Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07

7s q fo Play Bartlett n. S-Ses
 Mary's Rectory Nearly cenplsted-
 Thomas Taylor Probable Last Sur
 vivor of the Monitor.
 Arthur Shippee measured ice on his pond near Putnam Heights Thursday and found that it had reached eight inches.
 c. D. Arnold. newly appointed fire chief, the assistant chiefs and mem hers of the fire committee of the com- mon council are to meet soon to dis cuss plans for 1916.
 Work in M. M. Degree.
 The M. M. degree was conferred on candidates at meeting of Quine- bang lodge. A. F. and A. M, Thurs day evening.
 Mail Car Attached.
 A train of sleepers that leaves Bos- ton at midnight now has a mail ear attached and carries mail from New London to New York from this city and points south, a service formerly performed by the mail trains taken off the Shore line and now running through this city
 Night School Attendance ff2.
 The attendance at the night school further increase is looked for. The school Is in session every week day night excepting Wednesdays and Sat- urdays.
 Will Play Bartlett Tonight.
 Putnam High Schools basketball team, which is leading the league goes to Webster this evening for a game with the team of Bartlett High school.
 Miss Marcus school at Thompson has it's students back from their Christmas vacation, during which the girls were at their homes In various parts of the country.
 Rectory Nearing Completion.
 The new parochial residence of St Mary's parish is being rapidly com- pleted and it is expected that it will be ready for occupancy at an early date. The building is one of the finest of its kind in Eastern Connecticut.
 Putnam business men heard with interest of the advance in wages of { per cent. to the employees of the As- sawaga Wcolen company at Dayville rom which place considerable
 Following the rain of Wednesday night the streets and highways in this rection Of the county were again a sheet of ice Thursday and many per- sons and not a few horses got bad falls.
 Grand List increased.
 It is expected that the assessors o1 the town of Putnam will have com- pleted by January 20 the 3 and list upon which they are wor:.tlg regu- larly. It is said that the total of the list will show a considerable increase over last year.
 Thomas Taylor Was On Monitor.
 despatch from Philadelphia on Thursday stated in connection with the death notice of William Durst oi that city that he is believed to have been the last survivor of the mem historic battle with the Merrimac in Hampton Roads.
 Durst, however, was not the last survivor. Thomas Taylor, coIored, of this city was on the Monitor during the fight that revolutionized naval construction and naval warfare. A few days before the action Taylor, then 3. boy, escaped from slavery in Virginia and made his way to Fort ress Monroe. There on the night before the battle he was invited by an officer of the Monitor to be his valet and he accepted, going aboard the vessel.
 What happened during the time the vessels pounded each other in the fa- nous fight is still clear in MT. Tay- lors mind. He even quotes some of the commands he heard given by the MoE1torS officers. During the fight MT. Taylor was engaged for a time in passing powder.
 Another vivid recollection of MT. Tay1or's is his experience of being an eyewitness of the blowing up of the Merrimac.
 Jessamine Chapters Officers.
 The following are the newly elected officers of Jessamine chapter, o. E. s. /: Worthy matron, Daisy P. Chase; wor- they patron, Jchn C.. Bates; associate naatron, Nellie D. Bates: conductress Miss Harlie I. Corbin; assistant con ductress, Dorothy L. Wright; secre- fary, Emma M. Roberts, treasurer Inez V. Hoyie; warden, Emma G. Phillips; sentinel, Edward H. Payne; chaplain, Elizabeth R. Sidebottom marshall, Katherine Webster; organ ist, Jessie A. Mcintyre; Adah, Mary J. Wright; Ruth, Marion E. Dean: Esther, Pearl B. wheaton; Martha, Edith R. Richardson; Electa, Alice E. Kennedy.
 D. A. R. Open Beetina.
 The open meeting of Elizabeth Por- ter Putnam's chapter, D.. A. R., is to be held in Odd Fellows hall next Monday afternoon. This is the yearly meeting at which each member has the privilege of inviting one guest.