Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-29

Elmer NJ. Young. The case is retprnable before the suuerior court for Windham county on the first Tuesday in February. Rosenberg alleges that in the spring of the current year he contracted with Dunham Brothers of Brattleboro. Vt. ! for stock of rubhers and shoes to the aTsount of S1S5ss which were shipped to | this city November 12. in the name of Hyman Rosenberg. proprieter of the New 1 Idea Store. Resenberg states that he re- ceived the bill but no goods arrived and he then engaged in considerable corre-
 spondenae with the firm concerning the
 shipment. December 23rd. plaintiff re-
 eeiyed a letter from Dunharn Brothers that the goods had been received at the local freight depot and delivered. giving the name of the truckrnen as Fred Le- l Clair The latter upon being questioned 1 about the matter, said he delivered the goods but to the Modern Shoe Store across the street by mistake A demand was made by Mir. Rosenberg for the re- turn of the goods which was not com piled by the Messrs. Prag. According to l MT. LeClair he delivered the consign- ment on November and said they were
 accepted and signed for.
 | An egtertainment and Christmas tree
 for the poor children of the city was held under the auspices of the Salvation
 Army in the yestry of the Methodist 1 Episcopal church Tuesday evening. Ad-
 jutant Daisy Whipple and Captain Mary | Colburne were assisted by Mrs. Kenyon
 and Mrs. Simmons in distributing the gifts. A program consisting of twenty | four short numbers WAS given.
 The annual report of Acting Librarian
 Mrs. William D. Terry shows the year s circulation of the public library to be as l follows: Fiction 2S.6e4. French 474, juye-
 nile fiction S.20s. juvenile non-fiction 1,632 biography 1s5, travel zoe. history | 325, literature 2S5, arts 165. science 11S,
 sociology 114, theology 50. philosophy 32, magazines 34S, periodicals 56s, total S6,- E23.
 | Tie circulation was somswi,at smal.er
 Lhl5 last year, probably 1uc to 'Le fact | hat more people were employe' ss fno | tess time to read.
 | The accessiens for the year were 232 1 Of these 102 were obtained by purchase 1 99 were from the state grant and Is were 1 individual gifts.
 1 During the year 11S books have been discarded because of their worn out con
 dition. Of these e1 have been replaced
 making our total number of books 1e.oso Our average circulation per day is 12o. On our TeddHS tdDteS VIZ nave tle 1 leading magazines, both weekly and
 monthly and we have "seven-day books. | the monthly magazines We also have
 the following newspapers The Chronicle Norwich Bulletin. New York Times and Catholic Transcript fweekly).
 l Our average number of readers pei day is 45.
 | At a meeting of the library co--nittes
 held in May Mrs Bell B. Rigglerhz.n, the | librarian resigned, to take effect July 1st l The resignation of Mrs. Riggleman aftel more than 19 years of faithful service
 brought real loss to the library. Un | fer her supervision the library had growI from about 5000 volumes to 10000 vol 1 ames. But not only has the ligrary growr | in number of volumes but because of hel | deals the literary standards have beer
 raised higher and higher. The city ha: l been indeed fortunate to have had for SC I .ong a period the benefit of her conscien II tious services and discriminating judg | nent.
 II It is we'll that this library in common with all Connecticut city libraries re