Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

| The boys had a chance to use their skates Tuesday.
 Young orators are rehearsing the Gettysburg speech to declaim tomor- row.
 The last day of Quo Vadis at the Auditorium today.-adv. Local camps are electing delegates to the state Woodmen's convention m Meriden May 9th.
 There is to be an annular eclipse of the sun Feb. 24th. but it will be in- visible in this section. In number of places Washington s birthday, Sunday, the 22d, is to be Everybody at-Church Sunday. Pupils in the rural schools continue their search for caterpillar nests, some of them having surprisingly large to- taIs to their credit.
 Genuine Guilford long clans for baking and steaming, imported finnan haddies today at Powers Bros'.-adv.
 The Connecticut State Federation of Woman's clubs is to hold its annual Bridgeport, Tuesday, Feb. IT.
 There Is an old superstition that if Feb 12, 13 and 14, said to be borrowed from January, are stormy, the year will be favored with good weather.
 New Haven has a newly organized fashionable skating club, it's member dent is Everard Thompson, formerly of Norwich.
 Next Saturday the state business ed ucators meet at the high school in Meriden. Walter E. Canfield of Nor wich is a member of the state execu- tive board.
 Norwich friends hear from Miss Ray M. Briggs, now at her home in Calves ton, Tex, of violets and roses in bloom while peas and other vegetables are being planted.
 The Country Store will be run this week Thursday at the Auditorium, matinee and night. Mostly ladies arti- cles given away at the matinee.-adv.
 The 16th anniversary of the destruc- tion of the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor will be ob- served Sunday, Feb. 15, by the patri- otic societies.
 Several eastern Connecticut corpora tions have not yet filed their annual reports W1ln the CONn CleTh as T0quuSu by law. The time limit is Feb. 1b. A fine of $100 threatens delinquents.
 William E. Miner was brought from New Haven to the Norwich state hos pitaI last week by Detective Sergeant Judge Gilson in the probate court.
 Instead of the funeral services being held at the late residence of Currie tNa h011 fT,z GreenevilIe Congregational church to- day at o'clock.-adY.
 Hartford, Conn., Feb. 10.-Among the papers of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state was that of Connecticut Mechanical Spe- cialty Corporation, New London. s50,- 900.
 Robert Cunning of Webster, Mass, formerly associated with the Perry vile mills, has been appointed post master of Thompson. MT Dunning has a winter home in the town of Thomp- son.
 During February the members of the ApostIeship of Prayer in the local Catholic churches, in common with those throughout the world, are work ing and praying for the return of the eastern church.
 Sidney L. Dean has resigned as over seer at the Esmond mills in Rhode Island to become superintendent of the Danielson Cotton company. Alfred Wallwork has been appointed overseer to succeed MT. Dean.
 Rev. Dr. and Mrs. B. D. Hahn, for merly of Westerly, were presented a gift of $1000 at farewell reception given by more than 800 of their fy<i0 fa f0f fo Gfr church at Springfield, Mass.
 New York papers mention the be- nevolent activity of South Coventry's F. Dimock, who came on from Wash ington to preside at the opening or the womans industrial exhibition.
 At very interesting prayer meeting held in Bushnell chapel Tuesday af- ternoon by the women of the Central Baptist church there was an attend ance of 16. The leader was Mrs Cal- win L. Swan. whose topic was India.
 It was Henry J. Gallup who had COW condemned for tuberculosis in stead of Charles E. Maynard as stated in Saturdays Ledyard news in the Bulletin. MT. Maynard claims he has never had tuberculosis in his herd.
 At the social meeting of the Colonial Danes which Mrs. George Lewis Sar- gent is holding at her home in New Haven this Wednesday, afternoon Mrs. Daniel G. Markham of Hartford will read a paper on Colonial Kitch- ems.
 Residents in a fashionable apartment house in Norwich felt five distinct earthquake shocks about 1.40 Tuesday afternoon. Windows and dishes rat tied, furniture moved and a member of one household became faint with fear at the quakes.
 The bi-monthly conference of the Y. M. c. A boys department secre- taries took place Monday at the Wa terbury associations building, repre- sentatives from nearly all the cities in inc state heinz. nresent to hear ad-