Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-11
VARIOUS MATTERS

The Connecticut Postal Clerks state
convention Is to be held in Danbury'
February %.
Maximum temperature Of 40 degrees
ana bright sun made Tuesday delight
full winter day.
| Among books recently acquired by
Peck library is Carl Lotus Becker's
Beginnings of the American People.
Frost fish three pounds for csc, Broad
way Fish Market, 40 Broadway.-adv.
The Junior brotherhood Of st. An
drew Is planning to give party for
the church school Of Trinity Episcopal
church next week.
About rs members Of Home Rebelah
lodge. of Groton, attended the installa-
ton meeting of Gates lodge, of Man
tic, Monday evening.
Ellington ". C. r. U. met Tuesday
afternoon with the Rockville W. c. T.
u, In the parlors Of the, Union Congre-
gational church, Rockville
An Old Mystic resident, Albert W.
Burrows. has left for North Carolina,
where he will visit his son -in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs Marvin c.
Smith.
Ruth. the 4-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas F. Morton, of Water
ford was removed to the isolation hos
pital in New London, Tuesday, Ill with
dphtheria.
A food sale was conducted Tuesday
afternoon by the senior class of the
Rockville High school. The profits Will
go toward the Washington trip fund OF
the class.
Following is the December report Of
Phoebe Griffin Moves library, at Old
Lyme: Books circulated, sea; South
Lyme branch, is; reading room attend
ance. 22s.
The fishing feet boats at Stonington
are making small catches Of scaIlops.
Large drags are made but most of the
shell fish are found dead. The probable
cause is the cold weather.
Local cottage owners who have visit
ed Groton Long Point this winter state
that fully twenty five new cottages will
be completed there by the opening OF
the summer season.
The last quarterly conference of the
: Methodist Episcopal church at Mantle
3 was held Saturday in the chapel. The
district superintendent, Rev. W. H. Bath
Of Norwich, presided.
While Charles Gunther Of Holland
WAS binding hay the tackle broke. and
Mr.. Gunther was thrown to the ground
3 He suffered two cracked ribs and ar
g injured shoulder and wrist.
James Mcdonald, county director and
organizer for New London and Windhan
y counties for Total Abstinence and Tier
J, ney Cadets, is organizing a company o.
d Temperance Cadets in Noank.
At the quarterly meeting Of the trus
tees Of the Connecticut State Hospital
a at Middletown to be held this (Wednes
Q day) morning at the institution, the mat
+ ter Of appointing a superintendent vii
: be discussed.
From Groton, Charles N. Adams, rep
resenting the county grange, and Ed
o ward NJ, Chapman. representing Pomon
d grange, were in attendance at the meet
n ing of the state grange which took plac
: Tuesday at Waterbury.
Calkins Park, New London, can b
\ developed into a skating pond in win
A. ter, and in the summer time draine
and afford a splendid playground, If sug
gestions offered by Councillor Willi2r
= c. Fox are carried through.
3. Gerge Brady, of New London, jani
II tor of the Jibboom club, has been offer
S. ed a place as handy man on the old I
10 Marvel estate, consisting Of 1000 acres
located in Salem, Colchester and Eas
Haddam, one Of the show places IN east
IL ern Connecticut.
&c OF interest to her South Coven4I
/; neighbors is the Washington society no
a that Mrs Henry F. Dimocll has issut
~ invitations for a dance In honor of Pril
% ress Bertha Cantacuzene, greatgrant
~ daughter OF President q. 8. Grant, tn
~ wednesday, evening.
af Following out recent suggestions fro
4 the post office department, Postmastt
George H. Foley, Of Mystic, invited MI!
Joanna Burnet, principal of the Myst
Id Academy, to bring the IS pupils of tt
D. higher grades to the post office for a
I'd inspection visit Monday.
es Word has been received Of the deaf
ne at Greenport, N. Y, January 7th c
ne Miss Jennie E. Burr. daughter of loser
or A. and Harriet Burr. Miss Burr W;
ne former resident OF New London, men
ed bers of her family conducting the origi
lie al bus line to Osprey Beach.
al Eastern Connecticut people who ha'
~ visited st. Petersburg, Fla, are int
al ested to learn that Frank F. Pulvey VI
elected mayor, defeating Noal
ST Mitchell Pulver won by a majority
$50 out Of $500 votes cast, the large
vote in the history Of the city.
-. For the first time in his % years
Ut iife, and he has been riding ever sir
ne could walk, Roland Brown OF Colcht
Vi fer was thrown from his horse VIII
ny; Furdling a fence, on treacherous groul
al Saturday morning. He Is now able
~ get around by means Of a cane.
~, The Cragin library, Colchester, h
- had special cases made In which to d
" tribute books to the schools. Each
u brary will contain number of boo
t on the required reading line and W
20 be changed as often as required. Nes
IT. " 200 volumes have been added to
es' library.
NO The United States civil service CO
ali mission announces that, In addition
no Ehe vacancy in the state department
- nngrossing clerk, at $1,000 a year, p
ca1 bonus Of $40 a month, there is also
IT, vacancy in the Office OF the postna 9
an general, Washington, D. c., at ST.;
H. h year, plus bonus.
its The Eastern Connecticut Light a
re- Power Company recently received t
of big electric motors from Schenectal
in n. Y. weighing two tons. which hs
on been placed near the state bridge
am Old Saybrook. Present Bicycle mot
to will be replaced by sixty cycles VIII
~ will regulate the power and lights W
.fu1 better results and less expense.