Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-06
JEWEIT CITY

A northeast storm started in to do
 business between three and four
 o'clock Wednesday morning, with half
 gale of wind Several awnings which had been left down were badly torn
 The big 30-foot sign on Dearnley and Clarke's store was blown down and demolished. A local weather prophet had foretold the storm on account of
 she unusual brightness of the planet venus for the last few mornings. Another says the eclipse of the noon
 next Friday brought the storm. There are several weather prophets here abouts and they, judging from the 1 continued unsettled weather of the Fall are unanimous in their prediction Of an unsettled winter with TO iong spell of cold like the winter of I916-17 when there was a period of thirty one days on which the mercury crop l'ped to below zero every day,
 Everybody in this section remem- 1 bers with what interest about this time of year, the annual weather fore | casts made by Horace Johnson and Darius Allen were eagerly read in The Bulletin.
 In the issue of The Bulletin of
 March l.. 1S9S in an article giving a copy of the remarkable weather warning by Olney Harrison of Moosup, 1 he said. have studied the weather signs in the woods for the past few days, and all appearance go to show 1 that a storm of tremendous prepor- | tions is pretending. Rabbits in going l abroad in search of food are taking | the unusual precaution to bark the i trees as high up as they can reach, ! standing on their hind legs. That is so 1 that in the event of the storm com- 1 ing suddenly as expect it will, they 1 may find their way back to their | meeting places. The cartridges are l laying in a two weeks supply Of ber-
 ries and the quail are burying them | selves in the leaves, so they can en- i joy some degree of comfort till the ] snow shall have left the earth The
 chipmunks and >grays are boring new i holes, meanwhile casting many looks about them. and studying the causes | for the coming storm. The birds are gone and the trees are bending their 1 branches in preparation flor the ac-
 cumulation of snow" Two weeks la
 ter there appeare/ in a local scrap | book the quotation, It didn't show up. A harvest supper of boiled ham,
 mashed potato, mashed turnip. cab- l bage salad, bread and butter sand
 wiches, pies and coffee was served by the Ladies' Society Of the Congrega- i tional church in the vestry Wednes- day evening The table decorations
 were yellow chry santhemums. The
 committee in charge were Mrs. Frank
 Wilcox, chairman, Mrs. C. D. Wolf, Mrs. J. T. Stewart. Mrs. Walter Mar 1 shall. Mrs. Edward Gallup, Mrs. H. N. Wheelock, Mrs. E. H. Hiscox and Miss 1 s. N. Johnson.
 4 number from the local churches 1 attended the conference of churches l held at Plainfield on Wednesday. They
 were Deacon J. c. Hawkins Mrs. E. l A. Faust, Miss Ellen Faust, Miss NJ | A. Burdick, Mrs R. H. Howard, MT. i and Mrs. E. H. Hiscox, Mrs. Samuel Geer, Mrs Martin Davis, Mrs. Charles ! Fitch. From Pachaug there were Rev.
 MT. Richardson, Mrs. W. B. Montgom-
 cry, Mrs. Jane Lester. Mrs Arba ! Browning, MT. and Mrs. William F. | Bitgood, MT. and Mrs Victor Camp 1 bell. Oyer eighty persons were pres l ent in spite of the bad weather.