Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-17
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Norwich, Friday, Dec. II, 1915.
VARIOUS MATTERS

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Many of the oranges will have spe-
cia1 Christmas programs.
Chestnut street hill was the favorite
coasting place last evening.
Fifty printed calling cards for rs
cents at The Bulletin office.-adv.
Today will end the fall term for
the public schools in a number of
towns.
Norwich Free Academy closes today
and the $40 pupils will have two weeks
vacation.
The snow is said to be driving, the
deer into barnyards and near houses
for food.
The factory of the Thames Dyeing
and Bleaching company at Mantle is
shut down owing to coal shortage on
account of the freight service.
William Warren of Eastford is en-
gagged on a lumber contract for George
Bowen and it is expected that the
lumber will pan out 900 feet.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mitchell. living
in Black Hal, died recently within a
week of each other. Mrs. Mitchell was
10 years old and Mr.. Mitchell was old
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A gift of $50 toward the erection
of gymnasium at Connecticut col
lege was received Wednesday from
Miss Mary I. Corning of East Hart
ford.
Clinton L. Laid. an elderly resident
Of Fairview Odd Fellows home, slip
ped on the ice on Fairview avenue
Wednesday afternoon, seriously injur-
ing his hip.
The WALLIS about the city are. in the
main, free from ice and this fact did
much Thursday to bring out the shop
ping crowds, especially from the sub
urban places.
The exhibition at the Union League
club, New York, this month, is unus-
uaIy strong and contains a picture,
Figure in White, by J. Alden Weir,
the Windham artist.
Dealers hereabouts claim that the
Christmas trade in silks is extra good,
many women buying now, in antici-
patton of a rise in prices if dyes
should grow scarcer.
Trumbuu lodge, knights of Pythtas,
of New London, at its weekly cOnVen-
ton Wednesday evening. arranged a
Craternal visit to Norwich Tuesday
evening, December IS.
Thursday at o'clock, in St. Pat
rick's church, at the request of the
Holy Name society. Rev. J. H. Brod-
erick sang a months mind high mass
of requiem for John Comerford.
Writing from Hamburg a correspon-
dent says: Leonard E. Otis brought his
bride to town last week. Mrs. Otis
was formerly Lillian Tindle of Jewett
City. They were married December 6.
The February meetin gof the Con-
necticut Congregational club is to be
held in South church, New Britain, and
it is expected that Hamilton Holt. q
Woodstock summer resident, will give
the address.
Naval orders issued Thursday in
cluded: The MacDOnOugh and Worden
will remain at the Charleston yard I'M
til the target practice of the fotilIa,
which will be held either at New Lon
don or Pensacola.
Miss Harriet K. Bishop. 81. aunt of
Mrs, Sidney H, Miner, Miss Nettie
Bishop and Isaac Bishop of New Lon
don, died Wednesday at the Smith
Memorial home, New London. Miss
Bishop was born in Chesterfield.
A large number of friends of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles RingdahI gathered
at the Woodstock Swedish church the
other evening to help observe their
silver wedding, it being 25 years ago
that they were welded in Sweden.
The Christmas trade was strongly
felt in the stores Thursday. This year
there will be no day-after- Christmas
price reductions, since that day will
be Sunday, so there is little holding
off for bargains" as is usually the
case.
A Voluntown man in Norwich Tues
day claimed that a neighbor had dis
covered a. sure cure for froStbiteS and
chilblainS-One tablespoon of mustard
and two tablespoons of lard, simmered,
the ointment to be rubbed in for 20
minutes.
The mial route between Holland and
Rockville is run by Frederick Luce,
who finds that his horse is of much
more practical value now than his au-
tomobile. In summer the car covers
much more ground, but in winter a
horse covers more snow
The movements of the submarine
fotilla will be as follows: The Fulton
is detailed as station ship al the sub
marine base at the Thames naval sta
ton; the Tonopah will remain at the
submarine base; the D, z and G boats.
upon completion of repairs, will oper-
ate from the same yard.
This (Friday) evening the Epworth
League of the Portland Methodist
church will entertain the group of
EpwOrth leagues at the church. Dis
trict superintendent G. G. Scrivener of
Norwich will be present to give an
address and a. social time will be en-
joyed later in the evening.
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