Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-20

In Norwich fifty years ago this week there was a movement on foot to call a special town meeting rela- tive to tho union of the town and county and city in the erection of a public building for their joint occu-- pancy. The same week the grand Hist cf the town was completed and i iie d in the office of the sclectmen. It showed a total taxable property Iamountiug to sl3.524,670.
 Tho Cuiversalist Church society, at Ia meeting held the same week unan- I imously voted to extend q call to 1 Rev. Asher Moore of Claremont, N. ! H., to become their pastor to suc- ! ceed Rev. J. Riley Johnson, who , had resigned the pastorate. Extracts from the files of The Bull i letin of December, 1869, are as fol- lows:
 Monday, Dec. 13. 1S69.-On Satur-- | day the grand list of the town was ! icompleted by the assessors and plac l ed for public inspection in the office of the selectmen. The totals of the :. list are as follows:
 Taxable property belonging to residents ........... .s12,94l ,912 tTSxablc property belonging
 
 Total .524,67C , An irate female posted two individ- stIais as public thieves and guilty of ' grave misconduct, by sticking up a written notice on the public sign pos, at the corner of Water and Main streets Saturday. The poster at tracted considerable attention Satur- day and Sunday, and this revival of an old custom which everybody sup posed had gone into oblivion, excited hic-h comment
 Street Comiri Moves had a gang of men at work Saturday clear .g the snow and ice from the side talks of those who neglected to com ply wifi the law and do it themselves Those who were compelled to sit doWr on the wet, slippery sidewalks severa times during the day beamed on the street commissioner and his shove brigade, and forgot that all the weer they had been sorely vexed at his neg lect of just that thing.
 \ genuine thaw set in Saturday anf continued to last night. making a fin ish Of the sleighing. II is rare Nindeef that we have whole week of, gooc s'eiehing befnre Christr'as and every body made the most of it. ..t,-
 An cid lady on Monday called at on' oi the dry goods esta blishments in thc eity that advertises literally and DIT chased the cloth for her husband stroud. The individual is not dead O particularly ailing, but. said the ol l9dF: It is so cheap. I don't. think .' vii ever be able to buy it So low again And she smiled on the clerk icck the bundle under her arm ant travelled
 The posfoffiee is undergoing repair and alterations.
 Four hundred feet Of rew seamIee linen hose. for inc use of the fire de pa~tment arrived last night. s.- --1
 The arrangement of extra reserved Feats in the aisles at the last lecture | the Otis Library course met with suo' i9vor that the committee nronosa t. repent the experiment for DuC'haillr'r lecture newt TuesT"v and for the grand frl1toUr concert Dec. 26th.
 Wednesday. Dac. 15 1889 At q laro, meeting the Urive-ealist Church SO tiety, held last evening it WIS unan- imeusly voted to extend to the Rev Asher Moore cf Claremont. \. H., t. become their pastor in plsce of tht Rev. j. Riley Johnson, resigned.
 samuel Rich, carnenter, aged abou' IS years while assisting in -hOisting IF z ime lumber t'rnugh tle hatchways l. | | c~1or ahdnf : o'rloai: yytae. eIA--,l-t. F = the lumber in some way and fell dowr thruugh the hatchr-;i', ahort tire siories. distantyA of abort forty feet f0 tl'a F~or. Drr+rg bic faIl ho st-,,ol his head against a timber and was c'ad when his fellow wc-kmen got tr him His rerlairS were taken to New York, where his friends reside.
 At the monthly mceIioe of the Con r''nrational Ministers of New Iondor county. at Greeneville yesterday. tn. Rev. Mr. Tuck of .Jewett City was an pointed moderator. The Rev. E. W Gilman of Storingtou read an articlt on Our Frate--eI Relations to Othe, Ecciesiastical Bodies. .......
 The Hopkins & Allen pistol manu iacturing company at the Falls spar tally resumed work again or Monday The roof of the factory has bee shingled, and the rava~es of the fir, ur9 being rapidly repaired.
 The New York naners gre nredicti-. a fall in the price of coal, Many vii hone there is no mistake about it.
 Thursday Dec. 1f. 1S69-There wa censiderabl floating ice in the Thame .-asi erday mornir~
 The vacation. of tpr rltI.2 sa'ooIs a the Central school d .r:cf will com r0ence at the rlose of the sessiol Th''rsday afternoon
 The Free Academy examination oc CUTS on Monday. Tuesday and Wed resday of newt week, md the tern c--os C- Wedues1av
 The directors of the Norwich Say ih@S societv have declared a semi an nral dividend of 1-2 ner cent. ray able to deDositors on and after the 15tl proT.
 The festival of the ladies of tn Preston City Baptist church last even