Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-05
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Tn the shore towns low tides this week have benefited the clam dfggers.
 In a number of places pastors are noting Child Labor Sunday this month.
 Some, of the magnolia trees begin to show the effects of the warnf February sun. a. #
 Visit the Tea Cosy. next to the Wo- mans Exchange, for your luncheon Adv.
 springlike day such as Wednesday proved starts the call for painters and paperhangers.
 The Graduate Nurses association of Connecticut held its quarterly meeting at Waterbury Wednesday.
 Early Wednesday morning there was hard rain, followed by fog, which did not lift until nearly 10 o'clock.
 The seieetmen of nearby towns have been busy this week repairing the damage done by Saturdays storm.
 At the State PomoIogicaI meeting in Hartford Tuesday there was a fine ex- hibit of apples from Storrs college.
 The Fri Kappa fraternity of the Academy heldsa meeting on Wednes- day evening at the Wauregan house.
 Mid-year examinations in some of the girls colleges are giving the stu dents 8 few days home this week. Taft stockholders at New Haven, Tues day, Morton F. Plant was elected a director.
 Chief Engineer Charles c. Elwen has been on a tour of inspection of the Shore Line extension trolley to Ches- ter this week.
 Judge Hewitt and another official from Groton brought patient named Brush to the Norwich state hospital Wednesday afternoon
 Many foreign born residents in Con- necticut are planning to take adyant- age of the cut in oceon rates resulting from the rivalry. between several of the big lines.
 Richard Lamont says threatening weather commences today (Thursday), the 9th, and from this time until the 10th there will be something doing in the storm line.
 The funeral of Miss Mary Isham, ST, was attended from her home in Rockville Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The body was taken to Yer non Senter for burial
 The next meeting of the Connecticut probate assembly is to be held in the probate court, City hall, New Haven, Feb. II. Luncheon will be served at the Union League club.
 The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has widened its scope and dating from Tuesday sick benefits will be paid to every member of the organization who loses time through illness.
 At the women's prayer meeting in Bushnell chapel, Central Baptist church, Tuesday afternoon there was an attendance of 14. The leader was Mrs Walter H. Rogers
 A local man recalled Wednesday, that it was 3S years ago this week on Feb. 2, 1876, when there was a violent wind storm which blew off roofs and did other serious damage
 By the end of the month the fore noon will be only one minute longer than the afternoon, so that these two divisions of the day are more nearly equal in February than in any month of the year.
 A correspondent in Bethel mentions that Rev. Henry Macbeth Is in New York attending the 2eth annual re- union of the Hobart College Alumni association of the city of New York at the Hotel Martinique.
 Edwin T. Carrier, who died at his home in Manchester Monday from heart trouble, was one of Manchester's oldest business men and one of the largest poultry owners there. He was born in Colchester, Aug Il, 1887.
 The change of benches in the Town hall will permit Frank Edward John son to show his co1ored vews of North African scenes on the big white wall, instead of on a limited screen, which will be great advantage during his public lecture, Feb. 17th-
 According to Wednesdays shipping news, steamer City of Norwich, from Calcutta to New York, has passed Perrin, on the Strait of Baf- -e1-Mandet, connecting the Red Sea and Arabian gulf. Norwich people in New York will be interested in this steamer when she arrives
 At Amston, formerly Turnerville. the small barn across from the hotel is be- ing taken down and the house on that side of the road is to be moved to the opposite side, and the land back of these buildings flooded. It is stated that many new houses are to be built in the spring.