Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-02
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Norwich, Monday, March 2, 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS March is the first spring month, al though official spring does not begin until the 21st.
 The City Mission is in need of !; parlor stove and a bed Spring.-adV Sundays severe storm decreased the attendance at the communion ser vices in the churches.
 :: A big three-masted barge has ar lived at Fishers Island with 126; tons of ice from Maine.
 There were big cracks in the rive ice Saturday, and Sundays high tenn perature made them bigger. The Otis library has been presented The Norwich Amateur, a favor give1 through the courtesy of the Norwich Press club.
 In 3 number of places Saturday the Boy Scouts went out and scattered grain for the preservation of game and other birds.
 There were 3S visitors to the Oti library reading room during Sunda, afternoons storm. Miss Martha A Ward was in charge.
 The tax collectors office will be oper today and until o'clock this evening Monday, the 2d, the last day of the col lection of the personal tax.-adv.
 At the business meeting of the Con- gregational church at Westbrook the resignation of the pastor, W. r. Eng fish, Jr-, who will go to Saco, Me, was accepted.
 A Colchester trapper, NJ. J. Porter considers this the best season ir many years, especially for skunk hunting. In a single night last week he caught eight black skunks.
 Saturday was the 49th birthday of Dr. ". T. Grenfell, the Labrador ex- plorer. who has personal friends here and aids in his missionary work since he lectured in Norwich last year.
 A Moodus correspondent states that at Reno, New, Feb. 13, Mrs. Lena A Fowler of Moodus was granted di- yorce from Dr. F. C. Fowler of New London on the ground of desertion,
 The insurance on the house owned by William Ross of Eastford, destroy ed by fire Feb. r, has been adjusted The amount was $715: divided $500 on the house and S215 on the furni- ture.
 The Lyme library branch at Ham burg has been popular since the open ing, Feb. 3. Over 100 have registered as readers. and 2S4 books have been in circulation, 194 fiction and 99 non fiction.
 Owing to the prevalence of small pox In Middletown and vicinity visi- tors will not be admitted at the Con- necticut Industrial School for Girls until further notice, Superintendent W. C. Fairbanks has announced.
 Leave of absence has been granted by the postoffiee department to all third and fourth class postmasters to vention of the National league of Postmasters at Baltimore, Sept. r, Is and 19.
 Compensation commissioners state that reports that come in show that the majority of accidents are on the fingers and hands, which would go to ments in the method of safeguard about machinery.
 The officers of St. Mary's Tferney cadets, New London, were installed at a meeting held in the basement of St. Mary's Star of the Sea church last week by County Director William H. McGufnness of Norwich, assisted by James Dwyer Jr.
 Miss Lois Corbin, B. who died Fri day at West Hartford. in the old Cor bin homestead. was a native of Will lington the daughter of Philip Corbin eri Albert Corbin, of Philadelphia, and a sister, Miss Anne Corbin.
 Rev. Fosdiclz B. Harrison, who will leave the First Congregational pastor ate, SOuthington. at an early date, has bought a peach orchard at South Woodstock from the Griswold family, and will go there for vacation until fall, when he will again take up the paStorate.
 The attorney general has given an opinion to the shell fish commission CTS on the question of the power of the commissioners to divide shell fish grounds into 25-acre lots for the pur- pose of assessment. The opinion states that the commissioners have the power.
 Nine candidates for appointment to the United States Military academy at West Point took the preliminary examinations at the federal building Hartford, last week. The examina- tions were conducted by F. D. Clapp, acting secretary of the United States civil service board.
 It is the opinion Of the state board of education. as expressed by it's sec retary Charles D. Hine. Saturday, that the time spent by children in the elementary schools is entirely too long Secretary Hine said that children should be able to enter the high school when they are 12.
 In the homes of every true Welsh man were to be found leeks or imita- ton ieeks yesterday, St. David's day. The origin of the custom of display ing the leek on St. Dsvid's day was in the eighth century, when the Brit on soldiers designated themselves by leehs in 2, battle with the saxons
 Sayhrool1 Point and F'enwick dwell lers are feeding the wild ducks who come on shore and are so hungry. The birds come right in on the docks and shores. This is particularly so of the black ducks, which cannot dive and get the necessary food. The coves and rivers are all frozen over COURT MARTIAL WILL
 NOT BE PUBLIC