Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-15
VARIOUS MATTERS

vfAN40CO NxkA lAAAAS The special sales brought many hun l dreds to town Wednesday. Early as it is, plans are being made for valentine sales and social affairs.
 Little Narragansett bay is coated with ice from Rhodes Folly to Pawca- tuck river.
 been purchasing some valuable steers in South Voluntown.
 James E. Lord of Lords Hill sent away F turkeys for exhibition at the poultry show in Boston
 Many residents of Westerly and Pawcatuck attended the funeral of Edgar Wilcox in >Ekonk this week. Colonial theatre today, Runaway Freight, two-ree1 feature with sensa- tional leap to runaway car top.-adv After a period of silence. the old Spanish prisoner swindle has been heard of in the state again, this time at Danbury.
 Nina council. K. of C., of Stonington is to send large delegation to Nor ,wich Sunday to witness the conferring of the third degree.
 Health boards about the state are making a special effort to keep skaters off ponds from which ice is to be cut, for sanitary reasons.
 Some of the nailkmen have been lln- able to serve their customers much before noon during the hard travelling and cold of the past two days.
 Heavy coats, caps, mitts, ear muffs. arctics and other winter comforts have been moved from the dealers racks and shelves since the cold wave came.
 The funeral of Mrs. Mary L. Phil lips of Waterford was held Wednes- day at 10 a. m. at g Meridian street New London. Burial was in Starr cem- etery. Groton.
 Wednesday at o'clock in St. Pat rick's church Rev. John H. Frederick celebrated an anniversary high mass of requiem for the repose of the soul of Mrs Mary keenan.
 A number of North Stonington gran gers, including the newly installed master, j. Edwin Thompson, and Mrs Thompson, are in Hartford this week attending the state grange meetings.
 Mrs. Harry E. wadham of Bridge port entertained Mrs. Ernest w. Wad-
 
 Groton. over chapter day of Mary Silliman chapter. D. A. R.. Bridgeport
 Prominent church workers of the state are attending the home missions council in New York city. The coun- Gil was appointed by the federation of council of the churches of Christ of America.
 Wednesdays meeting of Comfort Cir cle of the Kings Daughters was held with the leader, Mrs A. T. Utlev of lafayette street, ten members attend ing, The meeting. proved pleasant and profitable.
 Some of the history classes noted yesterday, Jan. 14. as the date in 1889 when civil government was organized in Connecticut, with the adoption of what is said to be the first written constitution known to history.
 At the last national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union Jan. 15 was designated as na- tlonal constitutional prohibition amendment day, to be observed by all white ribboners as a day of fasting and prayer.
 Mrs, W. A. Phillips is seriously i'll with bronchial pneumonia Her brother, w. P. Babcock. her niece. Mrs. Alice Stone. of North Stoning- ton, and her sister, Susan Babcock, of Mystic, have been with her-Bridge- port Standard
 Sunday at the Old Mystic Baptist church Rev. H. E. Anderson. who has held the pastorate for two wears read his resignation He is to take charge of a Baptist church in Rowayton, Conn, on account of the health of Mrs. Anderson.
 CI1 1f supper that was to be held at the home of MT. and Mrs Irving Miner, in North Stonington Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the Ladies Aid society of the Second Baptist church. was held Wednesday evening.
 It was stated Tuesday at the Yel- low building in New Haven that the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad handled nearly 30000 more passengers in and out of the Grand Central terminal in December, 1913, than in December, 1912.
 In a circular letter to the county directors of the Holy Name society of Connecticut Bishop John J. Milan has appointed Sunday. Jan. IS, the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, as a day for special exercises by all the branches of the Holy Name society in the dio- cese
 The collector Of internal revenue is still awaiting supply of manufac turers' miscellaneous and mercantile corporation blanks for the income tax so that a number of willing taxpayers in Connecticut are being held up be- cause they cannot be furnished fiduci- ary blanks.
 From Rome comes a cablegram that members of the American colony are of the opinion that Mrs. Philip Van Valkenburg, a Pomfret summer resi- dent, known until her marriage to Van Nalkenburg as the "$1 0,0O0, 900 widow is in Rome for the purpose of embracing the Roman Catholic faith
 
 OBITUARY.