Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-26
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Norwioh, Saturday, Dec. %, 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS ALTERS
 Yesterday was day of many fam fly reunions.
 At Lyme. Harry Bradbury has had son.
 Beginning tomorrow Sunday one minute will be added to the days length.
 The icemen as we'll as the skaters had no particular welcome for the snowfall.
 Horace Johnson's prophescy of no snow for Christmas proved wide of the mark.
 ed Christmas dinners for many fami- ly parties.
 It was Christmas weather all right, with a temperature record of 26 de- grees at noon.
 A Glasgo man, Felix Dndeck, has purchased the William Roode farm near Plainfeld.
 Social and dance. Maennerchor hall tonight. Heinrich's orchestra-adv.
 Motoring and attending the thea tres were about the only diversions after the holiday dinner Thursday.
 Thursdays acknowledgements of contributions to the Belgian Relief fund included: Congregational church, Norwich, $10.
 The condition of Highway Com missioner Charles J. Bennett is so much improved that he was able to sit up for a short time Thursday.
 4 North Woodstock correspondent mentions that MT. and Mrs. Calvin l.. Rawson invited the Perrin and Corttis families to take Christmas dinner with them.
 Delegates from the local grange will attend the thirtieth annual session of the Connecticut State Grange, which will be held in Waterbury January F, E and 14.
 s There was a dinner party of nine, including MT. and Mrs. Warren G. AL len and son Raymond of Ledyard, at the home of MT. and Mrs. James w. Fraser on Hamilton avenue.
 The Christmas tree in Williams Me norial park, New London was lighted up at , o'clock Thursday afternoon There were exercises by the Camr Fire Girls and Boy Scouts and then the voices of hundreds were heard in songs.
 It is. interesting to note the beauty and originality of the Christmas win dow. decorations, in which wreatf1s o1 various eVergreens, scarlet bells ot eifterent' sizes, berries, green sprays red ribbon. etc. are ingeniousIy em- ployed
 The prohibition state central com mittee of Connecticut is to meet al the Y. NJ. c. A. Hartford, Wednes- day, December 30, to hear reports ot the year, taken action thereon and consider plans for the campaign oi 1915 and 1916.
 The state board of education has is- sued 9 catalogue of the State Normal school in Danbury, containing a list Of the members of the faculty, the names of the students the courses study aud other information con- eer1nnS the institution.
 Relatives from Norwich. Inc1udine Pr. and Mrs. J. H. Allen and son Christopher, MT. and Mrs. Walter E. Cantleld and Miss Emily Gard, were members of a family party entertained ChIlstrnas day at the hospitable home of AIT. and Mrs. Frank A. Comstock of Williams street. New London.
 The tower at Madison and the cab met at East River were abolished or the Consolidated system at. noon. or Wednesday. This makes four towers and one cabinet taken out betweer New Haven and New London on the Shore line. Fifteen operators anC lever men, most of whom have beer located in these points.
 Leonard H. Healey, of Woodstock secretary of the statae board of az. rtculture, in submitting to Governor Baldwin the 46th annual report of the board. shows the value of the prin. cipal crops grown in the state. Hay and forage, $7,225,O0Q tobacco, S4,- 416,ooo; potatoes, $1,161,000; corn, $1, 694,Oo0 and oats, 1000.
 The new Brown university enroll. ment shows that the fraternities con. tain 13 per cent. of the undergradu ates, as against 71 per cent. last year The Baptfsts have the largest denom national representation, with g De cent, Episcopalians and Congreeal tionalists come next with 1S.5 per cent each, Roman Catholics are 13 pe