Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-24
IN NORWICH FIFTY YEARS AGO

as follows: Warden, G. A. Jones. H. H Roath ; vestrymen, A. P Willoughhy, ". fl L. Brewer. T. P Norton Jeremiah Hal | sey, Gardiner Greene, Dwight W. Cook, i Julius Webb, Gilbert Osgood, John M Brewers treasHreE, John L. Devotion ! clerk, Seneca S. Tnresher Timothy P. Norton and Gardiner Greene were elected | delegates to the diocesan convention and i H H. Roathi and Jeremiah Halsey, sub | stitutes.
 Thursday, April q, 1s7o-The annual | prize contest for selected 'declamations ! and readings sofa the Hubbard Rhetorical 1 society took place yesterday afternoon at the Free Academy before an audience of about 30, comprising many old members of the society, the committee on prizes and friends of the speakers, exclusive of the members Of the institute. The con test was begun by Eugene Elliott who re- cited very finely Moses on Mount Nebo. Henry c. Gulliveri and George Thomas followed in Snartacus to the Gladiators and Barbara AFrfetchie respectively, the declamatory being~closed by Thomas J. l Sullivan, who delivered O'ConnelFs speech on the Irish Disturbance Bill and
 Charles Butts who repeated Haynes. on the South During the Revolution. Henry ] s. Gulliver was awarded the prize. A country gentle1nan drove into town
 yesterday and inaugurated rather novel
 mode of horse fastening Divesting himself of slfeepskin garment and ris- ing from his seat he took from the bot tom of the wagon. an article which may
 be supposed ,tee be millstone and pro-
 ceeded to attach tito his horse by a two
 fathom line.5 It proved to be a portable hitching post-s-a very useful utensil
 T.. On account of the weather being ia
 vorable work w4s yesterday suspended
 on the Preston bridge.
 White, bony-sskeletons dangle in front
 of the, drygoods. stores. There is one in
 every married mans house
 Friday, April P, 1S70-Residents in
 some parts of the town peacefully paddle
 about their cellars in washtubss
 It took 8 team of six mules yesterday to carry barrel of flour, codfish and
 hoopskirt into, the backwoods l At school meeting held not far away
 the other evening it was proposed to vote } verbally and place each vote in a hat : Yesterday safternoon an uncivilizec youth of some seven summers strapped q cat and brick together and threw them t off Preston bridge to see if they would 5 float. They wouldn't
 The committee on Invitations and re
 ception, who have charge of arranging Z
 programme for the water celebration met last evenAfg and agreed upon a gen. : eral plan, the details of which will be ar ranged within two or three days Th< programme. eontemplates a procession O the military frernen civic societies 9 .children of the public schools, etc. anc : some brief and appropriate ceremony O, y Williams park
 5 Saturday, April 2s. 187o-The boy : will be saddened to learn that the Eas s Great Plain school commences Monday t The pleasant amusement of throwin, t stones has been initiated by the young e Elderly people like it
 q Recolecting the recent accident tn,
 dugouts on the river took great care f, Y avoid Preston bridge So did the con |, tractor.
 s If ever the happiness of a people wa. 7. increased by the presence of that nobl e animal, ths dog, our is. They fight il : the streets. they howl in the parks tbe7 = whine on the door steps and their mum sl bers is as the sands of the seashore t Main street yesterday afternoon wit
 messed remarkable trial of strength Il A gentleman connected with the expres ). cart business he'd during the day DOS it SesSed ,l'-'7-~-'H- 0f '~--r c--d I1ouscula | zhite bull dog. which the natural ner
 Verslty of it's Nnu refused to follow if t owner. The latter immediately procure l. a hempen rope and fastening it to tn s- neck of the dog and the tail of the wa 'f gon, took ub the reins and started.
 The dog pulled and the horse pulled Il but the horse was the strongest and tn :, dog went up the street entirely inde q pendent of his hindlegs.