Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-31

this road, who insult women and are guilty of other nisdeTneanels. If these
 reports be true, it is quite time that
 steps were taken to prevent a recur1
 renee of such things in the future
 Yesterday afternoon a few gentle
 men assembled informally at Collector
 Selden's office and then and there sur-
 prised E.. P. Slocum by begging his acceptance of a handsome gold watch, i It was a stem winding, hunting case,
 of the most approved make and calcu- | lated not only for ornament, but to
 keep time. On the case within a
 handsomely engraved inscription set. forth that the timekeeper was pre-
 sented to MT. Siocum by some of his I republican friends as an expression | of their regard. A daring attempt at burglary was 1 made yesterday morning on Laurel
 Hill. As the servant girl of c. H. l Davis, on Front street, went out about l 5 o'clock to the wood house, she was assaulted by two men one of whom seized her by the throat and choked | her till black in the face. While thus | held the other ransacked the house, getting number of silk dresses be- longing to Mrs. Davis and other val uables. As. soon as the kirl was free 1 she gave loud screams, which so l frightened the rascals that they drop ped their plunder and made off down the bank to the railroad tracks.
 Thursday, Jan. 27 1870: Complaints are made of the robbery of hen roosts
 in town, even in broad daylight. It is getting to be time for our citizens to pepper these incendiaries and l thieves.
 George T. Bushnell, who lives on
 Thames street, locked his horse ID 1 carefully in his barn Tuesday night 1 and was quite astonished "Wednesday
 morning to find the animal out of l doors and things in the barn consider ably mixed. He is now actively en- gagged in seeking an answer to the 1 conundruna. Why is this thus7
 There is doubtless a number of i tramps about town watching an op- portunity to steal and our citizens l will do well to be on their guard 1 against them i 4 horse and wagon driven by a
 eountryman, collided last evening, just at dusk, with a buggy driven by Chas. L. Rix. near the Universalist church 1 on East Main street. MT. Rix and Dr. 1 Charles M. Carlton. who was riding l with him. were thrown out from the buggy. which as badly smashed. Friday, Jan. 2S, 1870: Last evening l about II o'c1ockA one of the clerks l of Lanman & Seven, druggists or Main street who had occasion to gc into the yard in the rear of the prem ises found two men at work trying
 to pick the lock on the back door. He l gave an alarm which the Wauregan Hook and Ladder company, which was returning from the Spring street fire mistook for fire. They stopped an6 1 coupled their hose to a hydrant ir front of the premises before aware ei | their mistake.
 About half past ten o'clock last nigh 1 some parties in the vicinity of the i Norwich and Worcester freight depot
 discovered fire on the West Sidt and Immediately gave the alarm. The
 fire was in the barn of John Fran.
 cis, in the rear of his house or l Spring street. The barn contained i. one ton of hay and other produce, be. ] sides furniture on storage Loss aboul 1 s350; insured for $50.
 I Last evening between six and sever o'clock, as the German servant gir in the family of Charles Davis or Laurel Hill, was in the cellar attend ing to the furnace. she heard a noise
 and looking saw, Or fancied she saw
 a hand grasping a pistoL which wa. ' thrust into the cellar window, on tn, north side of the house. She irnnle diately ducked her head into an asi
 box to get out of range, extinguisheC
 her light and went up stairs where shl gave the alarm. The burglar ol burglars made their escape
 MT. and Mrs. William Hood of Nor
 wich Town, who were married Wed nesday, January 26, 1920. celebrated
 the fiftieth anniversary of their wed
 ding on Wednesday evening.
 Saturday, Jan. 2s, 1870: About 5 O.
 clock yesterday morning the son 0 E E. w. Warrington, the well known mu , sic dealer, was awakened by a shaw
 ow passing over his face, and onenirf his eyes saw man peering into thu window of his sleeping room. All Warrington lay for a few minute watching them and then quitely slip ped out of bed. to rouse his father } who arose and lit the gas. This prob ably frightened the prowlers, for np : on his return to the room, no trace o them could be found.
 The ladies of the East Main Stree : Methodist congregation will hold the 3 annual fair and festival at Breed hal 1 on Tuesday and Wednesday nights Q r next week.
 F The wild shrub known as the ''pus } sy cat willow is in bloom iE this vi s cinity. The Japan quinees in some 0 T our gardens have begun to open thef . blossoms. Green buds nearly an inel
 long have pushed out on some of tn r nagnolias. But the biggest weathe , story we have heard yet is this : George Cox, yesterday, dug In hi . garden two quarts of new potatoes as large as corpulent waintts Facts They have grown from some old DO tatoes which he threw away last ia,