Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-26
Nsrwls4. Tuesday, Dec. se, 1898.
VARIOUS MATTERS

Light motor vehicle lamps at 4.54 to- day.
 The days will beeiA now to lensthen until June ssth, when they .grew shorter again.
 The weather, on Monday, while not ex- actly typical of Christmas. was enjoyable at least.
 Now thet Christmas has come and gone, santa Claus will soon be forgotten until another year.
 November business conditions show in- ueases in production and distribution, government report shows.
 Early morning drivers Monday experi- eRGfd more or less difficulty from fog in some pIaeas along the roads. Typhoid death rate increases from 7.S per 100, 900 of population in 1920 to g in United States registration area. Knights of Columbus, special second degree meeting tonight at S-oclock in Assembly hall, St. MAry's new church. - AdF.
 The children that received a pair oE slSAtes for Christnss had ample oppor- tuAity to try them out Christmas morn 1 !ng on the ponds in this vicinity.
 There were e.s4s pensioners in Con- AeetISat during the fiscal year that closed Il June 90 last, according to the annual re- H port of the commissioner of pensions, and they received in pensions $3,o51, ,4S5. | Tho Connecticut chamber of Commerce is sending out 8, hurFy-uD notice to all of it's members so that they may file their l claims against the German and Austrian governments before the time expires eH Jan. l, 1923.
 The year-end holiday trade. done by the leading department and retail stores of the country this year far exceeded thai of 1921 and 1920 and was the best 1T fact of any year since 1909, according tc reports received by local trade agencies Inventory of the estate of the late William c, Skinner of Hartford, presi dent of the Colts Patent Firearms Co. EhoWs that he left property vaIued a' $S1S,S1S, mostly in securities. His hold iIags in the Colt company were valued d ;2o1, ,OoO. ! Regular meeting of saehem chapter
 No. 52,I 0. E. s., tonight at odd Eel
 lows hall; supper at p< m., and in
 stallation of ofieeFs.-adv.
 A theatrical magazine of recent dat
 notes that John F. Byrne of Norwich now with the Better Times company a the New York Hippodrome, has complet ed his 5eth year on the stage. Mir Byrn gzined fame with tho old Eight Bell
 ccmpaay.
 The report of the home economies de
 RARtment of the New Haven Visitint Nurse association showed that the tw'
 trained workers of the association. Mis- Nelson and Miss Pettingill, and the si, 'l visiting housekeepers made 1,136 visit
 duRing the moath of November. . The MAriden Sportsnen's association
 which has succeeded in arousi1g publi
 sentiment against fishing through the ic
 at Black pond, on the Middletown turn } pike, believes that in thus protecting tn
 fish this wiBter there will be some req : Fprrt Rt the pond in the summer. For improvements and material adde to the Ella Wheeler Wilcox cottage, AT
 cadtR. at SheEt Beach, Branford, in tn
 summer of 1Sse. Judge Dickeason of th
 court of common pleas has decided tha
 Edwin L. Wilson of Hartford Is entitle . to $253 from Ruth c. Ritter, presen
 owner of the cottage.
 The activities of the Cennecticut dis : trict compared with other states in tn
 collection of internal revenue taxe . stands out as shining example, accord ing to gevrnne mt representatives. I k the Manhattan district in New York speeial drive has been launched to colles . $5ooiepo,eo 900 from tax dodgers.