Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-25
IN NORWICH. FIFTY YEARS AGO
Coal Problem Confronted Consumer in Those Days Too
 Price Was $7.5O Per Ton--Uncas Team Lost Baseball v Championship to New London Tean-Locomotiye Hit . Schooners Room-Internal Revenue For This City 1e, Over $1S,OOO.

side steps to the right, then tore along the top of several platform cars, load ed with wood, which it easily unload ed along the dock. and as the locomo- tive, still moving. brought it fire sh fuel. struck a heavy box car, which is rip Eped open suddenly, but by which it was broken short off just in time to save a handsome steam fire engine loaded on 3. platform car just behind. | Captain H. F. Gates, formerly on Gen. Hariand's stan and later A A. G: of the state is now head of the firm of H. P. Gates and Co.,, of Hartford, man |ufacturers of the American Improved Gas Light.
 Nov. 22, 1S66.-.The internal revenue for the third district of Connecticut, New London and Windham counties flor October foot up as follows: ftst division, Norwich. $1s,633.54; second Edivision, Griswold, Lisbon, Ledyard, Preston, Sprague, s15.050.57; third di- Evision, Groton, North Stonington, Bloomington, s9,42s.36; fourth division, fhfth division, East Lyme, Lyme, Mont Eville, Old Lyme. Salem. s3,s66.62; sixth division, Bozrah. Colchester, Franklin, Lebanon, s6,o25.s1; seventh division,
 Ashford, Chaplin, Scotland, Windham,
 s6,s61.56; eighth division, Fastford,
 424.27; ninth division, Brooklyn Hampton, Killtngly Pomfret, $14, 412.27; tenth division, Canterbury Voluntown, Sterling, Plainfeld, s6,- 1 4S5.02: fines and penalties, $2978; to- tai s99.SI9.52- This is decrease ot $1, 359. .38d from the September returns | At a meeting of the Universalist so- l ciety on Tuesday evening. it was vot- ed to have the church edifice renovated and, repaired at an estimate cost o1 1 about, 2,00o, of which $50 wt:s raised on the spot, and the balance will be cilx nrlo tp6 1 improvements consist ef repaiIs to the ! roof, and refrescoing the inside, while
 the paint will he freely used where ] needed. f-
 I At a meeting of the Home Degree 1 Temple, Good Tenlplars on Nov. 20 1 the following officers were elected an6
 installed; II. T., Dahiel W. Bliven;
 D. V. T., Lucy P. Arnold: secretary l Charles H. Miner, Jr.; D. F. S., An l drew Thompson: D. treasurer, Carrie
 M. Strong; D. Chaplain. Henry Arn. 1 old; D. marchasl. n. N. Carpenter; as.
 D. secretary, Robert Simpson; D l guard, William Palmer; D. sentinel l David Gilmour; D. R. H. S., F. J
 Bliven; D. l.. H. s., Ellen Sherman. Nov. 23, 1866.-There was a yer. i light fall of snow hcreabouts Thurs. i day morning. The first sign of snow 1 this season.
 At Occum. Thursday noon, E. c
 Smith, head carpenter on the nearl. completed mill of the Hooper Manu featuring Co., was at work on tn, cupola, when he accidentally fell
 striking the timbers of the story be low, and of each successive story, t. the ground, where he struck on two inch board with such force as to breal it. The whole fali, was through fou stories-a distance of fifty feet. Sev eral ribs were broken by the fall, aii, the skull and. cheek tones fractured.
 Nov. "A, iS66:-The trial of Georg | Harvey on tine charge of having on tn
 24th of September. 1864, SC. fire to tn
 bake shop of the c. D. Boss and Co ] situated on Water street in New Lon # don. com neneed 6Ip6sTiday. in thisseits
 There was launched from the yard
 of J. M. Huntington and Co.,. a
 Thamesville. on Thu sday. a doubl
 deck screw eanlship, ITO feet lons 29 feet beam, 17 feet hold tonnage old measureE1ent-about 750 tons pc ing the largest ship built on the rivel The large craft glided gracefully int the river and darted across to the op
 posite shore, which she gracefully sa . luted. and then ct:e cking her cours tractably allowed herself to he pulle l alongside tie Thamesville dock