Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-08
VARIOUS MATTERS

Bushnell chapel was led with much |
ability Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. |
David H. Merritt.
Under the average attendance grant, |
the state board of education has ap-
portioned s2,09916 to Ledyard and !
$652.S6 to Preston.
The moon was new Monday at COL !
p. m, and will be full the 21st, so
that pleasant nights may be expected
around Christmas time.
The boys composing the Tierney
Temperance cadets will receive holy
communion in body at the early mass
in ST. Patrick's church Sunday.
Miss Ruth A. Hamilton will have
sale of Christmas gifts, including dolls
and novelties for children, at HamiI-
tons Shoe store, Wed. and Thurs, Dec.
and 9, a. m. to p. n.-adv.
Jupiter, which was evening and
morning star up to Dec 4th, is now
evening star again and an object of
interest to amateur astronomers.
The funeral of Thomas F. Mullaney,
40. who died Sunday at the Norwich
state hospital, was held Tuesday
morning from his home in Mystic.
1t is probable that when the Palmer
Memorial school at Palmertown is re-
built the structure will be of concrete,
on which TO insurance is required.
The addition to the post hospital at
Fort Wright, Fishers Island, being
built by L. NJ. Young of Norwich. is
expected to be completed about Feb.
LIST.
Naval orders announced Tuesday in
cluded F. NJ. Gibson, aid to commander
submarine f1otilla, Atlantic fleet, to
works Ship and Engine Co., Groton,
Conn.
At New London the engagement of
Miss Elsie Dunbar daughter of Will
liam F. Dunbar, of Bank street. to Will
liam Harrison, Jr., of ChappelI street
IS announced.
The annual meeting of the Connecti-
cut Temperance union. in which a
| number of local people are interested,
| is to be held at Hartford about the
| 25th of January.
A letter of dismissal from the Sec
| ond Congregational church, Norwich,
| to the Second Congregational church,
New London. has been granted Mrs.
Kenneth NJ. Muir.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has announced the establishment
of a night letter service to Alaska via
l4lS SOES4 CdDlS 4IOIn SSGdlllS or
by wireless from Astoria, Ore
The pastors of the Mantle churches
are entering into a plan to observe the
week OF prayer, the first week in the
new year, in a fitting manner by hold
ing union services each night.
A Meriden paper says: The state
farm for inebriates at Norwich is
overcrowded else Judge FAY of Meri-
den would send a drunken cat there
full name William Katt, a rounder
Four members of the Stonington
Terminal club. President G. A. Hyde,
Secretary Leon Leavitt, Alfred Haus-
child and Henry Scheller, walked to
Lantern Hill Sunday on the first hike
of the club this. season.
Deputy Comptroller F. Clarence Bis
sell, Lewis Phelps of the state treas
urer's department and other prominent
men attended the funeral of Town
Clerk Daniel w. White of Hebron, held
in that town Monday afternoon.
The tax collectors office will be
open Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day evenings until s o'clock to collect
the unpaid personal taxes. After Fri
day, the 10th the delinquent list viii
be made out and turned over to the
| prosecuting attorney as the law di-
rects.-adv.
Although the ice on the pond at
Michigan park is about an inch thick,
Supt. John Duff is watching out that
no adventurous small boys risk trying
it. Steady cold weather is needed be-
fore the lake will be safe for skaters.
These are the shortest days of the
year and the hours of daylight, which
began to decrease June %, after reach
| ing maximum length of Is hours and
80 minutes, have now decreased until
! they are only a little over nine hours
| long.
The different Methodist churches in
| this district are each electing a lay
delegate and one reserve delegate to
the lay electoral conference that con-
venes in Norwich next March. Those
| eligible to vote are 81 years of age and
| over.
A former Norwich clergyman, Rev
James ]. Smith, pastor of st. Francis
church. Fair Haven. has left for Flori-
da for the benefit of his health, as he
is suffering again from rheumatism
He was accompanied by Edward Nc.
Keen.
At Portland, Conn, Saturday after.
noon, at Trinity church, when Ruth
Laura Bartlett and Edwin Jesse Hair
OF Middletown were united in mar
rage by Rev. DR.. o. H. Raftery, tn,
best man was Wells Root Fowler O.
Westerly, r. I.
At the unwilling Monday Of the new
equestrian statue of Joan of Ar.
erected at Riverside Drive and Ninety
third street, New York, one of tn
speakers was ]. Alden Weir, presiden
Of the National Academy of Design,
Windham summer resident.
As soon as the first snowstorm ar
rtves the blackfish season will end
J This has been very successful season
: for the men in the shore towns of thi
county who are engaged in this line o
work. When the snow arrives tn
blackdsh depart to parts unknown.
Rosa w. Scharf, late of Vernon
leaves all personal property to he
! daughters, Anna May and May Bell
Scharf, with $500 each, the balance o
the property to be divided equally be
tween them and her sons, Albert z
and Fred w. Scharf. The will wa
. executed July 8, 1908.
New Haven.-This city may presen
the distinction of having women schoo
physicians or school dentists, for tn
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