Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

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 Light vehicle lamps at 5.44 o'clock this evening. Lent begins a week from today. February 18th.
 The February moon is in its last quarter Wednesday the 11th at S.4s ?. m.
 Among the postmasters confirmed by the senate at Washington IS James Bride, Jr.. of East Haddam.
 Some humane drivers in Norwich keep a blanket on their horses at all times when driving. these cold days
 Local laundrymen have tried the experiment this week of having some of their packages delivered on hand sleds by boys.
 Selectmen in all Connecticut towns will have to add fat sum for snow expenses to the disbursement ac- count for 1920.
 The postponed dance of the Yantic Fire Co. will be held Thursday, Feb. F. Rowland orchestra--adv.
 Farmers in surrounding towns have been using mules and oxen, as well as horses in the attempt to break out the drifted roads.
 Sweet peas and daffodils in the windows of the Norwich florists on Tuesday were in hopeful contrast to winter conditions in the streets.
 James M Whittlesey, state conn missioner of domestic animals, is taking prompt action to eliminate herds of tubercular cows in this state.
 The Rockville Fair directors are considering changing the dates to the first week in October. so that the Rockville fair will precede the Staf- ford fair.
 Mrs. Dwight Brown of North Ston- ington has been called to Melrose, Mass, by the death of her father, Pe- ter Holt. The body was taken to Maine for burial
 The effects of the storm have been felt most keenly in those sections in the suburbs where carriers have been unable to get through the snow and ice-bound roads to deliver mail.
 The personal tax will be collected today at drug store of John A. Mor- gan, -GreeneVille, from Il a. m. to ? p. m.-ady.
 In several cities of the state. chap ters of the American Red Cross, act ing with the mayors have perfected plans to establish canteens to fur n4sh food to poor families where there is sickness.
 The second lecture in the Commun- ity House course in Friday evening February 20th, at D. m. Col B. Ed ward Buxton of "The Providence Jour nal.'-adv.
 The six offices filled by Rockville common council Tuesday evening were corporation counsel, superinten- dent of public works. city health of ficer, tax collector and rate maker and treasurer of the sinking fund.
 The 40 patients at Norwich State Tuberculosis Sanatorium are keeping unusually cheerful, these gloomy days. Many of their friends will re- member them with cards and favors for Lincoln Day and St. Valentine Day.
 The rent profiteer will find that his income tax on rent received during 1919 will materially cut into his bank balance, for every one of the income tax blanks has a space es- pecially intended for reporting all rents.
 The Connecticut Light & Power 60. has bought snow shoes for it's line men, who are to start out to inspect tho poles and wires between East Hampton and Colchester. The snow drifts are too high for the men to wade through.
 A months mind mass of requiem | has been requested for the late Mar garet Shugrue, at St Patrick's church, l Thursday morning at eight o'clock adv.
 It is almost impossible to get ] through Holland main street and on 1 the outlying roads the drifts are over mans head. It is very hard for 1 horses to break through the drifts, i for their feet get stuck in the crust, | pulling off their shoes.
 Judge George E. Hinman of Will mantle, who is presiding in the su- perior court in Middlesex county started his Connecticut career in Middletown, about twenty eight , years ago, as a newspaperman on l the Herald of those times
 4 large delegation from Connects cut will attend the. victory conven- 1 ton of the National Woman Suffrage association in Chicago, Feb. 12-1S, led by Miss Katherine Ludington, of ] Lyme, president of the Connecticut | W oman Suffrage association. A few brave women of Trinity | Methodist church made an effort to l attend the Tuesday afternoon prayer meeting in the vestry, but it took the appointed leader so long to reach the l church from Norwich Town that the l formal meeting was omitted.
 Aara- John LaidEaw Buel, of Litchfield. state regent of the D. A R., and Mrs. George Maynard Miner of Waterford, candidate from Con- necticut for president general of the National society, have gone to the state D. A. R. conference in Florida.
 Plans are under way for the pur- chase of a large storehouse. along. side the main track of the Shore Line division of the New Haven roaC at SaybsUok by a chain of stores company which intend to use tho place as factory for bottling olives
 Earl Williams of Ledyard, who ha. | purchased the Musante property 1 known as the Brown house at No. ank, owns the house where durins the war of 1872, it is stated thu family furnished supplies to the Brit ish sailors, anchored off Groton Lon, Point.
 Delegates from Connecticut are at
 tending the thirty-sixth annual con vention of the International Associa,
 ton of Master House Painters anc Decorators of the United States ant l Canada in New York city which vii continue until Friday at the Hote Astor.
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