Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-28
VARIOUS MATTERS

Washington, Connecticuts mortality rate from typhoid for 1891 was considerably lower than it was in 1920. The Bristol lodge, of Elks, which took l care of many of the poor families oyer the Christmas season with donations of clothing of all kinds, baskets for the Christmas tables and in other ways.
 Net receipts of the states three toll bridges aggregated $145,S65.11 in the last fiscal year, 1t was shown by State Highway Commissioner Charles J. Ben- nett'S annual report to the governor. Rhode Islands representatives-elect and senators-elect of both parties will be actively engaged in organization work the new governor and assembly take the helm.
 A reported feud between rum rust l ling gangs eliminated in the shooting of an alleged gang leader on some East Greenwich road last Thursday night, is under investigation by the Providence police.
 | Phone l14 for the seasonable varieties of sea food and Powers Bros. will fill your orders promptly and correctly adv.
 At a special meeting of the state park and forest commission recently it was voted to accept the gift from the White Memorial Foundation of a tract of 175 acres adjoining the Mohawk state forest in Cromwell.
 A judgment for s6,76o.12 was enter ed against Giuseppe Pugilsi, the miss ing real estate operator, by Judge Isaac Wolfe in the civil side of the superior court recently for the New England Iron Works, Inc.
 A pension of $3o a month has been awarded to Mrs. Mary M. Clark of West erly, widow of Charles A. Clark. The matter was brought to the attention of the authorities through the office of Con- gressmsn Stiness.
 P. J. Kerwin, grand knight of Roderi- go council, No. A, Knights of Columbus,
 New Haven, was presented with a dia-
 mond set fourth degree ring by the
 members of the council, at the regular meeting this week.
 Electric incandescent lamps with tung-
 sten filaments have had a big year in 1922, according to a survey of electric lighting progress during the last twelve . months, made by John Liston, of the General Electric Company. 3 Advance registration of automobiles r during the past week smashed all records of the automobile department, the , amount of licenses being the largest fol , the week before Christmas since the
 department was established. 5 Collector of Internal Revenue Robert 3 O. Eaton has begun mailing out to 5 taxpayers who made similar returns fol t the year 1921. Form 1040A for filinl ]. individual returns of net income of $5, 3 1000 or less for the year 1922. 8 Scallops pt 4oc, oysters pt. BOG, clam g pt. S0e, steaming clans at. Ice. A ful
 line of smoke and fresh fish at tn,
 Broadway Fish Mkt, 40 Breadway.-adv
 The temperature on Dec. 273 1872, jus r, 50 years ago, was 10 to IS degrees be
 low zero in Norwich, while the tempera 2 ture yesterday was between 50 to 50 de y grees above. There was IS inches o < snow on the ground at that time. Every piece of the heaviest helida. 7 mail on record was out of New Yorl 7 post office stations at noon Christina day and all carriers and clerks were abl 7; to eat midday dinners with their fam II flies for the first time in history !, From the figures about cotton spindle | in the country it can be figured that Con . necticut has over per cent. of suc , that were spinning and in place Novem :. Der 30. The total number was 37,175, Y 2sa and those in Connecticut were 1,374 r 7s6.
 State Officer M S. Sterling has re
 eeived a notification from the motor ve
 hicle department, notifying him that n
 time will be allowed to motor owners Y who failed to have their number plate D. for 1923 on their cars at 1901 nex oe Monday morning.
 ?. Nearly one million dollars was adde h, to the town of Middletown's grand lis ,h by the board of assessors, according t of figures made public This years gran IS levy amounts to S1s,71s,645, an increas l. of $956,415 over that of 1921, which tc pf tailed. $1s,7ss,2so.
 lg Cengressman-elect Paul B. o'Sulliva pr and Mrs. o'Sulliyan and family were tf
 guests of Mrs. O'Sullivan's parents, M
 and Mrs. James Lawton, of Broad stree
 Middletown. over Christmas. Mrs. OSu N livsn was formerly teacher at the No i lwich Free Academy.
 Ta The prohibition act is working success n fully in Norwalk. Arrests for intoxict 4 tion made in the city since the yes n prohibition became the law of the lar n shows that they have been cut to almo
 one-quartor of what they were in u
 days before prohibition. |. United States Commissioner Frank sa Mcclure, of New London, has resigne le He has sent in his resignation to Judi
 Os
 The reason for his resignation, he ,sai . was to devote more time to his priva
 practice, No successor has yet been g
 pointed sas A total of sis,5es, ,4l1.42 is indicat 's in the valuation of estates of more tn;
 S6,000 each which were admitted to pr sa bate during 1922 by Judge Walter ~ Clark, of the Hartford district. On tt
 basis, the grand total of all estates a ,r Imitted would be in excess of SEQ, ,0o6, O sili for the year.
 at In response to the therapeutic clair 't: being made on behalf of yeast vitanir Al as food and tonic the Connecticut Agl
 cultural Experiment station has just = sued booklet in which the results
 lscientific experiments are given with t
 various yeast and yeast preparations ns
 on the market.
 IT Homemade wine, and cider, official .S manufactured by the head of a fami
 known as non-intoxicating fruit juie .4 may not be sold or served to boarders en the house of the family or out of ,a. according to a statement issued by Unit
 States Collector of Internal ReYen ae. Robert o. Eaton.
 ad Forty-ene arrests for drunkenn,
 were made Saturday and Sunday = Hartford as a result of police activit
 in the streets prior to Christmas Fl
 number is a little less than that for
 same period last year and is about ol
 half that of the average pre-prohi
 tnon day before Christmas. HE - DIR
 Tn In the City Court. ER In the city court Wednesday morn Tr P. Leneux and c. Cote were char, rn with violation of the liquor laws ; GD .t.ara ,,e1ix5 ,.v.1..