Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Taxes for all pool tables as1d billiard tables are due with the New Year. The tax is S1o.
 The children have been lnarToylng the skating on BushneH's pond, at Thamesville.
 Boxes on sale for Charify Ball. Call Or phone the president, Mrs. M. H. Donohue, sos-3.-adY. During the year 1914, tlseTe were 4s births IS marriages and 45 deaths Tn the town of East Lyme.
 The Mantle 8Ifg. Co, which has been closed for the last week, will start up this (Monday0 morning.
 Hartford residents, MT. and Mrs. John O. Enders. are home from Water ford, where they have been for the holidays.
 The Andover Creamery association has voted to wind up it's affairs. MT. Hawkins, it's manager, will locate in New Shelton.
 The majority of city skaters who go to the lake in Mohegan Park take the Boswell avenue cars. claiming that is the shortest route for them
 State Organizer Ira N. ornburn is making a campaign throughout the state for the Federation Of Labor in the interests of union labeled goods.
 The comfort of walking dry -shod was appreciated by the crowds who were. out and about on Saturday and Sun day No trace of ice or snow re- mains.
 Sunday evening his phyeician thought there was & very slight inn Provement in the condition of A. J. Dawley, who is critically i'll at his res idence on Broad street.
 Boxes on sale for Charity Ball. Call or phone the president, Mrs. M. H. Donohue, S03-3.-adv.
 Highway Commissioner Charles J. Bennett, who has been seriously i'll, was able to take a ride in an auto mobile with his physician, Friday, and took another trip Saturday. The attractions of a pleasant Sunday afternoon lessened the attendance at the Otis library reading room yester- day, when Miss Sadie J. Dawson was in charge. However, 72 visitors were counted.
 Saybrooz Point correspondent men tions that Rev. William H. White. who was recently of l4edyard, has returned from New Hampshire, where he conducted the funeral services of Q 1 former parishioner.
 Notifications have been sent out that the New England Association of Gi brary Workers will hold 8 convention l in Hartford Jan. p and 26. Edmund i Lester Pearson, of New York, will make the address.
 i A. J. Brundage. as head of the boys [ l Connecticut Agricultural college at l Storrs, is now directing the work of l some 500 boy and girl farmers throughout the state.
 Annual meeting of Home Chapter of The Kings Daughters, today. at the chapel of First Congregational church, Norwich Town, owing to 6 death in the Johnson Home.-adv. For five months of the fiscal year the New Haven railroads total operat- 1 ing revenue has fallen off $1.9Se, ,649 l as compared with last year. The net revenue has fallen off S509, ,429, and op- eratng income is short S165,o
 Deputy Sheriff J. H. Tubbs has 1 placed an attachment on the store of l c. C. Church in the Crocker House block, New London, and closed the store. The attachment is in favor of Burton Price & Co. of Boston and is for $270.
 The legislative clerks have received letters from Edward A. Wright, secre- ta4Ty of the civil service commission, saying that the commission had 8 list of eligible stenographers. It is likely that the stenographers employed at the last session will be re-engaged.
 Samuel Goldman, dry goods dealer in Rockville. has filed q petition in bankruptcy in the United States court at Hartford, and made oath that he did not have the money to pay the fil- ing fee. He has liabilities of S2, 381.SS, and Si,424-25 of the amount is unse- cured.
 At Trinity Methodist church Tues day evening there will be the mems topic, The United Church at Work for the Whole World. The Present Achievement, Rev. F. T. Lovengeod. The Next Great Advance Step, Rev. Chas. c. Merrill.
 The New England Alfalfa Growers association, which has Connecticut members, voted to petition the United States government to establish an ex- pertinent station ill New England, at the annual meeting of the association held Saturday morning in the Cham Der of Commerce rooms, Worcester.
 Rev, John E. HurIburt has resign ed the pastorate of the Mapping Con gregationaI church. Rev. MT. Hurl- burt is the son of the late Joseph Hurburt, chaplain at Fort Trun,bull during the Civil war. Rev. MT. EIurl- burt says he resigns because long pas torates are not the order of the day.
 In New York, negotiations are i'll progress for the Chatham and Phenix National Bank to take over the busi- ness of the Mutual Alliance Trust company, the head office of which is at 35 Wall street. One of the direc- tors of the Neutral Alliance company is p tI7raT1 O%