Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-12
VARIOUS MATTERS
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VARIOUS MATTERS
 Juno 18th Is St. Alfred's day.
 The sudden weather change resulted in spring day Tuesday.
 The state board of examiners of bar bers met at the capitol Monday morn ing.
 Mandolin. guitar and banjo instruc- ton. Mrs. Emma Navin. A Laurel Hill avenues-adv.
 Representative F. A. Rathbun of 10 Lewis Phelps of the latter place.
 At Black Hall. Miss Tessie Kraus and William Moore were united in ing by Rev. M. Mclean Goldie.
 A meeting will be held in Grange hall, Lebanon. tonight (Wednesday) at o'clock relative to installing electric
 lights in said town. East Haddam Electric Light Co.-adv.
 One more work train was added to the number on the extension of track at Sayzroolk Junction. making three crews, who will put up at the round house at Saybrook Point.
 The catalogue of Wesleyan which made It's appearance the last of the than ever before, Connecticut leading with 1a4, against 10S last year.
 Tug Aquidneck, Capt. George Haly- burton, has lowed the coal laden barge Lester to Montville, where the barge will discharge hir cargo at the plant of the Thames Specialties company.
 SsA Enear Norwalk. has been brought to the Norwich State hospital for treat ment. She was accompanied by Pa trolman John H. ToothiIl of Norwalk.
 The first legal holiday of 1916, Lin- coin day, Feb. 12th, this year falls on Saturday. Washington's Birthday, Feb. 22, comes on Tuesday, and so do Me-
 norial day, May Soth, and Fourth of July.
 The judges of the supreme court were in session in Hartford again Tuesday. There are six cases on the docket to be disposed of before the business for the January term is fin ished.
 A petition is being circulated in Saybrook asking the selectmen to call a special town meeting to take ac- tion on the matter of erecting a post ' DAAAGS Du1101I1& OA IuC IOWu 1c111u uGdI 1 the town hall.
 The state civil service commission has deferred action on the request
 of a cook, who had been discharged from state institution, to be placed
 on the eligible list for appointment in another institution.
 Notices posted recently at the plant of the Plainfield Woolen company in fNnr1fr-ol anI I,xy T11 Q Fletcher of Providence, announcing a 5 per cent. increase in wages affected between 250 and 300 employees. Professor Leslie E. Card of the Con- necticut Agricultural college spoke to the members of the Hartford Poultry association at the chamber of com 1 merce rooms Monday evening on Breeding for Egg Production. The Moosup Methodist church Sun day held a meeting to elect a delegate to the lay electoral conference to be held in Norwich, March 31. T. E. Main was elected delegate with Mrs. J. c. Gallup as reserve delegate Word was sent out over the New Haven system this week to close up the ranks and the railroad employees are going to bang their way through l this freight congestion and attempt to have the system cleared by Saturday night.
 The men of the town of Andover held a second meeting at the town hall Monday night to arrange for forming mems club. The committee i in charge is Royal D. Webster, August Lindholm and Representative Horace J. Backus.
 There Is a rl1nor ahoat that the state civil service commission has re- called it's last annual report because all the members will not sign it, on 1915. Secretary Wright of the com mission does not deny the rumor. Eeow Alice Tague, laden with coal and consigned to the J. A. Morgan Coal Co, of Norwich, is docked at the head of the Chappell Co.'S lumber wharf, New London, waiting for the 1 ice up the river to clear away in or
 der to be lowed to her destination. One man who has 3s acres of chest
 nut, well grown, in Coventry, says that in order to get any money at all out of 1t, he would have to put it into charcoal. Blight-strickeN chestnut is not in demand even at a lower price. The railroad does not want it for ties.
 An order has been received from the postofHce department that 350, ,000
 extra sacks were issued for holiday mail shipments and that the depart
 nent wants every postoffice in the country to return these sacks prompt Fly to the sack depot at New York in order to be put into use again. I Representative R. F. Freeman has fpresented petition signed by 500 women of Westport and Clinton favor ing national preparedness. He also
 presented the resolutions of the Ma
 tional Machine Tool Makers associa-