Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-13
VARIOUS MATTERS

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VARIOUS MATTERS
Coal 10 30 scarce Ia Mantle that it
Is costing SO per ton.
A number of owners Of icehouses at
Montvsile hustled and got them filled
Saturday,
SO much dark weather is keeping
back the blossoms on which florists
depend this month.
The Congregational Sunday school
1T Toiland 10 credited with oontribu-
lion OF SIS toward the Armenian fund.
/ The fsh and game commission finds
there has been no suffering among
quail and other game birds this season
80 far.
During this month the planet Saturn
rises in the east about sunset and will
be found conspicuous object In
Gemini.
Grain dealers about the state are
complaining Of shortage of grain
and hay as the result of the freight
congestion.
About fifteen music lovers from New
London came to Norwich Tuesday
evening to hear the Margulies Trio at
Slater hall.
Papers for the incorporation OF the
Mantle Improvement association have
been received and the matter will be
acted upon soon.
Inglis Brothers have purchased the
timber on the Neck side of the noun
tain at Lyme and have moved their
sawmiu near the state road.
At Mantle, Rev. Walter Gray of
Waterford is conducting evangelistic
services at the Baptist church We'd
nesday. tonight and Friday evenings.
A Moodus correspondent writes:
Report is that Miss Winnie Faircloth Of
this place became the bride of Walter
Doubleday of Columbia New Years
day.
the navy yard Monday morning to
superintend the cutting of ice at South
wilmington for the Perry Ice company
Of New London.
The receipts of the state automo-
bile department up to Monday were
| $685., 803.13. The corresponding period
last year they were $16s, 261 SO, making
an increase Of $ss.601.17.
workmen for the New Haven road
are putting in culverts near the Avery
Memorial in Poquonoe. Preparations
are being made along the line for the
four tracking of the system.
At the next meeting of wallingford
grange, Jan. Is, there will be a de-
bate Resolved, That the Connecticut
Agricultural college should be moved
to a location more easily accessible.
The pastor of Trinity Methodist
church, Rev F. w. Coleman, an
nounces that accommodations for 80
ministers have been secured thus far
in preparing for the big conference in
March.
The railroad station at Amston, on
account of the night trains, is kept
open all night There are three men in
the station now who work eight hours
a day, instead of one man as has been
the case.
In this state, from Jan. /, 1915, to
Jan. 1. 1916, 322 arrests were made for
violations of the game law Nearly as
many arrests were made last year as
were made during the two preceding
years, these being BET,
| Invitations have been received in
the Connecticut Mckinley association
to be held at the Taft hotel, New
Haven. at o'clock on the evening OF
Saturday, Jan. 20.
It means much to the prosperity OF
Fitchville and Palmertown villages
that the quilt business is becoming
very good. production being pretty
! largely engaged for the first foul
months of the year.
Everett Warner of Lyme won ths
| first prize, 500, for his design of q
| postcard assembled in competition b5
the Association of Women Sculptors
and Painters which is now being shown
in the municipal art gallery. New York
At New Haven Monday evening
Jan. IT, Selection and Breeding fol
| Improved Egg Production will be the
topic of an address by Prof. Roy E
Jones Of the extension department Of
the Connecticut Agricultural college a
Storrs.
A new train will leave Boston daily
for New London at 5.10 p. m, and thu
Gilt Edge express now leaving Boston
at that hour will leave at 5.34 p. m.
new train will leave New Londo1
daily, except Sundays. for Boston a
TIC a. m.
The improvements and alterations t,
| the Griswold hotel at Eastern Point
entailing an expenditure of $500, 000
are being pushed rapidly and will bi
completed before June 1. The new
story which is being erected win add
80 rooms to the hotel.
All special taxes under the war ac
expired Dec. 81, 1915, and all manu-,
facturers, dealers. brokers, proprietor
Of theatres, etc., and all other persons
who are subject to taxation under tina
act will be required to pay taxes fol
| the ensuing six months.
The state tuberculosis commission
has received reports showing that III
approximately 1000, 900 Red Gross
/ Christmas seals were sold in Connecti
f.Irf 1,haf.n IRE still a La roe nr,r,nho,. Z,