Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-27
VARIOUS MATTERS

The first Of the Leap Year festivities
will be held on Saturday next.
There was much undignified chasing
/ of hats during Sundays gale.
Fifty printed calling cards for 25
cents at The Bulletin omce.-adv.
Mills and factories which closed for
| the holidays will resume work today.
| There were many skaters on Bush
nells pond. Thamesville, during Sat
| urday.
| Uncle Horace johnson made a wrong
| guess in promising a Christmas day
| remarkably fine"
| The list of contributions for the Ser
bians, published Sunday, included: Fl.
| CT. New London SIS.
| The children will be able to use their
/ Christmas sleds on some fthe hills, as
/ the result of Sundays near-bllzzard.
! MANY a Christmas umbrella which
] went to church decorated, fell by the
wayside after the big blow had started.
Norwich friends have received holi-
day greetings from Mrs. Bertha Hirsch
| Baruch, now In Philadelphia lecturing
| and visiting.
! Patrons on some of the trolley lines
| made Christmas day pleasant for the
| car crews by paying double fares, max
| ing the men gifts Of cigars, etc.
LIB. Kenyon, of Rockville. R. l., who
brought a party to Norwich in his au-
| tomobile last week reports the road to
Voluntown in very bad condition.
Postponed to Thursday evening, the
| Sunday School entertainment of Trinity
Methodist church will be held, with
Christmas tree, magician, music, ETC.
| The sudden storm of snow and ice
J will cut of their supply Of food from
I the birds and they will need some
friendly handouts till the thaw comes
| Important changes of passenger
| train schedules went into effect on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
! railroad at 1900 noon Sunday, Deem
| Der 26.
| service of Trinity Methodist church will
| go to the Connecticut Food Ship which
4 will sail this week for the relief of the
Belgians.
Some of the local dealers in New
York papers lost from two to five dol
lars each day when papers and maya
zines failed to reach them, during the
recent big storm.
A New York Sunday paper featured
the statue of Phillips Brooks, execut-
ed for the city Of Boston by Bella Lyon
Pratt the sculptor, whose summer
| home is in Salem.
An active worker in the Central Bap-
fist church and the Kings Daughters,
Mrs. Albert T. Utley. is i'll with grip
at her home on Lafayette street, re-
curing the care of a graduate nurse.
Tramps make a stopping place in
the grove between Wamphassuc and
| Lords Point, where they may be found
in the coolest weather. For 20 years
or more they have frequented that
place.
With the closing of the year. John
Shelley, of West Thames street. has re-
sigred as Waterman at Hall Brothers
| Trading Cove mill, after 16 years
faithful service and will retire from ac-
tive work.
The preacher at the high mass in
ST. Pa.~ick's church Sunday was Rev.
Myles P. Calvin. Following the mass,
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
was given by Rev. P. J. Cuny, assisted
by Rev. ]. H. Frederick.
The holiday schedules of trains is
sued to the employees of the New Ha-
ven road show that all express trains
will run in sections from New York to
Boston and vice versa, two days be-
fore New Years as before Christmas
This afternoon at $50, in the base
ment assembly room of ST. Patrick
church, there is to be a Christmas tree
for the 800 children of the parish. pro-
vided by the Catholic Woman's club OF
:, which Mrs. NJ. H. Donohue is presi-
! dent.
J. Alden Weir of Windham. president
Of the National Academy Of Design, has
received the Potter Palmer gold media
and 81 900 cash for a figure painting
entitled '"Fhe Palm-Leaf Fan" By
award of the jury the Art Institute OF
Chicago.
The famous hymn writed, DR.. Will.
: lam H. Doane of Cincinnati anC
Watch Hill, who died Dec. 23rd at the
home of his daughter, Marguerite T
Doane, at South Orange, n. J., was
native of Preston and a brother Of
Miss Juliet Doane Of Norwich.
In the educational work for thu
| winter at the Metropolitan Museum o.
i Art, Miss Edith r. Abbot, museum In
) structor, formerly Of Norwich. will give
. series of six lectures for member!
o fthe museum, and five lectures fol
? teachers and others on request.
WEDDING.