Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
VARIOUS MATTERS
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 It is daybreak now at 5.SO. this evening.
 Some of the 1920 calendars are real works of art.
 A Happy New Year to all readers of The Bulletin and The Courier.
 The best moonlight nights in Janu- ary will be from the Sd to the 7th.
 In Old Lyme most of the small ice houses have been filled with six inch ice.
 A Hopkinton man, Simon Kenyon. killed ten starlings with one shot the other day.
 There was brisk business in the stores Wednesday in advance of the holiday today.
 Oranges are appointing delegates to l the state grange meeting in Hartford Jan. '13s 14 and 15.
 The temperature rose rapidly dur 1 ing Wednesday and much of the snow in sunny places thawed. Franklin chapter. No. 4, R. A. NJ l works the Mark Master degree at Ma sonic. temple tonight at 7.30.-adv. Midnight services were held in the | $500 Presbyterian churches of the country to watch the old year out.
 The Eaton Drug company of Staff 1 ford has filed a certificate of dissolu- | tion in the office of the secretary of | state.
 i At Hebron, Herbert Porter. as a re- 1 suit of an accident while crankine an engine for a cement mixer, has a broken arm.
 A Christmas tree party committee | of the Groton park Y. M. c. A. held party in Groton park cafeteria We'd nesday evening. i A feature of the music at Grace church, Yantic, on the recent holiday was Miss Elaine Hitchon's pleasing singing of Oh Little Town of Bethle- | hem.
 The year which opens today will be a leap year. so that townspeop1e born on Feb. 18th will have a four-vear opportunity to celebrate their birth | days.
 The new Connecticut automobile number plates, which go into use to- day, are buff with blue embossed let ters with the number over the Conn. ] 1920"
 l About 15o more names appear in the newly issued telephone directory than l were listed in the July book for the Norwich division. J. N. Weymouth, superintendent.
 The 18th annual assembly of Con- necticut Select Templars of Templars | Of Honor and Temperance is to be II held in New Britain today (Thursday) in o. U. A. M. hall.
 A hotel building on the northeas st corner of Green and Golden streets. New London, where Thomas Howe So long conducted a livery stable, is to be erected by James F. O'Leary.
 The sbequest of s5,o0o to the endow- ment fund of the Danbury hospital by the late John c. Averill of Norwich has been received by the hosnitaI from the executors of the estate.
 So far this season the. Shore Line Electric Railway company has not needed to put it's snow blows into op- eration on any of the lines in or about Norwich, the snowfaIls being light. Although merchants in general consider the week between Christmas and New Years the darkest days of ' the business year. trade in the local stores has been surprisingly good. The United States civil service com mission announces for Jan. 9 an ex- amination for fire marshal. A vacancy in the zone supply office, New York at g, 400 a year. will be filled from this examination. The trunk roads of the state high , way system in a number of sections have been scraped of their surplus snow by the state highway denart- ment, and smooth, hard surfaces are available for traffic. The number of children in the after school sewing classes of the United Workers Tuesday and Wednesday and on Saturday, directed by Miss Alice W. Cogswell. number even higher thar last year, when the total was 196.
 Douglass A. Evans of Middle River district, Danbury. senior at the Connecticut college. Storrs, left Mon day for Des Moines, Ia~ to attend the national Y. M. c. A. convention as delegate from the Y. M. c. A. of Storrs college.
 The Stiles Eccleston place ir. the north part of the town of North Ston- ington has been sold to Otto Ander- son. MT. Anderson has also pur- } chased the B. Frank Billings farm about two miles north of the Eccle- ston' place
 Before the supreme court for the January term. which opens in Hart ford next week Tuesday, a case iron Holland county is that of Allen R Kibbe against F. c. Woodruff and an other, defendants appeal from supe. rior court
 Charles E. Peck of Black Hall diet Monday following stroke of paralv sis. He was a farmer and lived or the old homestead. He was first SC lectman of the town for several year: and had, been to the legislature. H. leaves three sisters.
 At the annual church da~ of th' Noank Baptist church held Wednes ! lzr and evening, the speakers included { former Norwich man. Rev. Clarence M. Gallup. pastor of the Central Bap tist church, Providence.
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