Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-12
EVENTS OF FIFTY YEARS AGO

, ture of the day was the music by the choir and schools. A number of persons on Central wharf saw a balloon pass over the Hcity about a quarter before Monday evening. It came apparently from the northeast and was going in south westerly direction.
 East Broad street has been blocked up since Saturday by a house which
 Hiram Hill. has been moving from Washington street to the eastern part of the city. Thursday. July 8, 1S69-The Nor-3 wich end of the Preston toll bridge is receiving attention from number of workmen under the superintendence of Selectman Greene. The old hulk
 looks worse and worse the more one sees of it. The rotten timbers having been brought to the gaze of the Pres tonites compelled to cross and recross it every day. a more determined effort will be made next Saturday to vote down the opposition to the new bridge than was manifested last week. At the. last meeting not more than half the voters from the Bridge district were out. But they are pretty effectually to accuse a Bridge district man of squinting at repair" to make him
 boil over. Tell him you bet he will
 not be at the meeting on Saturday and jiffy. A new bridge is what they all
 demand and take no for an answer they won't.
 E. S. Osgood's Charlie Dickerman''
 (Columbus) and mate Civilian A.
 Buckingham. 2's, gray 'Deception''),
 trotted at Hillside park, Waterbury,
 on Monday against "Britton" and
 mate. winning the first heat and talk
 ing the second premium. Charlie won
 the third race. in which five horses trotted in PA.
 S. R. Parlin. Lewis A. Hyde and T.
 c. Kinne were last evening chosen delegates by the Young Mems Chris
 tian association of this city to the general convention which meets at Portland July IA. R. c. Sherman,
 William Lamphere and L. A. Branch were chosen delegates.
 Friday, July g. 1s69-The new building of CottreH. Dyer & Co. at the junction of. Main and Water streets, 1 has been about completed and the firm are transferring their business to it. The building has a frontage westerly on the east channel of the Yantic river and northerly on Main street. Its mas sive construction. its situation and ir- regular form and the necessity of rail- ways beneath it, made it's design a more intricate problem than any other building in this vicinity.
 Mrs Joseph Forest. who lives in Toomeytown on the Greeneville road, and works in one of the Greeneville factories. has been in the habit of so ing to her work at> 6 o'clock. leaving a boy of 5 or years old locked up in the house. An old woman has gen erally gone into the house about 9l o'clock and given the child his break fast. About o'clock yesterday morn ing the neighbors heard streaming from the room occupied by Mrs. For est and on bursting open the door found the child enveloped in flames.
 Charles Peale has the frame up for a new two story swelling on Williams street That pleasant section of the city is rapidly filling up with hand some houses.
 Saturday, July 10. 1sss-A large and appreciative audience gathered at the Free Academy last evening to witness teh contest for the Williams prize in reading The contestants were all warmly encored and the exercises really formed a very pleasureable en- tertainment.
 Charles Henry Read. a son of George W. Read. of Brooklyn, N. Y.. died on 1 Friday at the residence of David | Smith iu this city. where he was pay irS a brief visit. He was a member i If the Polytechnic Institute in Brook | lyn.
 John Mitchell has comnlc1ccu build | ing a new wharf just below Pollard s | Boiler Shop. It will be a hundred feet | in length and will be used for ship | ping freight from his rolling mill.