Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-28
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Norwich. Monday, Dec. %. 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS

There is s-inch ice on some Of the ponds.
 Florists report even a better Christ mas trade than last year.
 Among visitors in town for the hol- idays were MT. and Mrs. Jerome Meyer of Hartford.
 Store windows and car windows were frosted Saturday as they have not been before this season.
 The telegraph offices have had their usual good business, many holiday greetings having been sent by wire.
 Saturday was St. Stephens day,,in the church calendar. Today. Holy In- nocents' day will be commemorated.
 The long window box at the Otis library has been filled with glossy laurel leaves and cheery sprigs of scarlet ruscus.
 The Charbino Brothers. two local boys, at the Davis this week-adv.
 Two New London donors, Mrs. AL fred Mitchell gave $50 and Ernest E. Rogers, S25, towards the establish ment of a public library in Salem. The snow is frozen hard on fields and roads and when a few flakes fell SunGay, owners of sleighs were hop ing fer 8 good fall, to make sleigh ing.
 At no time Sunday did the temper ature rise above 30 degrees and early in the morning it was from S to degrees below zero, according to To- cality.
 At New, London. Levi Crouch, for l merly of Norwich, spoke Sunday eve ming at the open forum. 1S0 State street, on the Development of a Peace | Advocate to Socialism.
 Special services Tuesday. wednes- l day, Thursday and Friday evenings are to be held at the Central Baptist Rev. George c. ChappeH of Mont vile.
 Prominent local colored people have 1 been notified that the annual meet | ing of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People vii be held at 70 Fifth avenue, New l York.
 l c. M. Shay and others have at last 1 obtained an Injunction to restrain the | appointment of an additional member of the Groton water and light com mission until the matter is heard in | court.
 \ At the Central Baptist church, the Bible School Christmas festival en- i tertainment and social with Miss 1 Florence A. Redfeld of Brooklyn. N. Y. as entertainer. is to take place Il Tuesday evening.
 Lately the New Haven road has been concentrating freight cars in Boston and is sending big trains of empty cars there over the Shore Line. A big boom is expected from that end of the road after the first of the year. l Sunday afternoon at the Otis library reading room. there were 72 visitors. the number of adults being noticeable. The intense cold kept many of the children at home. Miss Martha Al Ward was in charge during the after noon.
 The John Heron Art Institute of Indianapolis has installed for the hol- idays forty paintings by representative Americans furnished by William Mac beth of New York. The work includes examples by Henry W. Ranger. whose summer studio is at Noank. The New London Telegraph notes that Miss Katherine Winchester. Miss Henrietta T. Sherman, E. Clinton Winchester and Arthur s. Winchester 1 of the Mohican hotel spent the holi- ! eNNS AT "AAASAicA444. WI6T6 they WGFG guests of relatives at a family dinner party.
 \ new rule which has been lately enforced in certain public schools 1 calling for the discontinuanca of fhf custom of exchanging lead pencils by pupils and that each pupil must keer illS' CT her own pencil, is receiving mo- tlce in educational circles around the state.
 During~ the week John F. Byrne of the Byrne Brothers. has been m from New York to visit his sister, Mrs . William F. Butler, of Washington street Their father, Joseph Byrne continues in feeble health, aIthourI
 he was able to sit up for a short tim, Sunday.
 Senator George NJ. Landers of ocea, Beach and New Britain, narrowly es in Fairfield, as the limousine in whiel
 he was on his way to New York skidded and struck a tree. The mos
 severe injury was a scalp wound fiv
 inches long.
 | At the Masonic Home in waIlingfor, Christmas day, a turkey dinner wa
 served, which had been provided fo
 by the generosity of Morgan G. Bulk
 eley of Hartford, N. J. Walton o ! W S1lSL Du4ys SAdIlCS lA HuDiDaHd O , Norwich, Hartford lodge and "In Mem ory of Rufus E. Holmes" Town clerks in many cases reauir . revenue stamps to be attached to cer
 tifcates they issue to soldiers an, . widows of soldiers. such as are re
 quired by the commissioner of pen
 s1onS. These require no stamps. a b the law exempts all certificates re
 lating to pension claims from the tay Wheeler School Accounts Correct,
 The directors of the Wheeler schoc land library of North Stonington fav
 the accounts of that institution an
 the assets examined at the close (
 each year. Following that custom th president, Thomas B. Hewitt, engage
 Henry W. Tibbits to do the work fo
 the past year. The audit has bee
 made by MT. Tibbits, kho has reporte
 to the directors that he found the ac = counts correct and the assets just a
 reported by the treasurer of the inst