Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-17
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
 FAg14 yehfcas lamps at A:sT o'clock E66A evening.
 The moon is tn-tts last Quaxter at 1so1 ?. m today.
 h 1a11 as this year. Thanksgiving Day fell on the last day in November which was Thursday. the 80th. ing ooal at Norwich and has been tow down the river by the tug Aquidneck.
 This fin Indian Summer or the old MartinuaS summer, the few warm days which generally follow St. Mart in's day.
 Furty-eve silver cups are to be gtv- en as prizes at the annual show of the New England Poultry to be held in Groton.
 Daniel E Mara. candidate for representative from Bozrah has re- spent nothing.
 A Norwich Free Academy graduate, Walter A Peck is the year an in- structor in chemistry at Burlington. Vt, University.
 Past Grand Master Workman Trant and Supervisor Radigan of Hartford visited Rockville Lodge, A. Q. U. w., Thursday evening.
 Regular meeting of K. of c. tonight. Important.-adv.
 Because shad and other fish have delayed going south much later than usuad, some of the wiseacreS declare 1t an infalllble sign of an open winter.
 Reports from the State conference at New Britain were given during the mid-week meeting of some of the Congregational churches Tnursday ey- ening.
 A Groton and Golden Spur resident, Walter R. Denison left for New York en route to Honolulu and Australia where he is to spend the winter tray- cling.
 In the nomination of officer at the State Congregational Conference, Rev. H. j. Wyckoff of Norwich was made a. member of the committee on educa- tion for three years.
 Some of the Connecticut branches of the Red Cross are planning to send reading, writing materials and other comforts to the United States troops on the border as Christmas gifts.
 Some one with d long memory has recalled a heavy fall of snow in DOT tions of Connecticut on sunday, De- tober 15, 1876 and that several days good sleighing followed that snow -.-
 Local druggists on getting their weekly bulletins Thursday were not pleased by the announcement of an advance Of cents an ounce in qulnine sulphate, in 100-ounce tins. Wood all cohol is higher also,
 Everett Enos Brown. of Pomfret Center Connecticut's apple expert, was in Norwich Thursday and remember ed The Bulletin with a basket of hand some Mcintosh fruit which would win First Award on sight.
 James McMahon and family fave moved from Ashaway, R. l., to Ciarks Falls. Mir. MC,.st. t4i. e4llpiQl ed for, V ) years in the carding room CT the nlll at Potter Hill, is now working ia the felt mill at Clarks Falls. The Groton Monument house erect | ed in commemoration of the Battle of l Groton Heights, which is used as a museum TOT uunuTGOS OI pIlCS-SSS 1eI | ics of revolutionary ana pfe-revoiu | tionary times closed for the season | Wednesday.
 l At the second and last days ses- | sion of the general conference of Con- gregational churches of Connecticut here Wednesday, resolution was l adopted that women should be granted authority to vote on all matters per taining to the liquor traffic. '
 The Stonington Mirror states thai Henry w. Ranger, the celebrated landscape artist, who died suddenly al his home in New York, took some o1 his subjects from Lords Point One l painting, a view sketched at Lords 1 Hill, was sold by him for S10,000. The State Association Opposed tc i Woman Suffrage is planning to senC i to each member of the Connecticut | set forth the facts and figures con | earnings the So-called "demand'' fol woman suffrage by the women them | selves.
 The United States Civil Service Commission announces for Nov. 2S ar examination for mechanical draftsman for men only, to fill vacancies as they may occur in the office of the Chief O. Ordnance, War Department, Washing ton, D. C., at entrance salaries ranging from $1 1000 to $1,20O a year.
 Friends in Norwich have received invitations to the marriage Of Mis.
 Mabel H. Martin, daughter Of MT. ant Mrs. James Martin, now of Meriden and Charles M. Sperry, to take place at the Martin residence on the evenins
 of Thanksgiving Day. The Martin
 family has a cottage at Gales Ferry.
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