Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-23
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Norwich. Monday, Feb. g. 1914.
VARIOUS MATTERS
Tides will be high today

Tides will be high today.
 Yesterday was Shrove Sunday.
 Meosha whist tonight in Foresters' hall.-adv.
 The cherry and hatchet will be pop- ular fayors today
 A few flags were flying Sunday More will be displayed today
 Hundreds of Washington post cards were mailed Saturday and Sunday. The first entirely pleasant Saturday in seven weeks was welcomed by the merchants.
 The Country Store will be given Tues day evening, first show. at the Audi torium.-adv.
 One of the daughters of Dan Jones. who died in Hebron last week, is Miss Doris Jones of Waterford.
 The salting of the tracks and switches has carried off most of the snow about Franklin square.
 Many boys and men enjoyed the eoasting down Broad street hill through 4antc street Saturday evening.
 On account of the fire, Norwich con- claYe, No. 424, will hold meeting to- night at Wiliey's cigar store.-adv.
 Where juniper trees have been bank ed about houses and piazzas the effect IS particularly good, now that the trees are powdered with snow.
 Yesterday. the Sunday before Lent. was observed in an especial nanneT III some of the Episcopal churches by the Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
 Town Clerk Charles s. Holbrook was the f1rst resident of Mckinley avenue TO display the stars and stripes yes terday in honor of the Father of His Country.
 Just year ago yesterday. Feb. 22. 1913, military men hereabouts were excited by the war departments orders for the mobilization of 4,000 men near the Mexican border.
 The State Experiment Stations re- port for the year shows that in the examination of five cent 1oaves of bread, three samples taken in Norwich averaged 1878 ounces.
 William Stanton, assistant car in spector on the New Haven road. while walking out the door of his home at Saybrook Point slipped on the ice and fell from his stoop, breaking one or two ribs.
 Boys who visited the bungalow of Joseph Bradford on the shore of Trad ing Cove Saturday found evidences that it had been entered, probably bv tramp, to sleep. Nothing appeared to be missing.
 While it was 4 degrees above zero sunday morning, William McCIoud. of Summit street, who is in his 92nd year. was walking briskly to St. Patrick s church to attend mass. as erect and actlFe as many man of 50.
 At the fourth quarterly conference of Portland M. E. church. conducted by Rev. G. G. ScriYener, district s11- perintendent, Friday, Rev. M. S. Stock ing. the pastor, was extended an unan- Imous call to return for his fifth year.
 One of the members of the New York Society of Illustrators who par tlcipated in the clever burIesque Peg O My Art Friday night was Charles A. Voight, whose wife, formerly Miss Clark, is visiting her parents, MT and Mrs. A. A. Clark, of Mckinley avenue.
 Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale who has a summer home at Salem. spoke of his recent excavations in Peru, Fri day evening in Washington, when Miss Adpei bodFd1nan was hostess 10 the Washington Society of the ,Archae co., logical Institute of America, 200 mem bers and guests being present.
 Fourth Assistant Postmaster J. s. Blakesley is notifying seleetmen of those Connecticut towns where com plaints are made that the highways were not freed from snow so that ru- ral carriers could make their rounds, that continued negligence may mean the withdrawal of rural service.