Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-23

of Police Grimshaw RetuYnina From Hospital Today.
 Postmaster George /M. Billing re-I ported Friday that ss new high record of mail matter handled has been made | season at the focal office. Outgoing sacks numbered 1O2, this not includ-5 ing the pouches containing first class. i mail matters So heavy has been the incoming | mail tha,G a team has been put in ser-f | vice tc. care for parcel post .deliyeries.l Up tS Friday. however. those whe are 1 sending away Christmas gifts crowd l ed the office and carrier force with.
 mail more than did those who were ] the other way today. however, and a rush Of incoming matter is looked for. Now more than ever Rins the final hours of the Christmas hurry is it
 necessary to heed the warning as to- wrapping bundles well and marking 1 them clearly. Mail matter moving; during the next weight hours will be part of the greatest volume ever.
 noted at any season in the history of. i the postal service, so every precan-5 l ton for protecting packages should be I taken, the mail men advise. :! A Day of .Discouraging Weather. I Old Cloud SpiIler himself must have | p6Gn OI LIlS JOD dilO -QGVOB-s | ing his attention sto water exclusively, | rather than to booze and politics | What he did here in Dapielson to the | prospects that business men had been l counting on for brisk Christmas trad; l ing was about as bad as he ever does at any season of the year and won | him an iron cross, weighing about a. | ton,. to wear around his neck the next time he goes in bathing in deep wa ] ter. l t<.,e5
 slush. In spite of the long sustained.
 downpour the snow chung tenaciously,i making the worst kind of mess. Perl sons slipped on the sidewalks, horses
 on the streets and the cars about
 which. many jokes are made slid side-E
 ways as frequently as they rolled for-I ward in their endeavorS to negotiatet | the frightful going. l At 11.30 the no-scf1ool signal footed an unexpected ending to the fall term, and the kiddies packed up their books | and waded to their homes, their minds | on the prospects for the better wea-i l ther that may come during their two weeks vacation. m The letter carriers had a rough old l day of it. the worst they have experi-l enced here during a Christmas season: l when their work has increased many | times over normal. But they made | their trips and delivered everything. that was turned over to them. I 1CeIl0n SIOdneQ over the QoSLruC-r tion of their hopes for an early crop, | the rain undoing all that the Ice King has accomplished Sfn the last ten days.
 History Teacher Leaves. With the close of the fall term at the high school Friday, Guy Burnham teacher of history, closed his duties there, his resignation having been ac-
 cepted by the town school committee.
 MT. Burnham became a member of the faculty prior to the opening of the fall term. succeeding Paul N. Swaf- field, who is to return here to remain
 for the rest of the school year, from
 the opening of the winter term in Jan
 uary.
 Pupils Christmas Trees.
 Christmas trees hung with gifts
 from pupils to other schoolmates serv-
 ed to add the Christmas spirit to the closing of the Danielson graded school for the winter term on Friday There was no assembly of the various grades each grade having it's own festivities. The pupils exchanged pretty and prac- tical gifts and all were made very happy. Employees Generously Remembered. l Up and down the highways of trade Friday, when buying had slackened on | account of the storm, stories were whispered into the ears of the news
 gatherer of bonuses that are coming to clerks in stores and employees of | other establishments at the close of business tonight. Giving seems to be
 the watchword this season. It has been a big year for about everybody and the tendency seems to be to cele- brate by giving something generous Christmas Sunday Services. Tomorrow will be Christmas Sunday in the churches of Danielson Rev, Arthur J. Covell Of Boston is to con- duct the services at the Congregation o1 1a,. will be suggestive of the great holi-
 day. There will be Christmas music
 at the morning service and the con- cert will be at p. m., in the audience
 room of the church. Rev. c. H. Bar
 Der will speak briefly at this service.
 became ill about ten months ago. The Christmas tree exercises at the church will be on Monday evening at o'clock At the Methodist church Sunday
 morning at 10.3e there will be a pro- gram Of Christmas music and at o. m. the Christmas concert, which has been prepared for with special care. A number of members of the Sunday school will assist at this concert. The
 Ghrls5mas Christi as. tree ha. exercises at this evening and as part of the enter l tainment 5 reels of Christmas motion pictures will be shown.
 Christmas Sunday at the Baptist l church presents many features of very l special interest. There will be Christ l mas music at the morning service
 and at 1215 a special concert by members of the Sunday school. Sum day evening at z o'clock the choir of 25 voices will sing Dudley Bucks can tata, The Coming of the King. The Christmas tree exercises are set for Monday evening at 6 o'clock.
 Chief Grimshaw Coming Home. Chief Michael J. Grimshaw will Te. turn today from St. Vincent's hospi- tai at Worcester, where he has been
 making rapid recovery after an op- | eration for appendicitis.
 Harold Barber. senior at the Hart | ford Theological seminary, is sperd-