Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

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This is Holy 1nnocents' day in the
church calendar.
Some of the merchants started talk
| ing inventory Monday.
The moon is in its last quarter at
| 7.09 a. m. tomorrow, the 18th.
This has been a most successful
| Christmas for the picture dealers
The last of the delayed holiday mail
and packages was delivered Monday.
Fifty printed calling cards for rs
| cents at The Bulletin ofhce.-adV.
There was rush at the banks yes
terday for the depositing of Christ
mas money.
Norwich merchants claim to have
sold a record number Of Christmas
cards this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hargreave of
| Occurn spent Christmas with their
| folks in Plainfield.
The farmers do not mind how much
snow falls, as they quote. Year of
snow, fruit will grow.
| The sun has started on it's northern
motion, so this portion Of the world
| will get one minute more daylight to-
day.
An informing book recently acquired
by the Peck library is ChaffeTs New
| Collectors Handbook of Marks on
Pottery.
The hands of the town clock froze
up at 2.20 Monday morning and it was
a. m. before the clock was limbered
up to strike.
Mondays thaw left the walks free
from ice and their safety meant a
good deal toward increasing the post
J Christmas trade.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jarvis of Oc-
| cum spent Christmas in Glasgo with
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jarvis, Sr., max
! ing the trip by auto.
i At Trinity Methodist church Friday
at p. m. a Watch Night service will
begin. The Ladies' Aid society will
provide refreshments.
At New London, Gooda Bronislaz.
aged three and a half, of Is John
street, was admitted to the hospital
Sunday, i'll with diphtheria.
Cottage owners who visited the beach
yesterday found evidences of the alb
normally high surf during the blow of
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. Caroline NJ. Currie, widow of
Daniel A. Currie, died at her home
at Quaker Hill, Christmas day. She
is survived by a son, George J. D. Cur
RE.
Yesterday was Exchange day" in
the stores, although there was less
bringing back than usual of Christmas
gifts to be exchanged for something
| else.
Monday, the feast of st. John the
Evangelist, Rev. ]. Eldred Brown Of
f1ciated at the celebration of the holy
communion in Trinity Episcopal
church.
According to reports originating in
| Hartford the state police department
has received orders to conduct a mer-
| CHESS campaign throughout the state
against petty gambling devices, lot
teries and other games of chance.
Francis, the son of John Peabody, of
Mantle, while playing with other chill
dren on the dock at Dodge pond, fell
through the ice and narrowly escaped
drowning. Charles Lamb reached the
/ pond just in time to rescue the boy.
Staging around the steeple of the
new Congregational church at Filing
ton was blown down by the storm
Sunday and landed in the yard of DIR
Edward A. Brace. nearby. Some OF
the timbers made holes in the new ROOF
as they fell.
Owing to the heavy transportation
of freight over the New Haven road
few changes have been made in the
n despatch of mail east and west ovel
the road from New London. The
change will continue until further no.
= tive, probably 40 days.
The lowest tide which has run since
present ferry connections were estab.
u lished, drained the water from the
Groton ferry slip SO that it was i'm.
4 possible for the ferryboat to make {
landing from o'clock Sunday after.
noon until $50 this evening
4 Norwich relatives learn that DIR
Nroman Cole, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Cole (Josie BROWN of New.
port, R. L. formerly of Norwich, re
celVes an important advancement OF
} | the staff at the Rhode Island hospi
tai, Providence, January 1st.
A number of local people have bee,
| invited to attend the 18th annual con
vention Of the American Civic associa
ton in conjunction with the secont
| Pan American scientific congress a
the New Willard hotel, Washington
today, Dec. %, and the 2sth, Goth an,
31st
The sea wall constructed at Shene
cossett beach, Eastern Point, undoubt
edly saved half the beach from bein;
washed away Sunday. The new wal
is of concrete six feet deep, reinforcer
:, with wire and sand and stairways Gu
in the front make a bulkhead agains
the sea.
The current White Ribbon Banne
- rejoices over the fact that at the re
cent national convention in Seattle tn
third flower mission prize ($2 worth @
literature or text cards, or both) wa
: awarded Connecticut for planting tn
, greatest number of trees and shrub
on Arbor day.
AT THE AUDITORIUM.