Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-14
VARIOUS MATTERS

High tides, fog and sleet are prom ised for today.
 This season has been a poor one for foxes. according to hunters throughout the state.
 Memorial hospital, New London is to have a lung motor, an adaptatlon of the pulmotor idea
 On account of the storm, there was no school session for pupils of the low. CT grades Wednesday afternoon.
 Tealnsters. rnilllnlen and the rural delivery carriers found life strenuous during yesterday mornings trips.
 The St. Aloysius T. A. E. society of Middletown was addressed recently by Rev. W. A. Keebe of Plainfield.
 Some of the schools are already. pre- pairing exercises for Ltncoln's birthday, Feb. I2th, which this year falls on Fri day.
 New York papers note the presen-- tation to the Metropolitan Museum of a painting by ]. Alden Weir. the Wind ham artist.
 Fresh caught fish today at Powers Bros.-adv-
 Nothing but plies of mussy snow bordering the streets remains from what promised Wednesday morning to be & near blizzard.
 The members of the Connecticut Oyster C:eowers' association have taken formal measures to oppose state taxation on oyster franchises.
 Several local cottage owners made q, +,-ir Tn he1rI1 vast 6-6aV 9TfeTn but found that the storm had not dam aged property to any extent.
 Owing to the building of the new bridge over the Lieutenant river at Lyme, the state road has been closed from tho brick store to Halls corner.
 The funeral of William NJ. Dean was Rev. Charles NJ. Reed conducted the services. Burial was in Latham ceme- tery.
 Connecticut hardware dealers say that because of the war the price Of skates has taken a big fall. Skates that cost $1.50 a year ago can now be bought for s cents.
 When the New London Horticultural socfety meets this (Thursday)- evening in the rooms of the society, Edward A. Smith will talk to the members on The Culture of Carnations
 The agricultural department esti- mates that 5000 acres were sown in winter rye in. Connecticut last fall ol about the same as the year before. The condition of this crop last month was q per cent
 Ex-County Commissioner John Thomps was the guest of honor at q family party given at the home of lis son, Morton E. Thompson. in FL ington Monday. It was the elder Thompsons 75th birthday anniversary.
 Plenty Of Long Clans at Powers SrOS.-adv.
 Prof. William P. Kirkpatrick of the Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs opened a series of lectures on poultry raising Tuesday evening at the Hillyer institute, Hartford. He spoke on The Economic Aspects of Poultry Culture.
 The Connecticut apple crop last year was 2.500,000 bushels, according to the department of agriCulture's final official figures. Producers received for the fruit an average of seventy cents q bushel.
 W, H. Osborn, commissioner of in- ternal- revenue at Washington, D. C. has ruled that bar bottles or containers from which sales by the drink are made must be stamped and the stamp effaced and obliterated when emptied.
 A remarkable. medium, Mrs. Van derbHr at Spiritual Academy Sunday adv.
 In order that the company might receive adequate pay for service rem dered, the Southern New England Tel ephone company has been forced to install pay stations in numerous places of business in certain cities of the state in place of the unlimited service which has been in vogue.
 Private mail receptacIas are by re- cent ruling of the department placed in the same category as the public let ter boxes and are granted the same protection. Anyone tampering with a private letter ooX or stealing the con tents of the same is liable to a fine of $1.e00 or three years imprisonment.
 The contributions thus far received in New York for relief of Jewish s1lf- ferers from the war, including sums from Norwich, are more than $500, coo Two hundred thousand dollars has al- ready been appropriated and sent oIbL Oa-t. LlS EOiliIlLltlSt mas unueT way arrangements for sending. foodstuffs to Palestine
 Oliver Hazard Perry. 75, a grandson of Commodore Perry, died suddenly Monday in an office building in Boston from heart disease. MT. Perry. was a retired mill agent. and his home was in Lowell During the war of 1872 his great grandfather occupied for q time the house below ThaTnesviIle row the home of MT and Mrs. James R. Allyn.