Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-16
VARIOUS MATTERS

A heavy frost is predicted for to- night.
 Dealers in furs are wondering if this is to be a winterless year. It was 12 degrees at noon Thursday.
 Senator Frank B. Brandegee delfv- cred an eloquent speech at the repub lican rally at Torrington, Wednesday evening.
 The ID. A. R. chapter house near the Groten monument will be open to the public until the middle of November this year.
 Lyman Abbott, editor of the Out look. and daughter, Miss Abbott, of New York. are in Lyme, guestsi at Miss Florence riswold's.
 Today the tax collector will be at the store of Sherwood B. Potter, East Side.- from Il a. m. to 1 p. m.-Adv.
 Town Clerk Henry L. Bailey of Gro- ton has issued 165 hunters licenses to date. Of these 65 have been issued to residents of the borough of Groton.
 The semi annual meeting of the Holland County Medical Association is to be held at the Spring House, Staff ford Springs, Tuesday, October 20.
 A meeting of the joint conference board of street and electric railway employees of Massachusetts and Con- necticut will be held at Worcester, Mass, Monday.
 A benefit for destitute Belgian refu- gees is to be held at the home of Mrs. eorge $. Palmer on Pequot avenue Saturday at which Mrs. Palmer will sing several selections.
 Applications for the renewal and transfer of liquor licenses were re- ceived by the county commissioners at their office in the New London court house Thursday.
 At Ellington, a bell has been placed on the upper porch of H. c. Aborn & Sons store to be rung in case of fire The bell was given by H. C. Acorn and was hung by . F. Berr.
 At Mantle, a petition is being cir culated in the village asking the se- lectmen to make a bid on the building of the new road through Indian Woods section, which is to be built by the state shortly.
 At Portland. Conn, Thursday. the District Superintendent Rev. G. G. Scrivener, met at the chapel, the ofH cial board of the Methodist church, at
 
 ial importance.
 Supt B. w. Tinker, of Waterbury formerly, of Norwich. is back of a pe- tition to the State Board of Education. asking that the method of marking and ranking pupils in the state norma, schools be standardized.
 Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. A. T. Uttey came up from her cottage at Nynr, Dc y<1y fN Ia o% ft1c 0anf- ing of Comfort Circle of tie Kings Daughters, held with Mrs. Alvin D. Lewis, of Asylum street.
 The state board of examiners in optometry has announced the follow ing elections of officers for the coming year: President, James A. Masterson of Middletown; secretary and treas urer, A. Comstock of Ansonia- The civil service commission will hold an examination next month for candidates to operate the photosat in the state library, which is used for copying the various documents and records collected there. The salary is $50 to start.
 Special study in schools of the Uni- ted States of the geography, history, literature and life of the Latin-Amer- ican countries is urged by Dr. P. P.
  a letter received Thursday high school principals hereabouts. The New London Telegraph states that MT. and Mrs. William B. Mac Lane, accompanied by a number oi the wedding party, 1notored to New London Wednesday evening and spent the night at the Crocker house, start ing on their Honeymoon trip Thurs day.
 The six Congregational churches which include Mystic, Stonington, the l Road district, Pawcatuck, North Stonington and Ledyard will shortly | resume their fall and winter fellow l ship meetings, which will be held 1T each of the churches in turn as 1T previous years.
 | More new ties and more new rail: l were laid on the New Haven's lines 1T l the fiscal year ending June 80 thar ! during any year of the past decade | Compared with the previous year tht 1 number of new ties and the anfoun
 of new rails laid showed an increase O | fourteen per cent.
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