Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-03

hold celebration to mark the con- pletion of the city water works. A petition with long list of names on | ! it was all ready to be presented to the l common council asking fer an appro 1 priation to finance the celebration. | I The date was set for May.
 A school meeting in the East Great | 1 Plain district declined to vote on a | resolution laying tax of 16 mills and i then voted to lay a tax of 4 mills, l the time when the tax would be col 1 | lected the meeting adjourned.
 Extracts from the files of The !! l Bulletin of 1870 are as follows: Monday, March 2S, 1S70-The heavy l rains Saturday and Sunday. caused 1 the heaviest freshet of the season it l this vicinity. The Shetucket river is 1 very much swollen, causing a still further delay in the building of the i new bridge between Norwich and Preston. Many of the mills have been obliged to stop running on account of back water. The Yantic river is very high and in some places has overfiowed it's banks The connection track on Central Wharf is submerg ed
 Henry Stoddard of Preston met with serious accident late yester- day afternoon while stoning up a we'll Hes was at the bottom of the
  when the side caved in, burying him lnearly to the arm pits. A stone about the size of mans head, which fell with the earth struck him on the head causing severe confusion. MT. l Stoddard had to be dug out and taken to his home. Upon examination it was found he was severely injured in-
 ternally besides being badly bruis- | ed oIitwardly.
 At special meeting convened in the council chamber Saturday even inG upon petition of the Wauregans Hook and Ladder Co.,. to be re-instat- ed in the fire department of the City tof Norwich, it was voted to reinstate said company.
 Tuesday, March 2s, 1S7o-The court of common council met Monday after
 noon in the council chamber and
 William c. Osgood appointed at the
 last meeting to purchase the Union
 Street property iNported that he had
 contracted to purchase the property
 including three houses for $22,00 as follows:s Willard Bliss, $e000 Will
 jam H. Cardwell. ts7,o0o and Mrs. L.
 A. Avery, s6,0oo.
 The report was accepted and Mir.
 Osgood was then authorized to dis
 pose of the property on the land at as
 good terms as possible Architects
 are to start to prepare plans for the
 court immediately
 It is just six months today since
 the Dime Savings Bank opened bus
 mess, and its officers, depositors and
 all friends have every reason to feel
 well satisfied with it's success. The
 total amount of deposits received to > date is $35 616.37. and the number of
 books issued is 1924, which are dis
 tr,buted through nearly every town in
 this county as well as many in
 Windham county and in other parts
 of the state.
 During the wind storm of Sunday | the chimney on the house of William
 Hedge in Preston was blown down as
 was the house belonging to $. A
 Wallace of Avery street on the West
 Wednesday. March 90, 1s7o-The expenses of the general assembly un-
 der the two republican administra
 tions since the war were sf3058412 UnGer the two democratic admins, trations the tactics of the democrati 1 leaders so prolonged the sessions tha the expenses were $1SS, ,651.02. ~ The mud hole on Franklin street just above Brands gunshop. that l1a so long been a nuisance to the peep. in that locality has been filled u and men are at work excavating il the lot just above for block 0 \ buildings to be erected by A c. Hal Ii man went into the depot a
 Willimantic on Saturday with a littl girl he claimed was his daughter H
 told the girl to stay there while h went out to transact some bushes , He went out and did not return an
 up to Monday morning nothing ha been heard of his whereabouts I'll
 girl said the mans name was Brow - and that he was a drygoods merchaI
 in Norwich and lived in Norwic se- Town. The child's statement prove but to be false.
 we Thursday March s1, 1S70-Scho out meeting at East Great Plain, Tuesda ags evening was largely attended by bot ng; those opposed to and those in favor -eel the new school house, and a live ur- time ensued. The motion to lay a as mill tax to clear up tho 'indebtet res, ness of the district was put but an vote could be gotten on the questio the Not person voted either way. Son
 one on the opposition side of u fifty house then moved to adjourn but Il ally motion was lost. motion was tn, uld made and carried to lay a mill t; lies but before a time could be agreed II ing on for collecting 1t a motion to a. sed 1ourn prevailed and the meeting a any journed. There will be probably a ned other meeting soon when the time f ds; collecting the tax will be fixed al aes F. c. Brown can then have the sa old lSLdCbiCi1 O1 SOClii6 LI1c Q1Ily scrap ear he got into by voting against t Ton school house that would be both cor ,ese fortable and an ornament to the di
 trict cleaned up."
 ,icb The suggestions thrown out at d ing ferent times during the past ft aste weeks relative to having a water e ,rld ebration in the city this spring ,ree summer have at laSTt assumed defin. ar shape. Chief Engineer J. B. Carri n has a petition with a long list of si ,es- natures of our most prominent ci ,4a zens attached. It will be present sLo to the common council asking for of appropriation for the fire departme ,ars to celebrate>the successful completi ,Iv of the city water works on the twelf ea;r day of may, the occasion of the vi tta+ ia to this city of South Penn Hose Col i- pany, of Philadelphia and Protect ,i,,h Hose Company, of Bridgeport T siuD . suggestion of a water celebrati r 1i,,, strikes everyone favorably and if t water works are worth celebratil .ne why not celebrate?
 .eI, Friday, April 1, 1870-A boy es l. an ployed in the auction store, No. .ney Main street, Chelsea building, stepr onK on the side of a crockery crate abc III two thirds full of straw, lit the g
 and then dropped the lighted mat aste into the straw which immediat sne- took fire. Charles H. Coggshall, W lI.f