adopted the rinciples of the federated council which sat at Chicago Dec. g
 Notices have been issued to the an ual concIaVe of the Knights Templar f Connecticut, to be held in Norwich, pening Tuesday morning, March IS. 'harles l.. Hubbard of Norwich is rand commander and also illustrious equity of the supreme council.
 About 200 members of the Holy Ian1e society met in St Patrick's asement chapel Sunday afternoon, resident James E. Shannon presiding. iatters of business were discussed nd committees were appointed for the ociety's big post -Lenten whist. Donald Bain. coachman and chsuf- eur for Mrs. A. c. Tyler of New Lon- or for 19 years, was given 2 surprise arty at his home by forty friends in ited to turkey supper provided by 1rs. Tyler, who sent him fine oil ainting of the late Colonel Tyler. Changes in the internal revenue ser ice office announced by Colonel R. O. laton Saturday include G. R. kimball, Bridgeport for New Haven office as auser. Thomas OKeefe of New Ha- en sent to Bridgeport as gauger, and D. Wilmonson of NorwaIk sent to