Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-22
lTlae Bulletin,
Norwich, Monday. Dec. 22, 1918.
VARIOUS MATTERS


 Dec ssd Is St Thomas dax,
 Yesterday was the closing sunday of
 Pc Your shopping at Fagan's smoke Shop.-adv.
 The Falls mill closed Saturday at noon for one week.
 This is the week that bakers are busy making Christmas cakes.
 Christmas does not mean holiday for the rural free delivery carriers.
 The ideal Xmas gift-telephone ser vices-Adv.
 Many farmers brought in evergreen and wreaths Saturday which met with ready sale.
 Next Wednesday the vigil of Christ mas, will be fasting day of obliga- ton for Catholics obliged to fast.
 Fifty-one persons visited the otis Ii- pTaIy reading room Sunday afternoon Miss Sadie J. Dawson was in charge.
 Sunday proved mild as a spring day, although 1t was B degrees in the morning and the moisture had frozen on the walks.
 Christmas gift that lasts the whele year round-a telephene-Adv.
 Children by the score visited Nor wich Saturday and went through the stores or fingered about the show Windows In delight.
 Leonard H. Healey of North Wood stock. past master of the Connecticut state grange, addressed Watertown grange Friday evening.
 letter from Nebraska received by Norwich lady tells of the unusual prevalence there for nearly two weeks or regular London fog.
 Mrs. Henry P. Beausolefl and family are spending Christmas week with friends in Springfield.
 Supt. J. B. Chapman has about .95 Tat hogs at the town farm. Six big ones were butchered at Thank giving and six more will be killed before Christmas.
 One of the exhibitors at the winter exhibition of the National Academy of Design, which opened Saturday in New York, is Childe Hassan. one of the Lyme colony of artists
 Albert c. Boardman of Norwich spoke Sunday evening at the socialist o, Problem of Unemployment. The talk was followed by a discussion.
 Henry P. Beausoleil is to attend the automobile show in New York this week with a friend in Waterbury.
 Frank Hogan, a New York patrol man, who saved Frank A Blanchard of Portland, Me, who had attempted suicide, is a brother of Pilot William Hogan of thn iah City of Lowell.
 Internal Revenue Collector James J. Walsh received advice Saturday from the department at Washington that Connecticut soldiers receiving pensions who are subject to the income tax must include the pension in their in come.
 The Peck library has recently been presented Charles H. Sherrilrs book, A Stained Glass Tour in Italy" MT. Sherrill, formerly United States am- bassador to Argentina, married Miss Miss George Barker Gibbs, formerly of Norwich.
 Christmas stock of Park and Tfl- fords candy has arrived at Lee & Os- goods. Sent anywhere in the city,
 The Rev. William F. White of Led yard preached Sunday morning and evening at the Saybrook Point Congre- gational church. This church has in- vited the Rev. Gerhart A. Wilson of Lynn, Mass, to act as pastor until April 1, 1914.
 A Winsted correspondent mentions that at a reception held at the nurses home connected with the Litchfield county hospital in honor of the three graduates the matron, Miss May Love. formerly of Norwich, assisted the graduates in receiving.
 Nearly 200 members of the Junior branch of the Holy Name society re- ceived communion in a body at the f.3O o'clock mass in St. Patrick's church Sunday from tkeir chaplain. Rev J. H. Frederick who was assist ed by Rev Thomas A. GrumbIy.
 In the valuable Edwin Hadley Smith collection of amateur papers presented the Pulitzer School of Journalism, Co., lumbia university, is The Press, pub- l1shed in 1879 by the late John Addl- 1 son Porter. secretary to President Me kinley summer resident of Pom fret
 Mother M. Alphonse Lathrop, who was Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, O. New London, is being aided by New York papers and individuals in the maintenance of the new St. Roses free home for cancerous patients of both sexes which she has opened at Fl Jackson street.