Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-16
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Norwich, Saturday, Dec. 10. 1915.
VARIOUS MATTERS

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Stuffed dates at Lee & osgood.s to-
day.-ady.
Santa Claus may come to town on
runners. after all!
Snow shovels got their first real
exercise yesterday.
All talk Of picking December dande-
lions Is ended for q time.
The sale of s1eds will get a boom as
tho result Of Fridays snow.
The moon win be in its last quarter
tomorrow, the 18th. at LOG p. m.
The temperature continued low all
day Friday, and at noon had not risen
to 30 degrees.
Fifty printed calling cards for IS
Tolland grange il to have a COM
munity Christmas tree Tuesday even
ing in the town hall
At the Orcuttville mill a raise of 10
per cent. went into effect this week,
making az per cent. for the year.
Two of Lords ELL Shropshire rams
were shipped away this week, one to
| Maine, the other to Massachusetts.
The matter 6f securing better road
from Coventry TO Rockville is being
pushed by the Rockville Chamber Of
Commerce.
Local wholesale dealers in candy are
finding the holiday trade of most en-
couraging proportions, even at this
early date.
Special solos by Hugh Kinder at
mems rally Sunday at $50 in Thayer
buildlng.-adv.
Children and their elders in some of
the suburban towns are earning holt
day money by bringing wreaths to
town to sell.
After the snow began Friday morn
ing the walks were very slippery and
there were many sudden and in some
Instances painful falls.
One week more remains Of the fall
term in the public schools. There will
be a week vacation, school beginning
the day after New Years.
The usual number Of faithful work
ers at Red Cross headquarters yester-
day helped prepare hospital supplies
for the second box, to be forwarded
SOON
The Waterbury American mentions
that Frank l.. Clarity, who has been
Ill in Stonington for several weeks
past, is recovering and expects to re-
turn to his duties in Waterbury soon.
Sale of food and fancy articles,
Norwich Girls Club, Thayer building,
this afteronon, to o'clock--adv.
Local prohibitiorists have been in
vited to attend the state conference in
Hartford today Saturday.. The con-
ference will be held in the Hartford
Y. NJ. c. A. rooms from Ills a. m.
Until 3 p. m.
One of District Superintendent
George G.. Scrivener's appointments
takes him to Westerly this evening for
the fourth quarterly conference at the
Methodist church, where he will also
preach Sunday morning. 81 s=--z. G;~.t.l
In New York the William \. Sunday
Evangelistic association, Inc, has been
organized to promote and conduct Billy
Sundays evangelistic campaign in
April next. One of the directors IS
Rev. 2. s. Holloway Of the Norwich
family.
Psychic messages by leading test
medium Of New England. W. E. Whit
uey. Spiritual Academy Sunday.-adv.
The hydro -aeroplanes of Coast Guard
Unit No. /, which have made a number
Of flights during the last several
weeks, have been slowed away at the
submarine base on the Thames river
and will not again take to the air until
the springtime.
In the snow and cold all day Friday
Private Eva Mccormack stood pluokily
by the Salvation Army kettle at the
Wauregan corner, hoping to receive
contributions toward the fund for pro-
viding Christmas dinners for over 100
needy families.
The trustees Of Bacon academy, Col
chester, have secured Earl D. Malo-
ney to act as principal of the school
Mr.. Maloney is graduate of Bowdoin
College and is at present principal Of
the Hillston, Mass, High school, where
he has been five years.
Europe Sailed With Fire" subject
Of address at mems rally $50 Sunday
in Thayer store. DR.. Adams of New
London, speaker.-adv.
Groton will have fits first community
Christmas celebration this year, when
bands of singers will revive the old
English custom Of public singing of
carols on Christmas eve and there may
be a community Christmas tree on the
Groton monument grounds.
A letter. to the D. A. r. from the
state recent, Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel,
Connecticut chapters to refrain from
pledgipg themselves at this early date
to a Candidate for the Office of presi-
dent-generaa, I'm order, that Connect
cut chapters shall continue non-parti-
san.
All fhe ANIMAL show. of 4y,r Irav+fo,.s
Poultry Association at Rivervfew yes
terday the prize awards included: Co
lumbia Wyandottes, Cocks, second, c.
M. Wilcox. Mystic; hens, first and sec
ond; cockerels. first and second: pull
let's, first. second and fourth, C.. M.
Wilcox.
Alfred C.. Kearney. cornet soloist at
Central Baptist. tomorrow night. "Old
Friendships and the New Friend
DR.. Slocum's subject.-adv