Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-29
VARIOUS MATTERS

On Fitch Hill it was 19 degrees early Wednesday. and ice an inch thick formed.
 Y Ansel Miller of Lyme, keeper of the Calves Island light, went to a hospital last week to have. cataracts removed from his eyes.
 Remember we receive fresh caught fish every day in Powers Bros. If it swirns We have it. Can 114 or 777.-I Adv.
 Last year was .. poor, one for smelts, but fishermen say this will be a fine season, as the fish are of good size and running in big. schools.
 X big company of Westerly Boy Scouts will have an all-day outing at Lantern Hill today (Thursday) com- ing in the morning by special trolley car.
 A force of men have been employed to cut down the brush and trees and to clear the swamp near Central ave- nue, Groton. A Norwich firm has the contract.
 received fresh daily. At Powers Bros. If it swims we have it.-Adv.
 Members of Comfort Circle of the Kings Daughters went to New Lonodn. by automobile and trolley Wednesday for meeting with Mrs. Frank A. Comstock of Williams street.
 Beginning this week, the breweries in the state are to add 50 cents to the price of beer per barrel. This is due to the imposition of the war tax and to the increased price of malt.
 There was the celebration of holy Communion in Trinity Episcopal church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morn ing for St. Simon and St. Jude's day, Rev. J. Eldred Brown officiating.
 At Franklin, Mass, Charles Werner who has charge of the Godfrey Robin son estate was badly bitten Saturday Eby a strange dog which wore a collar lnarkeds"A. A. Chase, Danielson, Conn.,, Iceman."
 MT. and Mrs. Dewitt Kinsbury of Coventry went to Old Lyme in their automobile fhe other day and took I Mrs. Nellie Hughes back with them. Mrs. Dewitt and Mrs. Hughes are sisters.
 wich Gas 6 Electric department has l appeared this week, bright and fresh l from the paint shop where it has been l refinished.
 l At the coming annual fair of the Hartford branch of the Connecticut Children's Aid society, Miss Mamie | B. Ward, formerly of Norwich, is l chairman of the committee on the stationery booth.
 "Wednesday afternoon there was an interesting meeting of the auxiliary, to the Woma,n,s Board of Missions in the ladies' room at the Second Congrega- tiona1 church, the president, Mrs. Her. bert J. Wyckof, presiding. 4 A South Manchester correspondent writes that Miss Lillian Cheney of Willimantic, who is teaching at the Lincoln school, was taken i'll with ap- | pendicitis Monday morning and is in g serious condition at the Teachers | hall.
 | Several hunters have brought in | foxes and received their bounty ot l 1. The hunters say that the fur of the | foxes caught is not exceedingly good at this time of the season, as it has not yet been thickened by cold wea- 'ther
 l ,PaiNmer Bros. Co. will close it's New London plant at the end of the weel for a short period. The shutting dowr l is due to the general poor business con
 dftioI1s and the desire of the compan,
 to, make machinery repairs.
 McEnelly's Singing Orchestra vii ,l give 8 concert and dance at the ar, Il mory this evening. Tickets for sale by members of the Fifth Co.,, and a.
 Davis book store. Tickets 35c.-Adv 1 sylvian Chenai1Ie, 42, who died Sun day at Manville, R. l., leaves beside
 his wife, thre daughters, two sons
 three brothers, including Albert of Dan
 ielson, and tNarcisse of Putnam; thre
 sisters, including Mrs. Joseph Charo
 At Meriden Monday evening a mum
 Der witnessed the initiation of tn
 Rev. w. H.. Kidd at Meriden lodge, I
 of Methodist ministers. The Rev. NJ
 Kidd is former roque player an visitor in Norwich.
 At the State Librarians meeting i Norwalk, Miss Helen Marshall, libra
 rfan of the Free Academy, Norwicl
 outlined plan for a social hour ono
 a week when she will read to 12 or ] : girls who bring their fancy work an
 afterwards stay for a cup of choco
 late with her.
 The St. Francis Hospital Alumna
 association held it's semi annual meet ing at the hospital in Hartford Satur
 udy. f1IIy nurses reSQOnQeQ cOt tn P roll call from New Britain, New Yorl Meriden, Norwich, Rockville, Union vile and Waterbury. Elizabeth I
 Riley was elected president. Today (Thursday) and Monday mex
 and on Mondays and Thursdays fo the present. between 10 and 12, tn committee under the direction of MT Robert W. Perkins will be at the Unit ed Workers House, No. g Washingto
 street, to confer with all interested i
 aiding the Red Cross relief work. Benjamin F. Estler and Mrs. Flor
 ence H. Spencer, widow of Edwin '
 Spencer, were married by Rev. WI
 liam F. White at the Saybrook Poir
 parsonage Saturday noon. After week in New York MT. and Mrs. Es tier will make their home at the Poin
 having taken the John Johnson plac ! The state board of control m,
 Tuesday and after accepting the rt ports of the shell fish commission, u
 state board of charities and the sta
 library confirmed an appropriation
 $1,o0O for the preservation and II
 deNng of books and one of $1,500 f.
 purchasing books for the state 1ibrar