Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-12
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Many skaters braved the cold Wed nesday to improve the fine ice on Mo- began park lake.
 Laurel camp, Royal Neighbors. has
 invited the state convention to South
 Manchester Tuesday, March IS.
 Be careful to state exact sizes when ordering patterns through The Bull letin's pattern department.-Adv.
 Mir and Mrs Thomas McGarry of New London were pleasantly surprised Tuesday night on the tenth anniver- sary of their wedding
 The earthquake shock Tuesday was
 distinctly felt at Norwich Town, jar ring the table at which one housewife
 sat and opening door.
 A Colchester man, M. J. Porter, re- sports very good luck trapping, this season, as he has trapped 27 skunks, 20 muskrats, nine foxes and 12 coons.
 The Country Store will be run today at the Auditorium, matinee and night.
 Mostly ladies articles given away at
 the matinee.-adv.
 Archdeacon J. EIdred Brown of
 Norwich is taking special interest in
 the Episcopal mission at Plainfield,
 where a fund is being raised to build
 a church.
 The recent fire at the sanitarium at Groton belonging to Dr. Winship has awakened the citizens of the borough
 to the need of an up-t to date or at least an adequate fire department.
 The B-Natural club were entertained on Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. Leila Chivers of Yantic, this being Mrs. Chivers' last meeting with the club as she is soon to move to New York city. The quarterly number of the Wes- leyan University Bulletin, just issued, shows the total number of students enrolled is 420 of which 95 are from
 New York state. Connecticut has IS students.
 A letter was read in the Old Say 1 brook Congregational church Sunday 1 morning from the Rev. William H. White of Ledyard accepting the pas torate of the church, to take effect in | the spring.
 | Sarah L., widow of Chester G. Knox, | died Monday at her residence, No. 11S 1 Baltimore street, in her 18th year. She 1 was a sister of Mrs. D. c. Talbot of 1 Coventry. The funeral was held We'd 1 nesday afternoon.
 l It is an interesting fact that while 1 Mrs. Edward L Molineaux, whose fu- neral was held Monday at Brooklyn, i N. Y., was born in Eagleville, her son Roland, of wide notoriety, married | Blanche Chesebro, of Stonington. The Meriden Journal noted that 1 Tuesday was the 18th birthday of an 1 occasional Norwich visitor. Charles A | King, former superintendent of the 1 Parker gun shop. who was born in | Franklin but went to Meriden in 1S4S. College and church acduaintances of : pr. William H. Salmon, head of the ! Bureau of Self-Help at Yale. regret to 1 learn that he has abandoned work be- l cause of his third successive attack of | nervous prostration and is now in l sanitarium.
 | The second successful farmers in | stitute under the auspices of the El- 1 lington Jewish Farmers association l was held Monday afternoon in the l town hall. Three nationalities, Jews,
 English and Swiss, made up the at i tendance.
 1 Hunters in the shore towns have had i the tantaIizing sight of hundreds of 1 order to get food, during the cold 1 spell, as the flats are covered with | floating ice. The law is on, so the | birds have foraged unmolested. The operation of the new law regu- | lating the sale of narcotics and the 1 Worl1men's S compensation act were dis l cussed Tuesday at New Haven at the midwinter meeting of the Connecticut 1 Pharmaceutical society. Plans were | discussed to aid/in stamping out the | heroin evil
 An Old Saybrook patient, Launcelot 1 Coulter is in Norwich sanatoriuun ! who ba iS I1ToHarooiTo- tT1oa ant l lung trouble the last month. The phy- ] sicians state that he will not have to
 stay the required time, six months, 1 but are in hopes of sending him home 1 in few weeks
 Three cattlemen have stayed at 1 Lyme with George E. Clark the past | week. one from WoOdbury, one from | Winsted, the other from Westerly, R.
 l. They cleaned up and shipped two 1 Westerly The Woodbury man drove 1 his string overland.
 The president, Mrs. Henry D. John l son, presided at the February meet l ing of the Second Congregational 1 Church Improvement society, held 1 Wednesday with Mrs. Nathan A. Gibbs | of Broadway, twenty-one attending. | Following the sewing hour, the hos | tess served light refreshments.
 Mrs. Nicolo Depolo of Norwich, who l broke her ankle in fall from a trolley car from which she was alighting l Thursday evening at Groton, was 1 making a visit to the borough In or der to make arrangements for moving into g. house on Thames street. She Is l now staying with friends there. The Norwich and Westerly Traction | company has put q new rule into force | which will do away with practically l all free passes on the several divisions l of the company. Employees of the road 1 will be supplied with tickets which will
 be used for transportation to and from | their duties. when the men are in uni 1 form.
 By q late ruling. letters and post or postal cards may be despatched wheth-
 CT or not any rostage Is prepaid there
 on. Other articles shall not be des-
 patched unless prepaid at least in part
 and in all cases of insufficient pre-
 payment double the amount of the de-
 f1ciency shall be collected of the ad- dresses.
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